February 14, 1969: Ted Williams agrees to manage the Washington Senators; Washington owner Bob Short convinces Williams, who once said, "they could never pay me enough money to manage," to accept a five-year contract, and Williams manages the Senators for three seasons, following the team to Arlington Texas where he manages in 1972, and then resigns. [...]

February 13, 2002: Boston Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette signs 42 year-old free agent Ricky Henderson to a one-year contract; Henderson is in his 24th MLB season and he clearly is out of gas as he steals only 8 bases in 72 games and it will be one of Duquette's last transactions before he is terminated by the new ownership group led by John Henry. [...]

February 12, 1981: MLB rules that the Red Sox failure to mail Carlton Fisk's 1981 contract in a timely fashion means that Fisk is a free agent; the Red Sox avoided arbitration by holding onto Pudge's contract and hoped that no one would sign Fisk due to his history of injury, but the Chicago White Sox sign him to a five-year $3 million contract. [...]

February 11, 2002: Prospective Red Sox owner John Henry sells his majority interest in the Florida Marlins to Jeffrey Loria who was the current owner of the Montreal Expos; the sale clears the way for the John Henry-Tom Werner group to assume ownership of the Red Sox, while Loria sells the Expos to MLB who then move the Expos to Washington, DC., as the "Nati [...]

February 10, 2005: The Boston Red Sox donate the following memorabilia from the 2004 postseason to the National Baseball Hall of Fame: Curt Schillings' bloody sock, and Derek Lowe's jersey from Game Four of the World Series, Manny Ramirez' bat, Keith Foulke's spikes, and on loan from Doug Mientkiewicz, the game ball used to record the last out. [...]