Three important baseball events from 1961:
[1] The American League Washington Senators version 2.0 played their first season
[2, 3] Two important deaths to note, both on 17th July of that year (exactly 48 years ago tomorrow) - Ty Cobb...and RHP Ed Reulbach, last surviving member of the 1908 Cubs, who handed Cobb's Tigers the second of their three straight World Series defeats