June 9 in Houston Astros History: Rusty Staub and Bob Aspromonte protest by benching themselves after Robert F. Kennedy is killed two months later by an assassin’s (1968)

On June 9, 1968 — Unlike its decision in April to delay the start of the season after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Major League Baseball lets individual teams decide if they will postpone games when Robert F. Kennedy is killed two months later by an assassin’s bullet. When

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