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NEW YORK (AP) — The Yankees have held a ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Roger Maris’ 61-homer season, a total that the families of Maris and Mickey Mantle still believe is the legitimate record.
Maris and Mantle engaged in a thrilling chase top Babe Ruth’s 34-year-old mark that season, and on Saturday family members of the “M&M Boys” joined with several of the 1961 World Series champion Yankees to pay tribute to Maris’ accomplishment.
Wearing white gloves, Derek Jeter brought onto the field the bat Maris used to hit the record-breaker off Boston’s Tracy Stallard on Oct. 1, 1961. Sal Durante, the fan who caught the milestone hit in right field of the original Yankee Stadium, brought the ball onto the field, also using white gloves. Both items were on loan from the Hall of Fame.
1912 – NY Giants lead Boston Braves 14-2 into 9th, Giants win 21-12
1920 – Yankees win protest of 1-0 White Sox win & game is replayed
1950 – Joe DiMaggio’s 2,000th hit, Yanks beat Indians 8-2
1951 – Cleveland Indians Bobby Avila hits 3 HRs, double & single vs Red Sox
1956 – At Detroit’s Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits 2 Billy Hoeft pitches into right center field bleachers (no else hits 1 there)
1967 – Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services
1973 – SF Giants Bobby Bonds sets NL record with 22 lead off HRs
1978 – 1st 6 teams of Women’s Pro Basketball League (WBL) granted-Iowa, NJ, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minnesota & Dayton
1982 – Pete Rose is 5th to appear in 3,000 games (Cobb, Musial, Aaron, Yaz)
1986 – Jim Fregosi replaces Tony LaRussa as White Sox manager
1998 – Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs) hit two home runs for the second straight game. The feat set a major league baseball record of 16 home runs in June.
2003 – Jose Canseco was arrested after testing positive for steroids, a violation of his probation that stemmed from a nightclub brawl.
2004 – Ken Griffey Jr. (Cincinnati Reds) got his 500th career home run.
2007 – Sammy Sosa (Texas Rangers) got his 600th career home run. The hit came against, the Chicago Cubs, his former team.
1846 – 1st baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1
1938 – Reds Johnny Vander Meer extends his string of hitless baseball innings to 21 2/3 before Debs Garms singles for Boston in 4th
1942 – Paul Waner, is 7th to get 3,000 baseball hits
1943 – NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles & Pittsburgh Steelers merge, (dissolves on Dec 5)
1955 – Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100
1973 – Pete Rose & Willie Davis both get career hit # 2,000
1977 – Red Sox set 3 game record of 16 HRs, all against Yanks
1986 – University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias died of a cocaine-induced seizure
1992 – Evander Holyfield beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavywgt boxing title
2000 – Tiger Woods wins golf’s US Open by 15 shots, a record for all majors, with a US Open to-par record score of -12
1901 – NY Giants get record 31 hits to beat Cincinnati Reds 25-13
1914 – Honus Wagner, is 2nd to get 3,000 hits
1933 – Walter Johnson takes over as Cleveland manager
1946 – Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 8 for Heavyweight boxing title
1960 – ABC & AFL sign a 5 year contract
1963 – 1st Sunday night game in baseball SF Giants lose to Houston Colts 3-0
1966 – 5 Minn Twins (Rich Rollins, Zolio Versailes, Tony Oliva, Don Michner, & Harmon Killebrew) all homer in 7th inning to beat A’s 9-4
1973 – Secretariat becomes 1st Triple Crown winner in 25 years by winning horse racing’s Belmont Stakes
1978 – Larry Holmes beats Ken Norton in 15 for Heavyweight boxing title
1979 – Phillies wear burgundy uniforms for 1st & last time
1989 – Michael Chang’s French Open tennis win makes him youngest male to go to finals
1990 – Dodger Eddie Murray ties Mickey Mantle with baseball’s switch hit HRs in 10 games
1991 – WLAF 1st World Bowl London Monarchs defeat Barlecona Dragons 21-0
1996 – Frank Thomas (Chicago White Sox) hit his 200th career home run
2008 – Ken Griffey Jr. (Cincinnati Reds) hit his 600th career home run. Only Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays and Sammy Sosa had more runs at the time.
1948 – Phillies Richie Ashburn sets NL rookie consecut hitting streak at 23
1952 – 1st sporting event televised nationally-Walcott vs Charles boxing
1955 – NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 550′ HR off Chicago Billy Pierce
1974 – A’s Reggie Jackson & Bill North engage in clubhouse fight at Detroit
1977 – LA Dodgers retire Walt Alston’s #24
1981 – Astro’s Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as all-time walk leader (1,777)
1989 – Toronto Blue Jays Skydome stadium opens, Milwaukee Brewers win 5-3
1859 – Philadelphia A’s organize to play “town ball” became baseball 20 years later
1935 – Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat
1937 – Brooklyn Dodgers snap NY Giant Carl Hubbell’s 24-game winning streak
1950 – Due to rain, Indy 500 shortened to 345 miles, Johnny Parson wins
1956 – Mickey Mantle HR just misses clearing Yankee Stadium’s roof
1964 – SF Giants beat NY Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hrs 32 mins)
1985 – New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000
1994 – Padres scores 13 in 2nd vs Pirates
2002 – The New Jersey Nets defeat the Boston Celtics 96-88 in Game 6 of the NBA’s Eastern Conference Championship, winning the series 4 games to 2 to advance to their first NBA Finals appearance.
1906 – 10th anniversary Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
1911 – Braves pitcher, Cliff Curtis, loses his 23rd game in a row
1927 – Dodgers beat Phillies, 20-4
1938 – Dodgers announce contracts to install lights at Ebbets Field
1957 – Red Sox set AL record by smashing 4 HRs in 6th inning in 11-0 win
1962 – Roger Maris walks 5 times (record 4 intentionally) in a 9 inn game
1963 – Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium’s facade
1968 – Pitts Pirate Willie Stargell hits 3 HRs, a double & a single
1976 – St Louis Cardinal Reggie Smith hits 3 HR
1977 – Red Sox (6) & Brewers (5) tie single game HR record of 11
1983 – Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson hits record 18th pinch hit HR
1985 – Pete Rose 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as NL run scoring leader
1990 – Andre Dawson sets record being intentionally walked 5 times
1991 – NFL Owners agree to add 2 teams in 1994
1993 – Riddick Bowe TKOs Jesse Ferguson in 2 for Heavyweight boxing title
1994 – Toronto NBA franchise unveils name “Raptors” & logo
2003 – In Fort Worth, Texas, Annika Sörenstam becomes the first woman to play the PGA Tour in 58 years.
1912 – A’s beat Tigers 24-2, who use amateurs protesting Ty Cobbs suspension
1929 – Dodgers beat Phillies 20-16 & lost 8-6 in 2nd game (record 50 runs)
1933 – 1st major league All-Star Game announced for July 6 at Comiskey Park It will be played as part of the Chicago World’s Fair
1942 – NYC ends night baseball games for rest of WW II
1956 – Mickey Mantle hits HR from both sides of plate for record 3rd time
1990 – Cubs Ryne Sandberg ends 2nd baseman record 123 errorless game streak
1997 – Tiger Woods wins Byron Nelson Golf Classic
1953 – NY Giants Willie Mays & Darryl Spencer each hit 2 HRs & a triple
1955 – Mickey Mantle hits 3 consecutive HRs of at least 463′
1958 – Stan Musial, is 8th to get 3,000 hits
1960 – Phillies lose 3rd consecutive 1-0 game
1967 – NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career HR #500 off Stu Miller
1967 – Octagonal boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries
1972 – Milwaukee Brewers beat Minn Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (started 5/12)
1980 – Cincinnati Red Ray Knight hits 2 HRs in 5th inning vs NY Mets
1982 – Chicago Cubs win their 8,000th (beat Astros)
1983 – Reggie Jackson is 1st major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times
1989 – Minnesota Twin Kirby Puckett becomes 35th to hit 4 doubles in a game
1992 – Frank Stallone beats Geraldo Rivera in boxing on Howard Stern Show
1993 – KC Royal George Brett hits his 300th HR
1997 – Eddie Murray is 6th baseball player to play in 3,000 games
1883 – Baseball returns to Philadelphia, 1st NL game since 1876
1883 – NY Athletic Club hires Bob Rogers as 1st American pro sports trainer
1891 – Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Cleveland’s League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati
1901 – Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox
1901 – Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in American League
1920 – Babe Ruth’s 1st Yankee HR & 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds
1940 – The 1940 Olympics are cancelled
1947 – Cleveland Indians abandon League Park to play all games at Municipal Stadium
1951 – Mickey Mantle’s 1st HR
1959 – White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own HR
1983 – Nolan Ryan surpasses Walter Johnson for most strikeouts (3,508)
1991 – A’s Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base vs Yanks
1991 – Texas Ranger Nolan Ryan pitches record 7th no hitter (beats Toronto 3-0)
1992 – LA Dodgers postpone 3 games due to racial riots due to Rodney King
1996 – Gerald Williams is 1st NY Yankee since 1934 to get 6 hits in a game