Today In Sports History: September 28, 2011

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Today In Sports History: September 28, 2011

1892 – The first nighttime football game in the U.S. took place under electric lights. The game was between the Mansfield State Normal School and the Wyoming Seminary.

1919 – The New York Giants beat Philadelphia Phillies 6-1 in a day game that lasted 51 minutes. The time set a National League record.

1941 – Ted Williams (Boston Red Sox) hit .400 for the season. He was the last major league player of the century to achieve this statistic.

1955 – The World Series was televised in color for the first time. The game was between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1968 – The Atlanta Chiefs won the first North American Soccer League Championship.

1978 – Don Sherman, editor of Car & Driver, set a new Class E record in Utah. Driving the Mazda RX7 he reached a speed of 183.904 mph.

1991 – Michael Jordan was a guest on “Saturday Night Live.”

1995 – Randy Myers (Chicago Cubs) was charged by a 27-year-old man while standing in the outfield. Myers saw him coming, dropped his glove and knocked the man down with his forearm.

Today In Sports History: September 22, 2011

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Today In Sports History: September 22, 2011

1911 – Cy Young beats Pitts 1-0 for his final career victory, number 511

1920 – Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series

1927 – In Chicago, IL, Gene Tunney successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the famous “long-count” fight.

1934 – The NHL approved a new rule that allowed the awarding of penalty shots.

1945 – Stan Musial gets 5 hits off 5 pitchers on 5 consecutive pitches

1968 – Cesar Tovar became the second major league baseball player to play all nine positions in one game.

1969 – Willie Mays hit his 600th career home run.

1987 – NFL players go on strike for 24 days

1991 – Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula records his 300th career NFL victory

2006 – Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) tied Hank Aaron’s National League home run record when he hit is 733rd.

Today In Sports History: August 29, 2011

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1885 – The first prizefight under the Marquis of Queensberry Rules was held in Cincinnati, OH. John L. Sullivan defeated Dominick McCaffery in six rounds.

1892 – Pop (Billy) Shriver (Chicago Cubs) caught a ball that was dropped from the top of the Washington Monument in Washington, DC.

1971 – Hank Aaron became the first baseball player in the National League to hit 100 or more runs in each of 11 seasons.

1977 – Lou Brock brought his total of stolen bases to 893. The record he beat was held by Ty Cobb for 49 years.

1994 – Mario Lemieux announced that he would be taking a medical leave of absence due to fatigue, an aftereffect of his 1993 radiation treatments. He would sit out the National Hockey Leagues (NHL) 1994-95 season.

1995 – At the O.J. Simpson trial, tapes of Mark Fuhrman were played. The recordings were of Fuhrman making racial comments.

Today In Sports History: August 24, 2011

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1918 – Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)

1918 – Secretary Baker grants extended exemption to World Series players

1922 – 1st Phillie to hit for cycle (Cy Williams)

1940 – Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams pitches the last 2 innings in a 12-1 loss to Detroit Tigers, Williams allows 3 hits & 1 run

1979 – NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new

1983 – Cincinnati Reds Pete Rose ends consecutive games played streak at 745

1989 – Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling

1992 – Cleveland Browns suffer their worst preseason loss, 56-3, to Vikings

1993 – Padres scores 14 in 1st vs Cardinals

Today In Sports History: August 19, 2011

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1909 – The first car race to be run on brick occurred at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

1909 – The Philadelphia Phillies were rained out a major-league record 10th consecutive day.

1917 – Team managers John McGraw and Christy Matthewson were arrested for breaking New York City’s blue laws. The crime was their teams were playing baseball on Sunday.

1921 – Ty Cobb (Detroit Tigers) recorded his 3,000 career hit.

1951 – The St. Louis Browns sent a midget to the plate against the Detroit Tigers. Eddie Gaedel, wearing the number 1/8 and standing only 3 feet, 7 inches tall, walked on four consecutive pitches and was then replaced by a pinch-runner.

1957 – The New York Giants Board of Directors voted to move the team to San Francisco in 1958.

1962 – Homero Blancas shot a 55 at the Premier Invitational Golf Tournament held in Longview, TX. It was the lowest score in U.S. competitive golf history.

1981 – In Zurich, Switzerland, Renaldo Nehemia set a new world record with 110 hurdles in 12.93 seconds.

1995 – Bobby Thigpen (Chicago White Sox) got his 40th save of season and became the eighth and fastest to record 40 saves in a season.

1995 – Mike Tyson knocked out Peter McNeeley after just 89 seconds.

1996 – Paul Molitor (Minnesota Twins) tied Lou Gherig by hitting his 534th career double.

2002 – John Madden debuted on “Monday Night Football.”

2004 – Baseball commissioner Bud Selig received a contract extension through 2009.

Today In Sports History: August 15, 2011

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1945 – Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually

1970 – Mrs. Pat Palinkas became the first woman to ‘play’ in a pro football game when she held the ball for the Orlando, FL, Panthers.

1984 – Pete Rose returned to become player and manager of the Cincinnati Reds. He had been away from his hometown for six years. Rose had been in Philadelphia and Montreal.

1989 – Cancer sufferer/SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky breaks arm on mound

1990 – Mark McGwire hit a grand slam in the 10th inning to become the first major league player to hit 30 or more homers in his first four seasons. The Oakland Athletics beat the Boston Red Sox 6-2.

1993 – Nolan Ryan got his 324th and final victory. The Texas Rangers beat the Indians 4-1.

1997 – Dan Wilson hit the 3,000th Seattle Mariners homerun.

1997 – The Los Angeles Dodgers retired Tommy Lasorda’s #2.

Today In Sports History: August 7, 2011

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1907 – Walter Johnson wins 1st of his 416 wins, 7-2 over Cleveland

1956 – Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans

1984 – Japan beats US for olympic gold medal in baseball

1985 – Baseball Players end a 2 day strike

1990 – NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 12th HR in 1st 92 at bats & becomes 21st to hit a ball into 3rd deck of
Seattle’s Kingdome

1999 – Tony Gwynn (San Diego Padres) got his 3,000th hit.

2007 – Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron’s record by hitting his 756th home run.

Today In Sports History: August 6, 2011

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1890 – Cy Young pitches & wins 1st game

1949 – Chicago White Sox player Luke Appling played in the 2,154th game of his 19-year, major league career.

1952 – Satchel Paige, at age 46, became the oldest pitcher to complete a major league baseball game.

1953 – Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from the military

1969 – The first fair ball to be hit completely out of Dodger Stadium occurred. Willie “Pops” Stargell, of the Pittsburgh Pirates, hit the ball 506 feet from home plate.

1981 – Lee Trevino was disqualified from the PGA Championship in Duluth, GA when he had his scorecard signed by Tom Weiskopf instead of himself.

1989 – Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski’s #8

1990 – NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th HR in 1st 86 at bats

Today In Sports History: August 4, 2011

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1910 – A’s Jack Coombs & White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 16 inn scoreless tie

1934 – NY Giants Mel Ott sets record of 6 runs in game & beats Phillies 21-4

1945 – Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season

1949 – NBL & NBAA merge into National Basketball Association

1982 – NY Met Joel Youngblood singles in Chicago day game, he is traded, then singles for Expos in Philadelphia night game

1984 – Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter dash at LA Summer Olympics

1985 – White Sox Tom Seaver is 17th to win #300, beating Yankees

1986 – The United States Football League called off its 1986 season. This was after winning only token damages in its antitrust lawsuit against the National Football League.

Today In Sports History: August 1, 2011

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1936 – Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin

1945 – Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th HR (joins Babe Ruth & Jimmy Foxx)

1953 – Red Sox Ben Flowers sets then record of 8 consecutive games in relief

1957 – Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam

1957 – Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445’10″)

1972 – Nate Colbert of SD Padres hits record tying 5 HRs in a double header

1976 – Seattle Seahawks play 1st (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20)

1977 – SF Giant Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th grand slam\

1978 – Pete Rose goes hitless, ends his 44 game hitting streak

1982 – Greg Louganis, US becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives

1987 – Mike Tyson beat Tony Tucker in 12 for Heavyweight boxing title

1993 – Reggie Jackson enshrined in Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY

2005 – It was announced that Raphael Palmeiro would be suspended for 10 days after testing positive for steroid use. Palmeiro stood by his statements to the U.S. Congress on March 17, 2005, that he had never taken steroids.

Today In Sports History: July 22, 2011

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1926 – At Mitchell Field in New York, Babe Ruth caught a ball that had been dropped from an airplane flying at 250 feet.

1962 – Chic White Sox Floyd Robinson goes 6 for 6 (all singles)

1963 – Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1 for Heavyweight boxing title

1967 – Atlanta Braves use a record 5 pitchers in 9th inning

1990 – Greg LeMond of US wins his 3rd Tour de France

1991 – Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, charged she’d been raped by boxer Mike Tyson in an Indianapolis hotel room. Tyson was later convicted of rape and served 3 years in prison.

1993 – NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits his 200th HR

Today In Sports History: July 16, 2011

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1902 – John McGraw named manager of NY Giants

1924 – NY Giants George Kelly is 1st to hit HRs in 6 consecutive games

1941 – Joe DiMaggio goes 3 for 4, hitting in his 56th straight game

1956 – Detroit Tigers & Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million

1970 – The Pittsburgh Pirates played their first game at Three Rivers Stadium.

1987 – Don Mattingly hits his 4th grand slam of season & ties AL record of homers in 6 straight games (on way to tie major league record of 8 )

Today In Sports History: July 15, 2011

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1876 – Baseball’s 1st no-hitter, St Louis’ George W Bradley no-hits Hartford

1909 – Ty Cobb hits 2 inside-the-park HRs

1960 – Baltimore Orioles Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle

1970 – Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship

1973 – California Angels Nolan Ryan 2nd no-hitter beats Detroit Tigers, 6-0

1980 – Johnny Bench hits his 314th HR as a catcher breaks Yogi Berra’s record

1991 – Sandhi Ortiz-DelValle is 1st woman to officiate a men’s pro basketball (USBL) game, game between New Haven Skyhawks & Phila Spirit

1994 – NJ Nets Derrek Coleman accused of rape in Detroit

1999 – The inaugural game at the Seattle Mariners’ Safeco Field was held in Seattle, Washington.

Today In Sports History: July 12, 2011

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1901 – Cy Young wins his 300th game

1914 – Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut, pitches for Red Sox

1921 – Babe Ruth sets record of 137 career home runs

1928 – 1st televised tennis match

1931 – 45,715 fans in 35,000 seat Sportsman Park St Louis, help cause many ground ruled doubles, 11 in 1st game & 21 in 2nd game for 32

1945 – Cubs stop Braves Tommy Holmes modern-day NL hitting streak at 37 games

1949 – Baseball owners agree to erect warning paths before each fence

1954 – Major League Baseball Players Assn founded

1959 – NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during ankee-Red Sox game

1979 – “Disco Demolition Night” at Comiskey Park, causes fans to go wild & causes White Sox to forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to Tigers

1987 – Phillies Kent Tekulve pitches his 900th game in relief

1988 – Margo Adams alleges Red Sox Wade Boggs had an affair with her

1996 – Kirby Puckett, retires from Minnesota Twins

1996 – Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million

1997 – Cubs play in their 5,000th consecutive gane with out being no-hit

1997 – Pirates Francisco Cordova & Ricardo Rincon no-hit Astros 3-0 in 10 inn

Today In Sports History: July 11, 2011

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1914 – Babe Ruth debuts as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox, he beats Cleve 4-3

1923 – Harry Frazee, sells Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M

1985 – Astros’ Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets’ Danny Heep)

1987 – Orioles Cal Ripken becomes 1st to manage 2 sons, as Billy joins Cal

1987 – Bo Jackson signed a contract to play football for the L.A. Raiders for 5 years. He was also continued to play baseball for the Kansas City Royals.

1988 – Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor

Today In Sports History: July 10, 2011

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1910 – Chicago White Sox Comiskey Park opens, visiting Browns win 2-0

1914 – Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from Baltimore Orioles

1936 – Phillies Chuck Klein becomes 4th to hit 4 HRs in a game

1984 – Dwight ‘Doc’ Gooden (New York Mets) became the youngest player to appear in an All-Star Game as a pitcher. He was 19 years, 7 months, and 24 days old.

1992 – US Major Soccer League folds after 14 seasons

1997 – Hideki Irabu makes his debut as a NY Yankee, he beats Tigers 10-3

1999 – The U.S. Women’s soccer team defeated China to win the 1999 World Cup tournament.

Today In Sports History: July 9, 2011

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1877 – 1st Wimbledon tennis championship is held

1953 – Phillies Robin Roberts ends streak of 28 consecutive complete games

1988 – Nolan Ryan is 7th to win 100 game on 2 teams, as Astro beat Mets 6-3

1991 – South Africa readmitted to Olympics

1994 – 11,000th HR in NY Yankees history (Matt Nokes)

1997 – Mike Tyson is banned from boxing, for biting Holyfield’s ear

2000 – Pete Sampras of the United States set a record when he won the men’s singles tennis championship at Wimbledon. It was his 13th Grand Slam title.

2002 – The major league baseball All-Star game ended in a 7-7 tie after 11 innings. Baseball commission Bud Selig called the game after both team managers informed him that they had run out of players.

Today In Sports History: July 8, 2011

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1900 – 1st night baseball, league game (Zanesville at Grand Rapids)

1909 – 1st pro baseball game (Minor League) played under lights

1946 – Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary

1949 – Monte Irvin & Hank Thompson are 1st African Americans to play for NY Giants

1970 – SF Giant Jim Ray Hart is 8th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)

1990 – Trailing 7-0, Brewers tie Angels & then score 13 in 5th to win 20-7

1991 – Major league umpire Steve Palermo & former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann were shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed

1992 – Florida Marlins unveil their uniform

1995 – 1st CFL game between 2 US teams, Las Vegas Posse vs Sacramento Gold

Today In Sports History: July 7, 2011

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1919 – Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game

1923 – Cleveland Indians beat Boston Red Sox 27-3 with 13 runs in 6th inning

1948 – Cleveland Indians sign Leroy “Satchel” Paige

1962 – Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 Horse Races

1985 – Boris Becker became the youngest, the first unseeded and the first German player to win the Wimbledon men’s finals

1990 – Martina Navratilova won a record ninth Wimbledon women’s singles title.

1993 – NY Met Anthony Young, loses his 26th straight game (goes to 27)

Today In Sports History: July 6, 2011

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1933 – The first All-Star baseball game was held in Chicago. The American League beat the National League 4-2.

1957 – Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon women’s singles tennis title. She was the first black athlete to win the event.

1983 – Fred Lynn of the California Angels hit the first grand slam in an All-Star game. The American League defeated the National League 13-3.

1985 – Martina Navratilova won her 4th consecutive Wimbledon singles title.

1995 – In Los Angeles, the prosecution rested at the O.J. Simpson murder trial.

1996 – Steffi Graf won her seventh Wimbledon title.

2000 – In Orlando, FL, the body of Cory Erving was found in his vehicle in a pond near his family’s home. Julius “Dr. J” Erving had reported his son missing on June 4, 2000.

2000 – A jury awarded former NHL player Tony Twist $24 million for the unconsented use of his name in the comic book Spawn and the HBO cartoon series. Co-defendant HBO settled with Twist out of court for an undisclosed amount.

2010 – It was reported that GM Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, would be renamed Rogers Arena.