Today In Sports History 3/25

Our past has shaped present by many things in history including sports, here is how sports marked our history.

Baseball

• 1910 – Chalmers Auto Company offers a new car to each leagues’ batting champion.
• 1937 – It is revealed Quaker Oats pays baseball player Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads.
• 1959 – Bill White traded to Saint Louis Cardinals for pitchers Sam Jones and Don Choate.
• 1960 – Ford Frick voids Cleveland Indians-Boston Red Sox deal as Sam White retires.
• 1997 – Cleveland Indians trade Lofton and Embree to Atlanta Braves for Grissom and Justice.
• 2008 – The American Major League Baseball Season opens, with the Boston Red Sox beating Oakland Athletics 6-5 in Japan.

Basketball

• 1947 – 9th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Holy Cross beats Oklahoma 58-47.
• 1957 – NBA modifies the free-throw rule.
• 1961 – 23rd NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Cincinnati beats Ohio State 70-65 (overtime).
• 1961 – Third place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as Saint Joseph’s defeats Utah 127-120 in four overtimes.
• 1967 – 29th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Dayton 79-64.
• 1967 – UCLA wins its third national basketball championship in four years.
• 1972 – 34th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Florida 81-76; UCLA’s 6th consecutive national basketball title.

Boxing

• 1916 – Heavyweight Jess Willard and Franc Moran fight to no decision in 10 rounds for boxing title (New York City, New York).
• 1958 – Sugar Ray Robinson is first boxing champion to win five times.
• 1995 – Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving three years.

Football

• 1971 – Boston Patriots become New England Patriots.

Golf

• 1934 – First Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 284.
• 1973 – Carol Mann wins LPGA Sears Women’s Golf Classic.
• 1979 – Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament.
• 1984 – Betsy King wins LPGA Women’s Kemper Golf Open.
• 1990 – Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic.

Hockey 

• 1907 – Stanley Cup: Montréal Wanderers lose to Kenora Thistles but outscore them in two game set but outscore them 12-8 and win cup.
• 1924 – Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens (NHL) sweep Calgary Tigers (WCHL) in two games (second of 1924).
• 1936 – Detroit Red Wings beat Montréal Maroons 1-0 in NHL longest game (2 hours 56 minutes 30 seconds; 9 periods).
• 1937 – Lionel Conacher misses on first NHL Stanley Cup penalty shot.
• 1972 – Bobby Hull becomes the second NHL player to score 600 goals.
• 1982 – Wayne Gretzky becomes first NHL player to score 200 points in a season.

Ice Skating

• 1983 – Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000 metre (1:12.58).
• 1983 – Christa Rothenburger skates world record 500 metre ladies (39.69 seconds).
• 1994 – Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3 km (4:09.32).
• 1994 – Yasunori Miyabe skates world record 1000 metre (1:12.37).
• 1996 – World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Eltsova and Bushkov (Russia).
• 1996 – World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Michelle Kwan (USA).
• 1996 – World Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Todd Eldredge (USA).