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).