Today In Sports History 4/1

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

• 1990 – CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger.

Baseball

• 1963 – New York Mets purchase Duke Snider from the Los Angeles Dodgers for $40,000.
• 1969 – Seattle Pilots trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to Kansas City Royals.
• 1970 – Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, headed by Bud Selig, purchases the Seattle Pilots for $10,800,000.
• 1972 – Major league baseball players stage first collective strike.
• 1980 – Baseball Players’ Association votes to cancel 92 remaining exhibition games.
• 1989 – First New York Mets – New York Yankees game in New York City since 1983, New York Yankees win 4-3.
• 1989 – Former Yale University and National League president Bart Giamatti becomes seventh commissioner of Major League Baseball.
• 1991 – Dwight Goodin signs $5.15 million three year contract with New York Mets.
• 2001 – The first Major League Baseball game is played in Puerto Rico, as the Toronto Blue Jays defeat the Texas Rangers 8-1.
• 2006 – The Chicago White Sox signs Jose Contreras to a $29 million, three-year contract extension.

Basketball

• 1984 – Third NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship: Southern California beats Tennessee 72-61.
• 1985 – 47th NCAA Men’s Basketball Champion: Villanova beats Georgetown 84-75.
• 1990 – 9th NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Auburn 88-81.
• 1991 – 53rd NCAA Mens Basketball Champion: Duke Bluedevils beats Kansas 72-65.
• 1996 – 58th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Syracuse 76-67.
• 2002 – Maryland defeats Indiana 64-52 to win the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia.

Boxing

• 1938 – Joe Louis knocks out Harry Thomas in five rounds for heavyweight boxing title

Football

• 1977 – NFL decides to experiment with a 7th official in some preseason games.
• 1992 – NFL decides to stay with 17-week schedule instead of expanded 18 games.

Golf

• 1938 – Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York, USA.
• 1973 – Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Classic.
• 1979 – Joanne Carner wins LPGA Women’s Kemper Golf Open.
• 1990 – 19th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King.
• 1990 – Second Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus win

Hockey 

• 1920 – Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA), 3 games to 2.
• 1980 – Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr’s NHL record with 103rd assist.
• 1983 – New York Islanders’ Mike Bossy becomes first to score 60 goals in three consecutive seasons.
• 1992 – NHL players begin first strike in 75-year history.
• 1995 – New York Islanders retire Bobby Nystrom’s uniform #23.
• 1997 – 69-year-old Gordie Howe begins playing AHL game with Syracuse Crunch.

Ice Skating

• 1998 – World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Russians Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze win.

Swimming

• 1916 – First US national women’s swimming championships held.

Track & Field 

• 1912 – Greek athlete Konstantinos Tsiklitiras breaks the world record in standing long jump with a 3.47m jump.