Today In Sports History 4/3

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

Baseball

1923 – Two “Black Sox” sue Chicago White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary.
1955 – Baltimore Orioles pull their first triple play (3-6-2 versus Kansas City Athletics).
1966 – Tom Seaver signs with the New York Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus.
1985 – Major League Baseball Players’ Association agrees to proposal of the team owners to expand the 1985 League Championship Series from the best-of-five games to best-of-seven.
1987 – Chicago Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to Oakland Athletics for three minor league players.
1989 – New York Mets win 11th consecutive home opener 8-4 over Saint Louis Cardinals at Shea Stadium.
1991 – Bo Jackson signs one-year contract with Chicago White Sox.
1992 – First exhibition game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards; Baltimore Orioles beat New York Mets.
1996 – Saint Francis Fighting Saints scores college baseball run record 71-1.
2005 – Alex Sanchez becomes the first major league baseball player to be publicly identified under baseball’s new steroid policy. The Tampa Bay outfielder will be suspended for ten days for testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs.

Basketball

1983 – Second NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship: Southern California beats Los Angeles Tech 69-67.
1988 – 7th NCAA Women’s Basketball Champion: Louisiana Tech beat Auburn 56-54.
1989 – 51st NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Michigan beats Seton Hall 80-79 in overtime.
1994 – 13th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Louisiana Tech 60-59.
1994 – First roster of Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) announced.
1995 – 57th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: UCLA Bruins beats Arkansas 89-78.

Boxing

1936 – Al Carr knocks out Lew Massey on one punch, 7 seconds into the first round (shortest boxing bout with gloves).

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Hockey

1930 – NHL Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in two games.
1933 – Longest North American hockey game to date requires a 1:44:46 overtime as Toronto Maple Leafs’ Ken Doraty scores to beat Montreal Canadiens 1-0.
1967 – 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, Austria ask for political asylum.
1976 – Philadelphia Flyers win record-tying 20th straight NHL home game.
1977 – Boston Bruins’ Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point.
1982 – Buffalo Sabres’ Gil Perrault scores his 1,000th NHL point.
1988 – Mario Lemieux wins NHL scoring title, stopping Wayne Gretzky’s seven-year streak.
1988 – New Jersey Devils beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4-3 in overtime, to clinch their first ever playoff spot.

Ice Skating

1948 – First US figure skating championships held.
1948 – US female Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill.
1948 – US male Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button.
1998 – World Ice Dance Figure Skating Championship in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Russians Anjelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsyannikov win.

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