Today In Sports History 4/13

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

Baseball

• 1908 – Groundbreaking on Philadelphia’s Shibe Park (home of Philadelphia Athletics and Philadelphia Phillies).
• 1914 – First US Federal League baseball game: Baltimore Terrapins beat Buffalo Blues 3-2.
• 1926 – At age 41, Walter Johnson pitches his 7th opening day shutout.
• 1946 – Eddie Klepp, a white pitcher signed by defending Negro League champion Cleveland Buckeyes, is barred from field in Birmingham, Alabama.
• 1953 – First game of Milwaukee Braves, they beat Cincinnati Reds 2-0.
• 1954 – Baltimore Orioles’ first game, lose to Detroit Tigers in Detroit 3-0.
• 1962 – Stan Musial scores his 1,869th run, a new National League record.
• 1963 – Pete Rose triples for his first major league base hit.
• 1963 – Pittsburgh Pirates’ Bob Friend balks four times in a game.
• 1970 – Oakland Athletics use gold-colored bases during the club’s home opener; Rules Committee subsequently bans this innovation.
• 1972 – First baseball players’ strike ends after 13 days.
• 1978 – New York Yankees defeat Chicago White Sox 4-2 in home opener on Reggie Candy Bar Day; Jackson slugs a three-run homerun in the first inning, and the field is showered.
• 1984 – On the same date he got his first major league hit 21-years earlier, Pete Rose of the Montreal Expos makes hits 4000th hit.
• 1987 – First three San Diego Padres’ players hit homeruns off San Francisco Giants starter Roger Mason.
• 1990 – The first sellout in Seattle Mariners’ history occurs when 54,597 fans attend the season opener at the Kingdome.
• 1992 – Longest two undefeated baseball teams to meet (New York Yankees 5-0 vs Toronto Blue Jays 6-0); New York Yankees score 3 in top of 9th to win 5-2.
• 1995 – New York Yankees beat the New York Mets 2-0.
• 1997 – First time since 1961 that two doubleheaders are played in the same city – San Francisco Giants versus New York Mets and Oakland Athletics vs New York Yankees in New York.
• 1997 – 48th time opposing pitchers hit homeruns, Carlos Perez (Mon)/Darren Holmes.
• 1997 – Travis Fryman homers off R Hernandez in both games of double header.
• 2004 – At SBC Park in San Francisco, Barry Bonds hits his 661st career homer to move up to third on the all-time homer run career list.

Basketball

• 1949 – Third NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat Washington Capitals, 4 games to 2.
• 1949 – Minneapolis beats Washington, 4 games to 2, for the NBA championship.
• 1957 – 11th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Saint Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3.
• 1976 – First NBA playoff game for Cleveland Cavaliers, they lose 100-95 to Washington Bullets.
• 1986 – Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record.
• 1990 – Fourth largest NBA crowd (45,458) see Orlando Magic play at Minneapolis Timberwolves.
• 1992 – Lou Conaseca retires as coach of Saint John’s basketball team.

Golf

• 1969 – 33rd Golf Masters Championship: George Archer wins, shooting a 281.
• 1970 – 34th Golf Masters Championship: Billy Casper wins, shooting a 279.
• 1975 – 39th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 276.
• 1980 – 44th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 275.
• 1980 – Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic.
• 1986 – 50th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 279.
• 1986 – Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic.
• 1997 – In Augusta, Georgia, 21-year-old Eldrick “Tiger” Woods wins the 61st Golf Masters Tournament by a record 12 strokes (total 270; 18 under par), his first victory in one of golf’s four major championships, the greatest performance by a professional golfer in more than a century, and the youngest golfer to win the Masters.
• 2008 – In Augusta, Georgia, the final round of the U.S. Masters golf tournament is held. Trevor Immelman wins by three shots over Tiger Woods, with a score of 75, the first South African to win the U.S. Masters in 30 years.

Hockey 

• 1927 – NHL Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Boston Bruins, in two games and two ties.
• 1933 – NHL Stanley Cup: New York Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs, three games to one.
• 1940 – Stanley Cup: New York Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 2.
• 1944 – NHL Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadians sweep Chicago Blackhawks in four games.
• 1990 – New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 6-5, Rangers win preliminary, 4-1.
• 1996 – Ottawa Senators eliminate Stanley Cup champions New Jersey Devils from playoff.
• 1997 – Hartford Whalers last NHL game.
• 1997 – NHL Pittsburgh Penguins’ player Mario Lemieux’s last NHL regular game.

Olympics

• 1980 – Soviet news agency TASS denounces US boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympics.

Track & Field

• 1940 – Cornelious Warmerdam becomes the first man to pole vault 15 feet, Berkeley, California.