Today In Sports History 4/17

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

Baseball

1869 – First professional baseball game: Cincinnati Reds 24, Cincinnati amateurs 15.
1892 – First Sunday National League baseball game, Cincinnati Reds beat Saint Louis Cardinals 5-1.
1923 – Longest National League opening game, Philadelphia Phillies and Brooklyn Dodgers tie 5-5 in 14.
1933 – Chicago Bears win their first NFL game beating New York Giants 23-21.
1934 – The new Fenway Park opens, Washington Senators beat Boston Red Sox 6-5.
1947 – Jackie Robinson bunts for his first major league hit.
1953 – Mickey Mantle hits a 565-foot (172-metre) homerun in Washington DC’s Griffith Stadium.
1960 – Cleveland Indians trade Rocky Colavito to Detroit Tigers for Harvey Kuenn.
1964 – First game at Shea Stadium, New York Mets lose to Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-3.
1968 – Oakland Athletics’ first game in Oakland-Alameda Stadium, lose 4-1 to Baltimore Orioles.
1969 – Montreal Expos’ Bill Stoneman no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 7-0.
1976 – National League greatest comeback, trailing 12-1 the Philadelphia Phillies win 18-16 in 10, Mike Schmidt hits four consecutive homeruns.
1983 – Baseball pitcher Nolan Ryan strikes out his 3,500th batter.
1984 – Atlanta Braves’ pitcher Pascual Perez suspended due to cocaine usage.
2008 – In Tokyo, Japan, a high school regional baseball game is halted in the second inning, after one team had scored 66 runs. The coach of the losing team asked for the game to end to spare his pitcher’s arm, with over 250 pitches already thrown.

Basketball

Boxing

1939 – Joe Louis knocks out Jack Roper in one for heavyweight boxing title.
2010 – Lucian Bute retains his International Boxing Federation super middleweight title with a third-round stoppage of challenger Edison Miranda in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Football

Golf

1955 – Betty Jameson wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open.
1966 – Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational.
1972 – Kiteman attempting to throw out first ball in Philadelphia Phillies’ Veterans Stadium crashes into the centerfield seats.
1973 – Second Boston Women’s Marathon won by Jacqueline Hansen of California in 3:05:59.
1977 – Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Women’s International Golf Tournament.
1983 – Lynn Adams wins LPGA Combanks Orlando Golf Classic.
1988 – Nancy Lopez wins LPGA AI Star/Centinela Hospital Golf Classic.
1994 – 55th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Lee Trevino wins.
1994 – Val Skinner wins LPGA Atlanta Women’s Golf Championship.

Hockey

1981 – New York Rangers’ Anders Hedberg is second to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot.
1981 – New York Islanders’ Potvin’s three playoff power-play goals tie NHL record versus Edmonton Oilers.
1983 – New York Islanders tie NHL record with three shorthanded playoff goals versus New York Rangers; Rangers 7-Islanders 6-Patrick Division Finals- Islanders hold 2-1 lead; Wayne Gretzky scores 7 goals.
1997 – New Jersey Devils’ goalie Martin Brodeur is second NHL goalie to score in a playoff game.

Running

1972 – First Boston Women’s Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik of New York in 3:10:26.
1972 – 76th Boston Marathon won by Olavi Suomalainen of Finland in 2:15:39.
1973 – 77th Boston Marathon won by Jon Anderson of Oregon in 2:16:03.
1978 – 7th Boston Women’s Marathon won by Gayle Barron of Georgia in 2:44:52.
1978 – 82nd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Massachusetts in 2:10:13.
1983 – Grete Waltz runs female world record marathon (2:25:29).
1988 – Ethiopian Belayneh Densimo runs world record marathon (2:06:50)
1989 – 18th Boston Women’s Marathon won by Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway in 2:24:33.
1989 – 93rd Boston Marathon won by Abebe Mekonen of Ethiopia in 2:09:06.
1995 – 24th Boston Women’s Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:25:11.
1995 – 99th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya in 2:09:22.

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