Today In Sports History 4/30

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

Baseball

• 1887 – First game played at Broad and Huntingdon Saint Park (Baker Bowl) in Philadelphia; Philadelphia Phillies beat New York Giants 19-10.
• 1903 – New York Highlanders first home game, (Hilltop Park-168th Street and Broadway, Manhattan), they beat Washington Senators, 6-2.
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• 910 – Cleveland Naps’ pitcher Addie Joss wins second no-hitter beating Chicago White Sox.
• 1919 – Philadelphia Phillies beat Brooklyn Dodgers 9-0 in 20 innings.
• 1940 – Brooklyn Dodgers’ Tex Carleton no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 3-0.
• 1944 – New York Giants’ Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs.
• 1944 – New York Giants’ Mel Ott scores six runs in one game drawing five walks for fourth time.
• 1946 – Cleveland Indians’ Bob Feller’s second no-hitter beats New York Yankees, 1-0.
• 1953 – Little-Bigger League changes its name to Babe Ruth League.
• 1958 – Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits.
• 1961 – San Francisco Giants’ Willie Mays hits four homeruns in a game.
• 1967 – Baltimore Orioles’ Stu Miller and Steve Barber lose 2-1 despite no-hitting Detroit Tigers.
• 1967 – New York Mets’ pitcher Tom Seaver wins his first game.
• 1968 – Three Baltimore Orioles pitchers walk 14 New York Yankees in a 9-inning game.
• 1969 – Cincinnati Reds’ Jim Maloney third no-hitter, beats Houston Astros, 10-0.
• 1970 – Chicago Cubs’ Billy Williams is first National League player to play in 1,000 consecutive games.
• 1982 – Atlanta Braves win record 12th straight from beginning of season.
• 1985 – Dale Murphy drives in record tying 28th and 29th runs of April.
• 1986 – Seattle Mariners strike out 16 times, set record of 36 in two consecutive games.
• 1988 – Baltimore Orioles win record 14th straight from beginning of season.
• 1988 – New York Yankees’ Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April; sets American League and ties major league record.
• 1990 – As New York Mets pitcher David Cone argues a call at first base, two Atlanta Braves’ players score.
• 1990 – Seattle Mariners’ Brian Holman’s perfect game broken up with two outs in 9th.
• 2005 – Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig asks players to agree to a 50-game suspension for the first offense for the use of steroids, 100-game suspension for the second offense, and a lifelong ban after the third offense.

Basketball

• 1971 – 25th NBA Championship: Milwaukee Bucks beat Baltimore Bullets in four games.

Boxing

• 1900 – 165-pound Robert Fitzsimmons knocks out 305-pound Ed Dunkhost in a boxing match.
• 1976 – Muhammad Ali beats Jimmy Young in 15 round for heavyweight boxing title.

Football

• 1921 – American Professional Football Association reorganizes in Akron, Ohio.
• 1988 – New York Knights’ first arena football game; beat Los Angeles Cobras 60-52 in Los Angeles.

Golf

• 1950 – Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA 144-hole Golf Weathervane.
• 1952 – Louise Suggs wins LPGA Stockton Golf Open.
• 1961 – Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship.
• 1967 – Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational.
• 1972 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Open.
• 1978 – Janet Coles wins LPGA Natural Light Lady Tara Golf Classic.
• 1989 – Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic.
• 1995 – Val Skinner wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship.

Hockey

• 1987 – Lou Lamoriello is named New Jersey Devils’ president.
• 1988 – New Jersey Devils beat Washington Capitals 3-2 taking 7th game of Patrick Division final.

Miscellaneous

• 1722 – The game of Billiards is mentioned in the New England Courant.
• 1898 – Championship wrestling match at the Metropolitan turns into a brawl.
• 1973 – Women’s tennis groups end disputes over sanctioning tournaments.
• 1987 – NASCAR driver Bill Elliott sets all time fastest lap at Talladega Motor Speedway: 211 mph (340 km/h).
• 1989 – US beats Costa Rica 1-0, in third round of 1990 world soccer cup.
• 1993 – Tennis star Monica Seles is stabbed in the back by an obsessed fan of rival Steffi Graf at a tournament in Hamburg, Germany.