Today In Sports History 3/23

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

Auto

• 1910 – First race at Los Angeles Motordrome (first US auto speedway).

Baseball

• 1938 – Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 Saint Louis Cardinals’ minor league players.
• 1962 – William DeWitt buys Cincinnati Reds for US$4,625,000.
• 1972 – New York Yankees agree to continue playing ball in the Bronx.
• 1990 – Howard Spira is arrested for extorting money from George Steinbrenner. The New York Yankees’ owner paid Spira US $40,000 in January.
• 1994 – Richard Jacobs buys naming rights to Cleveland Indians’ new ball park at Gateway for US $13.8 million (renamed Jacobs Field).
• 2009 – Japan defeats South Korea 5-3 in the 2009 World Baseball Classic at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California.

Basketball

• 1946 – 8th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats North Carolina 43-40.
• 1956 – 18th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: San Francisco beats Iowa 83-71; this is San Francisco’s second consecutive national basketball championship.
• 1957 – 19th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Kansas 54-53 (three overtimes).
• 1962 – Wake Forest coach “Bones” McKinney becomes second person to play and coach.
• 1963 – 25th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Loyola beats Cincinnati 60-58 (overtime).
• 1968 – 30th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: UCLA beats North Carolina 78-55.
• 1993 – New York Knicks and Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl.

Golf

• 1969 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Charlotte Golf Invitational.
• 1975 – Sue Roberts wins LPGA Bing Crosby International Golf Classic.
• 1980 – Donna Caponi Young Pro-Am wins LPGA National Golf Tournament.
• 1985 – Betsy King wins LPGA Standard Register PING.
• 1986 – Penny Pulz wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open.
• 1997 – Phil Mickelson wins Bay Hill Golf Invitiational.

Hockey

• 1926 – NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens outscore Pittsburgh Pirates, 6-4 in two games.
• 1952 – New York Rangers with less than 14 minutes to go blow a 6-2 lead, losing 7-6 to Chicago Black Hawks; Mosienko scores three times in 21 seconds.
• 1982 – New York Islanders’ Mike Bossy’s 20th career hat trick-4 goals.
• 1994 – Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 802 goals scored.

Ice Skating

• 1930 – US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson.
• 1930 – US Men’s Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner.
• 1984 – World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa, Canada won by Underhill and Paul Martini (Canada).
• 1984 – World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa, Canada won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic).
• 1984 – World Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa, Canada won by Scott Hamilton (USA).
• 1984 – Andrea Schöne skates ladies world record 3 km (4:00.91).