Today In Sports History 4/5

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

Baseball

• 1925 – New York Yankees whip Brooklyn Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collapses in North Carolina due to an ulcer.
• 1972 – Baseball season is delayed due to a strike.
• 1972 – New York Mets trade Ken Singleton to Montreal Expos for Rusty Staub.
• 1979 – Baltimore Orioles’ manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper.
• 1982 – Saint Louis Cardinals’ Jim Kaat pitches in record 24th consecutive season.
• 1983 – New York Mets’ Tom Seaver’s sets record 14th National League Opening Day assignment.
• 1989 – Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning streak.
• 1992 – Game two of Mayor Challenge – New York Yankees sweep New York Mets 6-5 at Shea Stadium.
• 1993 – Colorado Rockies first baseball game – lose to New York Mets 3-0.
• 1993 – Crowd of 73,293 watches New York Yankees beat Cleveland Indians 9-1.
• 1993 – At Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, the Florida Marlins play their major league first game ever, defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers, 6-3.

Basketball

• 1967 – Philadelphia ’76ers player Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds.
• 1984 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain’s all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421).
• 1990 – John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record three years in a row.
• 1991 – Joe Dumaars (Detroit Pistons) ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games.
• 1992 – 11th NCAA Women’s Basketball Champion: Stanford beats Western Kentucky 78-62.
• 1993 – 55th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Michigan 77-71.
• 1994 – Miami Heat beat New York Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak.
• 2010 – Duke defeats Butler 61-59 in the NCAA basketball tournament to win the national championship.

Boxing

• 1915 – Jess Willard defeats Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title.
• 1919 – Heavyweight Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba.

Football

• 1973 – NFL adopts jersey numbering system (Example: quarterbacks, 1-19).

Golf

• 1953 – Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Golf Open.
• 1959 – 23rd Golf Masters Championship: Art Wall Junior wins, shooting a 284.
• 1964 – Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Saint Petersburg Women’s Golf Open.
• 1981 – 10th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nancy Lopez.
• 1987 – 16th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King.
• 1992 – 4th Seniors Golf Tradition: Lee Trevino.
• 1992 – Dana Lofland wins Las Vegas LPGA Golf International.

Hockey 

• 1981 – Philadelphia Flyers amass a record 2,621 penalty minutes.
• 1987 – Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title.
• 1990 – New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 2-1 in first game of preliminaries.

Soccer

• 1902 – Soccer match riot between Scotland and England kills 25.

Swimming

• 1927 – Johnny Weissmuller set records in the 100- and 200-meter freestyle.

Tennis

• 2008 – In Miami, Florida, American Serena Williams defeats Serbia’s Jelena Jankovic 6-1, 5-7, 6-3 to win the Sony Ericsson Open for the fifth time.

Wrestling

• 1952 – Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th Amateur Athletic Union wrestling title.