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.