Today In Sports History 5/23

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

Baseball

• In 1948 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs.

Boxing

• In 1922 Harry Greb gives Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat.

Hockey

• In 2013 Patrick Roy is named head coach of the Colorado Avalanche, his former team where he won two Stanley Cups.

Miscellaneous

• In 2001 Marco Siffredi becomes the first person to snowboard down Mount Everest via the Norton Couloir.