Today's events in sports history

SEPT 23

• 1845 1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code
• 1868 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Tom Morris Jr. beats his father, Tom Morris Sr. by 3 strokes; at 17 young Morris remains youngest Open champion
• 1873 Tom Allen beats Mike McCale for Heavyweight Boxing title

• 1892 British Open Men's Golf, Muirfield: Harold Hilton wins by 3 shots from amateur John Ball, Sandy Herd & Hugh Kirkaldy
• 1908 Giant Fred (Bonehead) Merkle fails to touch 2nd, causes 3rd out in 9th & disallows winning run (game ends tied, Cubs win replay & pennant)
• 1914 Reds drop their 19th straight game, then beat Boston Braves
• 1925 Washington shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh is named AL MVP

Upset of the Decade

1926 "Upset of the Decade" - Gene Tunney beats defending champion Jack Dempsey by 10-round unanimous decision at Sesquicentennial Stadium (later known as JFK Stadium), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for world heavyweight boxing title


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJack Dempsey

• 1933 MLB New York Yankees commit 5 errors (3 by shortstop Frankie Crosetti), but beat Red Sox 16-12 at Fenway Park, Boston
• 1937 Yankees lose 9-5 but clinch pennant when Red Sox beat Detroit
• 1939 Cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6-Dodgers get 27 hits & beat Phillies 22-4
• 1948 Braves clinch NL pennant

Indians Bury Pennant
1949 MLB Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck holds funeral services to bury 1948 pennant


MLB Team Owner and PromoterBill Veeck

• 1952 1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event
• 1952 Brooklyn Dodgers clinch NL pennant with a record of 96-57 over the New York Giants 92-62

Marciano KOs Walcott
1952 Undefeated Rocky Marciano KOs defending champion Jersey Joe Walcott in the 13th round at Municipal Stadium, Philadelphia for the world heavyweight boxing title


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionRocky Marciano

Heavyweight Boxing ChampionJersey Joe Walcott

• 1955 Yanks clinch pennant by beating Red Sox, 3-2
• 1957 Milwaukee Braves clinch NL pennant by beating Cards 4-2
• 1962 LA Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills breaks Ty Cobb's 1915 MLB steals record, recording #97 on his way to 104

Baseball Record
1979 MLB St Louis Cardinals legend Lou Brock steals 938th & final base of his career


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderLou Brock

• 1983 Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa KOs American Michael Dokes in 10 rounds in Richfield. Ohio for WBA heavyweight boxing title

Sports History
1983 MLB Philadelphia Phillies Steve Carlton is 16th to wins 300 game, beating Cardinals 6-2 in St. Louis


Baseball PitcherSteve Carlton
Sports History
1983 MLB pitcher Gaylord Perry (45) announces his retirement, after 22 seasons; career record 314-265, 3.11 ERA, and 3,534 strikeouts


Baseball PitcherGaylord Perry
Sports History
1984 NFL San Francisco 49er quarterback Joe Montana misses his 1st start in 49 games


NFL QuarterbackJoe Montana
Sports History
1984 Sparky Anderson is 1st manager to win 100 games in both leagues


MLB Player and ManagerSparky Anderson
World Record
1988 Americans Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Tom Hunter & Matt Biondi swim world record 3:16.53 to win 4 x 100m freestyle relay at the Seoul Olympics


SwimmerMatt Biondi

• 1988 East German swimmer Uwe Dassler sets world record 3:46.95 to win 400m freestyle gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; edges Australian Duncan Armstrong by 0.2s

Baseball Record
1988 Jose Canseco is baseball's 1st to steal 40 bases & hit 40 HRs


MLB PlayerJosé Canseco
Sports History
1988 Portuguese world champion Rosa Mota runs 2:25:40 to score a famous Olympic marathon win over Australian Lisa Martin at the Seoul Games


Marathon RunnerRosa Mota

• 1989 Blue Jays bat out of order against Brewers in 6th inning
• 1992 1st female to play in a NHL exhibition game (Manon Rheaume, goalie) for Tampa Bay Lightning - gives up 2 goals on 9 attempts in 1 period
• 1992 Bill Comrie purchases BC Lions from CFL
• 1997 Seattle Mariners break record for most HRs in a year (258)

Sports History
2017 US President Donald Trump withdraws invitation to the White House for NBA champions Golden State Warriors after Stephen Curry says he doesn't want to attend


45th US President, Businessman and TV PersonalityDonald Trump

Basketball SuperstarStephen Curry
Sports History
2018 39 year old New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees throws 17 yard pass to Michael Thomas to become NFL career pass leader, breaking Brett Favre's record of 6,300 completions; Saints beat Falcons 43-37


NFL QuarterbackDrew Brees
Sports History
2018 Laver Cup Men's Tennis, Chicago: Alexander Zverev beats Kevin Anderson 6-7, 7-5, 10-7 to complete a 13-8 win for Team Europe over Team World


Tennis PlayerAlexander Zverev
Golf Tournament
2018 Tour Championship Men's Golf, East Lake GC: Tiger Woods wins by 2 strokes from Billy Horschel; Woods' 80th PGA Tour win; first in 5 years; Justin Rose wins FedEx Cup crown, $10m bonus


GolferTiger Woods
Baseball Record
2022 St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols hits 2 home runs with 5 RBI in 11-0 win over Dodgers in LA; becomes fourth player in MLB history to hit 700 career HRs


MLB 1st BasemanAlbert Pujols
Sports History
2022 Tennis great Roger Federer plays his final professional match during Laver Cup in London; teams with friend and rival Rafael Nadal but loses 6–4, 6–7 [9–11] to Americans Jack Sock and Frances Tiafoe


Tennis ChampionRafael Nadal

Tennis ChampionRoger Federer

 

SEPT 24

Vanderbilt's Circumnavigation

1853 Cornelius Vanderbilt circumnavigates the world aboard his private yacht North Star


Business MagnateCornelius Vanderbilt

• 1903 Bill Bradley becomes 1st Cleveland baseball player (Cleveland Naps) to hit for cycle
• 1906 St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game
• 1908 Robert B Rhoads becomes 1st Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to toss a no-hit game, Cleveland 2, Boston 1

Baseball Record
1919 Boston Red Sox slugger Babe Ruth sets MLB season home run record at 28 off Yankee Bob Shawkey in a 2-1 loss at the Polo Grounds in NYC


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1920 Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth becomes first to hit 50 home runs in a MLB season with a 1st inning blast off Jose Acosta in a 2-1 loss to the Washington Senators

Baseball Record
1922 St Louis Cardinals future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby sets National League HR mark at 42


MLB Hall of Fame 2nd Baseman and ManagerRogers Hornsby

• 1927 New York Yankees set a record of 106 victories
• 1927 NHL's Toronto St Patricks become Maple Leafs
• 1929 New York Yankee pitcher Tom Zachary ends season 12-0, record for most pitching wins without a loss in one season
• 1930 Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
• 1931 Round-robin playoff among NYC's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants & Yanks
• 1934 2,500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium
• 1934 Idle Detroit wins pennant, as Red Sox beat Yankees 5-0
• 1938 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Don Budge beats fellow American Gene Mako 6-3, 6-8, 6-2, 6-1 to become first player to win a Grand Slam

US Open Women's Tennis
1938 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: American Alice Marble wins her second US singles crown; beats Nancye Wynne Bolton of Australia 6-0, 6-3


Tennis ChampionAlice Marble

• 1946 Yanks set season attendance record of 2,309,029 besting 1929 Cubs
• 1948 MLB NY Yankees, Boston Red Sox & Cleveland Indians are all tied for 1st place in AL (91-56)

Marciano TKOs LaStarza
1953 Rocky Marciano TKOs home town favourite Roland LaStarza in 11 at NYC's Polo Grounds to retain his world heavyweight boxing title


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionRocky Marciano

• 1954 Yanks tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning
• 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0
• 1963 Idle Dodgers clinch their 2nd LA pennant as Cubs beat Cards
• 1967 NFL St. Loius Cardinals' Jim Bakken kicks 7 field goals at Pittsburgh Steelers, setting NFL record at the time

Sports History
1968 NY Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack


MLB First BasemanGil Hodges

• 1969 NY Mets clinch NL East pennant
• 1971 Houston Astros beat San Diego Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings
• 1972 Jack Tatum, Oakland, sets NFL record with 104-yard fumble return, in a 20-14 win over Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field, Green Bay Wisconsin; record tied by Aeneas Williams of the Arizona Cardinals in 2000

Sports History
1972 NY Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs Baltimore Colts (44-34)


NFL QuarterbackJoe Namath
Baseball Record
1974 Al Kaline, Detroit Tiger, is 12th to get 3,000 hits


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderAl Kaline

• 1977 Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards

Sports History
1978 Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74


Baseball PitcherRon Guidry
Sports History
1979 Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose

• 1979 Russian Olympic and World Champion figure skaters Oleg Protopopov & Ludmila Beloussova ask for asylum in Switzerland
• 1980 Braves join every NL team with 1,000,000+ attendance for this season

Baseball Record
1983 Braves Dale Murphy is 6th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in season


Baseball OutfielderDale Murphy
Cricket Debut
1983 Test cricket debut of Shoaib Mohammad, son of champion Pakistan batsman Hanif Mohammad; scores 6 in drawn 2nd Test v India in Jullundur; goes on to play 45 Tests


CricketerHanif Mohammad

• 1984 Chicago Cubs clinch NL East title

Baseball Record
1985 Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th), and joins Willey McCovey to hit 2 HRs in an inn twice


MLB StarAndre Dawson
World Record
1988 American heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets new world record 7,291 points to win the gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; East Germans Sabine John & Anke Behmer take the minor medals


Track and Field AthleteJackie Joyner-Kersee
World Record
1988 American swimmer Matt Biondi sets world record 22.14 to win the 50m freestyle gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; his 4th of 5 gold medals for the Games


SwimmerMatt Biondi

• 1988 Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100m in 9.79 sec

World Record
1988 Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson breaks his own 100m world record with a time of 9.79 at the Seoul Olympics; disqualified 3 days later for use of drug stanozolol; Carl Lewis awarded gold and world record 9.92


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

• 1988 Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 sec)
• 1988 East German cyclist Christa Luding-Rothenburger wins silver medal in the women's track sprint at the Seoul Olympics; first athlete to win medals at Summer & Winter Games in same year; won speed skating gold in Calgary
• 1988 Soviet gymnast Vladimir Artemov shares horizontal bar gold medal with teammate Valeri Liukin at the Seoul Olympics; also wins the parallel bars event to take his gold medal haul to 4 for the Games
• 1988 Swimmer Silke Hörner wins her second gold medal of the Seoul Olympics as part of the victorious East German 4 x 100m medley relay team
• 1988 West German swimmer Michael Gross wins 200m butterfly in Olympic record 1:56.94 at the Seoul Games; third career gold medal
• 1989 Ryder Cup: US & Europe draw, 14-14 at The Belfry, England

Sports History
1991 Deion Sanders, left Braves July 31 to report to NFL Falcons, returns


NFL LegendDeion Sanders

• 1992 John Jaha ties record of 11 teammates to steal 10 bases (Brewers)
• 1992 Scott Stevens is named 5th Captain in NJ Devils history

Sports History
1992 Toronto's Dave Winfield, 40, is oldest player to reach 100-RBI


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderDave Winfield

• 1995 Ryder Cup Golf, Oak Hill CC: Europe wins 14½-13½; unheralded Irish rookie Philip Walton secures victory for Europe beating Jay Haas 1 up
• 2006 Ryder Cup Golf, K Club, Ireland: Europe, captained by Ian Woosnam wins convincingly 18½-9½ for 3rd consecutive Cup victory
• 2007 ICC Men's Cricket T20 World Cup, Johannesburg: India wins inaugural tournament with a 5-run win over Pakistan; Man of the Series: Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi (91 runs • 12 wkts)

Sports History
2017 Laver Cup Men's Tennis, Prague: Roger Federer is unbeaten as Team Europe dominates Team World, 15-9 in the inaugural teams event


Tennis ChampionRoger Federer
Sports History
2017 LeBron James calls President Donald Trump "U Bum" in a tweet in response to Trump's comments about Stephen Curry


Basketball PlayerLeBron James

45th US President, Businessman and TV PersonalityDonald Trump

Basketball SuperstarStephen Curry
Sports History
2017 NFL players kneal, lock arms or stay in their dressing room during the anthem in protests against comments made by President Donald Trump


45th US President, Businessman and TV PersonalityDonald Trump
Sports History
2017 Tour Championship Men's Golf, East Lake GC: Xander Schauffele wins rich season-ending event by 1 stroke from Justin Thomas


GolferXander Schauffele
Football Awards
2018 Real Madrid midfielder & Croatian World Cup captain Luka Modrić is named world's best male player at the FIFA Awards in London; Brazil & Orlando Pride forward Marta best female player; France's Didier Deschamps best men's coach


FootballerLuka Modrić

Football Player and CoachDidier Deschamps

 

SEPT 25

• 1844 Canada defeats USA by 23 runs in the first cricket international match at the grounds of the St George's Cricket Club in Manhattan, NYC
• 1866 (Leonard W) Jerome Park opens in Bronx for horse racing
• 1882 1st baseball doubleheader (Providence & Worcester)

• 1920 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Marion Zinderstein 6-3, 6-1 for her 5th US singles crown

World Auto Speed Record
1924 Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 miles per hour


Motor RacerMalcolm Campbell

• 1926 NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks & Detroit Red Wings

PGA Championship
1926 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Salisbury GC: Walter Hagen defeats Leo Diegel, 5 & 3 in the final to win his 3rd consecutive PGA C'ship title


GolferWalter Hagen

Golfer and Two-Time PGA ChampionLeo Diegel

• 1926 Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch AL pennant

Jimmie Foxx Hits #58
1932 Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th HR in last game of season


MLB Hall of Fame 1st BasemanJimmie Foxx
Lou Gehrig's 1,500th Game
1934 Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,500th consecutive game


Baseball PlayerLou Gehrig

• 1934 Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup
• 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1st pennant in 21 years
• 1949 Despite 71 injuries, Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie for 1st place

US Women's Golf Open
1949 US Open Women's Golf, Prince George's CC: Louise Suggs leads wire-to-wire to win by 14 strokes ahead of runner-up and defending champion Babe Zaharias


Golfer and Co-Founder of the LPGALouise Suggs
Sports History
1955 Detroit outfielder Al Kaline, 20, is youngest batting champ


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderAl Kaline

• 1956 Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0
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• 1960 NY Yankees clinch AL pennant
• 1960 Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday loses

Boxing Title Fight
1962 Challenger Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson at 2:06 of round 1 at Comiskey Park, Chicago to win the world heavyweight boxing title


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionSonny Liston

Boxing ChampionFloyd Patterson

• 1962 Weatherly (US) beats Gretel (Aust) in 19th running of America's Cup
• 1962 Yankees clinch AL pennant

Sports History
1965 60 year old Satchel Paige of Kansas City Athletics pitches 3 scoreless innings


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherSatchel Paige
LPGA Championship
1966 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Stardust CC, LV: Gloria Ehret wins her only major title by 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Mickey Wright


LPGA GolferMickey Wright

• 1966 Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1

Sports History
1973 New York Mets beat Montreal Expos, 2-1 on 'Willie Mays Night' at Shea Stadium, NYC


MLB LegendWillie Mays

• 1979 California Angels win their 1st NL West pennant

Sports History
1980 Jerry Mumphrey joins Ozzie Smith and Gene Richards to steal 50 bases this year for Padres


Baseball PlayerOzzie Smith
Sports History
1981 Nolan Ryan's 5th career no-hitter as Astros beat Dodgers 5-0


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

• 1982 Keke Rosberg becomes the first Fin to win the Formula 1 World Drivers Championship when he finishes 5th in season ending Caesars Palace Grand Prix in Las Vegas; wins by 5 points from Didier Pironi

Baseball Record
1984 NY Met Rusty Staub joins Ty Cobb, who hit HRs as a teen & in 40s


MLB LegendTy Cobb
Baseball Record
1985 Rickey Henderson steals Yankee record 75th base of season


MLB OutfielderRickey Henderson

• 1986 Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants, 2-0

Sports History
1988 American sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner wins women's 100m in Olympic record 10.54; beats teammate Evelyn Ashford by 0.29; 1st leg of sprint double at Seoul Games


SprinterFlorence Griffith Joyner
Olympic Gold
1988 Americans sweep the medals in the long jump at the Seoul Olympics; Carl Lewis wins his second gold of the Games with leap of 8.72m ahead of teammates Mike Powell & Larry Myricks


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

• 1988 East German swimmer Kristin Otto swims Olympic record 25.49 to win the 50m freestyle gold at the Seoul Olympics; her 6th gold medal of the Games
• 1988 Hungarian swimmer Tamás Darnyi wins the 200m individual medley gold medal at the Seoul Olympics in world record 2:00.17; wraps up medley double at the Games
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• 1988 Phoebe Mills finishes third in the balance beam at the Seoul Olympics to become the first American female gymnast to win a medal at a fully attended Games
• 1988 Romanian gymnast Daniela Silivaș wins 3 gold medals in one day at the Seoul Olympics; balance beam, floor exercise & uneven bars events; records record equalling 7 perfect scores of 10

Olympic Gold
1988 Super swimmer Matt Biondi wins his 5th gold medal of the Seoul Olympics anchoring the victorious American 4 x 100m medley relay team


SwimmerMatt Biondi
Baseball Record
1989 Boston Red Sox Wade Boggs is 1st to get 200 hits & 100 walks in 4 consecutive seasons


Baseball PlayerWade Boggs

• 1990 1st 8 NY Yankees hit safely vs Baltimore Orioles to tie record
• 1990 Oakland A's clinch 3rd straight AL West title
• 1991 3rd World Championships in Athletics: Carl Lewis wins gold in 100m

Sports History
1992 Sparky Anderson ties Hughie Jennings as Detroit Tigers' winningest manager


MLB Player and ManagerSparky Anderson

• 1997 American sportcaster Marv Albert plea bargains in his sexual assault case
• 1997 WNBA announces it will add Detroit & Washington, D.C. franchises
• 2000 American basketball player Vince Carter jumps over 7 foot 2 Frédéric Weis in 2000 Summer Olympics, known in France as "le dunk de la mort" (the dunk of death)

President's Cup
2005 Presidents Cup Golf, Robert Trent Jones GC: Chris DiMarco, Jim Furyk and Phil Mickelson unbeaten as US beat International team, 18½–15½


GolferPhil Mickelson

GolferJim Furyk
F1 World Champion
2005 Spanish Renault driver Fernando Alonso takes 3rd place in the Brazilian Grand Prix at Autódromo José Carlos Pace to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship

• 2011 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Killeen Castle, Ireland: Europe regain Cup 15-13; Azahara Muñoz beats Angela Stanford 1-up to clinch the Cup for Europe

Sports History
2013 Oracle Team USA defeats Team New Zealand 9-8 to win the America's Cup

Sports History
2016 Tour Championship Men's Golf, East Lake GC: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland wins in a playoff with Kevin Chappell & Ryan Moore; biggest winner's prize in golf, US$10m

Sports History
2022 Laver Cup Men's Tennis, London: Team World sweeps final day for 13-8 victory over Team Europe; tournament marks retirement of Roger Federer

• 2022 Presidents Cup Golf, Quail Hollow CC: United States win final day singles 6.5-5.5 for a convincing 17.5-12.5 win over the International Team; 9th straight American victory

 

SEPT 26

• 1861 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Tom Morris Sr. beats Willie Park Sr. by 4 strokes
• 1867 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Tom Morris Sr. wins 4th title; beats rival Willie Park Sr. by 2 strokes; at 46, Morris remains oldest Open champion
• 1906 Pitts Lefty Leifield no-hits Phillies, 8-0 in 6 inning game

• 1908 MLB Chicago Cubs' Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw doubleheader shutout, winning 3-0 and 5-0 over the Superbas at Washington Park in Brooklyn, New York
• 1921 Yankee Ruth hits HRs 57 & 58 to beat Indians 8-7

PGA Championship

1925 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Olympia Fields CC: Defending champion Walter Hagen defeats Bill Mehlhorn, 6 & 5 in the final; 3rd PGA crown overall, and 7th of his 11 major titles


GolferWalter Hagen

• 1926 Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to Browns. Yanks had already clinched pennant
• 1947 Happy Chandler announces Ford & Gillette to sponsor World Series
• 1948 Boston Braves win 1st NL championship since 1914
• 1950 Phils pitcher Jim Konstanty makes record 71st appearance of year
• 1952 Yanks clinch 4th straight & 19th AL pennant, beating A's 5-2
• 1953 Shortstop Billy Hunter smashes final home run in St Louis Browns history during a 6-3 loss to Chicago White Sox at Busch Stadium; franchise moves to Baltimore next season
• 1954 A's defeats Yanks 8-6 in last game franchise will play in Philadelphia

Yogi Berra Plays at 3rd
1954 Yogi Berra plays his only game at 3rd & Mickey Mantle plays shortstop


MLB Catcher and ManagerYogi Berra

Baseball LegendMickey Mantle

• 1958 Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (Britain) in 18th America's Cup

Sports History
1959 Milwaukee Braves Warren Spahn becomes winningest NL lefty


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherWarren Spahn

• 1959 SF Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St Louis Cards, 4-0

Baseball Record
1961 Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record


Baseball PlayerRoger Maris

MLB PitcherJack Fisher

• 1962 LA Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills becomes first player in MLB history to steal 100 bases (en route to 104)
• 1964 Braves (25) & Phillies (18) set record by using 43 players in 9 inn

LPGA Championship
1965 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Stardust CC: Sandra Haynie wins by 1 stroke from Clifford Ann Creed


GolferSandra Haynie
Sports History
1971 Jim Palmer is 4th Oriole to win at least 20 games this season


Baseball PlayerJim Palmer
NBA History
1973 Wilt Chamberlain signs with ABA San Diego Conquistadors


NBA LegendWilt Chamberlain

• 1975 Phillies & NY Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM
• 1976 Phillies clinch their 1st NL East Division title
• 1977 Cleveland Browns play their 1st overtime game, beat Patriots 30-27
• 1978 NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms
• 1979 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million
• 1983 Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks 56 yard field goal, a NY Giants record
• 1983 Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race - 1st non-US winner

Sports History
1983 Cardinals' Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter, beating Montreal Expos 3-0, in St. Louis


Baseball PitcherBob Forsch

• 1984 5,251 turn out to see Phillies play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
• 1987 Padres Benito Santiago sets rookie hitting streak to 28 games
• 1988 Soviet throwers sweep the medals in the hammer throw at the Seoul Olympics; Sergey Litvinov wins gold with an Olympic record 84.80m ahead of teammates Yuriy Sedykh & Jüri Tamm
• 1992 1st time a positional player pitches for NY Mets, Phil Pecota, in 19-2 lose to Pirates

Sports History
1992 Jimmy Connors beats Martina Navratilova, 7-5, 6-3


Tennis LegendJimmy Connors

Tennis PlayerMartina Navratilova

• 1993 Cubs bat out of order against Pirates in 2nd inning

F1 World Champion
1993 French Williams driver Alain Prost finishes 2nd in Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril to clinch his 4th F1 World Drivers Championship; after race Prost announces his retirement at the end of the season


Formula 1 Racing DriverAlain Prost

• 1993 Indians win their last game at Cleveland Stadium, beating Brewers 6-4

Ryder Cup
1993 Ryder Cup Golf, The Belfry: US beats Europe, 15-13; Davis Love III secures victory for the US beating Costantino Rocca at the 18th, 1 up


GolferDavis Love III

• 1995 Earliest 1st-class cricket in Aust season (Qld v Western Prov)
• 1995 Sri Lanka complete 2-1 Test Cricket series win in Pakistan from 0-1

Baseball Record
1996 SF Giant Barry Bonds is 2nd player to hit 40 HRs & steal 40 bases


MLB LegendBarry Bonds
Baseball Record
1997 Seattle Mariner Ken Griffey Jr. hits his 56th HR of 1997


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderKen Griffey Jr.

• 1999 Ryder Cup Golf, The Country Club, Brookline: US wins 14½-13½ after trailing 10-6 going into the singles; win first 6 matches to set up victory; poor American crowd & team behaviour heavily criticised
• 2004 Canadian runner Ed Whitlock (73) becomes 1st person over 70 to complete a marathon in under 3 hours (2:54:48) at Toronto Marathon (Toronto, Ontario)
• 2021 Laver Cup Men's Tennis, Boston: Team Europe whitewash Team World, 14-1; Team Europe wins title for a 4th consecutive edition; Andrey Rublev 3-0 for event high 6 points
• 2021 Ryder Cup Golf, Whistling Straits, Haven, Wisconsin: United States regain title beating Team Europe by a record, 19-9; Dustin Johnson 5-0-0

 

SEPT 27

British Golf Open

1879 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Scotsman Jamie Anderson wins by 3 shots from countrymen Jamie Allen & Andrew Kirkaldy; 3rd consecutive title


GolferJamie Anderson

• 1881 Chicago Cubs beat Troy 10-8 before record small "crowd" of 12
• 1905 Boston's Bill Dinneen no-hits Chicago White Sox, 2-0
• 1914 Cleveland 2nd baseman Nap Lajoie collects his 3,000th hit

Baseball Record
1919 Boston Red Sox slugger Babe Ruth takes his MLB home run record to 29 with a 3rd inning blast in a 7-5 defeat at the Washington Senators' Griffith Stadium


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1919 Pitcher Bob Shawkey sets then Yank record with 15 strike-outs
• 1921 American swimmer Johnny Weismuller sets his first 2 world records in the 100m and 150yd freestyle events the A.A.U. Nationals meet in Brighton Beach, NY
• 1921 MLB NY Yankees beat Cleveland Indians 21-7 at Polo Grounds, NYC

Lou Gehrig's 1st HR
1923 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 1st of his 493 HRs


Baseball PlayerLou Gehrig
Baseball Record
1930 Chicago Cub's Hack Wilson's 2 HRs give him NL record 56 HRs


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderHack Wilson
Golf Tournament
1930 US Amateur Championship Men's Golf, Merion GC: Bobby Jones scores an 8 & 7 win over Eugene V. Homans to win his 5th National Amateur title and clinch golf's Grand Slam


GolferBobby Jones
Baseball History
1931 Closest NL batting race ends; St. Louis Cardinals Chick Hafey's .34889 beats NY Giants Bill Terry .34861 [1]


Baseball PlayerBill Terry

• 1931 MLB's Lou Gehrig completes his 6th straight season, playing in every game (.3486) Jim Bottomley (.3481)
• 1935 Chicago Cubs win 21st consecutive game & clinch NL pennant
• 1936 Boston Redskins and Brooklyn Dodgers play one of only 4 penalty free games in NFL history; Boston wins 14-3 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn

Baseball History
1936 First baseman Walter Alston plays in his only major league game for the St. Louis Cardinals; manages Brooklyn/LA Dodgers for 23 years


Baseball ManagerWalter Alston

• 1939 White Sox host 1st "day-night" doubleheader, lose twice to Cleveland, 5-2 & 7-5

Floyd Giebells 1st Game
1940 Floyd Giebells, 1st game, 2-0 pennant clinching beating Bob Feller


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherBob Feller

• 1940 Yankees, lose to A's & eliminated from pennant for 1st time since 1935
• 1942 NY Giants beat Wash Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down

Boxing Title Fight
1950 Heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles defeats Joe Louis in 15 in Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionEzzard Charles

Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionJoe Louis

• 1953 St Louis Browns play last game in Sportsman's Park, losing 100th game
• 1957 American MLB San Francisco Giants rent Pacific Coast League San Francisco Seals Stadium until Candlestick Park is built in 1960
• 1959 Braves & Dodgers finish in a tie (86-68)

Baseball Record
1961 Sandy Koufax sets NL strikeout season record at 269


Baseball PitcherSandy Koufax

• 1964 Despite 3 HRs by Johnny Callison, Phils are 14-8 losers to Braves
• 1964 Phillies 7th straight loses sends them into 2nd place

Baseball Record
1967 Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Jim Bunning ties NL record of 5, 1-0 losses in a year


Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher and SenatorJim Bunning

• 1968 Cardinals' super pitcher Bob Gibson's 13th shutout of year
• 1970 Ken Boswell sets 2nd baseman record of 85 games without an error
• 1972 1st NHL exhibition game at Nassau Coliseum; NY Rangers beat NY Islanders, 6-4

Baseball Record
1973 Nolan Ryan strikes out 16 in 11 innings, for record 383 of season


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

• 1977 Phillies clinch 2nd straight NL East Division title
• 1980 Marvin Hagler defeats Alan Minter to claim boxing's world Middleweight championship in London. They have to be escorted away by police after a riot forms.

Sports History
1983 Tim Raines is 1st since Ty Cobb to steal 70 & drive in 70 runs


MLB OutfielderTim Raines

MLB LegendTy Cobb
Sports History
1987 Atlanta Braves Phil Niekro's final MLB appearance, he surrenders for 5 runs in 3 innings against the San Francisco Giants


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherPhil Niekro

• 1987 NFL players' strike begins in the US
• 1987 Ryder Cup Golf, Muirfield Village GC: Europe beats US, 15-13; after 13-0 unbeaten record spanning 60 years, US loses for first time on home soil

Olympic Gold
1988 American diver Greg Louganis wins the 10m platform gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; wraps up diving double after also taking out the 3m springboard gold


DiverGreg Louganis
World Record
1988 Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is disqualified from the Seoul Olympics 100m after his urine sample found to contain steroid stanozolol; American Carl Lewis awarded gold medal and world record 9.92


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumperCarl Lewis

• 1988 East German cyclist Olaf Ludwig wins the men's road race in 4:32:22 at the Seoul Olympics; beats West German pair Bernd Gröne & Christian Henn

Greg LeMond Honored
1990 Tour de France champion Greg LeMond visits White House


CyclistGreg LeMond

• 1991 1st scheduled NHL exhibition game in St Petersburg Fla, is cancelled due to poor ice conditions (NY Islanders vs Boston Bruins)
• 1992 LA Dodgers for 1st time in history clinch last place
• 1992 Pittsburgh Pirates win their 3rd straight NL East title
• 1996 Baltimore Oriole Roberto Alomar spits in face of umpire John Hirschbeck

Olympic Gold
2000 United States baseball team, managed by Tommy Lasorda, wins Olympic Gold Medal in Sydney, Australia


Baseball Pitcher and ManagerTommy Lasorda

• 2005 Atlanta Braves clinch their 14th straight division title thanks to Philadelphia's loss to the New York Mets
• 2006 MLB Boston Red Sox honor former player Johnny Pesky by officially naming Fenway Park's right-field foul pole "Pesky's Pole"

Sports History
2008 Greg Maddux wins his final start of his career (#355)


MLB Pitching LegendGreg Maddux

• 2014 New Zealand's All Blacks scores 4 tries to beat Argentina, 34-13 in La Plata and claim their 3rd straight Rugby Championship; All Blacks first five eighth Beauden Barrett kicks 6 from 6

 

SEPT 28

• 1911 NY Highlanders get 13 walk & steal 15 bases (including then record 6 in one inning), beating Browns 18-12; each team committed 6 errors
• 1919 Fastest major league game (51 mins), Giants beat Phillies 6-1
• 1920 8 Chicago White Sox baseball players are indicted by a grand jury, charged with fixing 1919 World Series; infamous "Black Sox scandal"

PGA Championship

1921 4th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Inwood CC Far Rockaway NY


GolferWalter Hagen

• 1923 Yanks slaughter Red Sox 24-4
• 1928 NY Yanks clinch pennant #6

Lou Gehrig's Streak Ends
1930 Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games


Baseball PlayerLou Gehrig

• 1938 Homer in the Gloamin' - famous walk-off home run hit by Gabby Hartnett of the Chicago Cubs against the Pittsburgh Pirates

NFL History
1940 Bud Brennan, a fan at Memorial Stadium, races out of stands and attempts to tackle Tom Harmon at 3-yard line, Harmon easily evades


American Football Player and BroadcasterTom Harmon

• 1940 Michigan's Tom Harmon runs 72, 86 & 94 yard touchdowns
• 1941 Phillies lose club record 111th game

Ted Williams Best Year
1941 Ted Williams ended the baseball season with .406 batting avg


Baseball PlayerTed Williams

• 1942 NY Americans NHL team folded

Sports History
1951 New York's Allie Reynolds' 2nd no-hitter of 1951, an 8-0 home victory over Boston Red Sox; Yankees clinch pennant #18


Baseball PitcherAllie Reynolds

• 1951 Norm Van Brocklin of Rams passes for NFL record 554 yards

Sports History
1952 St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Stan Musial makes his only major league pitching appearance, throwing one pitch to Chicago Cubs Frank Baumholtz


MLB LegendStan Musial

• 1955 1st World Series color TV broadcast on NBC-TV (Yanks beat Dodgers)
• 1960 Ted Williams hits his final homer #521 (off Jack Fisher)
• 1964 53rd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Cleveland (3-2)
• 1969 NFL Minnesota Vikings QB Joe Kapp passes for 7 touchdowns vs Baltimore Colts in 52-14 home win
• 1970 Intrepid (US) beats Gretel II (Australia) in 22nd America's Cup
• 1972 Canada defeats the USSR in the eighth and final game of the ice hockey Summit Series

Sports History
1974 California Angel Nolan Ryan 3rd no-hitter beats Minn Twin, 4-0


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

• 1975 New York City Marathon: Tom Fleming claims men's title in 2:19:27; Kim Merritt wins women's event in 2:46:14

Sports History
1975 Oakland A's Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Linblad & Rollie Fingers, no-hit California Angels, 5-0


Major League Baseball pitcherVida Blue
Boxing Title Fight
1976 Muhammad Ali beats Ken Norton in a 15 round unanimous points decision for the WBA, WBC and The Ring heavyweight boxing titles


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali

Heavyweight BoxerKen Norton
Boxing Title Fight
1979 Larry Holmes beats Earnie Shavers by TKO in 11th round in Las Vegas for WBC heavyweight boxing title


WBC Heavyweight ChampionLarry Holmes

• 1980 Australian Williams driver Alan Jones clinches his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by winning the Canadian Grand Prix at Île Notre-Dame Circuit
• 1984 Cleveland Indians down 0-10 to Minnesota Twins, win 11-10
• 1986 Cleveland Browns' Gerald McNeil sets the team record for the longest punt return with an 84-yard run (and TD), Browns 24, Detroit 21
• 1986 Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)
• 1988 American athletes go 1-2-3 in the 400m at the Seoul Olympics with Steve Lewis taking the gold medal in 43.87 ahead of teammates Butch Reynolds & Danny Everett
• 1988 Australian Debbie Flintoff-King wins the 400m hurdles gold at the Seoul Olympics in 53.17, just 0.01 ahead of Tatyana Ledovskaya of the Soviet Union
• 1988 Despite totally dominating his sport for 14 years, Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka wins his only Olympic gold medal with a vault of 5.90m at the Seoul Games
• 1988 Javed Miandad scores his 19th Test Cricket century (v Aus, Faisalabad)

Sports History
1988 LA Dodger Orel Herschiser breaks former Dodger Don Drysdale's record by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings


MLB PlayerDon Drysdale

• 1991 NY Yankees set record of 75 games without a complete pitched game
• 1992 Oakland A's win AL West title

Sports History
1993 Dennis Martínez is 7th to win 100 games in AL & NL


MLB PitcherDennis Martínez
Television Finale
1994 Ken Burn's documentary miniseries "Baseball" TV Miniseries last airs on PBS


Baseball Player and CoachBuck O'Neil

• 1995 Dennis Martínez' fastball breaks Minnesota Twins Kirby Puckett's jaw, in what becomes his final career plate appearance, in Cleveland Indians 12-4 win
• 1995 Troy Dixon scores cricket century on 1st-class debut for Qld v W Prov
• 1996 NY Yankee Jim Leyitz is 2nd catcher to wear a hockey mask
• 1996 Orioles' Roberto Alomar suspended 5 games for spitting at ump
• 1996 Troy Davis of Iowa State ran for 378 yards, 3rd highest in college football games (others: Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas & Alabama)
• 1997 Ryder Cup Golf, Valderrama GC, Spain: Europe wins 14½-13½ to retain the Cup; first time event contested in continental Europe; first of 6 consecutive victories at home by Europe

Baseball Record
1997 St Louis Cardinals Mark McGwire hits his 58th HR of 1997 (34 with Oak A's)


MLB First BasemanMark McGwire

• 2003 Final game played at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, Atlanta Braves defeat Phillies, 5-2
• 2008 MLB Boston Red Sox retire Johnny Pesky's jersey (number 6)
• 2008 The last game played at Shea Stadium before its demolition happens between baseball teams The New York Mets and the Florida Marlins, the Marlins win 4-2
• 2014 Ryder Cup Golf, Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland: Europe wins 16½-11½ to win Cup for 3rd consecutive time

Ronaldo Case Dismissed
2018 Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo accused of rape in 2009 in US lawsuit filed in Nevada; case dismissed based on improper breach of attorney-client privileged communications


Football StarCristiano Ronaldo

• 2020 Stanley Cup Final, Rogers Place, Edmonton, Alberta: Tampa Bay Lightning claim second championship in franchise history with a 2-0 Game 6 win over Dallas Stars; win series 4-2

Aaron Judge Ties HR Record
2022 New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hits his 61st home run of the season, tying Roger Maris's AL record from 1961 in an 8-3 win over Blue Jays in Toronto


Baseball PlayerRoger Maris

 

SEPT 29

• 1793 Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine
• 1880 1st pro baseball game at Polo Grounds, NY Metropolitans beat Washington Nationals 4-2 in 5 innings
• 1908 Calgary Rugby Football Union forms

Sports History

1913 MLB Washington Senator Walter Johnson wins his 36th game


MLB PitcherWalter Johnson

• 1914 Boston Braves, who were in last place in mid-July, clinch NL pennant
• 1915 Philadelphia Phillies clinch their 1st pennant

Babe Ruth's HR Season Record
1920 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth sets then-MLB home run season record at 54 with a 9th inning shot off Dave Keefe in New York's 7-3 win at the Philadelphia A's


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth
PGA Championship
1923 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Pelham CC: Defending champion Gene Sarazen beats Walter Hagan in 38 holes for 3rd of his 7 major titles


GolferGene Sarazen

• 1924 Senators clinch pennant, finishing 2 games in front of Yankees
• 1927 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth ties MLB record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games; New York's 7-4 win v Philadelphia A's and 15-4 rout of Washington Senators
• 1928 Yanks (17) Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record (45)-Tigers win 19-10
• 1935 Ryder Cup Golf, Ridgewood CC: US wins, 9-3; first of 7 consecutive wins by the Americans
• 1937 Frans Slaats cycles a world hour record time (45,563 km)

Louis TKOs Nova
1941 Joe Louis TKOs Lou Nova in 6 for heavyweight boxing title


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionJoe Louis

• 1941 Million jam downtown Brooklyn to cheer NL champ Dodgers in a parade
• 1944 Browns last in AL attendance, only 6,172 watch them sweep Yanks in DH
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• 1945 Chicago Cubs clinch NL pennant with record of 98–56
• 1946 1st time NL pennant ends in a tie (Cards & Dodgers)
• 1946 Los Angeles (previously Cleveland) Rams play 1st NFL game in LA

Joe McCarthy Joins Red Sox
1947 Former New York Yankees manager Joe McCarthy signs to manage Boston Red Sox


Baseball ManagerJoe McCarthy
Baseball History
1950 Yanks clinch 2nd consecutive pennant under Casey Stengel


Baseball Hall of Fame ManagerCasey Stengel

• 1954 Bennekom (Netherlands) soccer team forms

The Catch
1954 Willie Mays famous over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz' 460' drive during Game One of the World Series


MLB LegendWillie Mays
I Love Mickey
1956 Music single "I Love Mickey" by Mickey Mantle & Teresa Brewer peaks at #87


Baseball LegendMickey Mantle

• 1956 Yanks Mickey Mantle hits his 52nd HR of season
• 1957 NFL NY Giants play their last game at Polo Grounds, 9-1 loss to Pittsburgh
• 1959 Dodgers win game 2 of playoff, 6-5, & take NL pennant

Baseball Record
1963 Cardinal's celebrate Stan Musial Day in St Louis, for Stan Musial's final game, where he hits his 3,629th & 3,630th total hits (475 HRs)


MLB LegendStan Musial

• 1965 Phillies catcher Pat Corrales sets record by reaching base twice on catcher's interference in one game & 6 times in one season

Baseball Record
1966 Sandy Koufax pitches 3rd 300-strikeout season


Baseball PitcherSandy Koufax
Griffith vs. Benvenuti
1967 American boxer Emile Griffith regains his world middleweight crown on points in a brawling re-match with Italian Nino Benvenuti at Shea Stadium, NY; second of famous trilogy of fights


BoxerNino Benvenuti

BoxerEmile Griffith
Baseball History
1968 Boston Red Sox arl Yastrzemski .3005 avg wins his 2nd straight batting crown


MLB OutfielderCarl Yastrzemski

• 1968 Chuck Latourette, sets NFL record 47.7 yd punt return avg (3 punts)
• 1969 Red Sox Rico Petrocelli hits shortstop record 40th HR of season
• 1969 Steve O'Neal of NY Jets, kicks longest NFL punt; 98 yards vs Denver
• 1973 Insurance ind announces auto racers get into more highway accidents
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• 1974 New York City Marathon: Norbert Sander wins men's race in 2:26:30; Katherine Switzer takes out women's event in 3:07:29
• 1976 San Francisco Giant John Montefusco no-hits Atlanta Braves, 9-0

Sports History
1976 Tommy Lasorda replaces Walter Alston as Los Angeles Dodgers manager


Baseball Pitcher and ManagerTommy Lasorda

Baseball ManagerWalter Alston

• 1977 Eva Shain is 1st woman to referee a heavyweight championship

Boxing Title Fight
1977 Muhammad Ali beats Earnie Shavers by unanimous decision over 15 rounds in NYC for WBA, WBC and The Ring heavyweight boxing titles


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali

• 1979 Astros' J R Richard strikes out NL season righty record of 313
• 1979 LA Dodger Manny Mota hits record 146th pinch hit
• 1983 Oakland A's Mike Warren no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0
• 1985 Houston QB Warren Moon sacked NFL tying record 12 times (by Cowboys)

Sports History
1986 Cubs Greg Maddux defeats Phillies Mike Maddux (1st rookie brothers)


MLB Pitching LegendGreg Maddux

• 1986 Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a HR on 1st major league pitch he sees
• 1986 Mary Lou Retton retires as a gymnast

Baseball Record
1987 NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits record 6th grand slam of year


Baseball Player and ManagerDon Mattingly
Olympic Gold
1988 American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee wins her second gold medal of the Seoul Olympics by taking the long jump with an Olympic record leap of 7.40m; previously won the heptathlon


Track and Field AthleteJackie Joyner-Kersee
World Record
1988 American sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner sets women's 200m world record 21.34; completes sprint double at the Seoul Olympics


SprinterFlorence Griffith Joyner

• 1988 East German athlete Christian Schenk beats countryman Torsten Voss by 89 points to win the decathlon gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; Canadian Dave Steen is another 71 points back in third place
• 1988 US men's basketball team beats Australia 78-49 to take the bronze medal at the Seoul Olympics; last time US represented by a team that doesn't feature NBA players
• 1988 US retain women's basketball title at he Seoul Olympics with a 77-70 win over Yugoslavia; star guard Teresa Edwards top scores for the Americans with 18 points

Golf Tournament
1991 Pat Bradley wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic at the Los Coyotes CC; her third LPGA title of the month


LPGA GolferPat Bradley
Ryder Cup
1991 Ryder Cup Golf, Kiahwa Island GR: US beats Europe, 14½-13½; Bernhard Langer misses 6-foot par putt which would have clinched 14-all tie and retained Cup for Europe


Golfer and Two-Time Masters ChampionBernhard Langer

• 1992 Atlanta Braves wins 2nd straight NL West title

Sports History
1992 Magic Johnson announces return to play basketball (he doesn't)

O.J. Simpson Trial
1994 1st phase of O.J. Simpson murder trial jury selection ends (304 chosen)

• 1995 Trial for former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson sent to the jury
• 1996 34th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Atlantic City USA (5-0)
• 1996 Baltimore Orioles end season with record 257 HRs

Federation Cup
1996 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Atlantic City, NJ: Monica Seles beats Arantxa Sánchez Vicario of Spain 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 to give USA in unassailable 3-0 lead (ends, 5-0) and 15th title
Sports History
1996 Houston Astro's retire Nolan Ryan's #34

• 1996 Orioles Brady Anderson is 14th to hit 50 HRs
• 1996 San Diego Padres sweep LA Dodgers in race for NL West title
• 2002 Ryder Cup Golf, The Belfry: Europe wins 15½-12½ after teams tied at 8 points going into Sunday singles matches
• 2002 Seattle running back Shaun Alexander sets NFL record for most touchdowns in a half with 5 in 1st half of 48-23 win v Minnesota Vikings at Seahawks Stadium; runs for 4 plus 80-yard reception
• 2005 Chicago White Sox clinch their first division title since 2000 and become just the 10th team in the history of baseball to be in first place on every day of the season
• 2018 NY Yankees Venezuelan 2nd baseman Gleyber Torres smashes a 2-run homer in 8-5 win v Boston at Fenway Park; Yankees MLB record 265th homer of the season; Giancarlo Stanton adds #266 in 7th

Ben Ainslie Sails to Gold
2020 Ben Ainslie wins the Olympic gold medal in the Laser class, beating previous Laser Olympic champion Robert Scheidt

 

SEPT 30

• 1659 Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in US)
• 1882 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Bob Ferguson wins third consecutive Open title; beats fellow Scot Willie Fernie by 3 strokes
• 1887 8th America's Cup: New York Yacht Club’s cutter Volunteer beats Scottish challenger Thistle by 11:48.75 seconds on corrected time to win series, 2-0 off Newport, RI

• 1904 White Sox lefty Doc White, pitches his 5th shutout in 18 days
• 1915 Red Sox clinch AL pennant by beating Detroit
• 1916 Giants lose to Braves 8-3, ends 26 consecutive win streak
• 1922 Yanks clinch pennant #2, beating Boston 3-1

Babe Ruth Hits a Record

1927 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth smacks his MLB record 60th home run off Tom Zachary in 8th inning of New York's 4-2 win over Washington Senators at Yankee Stadium


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1934 Babe Ruth's final game as a Yankee, goes 0 for 3
• 1937 Ryder Cup Golf, Southport & Ainsdale GC: US wins 8-4; first time the host team loses the competition
• 1939 Chicago pitcher Clint Brown sets MLB record with his 61st relief appearance as White Sox beat St. Louis Browns, 7-5
• 1939 In the first televised college football game, Fordham beats Waynesburg, 34-7 at Randalls Island, NY

Baseball History
1945 Detroit's future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Hank Greenberg smacks an AL pennant-winning grand slam on the final day of the season as the Tigers beat St. Louis Browns, 6-3


Baseball PlayerHank Greenberg

• 1947 In first televised World Series Baseball game, NY Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 5-3 in Game 1 at Yankee Stadium; also largest WS crowd to date, 73,365
• 1949 Pirates Ralph Kiner hits his 54th HR & NL record 16th in September
• 1956 Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th HR
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• 1956 White Sox Jim Derrington, 16, is youngest to start a game (he loses)
• 1962 NY Mets lose record 120th game as Cubs turn triple play & beat NY 5-1

Baseball History
1965 LA Dodger Don Drysdale (23-12) wins 13th straight game, 7 by shutouts


MLB PlayerDon Drysdale

• 1968 AL & NL umpires form a new Association of Major League Umpires
• 1971 Last Washington Senator home game, Yanks win career 5th forfeit game Yanks trailing 4-2 in 9th with 2 outs, fans rush field

Baseball Record
1972 Pittsburgh right fielder Roberto Clemente doubles off Mets' Jon Matlack to become the 11th MLB player to record 3000 hits as Pirates beat NY, 5-0


Baseball PlayerRoberto Clemente

• 1973 Mel Gray begins NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions
• 1973 New York City Marathon: American Nina Kuscsik retains her crown in 2:57:07; Tom Fleming wins men's race in 2:21:54
• 1973 New York Yankees close 50th year at Yankee Stadium with an 8-5 loss to Detroit Tigers for an 80-82 season record; manager Ralph Houk resigns
• 1978 Cleveland, Houston, NY, Philadelphia & Pittsburgh Phillies win 3rd consecutive NL East Division title
• 1978 Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati
• 1978 Phillies clinch NL East title
• 1979 Milwaukee Brewers lose 5-0 ending 213 straight games without a shutout
• 1980 1,754 turn out to see Phillies play NY Mets at Shea Stadium

Baseball Record
1980 Oakland outfielder Rickey Henderson sets AL stolen base record with his 97th in A's 5-1 win over Chicago White Sox; breaks Ty Cobb's mark of 96 set in 1915


MLB OutfielderRickey Henderson

• 1981 International Olympic Committee votes to award Seoul, South Korea as host of the 1988 Summer Olympic Games

Bowie Kuhn Retires
1984 Bowie Kuhn ends career as Baseball Commissioner


MLB CommissionerBowie Kuhn

• 1984 California Angel Mike Witt, pitches a perfect game over Texas Rangers, 1-0
• 1984 California Angels Michael Witt is 11th to pitch a perfect baseball game

Baseball History
1984 NY Yankee Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 avg


Baseball Player and ManagerDon Mattingly

• 1988 Louise Ritter, US, jumps 6'8" to win Olympic gold medal

Givens, Tyson and Barbara Walter
1988 Robin Givens and Mike Tyson appear on Barbara Walter's Show


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

Model and ActressRobin Givens

• 1988 Soviet Union beats Yugoslavia 76-63 to win the men's basketball gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; US finishes 3rd; final time US field non-NBA team

Nolan Ryan's 300th Strikeout
1989 Nolan Ryan's perfect game broken in 8th, but gets his 300th strikeout


MLB Pitching LegendNolan Ryan

• 1989 Toronto Blue Jays wins AL East title
• 1990 MLB Chicago White Sox beat Seattle Mariners 2-1 in last game at Comiskey Park, Chicago
• 1990 MLB Pittsburgh Pirates win NL East title

George Brett's 3,000th Hit
1992 KC Royal George Brett gets 4 hits to become 18th to get 3,000 hits


MLB Third BasemanGeorge Brett
Baseball Record
1997 New York Yankees Tim Raines, Derek Jeter & Paul O'Neill are 1st to hit 3 consecutively homers in post season (Yanks beat Cleveland Indians 8-6)


MLB OutfielderTim Raines

Baseball PlayerDerek Jeter

MLB Right FielderPaul O'Neill

• 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, Hongkou Football Stadium, Shanghai, China: Birgit Prinz and Simone Laudehr score as Germany beats Brazil, 2-0
• 2007 Presidents Cup Golf, Royal Montreal GC: David Toms and Scott Verplank remain undefeated as US beats International team, 19½–14½
• 2012 Ryder Cup Golf, Medinah CC: Europe retains Cup 14½-13½; win 8 and tie 1 of the 12 singles matches after trailing 10-6
• 2018 New York Yankees suffer a 10-2 drubbing at the Boston Red Sox but accumulate a MLB record 267 home runs for the season; surpass Seattle Mariners previous mark of 264 in 1997

Ryder Cup
2018 Ryder Cup Golf, Le Golf National: Europe regains Cup with 17½–10½ win over the US; Italian Francesco Molinari wins all 5 matches; Sergio Garcia becomes biggest point scorer in event history with 25½


GolferSergio García

 

OCT 1

Early Yacht Race

1661 Yachting begins in England as King Charles II beats his brother James, Duke of York in a yacht race from Greenwich to Gravesend


King of EnglandCharles II

• 1879 Cincinnati Enquirer publishes first report on Baseball's reserve clause; rights to players retained by team upon the contract's expiration; replaced by free agency
• 1889 Dutch soccer club HFC Haarlem is founded; National champions 1946; bankrupt in 2010; merge with HFC Kennemerland, new club Haarlem Kennemerland

1st Baseball World Series Game
1903 First Baseball World Series game ever played; Pittsburgh Pirates beat Boston Americans 7-3 at Huntington Avenue; Jimmy Sebring hits first home run; Deacon Phillippe is winning pitcher and Cy Young the loser


MLB PitcherCy Young
Baseball History
1908 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Jack Chesbro records final victory for the NY Highlanders before waived and claimed by Red Sox; beats Walter Johnson and Washington Senators, 2-1


MLB PitcherWalter Johnson

Baseball PitcherJack Chesbro

• 1910 Regina Rugby Club (to become CFL Saskatchewan Roughriders) plays first game, losing to Moose Jaw Tigers, 16-6
• 1919 Infamous 'Black Sox' Baseball World Series begins with Cincinnati Reds' Dutch Ruether pitching a 6-hitter and hitting 3 RBI on 2 triples and a single for a 9-1 rout of White Sox

PGA Championship
1921 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Inwood CC: Walter Hagen beats former champion Jim Barnes of England 3 & 2; Hagan's third major title


GolferWalter Hagen

• 1922 Former Chicago Staleys play first NFL game as Chicago Bears; beat Racine Legion, 6-0 at Horlick Field, Racine, Wisconsin

Baseball Record
1922 St. Louis Cardinals 2nd baseman Rogers Hornsby hits 3-for-5 in 7-1 regular season ending win v Chicago Cubs; improves batting average to .401; only MLB player to bat .400 and hit 40 HRs in same season


MLB Hall of Fame 2nd Baseman and ManagerRogers Hornsby
Paavo Nurmi World Records
1924 Finnish distance runner Paavo Nurmi runs world record 4 mile (19:15.4) & 5 mile (24:06.2) at Vilpuri, Russia


Runner nicknamed the Flying FinnPaavo Nurmi

• 1924 MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Landis bans NY Giants outfielder Jimmy O'Connell & coach Cozy Dolan from World Series after they attempt to bribe Phillies shortstop Heinie Sand
• 1927 Pittsburgh Pirates with a team including 5 future Baseball Hall of Famers clinch NL pennant with 9-6 win v Cincinnati Reds; Pirates' last NL pennant until 1960
• 1928 Finnish distance runner Paavo Nurmi runs 15k world record 46:49.6 and 10 miles 50:15.0 in Berlin, Germany
• 1931 Philadelphia Athletics seek 3rd straight World Series baseball title; beat St. Louis Cardinals, 6-2 in opener at Sportsman's Park; lose series, 4-3

Babe Ruth's Called Shot
1932 Babe Ruth’s legendary call; sledged by Cubs dugout, points to center-field before homering into the Wrigley Field bleachers in 5th inning, Game 3 of the World Series; NY Yankees win, 7-5


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1933 Babe Ruth makes his final pitching appearance in MLB; pitches all 9 innings in a season ending 6-5 win v Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium; hits his 34th home run of the season in 5th inning

Sports History
1933 New York Giants make no 1st downs, but still beat the Green Bay Packers, 10-7 in a week 3 NFL matchup at Borchert Field, Milwaukee, Wisconsin


American Football PlayerMel Hein

• 1933 Washington Senators coach Nick Altrock plays in a MLB game at age 57 as a pinch-hitter; faces Rube Walberg of the Philadelphia A's; goes hitless in 3-0 loss
• 1944 St Louis Browns beat New York Yankees 5-2 at Sportsman's Park III to win their only AL pennant; lose World Series 4-2 to neighbour Cardinals

Sports History
1945 World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis is discharged from US army after being awarded the Legion of Merit


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionJoe Louis
Baseball Record
1946 Cleveland Indians pitcher Bob Feller claims his MLB record 348th strikeout of season in a 4-1 win v Detroit; record stands for 19 years


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherBob Feller

• 1946 St. Louis Cardinals beats Brooklyn Dodgers, 4-2 in first MLB play-off game for a league championship (NL); St Louis wins series, 2-0

Sports History
1950 Connie Mack's last game as Philadelphia Athletics manager (1901-50); longest serving manager in MLB history; beat Washington Senators, 5-3 at Shribe Park


Baseball LegendConnie Mack

• 1950 New York Giants beat Cleveland Browns, 6-0 at Cleveland Stadium; sets Browns club record for fewest points scored by both teams; Browns go on to win NFL Championship
• 1950 Philadelphia Phillies clinch NL pennant on Dick Sisler's 3-run home run in a season ending 4-1 win v Brooklyn Dodgers; Phillies first pennant since 1913

US Women's Golf Open
1950 US Open Women's Golf, Rolling Hills CC: Babe Zaharias ties Open scoring record, -9 291 to beat amateur Betsy Rawls by 9 strokes


LPGA GolferBetsy Rawls

• 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Carl Erskine sets a Baseball World Series record with 14 strikeouts in a 3-2 Game 3 win against NY Yankees at Ebbets Field
• 1955 Baltimore Colts fullback Alan Ameche becomes the first rookie in NFL history to top 100 yards rushing in his first 2 games; totals 153 against Detroit Lions after 194 yards in debut v Chicago Bears
• 1956 American jockey Johnny Heckmann becomes first to ride 7 winners at Hawthorne Race Course at Stickney/Cicero near Chicago, Illinois
• 1959 Chicago White Sox beat LA Dodgers, 11-0 in Game 1 of the Baseball World Series at Comiskey Park; White Sox first WS appearance since 1919 'Black Sox Scandal'; LA wins series 4-2
• 1960 14th NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC: All-Stars beat Montreal Canadiens, 2-1

Baseball Record
1961 NY Yankees right-fielder Roger Maris becomes MLB’s all-time home run leader when he passes Babe Ruth's mark with No. 61 off Boston rookie Tracy Stallard in 1-0 win at Yankee Stadium


Baseball PlayerRoger Maris
Sports History
1967 Richard Petty continues phenomenal NASCAR winning streak by taking the Wilkes 400 at North Wilkesboro Speedway; unprecedented 10th consecutive victory


Auto RacerRichard Petty

• 1970 Phillies beat Montreal Expos, 2-1 in final game played at Connie Mack Stadium, Philadelphia; fans swarm onto field and destroy it after the game
• 1972 New York City Marathon: men's event won by Sheldon Karlin in 2:27:52; Nina Kuscsik wins women's race in 3:08:41

Sports History
1973 Future Baseball Hall of Fame player and manager Leo Durocher ends his 45 year career in the sport when he resigns as Houston Astros manager


Baseball Player and ManagerLeo Durocher
Boxing Title Fight
1975 "The Thrilla in Manila"; Muhammad Ali stops Joe Frazier in 14 rounds in Quezon City, the Philippines to retain his WBC/WBA heavyweight title

Sports History
1977 Brazilian soccer great Pelé plays his final game for the New York Cosmos in an exhibition against Santos in front of 75,000 at Giants Stadium; 1,281 goals in 1,363 games

• 1977 New York Yankees end MLB season with 100-62 record; win 2nd consecutive AL East title; go on the win World Series 4-2 v LA Dodgers

Sports History
1984 Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as 6th commissioner of Major League Baseball; he has a 4 year tenure

• 1988 Bradley Center in Milwaukee opens with an exhibition hockey game between Chicago Blackhawks and Edmonton Oilers; construction cost $90 million; closed 2018
• 1988 Canadian synchronised swimmer Carolyn Waldo teams with Michelle Cameron to win the duet gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; wraps up double having won individual title

Olympic Gold
1988 Flamboyant American sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner wins her third gold medal of the Seoul Olympics anchoring the victorious US 4 x 100m relay team
Sports History
1988 Lowest batting avg for NL champion (Tony Gwynn .313)

Olympic Gold
1988 Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini 6-3, 6-3 to win the women's singles tennis gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; clinches first and only Golden Slam in history (Grand Slam & Olympics)

• 1988 The inaugural Olympic table tennis program concludes in Seoul with China and South Korea each winning 2 titles
• 1988 The Soviet women's 4 x 400m relay team runs world record 3:15.17 to beat a star-studded US team and win the Olympic gold medal in Seoul; Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina & Olga Bryzgina
• 1988 Yuri Savichev scores in extra time as the Soviet Union beats Brazil 2-1 to win the men's football gold medal at the Seoul Olympics
• 1989 Dallas Cowboy defensive end, Ed "Too Tall" Jones records his 1,000th NFL tackle in a 30-13 defeat to the New York Giants at Texas Stadium

Sports History
1989 MLB batting titles are decided on final day of regular season: AL, Kirby Puckett goes 2-for-5 edges Carney Lansford .339 to .336; NL, Tony Gwynn's 3-for-4 beats Will Clark .336 to .333
MLB Center FielderKirby Puckett

• 1992 Gil Stein officially becomes only the 5th president in the NHL's 75 year history; serves for just one year before the title changed to “commissioner”

Boxing Title Fight
1993 In his first World Boxing Council heavyweight title defense Lennox Lewis beats fellow Londoner Frank Bruno by TKO in 7 at the National Stadium in Cardiff, Wales

Cricket History
1994 Australian cricket batsman David Boon scores 114 during 1 wicket, 1st Test defeat v Pakistan in Karachi; his 19th Test century

• 1994 NHL owners begin lockout of players lasting 103 days; season shortened to 48 games instead of 84; players seek collective bargaining and owners a salary cap
• 1995 Cleveland Indians end MLB season at 100-44 to set record 30 game margin over 2nd place Kansas City Royals in AL Central final standings
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• 1995 Future Baseball HOF pitcher Mike Mussina tosses Baltimore Orioles' 5th consecutive MLB shutout in season ending, 4-0 victory over Detroit Tigers

F1 World Champion
1995 German Benetton driver Michael Schumacher wins the Pacific Grand Prix at the TI Circuit in Aida, Japan to clinch his 2nd straight Formula 1 World Drivers Championship

• 1995 In the 5th game of the season, Jacksonville Jaguars celebrate first-ever NFL regular season win with a 17-16 victory over the Houston Oilers at the Astrodome
• 1995 NY Yankees (AL) and Colorado Rockies (NL) become first wild-card teams in new MLB playoff system; Rox are first team to reach postseason before 7th year; post best ever record for a 3rd-year team, 10 games over .500 (77-67)
• 1997 Carolina Hurricanes lose franchise's debut NHL game, 4-2 to Tampa Bay Lightning at the Ice Palace, Tampa, Florida
• 1997 Minnesota Timberwolves NBA forward Kevin Garnett, just 2 years out of high school, signs a record 6-year, $123 million contract extension
• 1997 Zimbabwe and New Zealand tie their One Day International cricket match in Bulawayo; Black Cap tail-ender Gavin Larson is run out on last ball at 9/233 amidst crowd surging onto field; 13th ODI tie

Sports History
1999 Edmonton Oilers retire Wayne Gretzky's #99 in a pre-game ceremony before a 1-1 tie v NY Rangers, the last team for which 'The Great One' suited up in an NHL game

NBA Trade
1999 In a blockbuster NBA trade, the Houston Rockets move All Star forward Scottie Pippen to Portland Trail Blazers for Kelvin Cato, Stacey Augmon, Walt Williams, Carlos Rogers, Ed Gray and Brian Shaw

• 1999 Sourav Ganguly smashes 11 fours and 5 sixes for a blistering 139 as India (277/6) dominates Zimbabwe (170) in the 6th cricket LG Cup ODI in Nairobi
• 2000 An all-African podium for the men's marathon at the Sydney Olympics as Gezahegne Abera of Ethiopia runs 2:10:11 for the gold medal, 0.20s ahead of Kenyan Erick Wainaina with bronze to Ethiopian Tesfaye Tola
• 2000 Cuban boxer Félix Savon wins his 3rd consecutive Olympic heavyweight gold medal at the Sydney Games; easily beats Russian Sultan Ibragimov on points 21-13; retires after victory ceremony
• 2000 German canoeist Birgit Fischer teams with Katrin Wagner to win the K2 500m gold medal at the Sydney Olympics; becomes first woman to win 2 or more medals at 4 Summer Olympics; only 4th woman to win 7 career gold
• 2000 Juan Antonio Samaranch, President of the IOC declares the XXVII Olympics in Sydney, Australia the "best Olympic Games ever" at the closing ceremony
• 2000 NBA stars Ray Allen and Vince Carter each score 13 points as the US beats France 85-75 to win the men's basketball gold medal at the Sydney Olympics
• 2000 Norwegian canoeist Knut Holmann beats Petar Merkov of Bulgaria for the second consecutive day to win the K-1 500m gold medal at the Sydney Olympics; beat Markov in K-1 1000m the previous day
• 2000 Stephanie Cook of Great Britain scores 5,318 points to beat American Emily de Riel by just 8 points to win the inaugural Olympic women's modern pentathlon at the Sydney Games
• 2000 United States wins the most medals (97), and the most gold medals (40) in Summer Olympics held in Sydney, Australia
• 2002 Free agent center Wang Zhizhi, the first ever Chinese-born player in the NBA, signs a 3-year offer sheet with the Los Angeles Clippers; waived in 2003 and moves to Miami Heat

Baseball Record
2004 Seattle Mariners Japanese outfielder Ichiro Suzuki gets his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old MLB single-season record; Ichiro ends season on 262

• 2015 NY Yankees record the 10,000th win in their illustrious history, and also clinch wild card slot; beat the Red Sox, 4-1, at a rainy New Yankee Stadium; NY bullpen ties MLB record with their 589th victim of the season

Sports History
2017 Former NFL star O.J. Simpson is released from Nevada's Lovelock Prison after less than 9 years of detention of his 33 year sentence for armed robbery and kidnapping

• 2017 Presidents Cup Golf, Liberty National GC: Dustin Johnson stars with 4.5 points as US routs International team, 19-11; 7th straight American victory
• 2022 Stampede at Indonesian soccer stadium kills 131 people in Malang city, East Java, started after police fire teargas at rioters in the crowd [1]

 

OCT 2

• 1876 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Bob Martin wins when fellow Scot Davie Strath refuses to take part in a playoff after pair finish on 176
• 1904 White Sox left-hander Doc White's streak of 45 consecutive MLB scoreless innings is snapped by the New York Highlanders in Chicago; White Sox win, 7-1 at South Side Park III

Burns KOs Flynn

1906 Canadian world heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Burns KOs American challenger 'Fireman' Jim Flynn in 15 rounds to retain his title in Los Angeles, California


Boxer and World Heavyweight ChampionTommy Burns

Baseball Record
1908 Cleveland Naps and future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Addie Joss hurls a classic perfect game, beating Ed Walsh and the Chicago White Sox, 1-0


Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher and ManagerEd Walsh

• 1909 First Rugby Union match is played at the English RFU owned Twickenham ground; Harlequins beat Richmond, 14-10
• 1916 Pitching in his 3rd start in 5 days, Philadelphia Phillies right hander Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 20th century MLB record 16th shutout of year, a 2-0 win v Boston Braves
• 1920 Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates play first and only MLB triple header in the 20th century; Reds win the first two games, 13-4 and 7-3; Pirates avoid the sweep in the finale, 6-0
• 1921 Chicago White Sox backstop Ray Schalk becomes the first and only MLB catcher to make a putout at all bases; White Sox beat Indians 7-4

Baseball Record
1921 New York Yankees outfielder Babe Ruth hits then record 59th HR in 7-6 win over former club Boston Red Sox at Polo Grounds, NYC


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1926 Bert Gibb kicks 9 singles as Hamilton Tigers beat Montreal AAA Winged Wheelers 12-10 in Montreal in Canadian Inter-provincial Rugby Football Union opening round
• 1932 New York Yankees win their 12th consecutive World Series game and sweep the Fall Classic for the third time; Bronx Bombers bang out 19 hits as they rout Chicago Cubs, 13-6 at Wrigley Field
• 1932 Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play franchise's debut NFL game; lose 14-0 to Brooklyn Dodgers at Braves Field
• 1936 New York Yankees score Baseball World Series record 18 runs in an 18-4 rout of rival NY Giants in Game 2 at the Polo Grounds; Yankees win series 4-2

Baseball Record
1938 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller strikes out record 18 Detroit Tigers; his Cleveland Indians still lose 4-1 at Cleveland Stadium


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherBob Feller

• 1938 New York Yankees pitcher Lefty Gomez beats Chicago Cubs, 6-3 in Game 2 at Wrigley Field; sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss
• 1943 New York Yankees sweep 14th MLB doubleheader of year, beating St. Louis Browns, 5-1 & 7-6 at Yankee Stadium

Baseball Record
1947 New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra hits the first pinch-hit home run in Baseball World Series history off Ralph Branca in the 7th inning of a 9-8 loss to the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 3


MLB Catcher and ManagerYogi Berra

• 1949 For first time in 41 years pennant races in both MLB leagues are decided on the final day of the season; (AL) Yankees upend rival Boston Red Sox, 5-3; (NL) Dodgers beat the Phillies, 9-7 for 97-57 record; Cardinals 96-58
• 1950 Bob Shaw of Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD receptions in 55-13 win against Baltimore Colts; Cardinals quarterback Jim Hardy tosses 6 touchdown passes
• 1954 8th NHL All-Star Game, Detroit Olympia, Detroit, MI: All-Stars tie Detroit Red Wings, 2-2
• 1954 Baseball World Series: New York Giants beat Cleveland, 7-4 at Cleveland Stadium to sweep Indians, 4-0; MVP: Giants outfielder Dusty Rhodes
• 1954 Don Liddle beats Bob Lemon 7-4 as the New York Giants complete an unlikely World Series sweep of the powerful Cleveland Indians; Cleveland season record of 111-43 sets American League mark for regular season wins
• 1955 9th NHL All-Star Game, Detroit Olympia, Detroit, MI: Detroit Red Wings beat All-Stars, 3-1
• 1957 New York Yankees appear in their 25th Baseball World Series; beat Milwaukee Braves, 3-1 in Game 1 at Yankee Stadium; lose series, 4-3

Golf Tournament
1960 Mickey Wright becomes first player in LPGA Tour history to average fewer than 74 strokes per round to win the Vare Trophy after a season average of 73.25; first of 5 consecutive Vare Trophies for Wright


LPGA GolferMickey Wright

• 1962 San Francisco Giants beat rival LA Dodgers, 8-7 in 4 hours 18 minutes in Game 2 NL tie-break series; longest 9-inning game in MLB history; Giants win series, 2-1

Baseball Record
1963 LA Dodgers' Sandy Koufax strikes out World Series record 15 NY Yankees in Game 1 of the Baseball World Series at Yankee Stadium; Dodgers win, 5-2 and sweep series, 4-0


Baseball PitcherSandy Koufax
Baseball Record
1964 Philadelphia's Alex Johnson-Bobby Wine-Tony Taylor-Vic Power combine for Phillies' 3rd triple play of the season (tying MLB record) in 4-3 win v Cincinnati Reds


Baseball PlayerAlex Johnson
Sports History
1965 Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20


Baseball Pitcher and CoachMel Stottlemyre

• 1966 Australian Robert 'Nat' Young puts on a dominating performance to win the World Surfing Championship at Ocean Beach, San Diego; Joyce Hoffman of Capistrano Beach, California takes women's title
• 1966 Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax wins his 27th game of the season, 6-3 v Philadelphia Phillies; clinches Dodgers 3rd National League pennant in 4 years

Sports History
1968 1st time, 2 soon-to-be-named MVPs oppose each other Cards Bob Gibson beat Tigers Denny McLain 4-0


Baseball PitcherDenny McLain

• 1968 St. Louis pitcher Bob Gibson establishes a new Baseball World Series mark by striking out 17 batters as the Cardinals beat Detroit, 4-0 in Game 1 of the Fall Classic
• 1969 Seattle Pilots' last game in Seattle; crash to 98th season loss, 3-1 to Oakland in front of just 5,473; move to Milwaukee as the Brewers next season

Sports History
1970 Detroit general manager Jim Campbell gives controversial Billy Martin a 2-year deal (1971-72) to manage the Tigers at a well above MLB average annual salary of $65,000


Baseball Player and ManagerBilly Martin

• 1972 Montreal Expos' pitcher Bill Stoneman no-hits the New York Mets, 7 - 0 at Parc Jarry; first MLB no-hitter ever pitched in Canada

Baseball Record
1974 Future Baseball Hall of Fame right fielder Hank Aaron hits his final home run as a member of the Atlanta Braves, in a 13-0 drubbing of the Cincinnati Reds; Aaron's 733rd career HR on his last NL at bat


Baseball PlayerHank Aaron
F1 World Champion
1977 Austrian Ferrari driver Niki Lauda finishes 4th in the US Grand Prix East at Watkins Glen to clinch his second Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; Englishman James Hunt wins the race


Auto RacerNiki Lauda
Baseball Record
1977 Dusty Baker hits his 30th homer of the season against Astros' J.R. Richard; Dodgers become the first team in MLB history to have 4 players hit 30 or more HRs; joins Steve Garvey (33), Reggie Smith (32) and Ron Cey (30)


Baseball PlayerSteve Garvey
Baseball Record
1978 NY Yankees win 3rd straight AL East title beating Boston Red Sox, 5-4 in a dramatic single playoff game; Ron Guidry wins #25 aided by Bucky Dent's 3-run homer


Baseball PitcherRon Guidry
Boxing Title Fight
1980 38 year old Muhammad Ali comes out of 2-year retirement to challenge undefeated world heavyweight champion Larry Holmes at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas; Ali pounded unmercifully for 10 rounds before corner throws in towel


WBC Heavyweight ChampionLarry Holmes

Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali

• 1981 17 year old gelding Behavin Jerry, the oldest winning racehorse in modern times, sets record for most career starts by a thoroughbred, 307
• 1983 Green Bay Packers erupt for NFL record 49 points in the first half (35 in the second quarter) to clobber the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 55-14 at Tampa Stadium
• 1983 Wide receiver Art Monk begins NFL streak of 183 consecutive games with a reception in the Washington Redskins' 37-35 win over the LA Raiders
• 1984 Due to a strike by MLB umpires, first 4 NLCS games played with replacement umpires; Game 1: Chicago Cubs beat SD Padres, 13-0
• 1985 A Mayor Richard Caliguiri led coalition of public and private groups committed to keeping the struggling Pittsburgh Pirates in town for at least 5 years reach agreement to buy the baseball team for $22 million
• 1985 Detroit 1st baseman Darrell Evans hits home run #40 in Tigers' 4-2 win over Toronto Blue Jays; first to record 40 x HRs in a MLB season in both Leagues
• 1986 Astros starter Mike Scott finishes MLB regular season with 306 strikeouts with 8 in a 2-1 win in San Francisco; 3rd NL pitcher to reach 300 in a season

Baseball Record
1986 New York Mets' Dwight Gooden becomes first pitcher to collect 200 strikeouts in each of his first 3 seasons when he records 7 in 8-2 win v Pittsburgh Pirates


Baseball PitcherDwight Gooden
Olympic Gold
1988 Future world heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis, representing Canada, wins super-heavyweight gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; beats American Riddick Bowe by 2nd round TKO


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionLennox Lewis

BoxerRiddick Bowe

• 1988 Gelindo Bordin of Italy wins the men's marathon in 2:10:32 at the Seoul Olympics; beats world champion Douglas Wakiihuri of Kenya by 15 seconds
• 1988 In a season ending 7-5 win in St. Louis, NY Mets' outfielder Kevin McReynolds establishes a MLB record swiping 21 bases without being caught stealing during the season

Sports History
1988 Mike Tyson wrecks furniture in his mansion in Bernardsville, NJ, during a domestic dispute


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMike Tyson

• 1988 Minnesota Twins total 3,030,672 in attendance at Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome; first AL club ever to break 3 million in a MLB season
• 1988 New Zealand horseman Mark Todd wins individual eventing gold medal aboard Charisma at the Seoul Olympics; his 2nd consecutive gold after winning in 1984
• 1988 South Korean light middleweight boxer Park Si-hun is controversially awarded the Seoul Olympic gold medal after appearing well beaten by future 4 weight class world champion Roy Jones Jr

Contract of Interest
1991 NHL #1 draft pick Eric Lindros rejects Quebec Nordiques' offer of a 10 year, $50m contract


NHL StarEric Lindros
Sports History
1991 Steffi Graf beats Magdalena Maleeva of Bulgaria 6-2, 6-2 in the Volkswagen Cup in Leipzig to become the youngest woman to win 500 professional tennis matches


Tennis PlayerSteffi Graf

• 1991 Toronto Blue Jays clinch AL East title with a 6-5 win v California Angels; become first sport franchise in history to draw 4 million fans in one season

Sports History
1994 Legendary Miami head coach Don Shula beats Cincinnati head coach and his son David in the first-ever NFL meeting between father and son; Dolphins defeat the Bengals, 23-7


NFL Head CoachDon Shula

• 1994 Pakistan cricket batsmen Inzamam-ul-Haq & Mushtaq Ahmed put on 57 runs in 8 overs for highest last-wicket partnership ever to win a Test, as the home team beats Australia by 1 wicket in the 1st Test in Karachi
• 1997 The Bruins beat the LA Kings, 6-5 in Boston to extend their NHL opening game unbeaten streak to 11-straight years (9-0-2)
• 1998 With his team struggling at 28 for 3, Australian cricket batsman Steve Waugh smashes a brilliant 157 to guide the tourists to an innings & 99 run win over Pakistan in the 1st Test in Rawalpindi
• 1999 #21 University of Alabama football team beats #3 Florida, 40-39 in overtime to snap the Gators' 30-game home win streak; future Seattle Seahawks running back Shaun Alexander crosses for 4 touchdowns for the Crimson Tide
• 1999 Atlanta Thrashers play first regular-season game in franchise history, a 4-1 loss to the visiting NJ Devils, before a crowd of 18,545 at Philips Arena; Kelly Buchberger scores first goal in Thrashers history

NHL Record
1999 Boston's Ray Bourque becomes highest goal-scoring defenseman in NHL history; 386th career goal in Bruins' 3-1 win v Carolina Hurricanes moves him 1 ahead of Paul Coffey

Baseball Record
2001 Cubs right fielder Sammy Sosa becomes first player in MLB history to total 60 home runs in three seasons; Chicago slugger connects off Reds starter Lance Davis to reach milestone in 5-4 loss

Baseball Record
2004 Jeff Kent becomes all-time home run leader for MLB 2nd basemen when he hits 2 in Astros' 9-3 win v Rockies; 302 overall HR to break Ryne Sandberg's major league record established in 1997

• 2004 Montreal Expos earn the last win in the franchise's MLB history, beating New York Mets, 6 - 3 at Shea Stadium; Brad Wilkerson hits the Expos' final home run in 9th inning, his 32nd of the year
• 2005 NFL plays first regular season game outside the United States when the Arizona Cardinals defeat the San Francisco 49ers, 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico
• 2009 The International Olympic Committee votes to award Rio de Janeiro, Brazil rights to host the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics
• 2010 20th College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 31-13 in Chestnut Hill
• 2016 Ryder Cup Golf, Hazeltine National GC: US regains Cup; beats Europe, 17-11; Americans Brooks Koepka, Brandt Snedeker & Patrick Reed each win 3 matches

Sports History
2016 Veteran broadcaster Vin Scully calls his final LA Dodgers game (7-1 loss in San Francisco) after a record 67 MLB seasons

• 2019 Australian women's cricket wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy smashes T20I world record 148 not out off 61 balls against Sri Lanka in Sydney; her century from Australian record 46 balls

 

OCT 3

• 1884 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Jack Simpson wins in windy conditions by 4 strokes from fellow Scots Douglas Rolland and Willie Fernie
• 1885 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Bob Martin wins his second Championship by 1 stroke from fellow Scot Archie Simpson
• 1888 New Zealand Natives, a privately organised and mainly Māori rugby team, plays first game in UK; beats Surry 4-1; first national rugby team to wear all-black & perform the 'haka'

• 1904 New York Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson strikes out 16 Cardinals in a 3-1 Giants victory over St. Louis; new MLB record; finishes the game in 1 hour, 15 minutes
• 1919 Cuban Dolf Luque becomes first Hispanic player to appear in Baseball World Series; pitches 1 inning of relief in Cincinnati Reds' 3-0 defeat to Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park
• 1920 American Pro Football Association (later the NFL) plays 1st full round of games; Dayton Triangles beat Columbus Panhandles, 14-0 in first official game at Triangle Park, Dayton
• 1920 St Browns 1st baseman George Sisler collects his 257th hit of the season to set MLB record that lasts until the 21st century.; Browns beat White Sox, 16 - 7
• 1926 English long distance runner Violet Piercy sets first recognised female marathon record in 3:40:22 on the Polytechnic Marathon course between Windsor and London
• 1936 NY Yankees set new attendance record of 64,482 in Game 3 of World Series at Yankee Stadium; 66,669 following day Game 4; win series v NY Giants, 4-2
• 1940 Cincinnati Reds' win Game 2 of the Baseball World Series, 5-2 v Detroit Tigers at Crosley Field; snap 10-game losing streak for NL going back to Game 6 in 1937; Reds win series, 4-3
• 1942 NY Yankees shortstop Frank Crosetti shoves umpire Bill Summers in Game 3 of the Baseball World Series; he is fined $250 & suspended for first 30 days of 1943 season
• 1942 Triple Crown winner Whirlaway, ridden by George Woolf wins the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park to become the first thoroughbred to amass more than $500,000 in lifetime earnings
• 1945 Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs meet in Baseball World Series for the 4th time; Hank Borowy pitches a 6-hit shutout as Cubs win Game 1, 9-0 at Briggs Stadium; Detroit wins series, 4-3
• 1950 Philadelphia Phillies choose not to request MLB rule on eligibility of star left-hander Curt Simmons to play in World Series despite being on furlough from Army; Phillies swept, 4-0 by NY Yankees
• 1951 CBS-TV airs the first coast-to-coast telecast of a prize fight; Australian light-heavyweight Dave Sands outpoints American Carl 'Bobo' Olson in 10 rounds at Chicago Stadium
• 1951 Shot Heard 'Round the World': Bobby Thomson hits 3-run homer off Ralph Branca of the Brooklyn Dodgers, bottom 9th inning, 1 out, to give New York Giants dramatic 5-4 playoff win and NL pennant at the Polo Grounds

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• 1953 7th NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC: All-Stars beat Montreal Canadiens, 3-1

World Series

1953 NY Yankees legendary center fielder Mickey Mantle hits a grand slam off Russ Meyer; Bronx Bombers hold on to win, 11-7 v Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 5 of Baseball World Series; NY wins series, 4-2


Baseball LegendMickey Mantle

• 1953 Ryder Cup Golf, Wentworth: San Snead wins 6 of 7 matches to lead US to 6th consecutive Cup win, 6½-5½ over Great Britain
• 1956 Sal Maglie pitches a complete game as Brooklyn Dodgers beat NY Yankees, 6-3 in Game 1 of Baseball World Series at Ebbets Field; Yankees win series, 4-3

NHL All-Star Game
1959 13th NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC: Montreal Canadiens beat All-Stars, 6-1


NHL LegendJean Béliveau

• 1960 New York Yankees beat rival Boston Red Sox, 8-7 at Yankee Stadium, ending season on 15 game winning streak & MLB record 193 HRs
• 1962 SF Giants (103-62) beat rivals LA Dodgers (102-63), 6-4 in season ending NL pennant decider; Dodgers set MLB record season attendance 2,755,184
• 1964 NY Yankees beat Cleveland Indians, 8-3 to clinch Bronx Bombers 5th consecutive AL pennant, and 29th in club's history

Baseball Record
1965 Cubs lose season finale 6-3 to Pirates; Ernie Banks-Don Kessinger combine to tie MLB record of 3 triple plays in a season


MLB shortstopErnie Banks

• 1965 Dual Melbourne Cup winning Australian jockey Pat Glennon rides French colt Sea Bird to victory in the Prix de l'Arc De Triomphe to claim an impressive double after the thoroughbred's English Derby win

Sports History
1965 Whitey Ford notches win #232 in season ending 11-5 victory v Boston Red Sox; becomes Yankees' winningest pitcher


MLB PitcherWhitey Ford

• 1970 First umpires strike in MLB history lasts one day during League Championship Series; AL and NL presidents recognise newly-formed MLB Umpires Association; negotiate labor contract

Sports History
1971 American tennis star Billie Jean King becomes first female athlete to win $100,000 in prize money in a single year; wins the $4,000 Virginia Slams Tournament in Phoenix, Arizona


Tennis LegendBillie Jean King
F1 World Champion
1971 US Formula 1 Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, New York: French driver François Cevert wins the race, his Tyrell-Ford teammate Scotsman Jackie Stewart finishes to claim his second Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 29 points over Swede Ronnie Peterson


Auto RacerJackie Stewart
Sports History
1972 Future Baseball Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher Steve Carlton wins 27th game as Philadelphia beats Cubs, 11-1 at Wrigley Field; almost half Phillies 59 season wins


Baseball PitcherSteve Carlton

• 1972 Roric Harrison homers as Baltimore beats Cleveland, 4-3; last AL pitcher to homer until MLB inter-league play 25 years later

Contract of Interest
1974 39-year old Frank Robinson becomes MLB’s first African-American manager when he signs as player-manager for Cleveland Indians; agrees to 1-year contract estimated at $180,000


Baseball Outfielder and ManagerFrank Robinson
Sports History
1974 Future Basketball Hall of Fame guard Jerry West (“Mr. Clutch”) retires after 14 NBA seasons with the LA Lakers; West has 25,192 career points; averages 29.1 ppg in 153 playoff games


NBA GuardJerry West
Sports History
1976 Future Baseball Hall of Fame right fielder Hank Aaron singles in his last MLB at-bat & drives in his 2,297th run as Milwaukee Brewers lose, 5-2 v Detroit Tigers


Baseball PlayerHank Aaron
Weaver vs. Tillis
1981 After a year's inactivity, American boxer Mike Weaver outpoints countryman James 'Quick' Tillis in 15 rounds in Chicago to retain his WBA heavyweight title


BoxerMike Weaver

• 1981 Milwaukee Brewers and Montreal Expos clinch their first-ever postseason appearances; Brewers beat Detroit, 2 - 1, for AL East title; Expos defeat NY Mets, 5 - 4, for NL East second playoff spot
• 1982 Center fielder Robin Yount homers twice as Milwaukee whips Baltimore, 10-2 at Memorial Stadium to win the Brewers only AL East Championship
• 1986 Baltimore loses 6-3 to Detroit Tigers, assuring Orioles of club's first ever last-place finish in AL East standings
• 1987 San Diego catcher Benito Santiago's MLB rookie record 34-game hitting streak ends as Padres snap 9-game losing streak with a 1-0 victory v LA Dodgers

Hockey Hall of Fame
1989 Darryl Sittler, Vladislav Tretiak, and Herbie Lewis are inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as players, along with builders Alan Eagleson and Father David Bauer


NHL LegendDarryl Sittler
Sports History
1989 Oakland Raiders promote 42 year old Art Shell as the first African-American to be an NFL head coach in modern times; takes over from Mike Shanahan


NFL Head CoachMike Shanahan

• 1990 Detroit 1st baseman Cecil Fielder becomes 11th player in MLB history to hit 50 HRs in a season; 50th & 51st in 10-3 win v NY Yankees at Yankee Stadium

George Brett's 3rd Batting Title
1990 Kansas City 3rd baseman George Brett becomes first in MLB history to win a batting title in 3 different decades; goes 1 for 1 in Royals, 5-2 loss v Cleveland to win AL batting title with .329 average; AL batting champion 1976, 80


MLB Third BasemanGeorge Brett

• 1992 Atlanta Braves end season with 1-0 victory v San Diego Padres at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium for franchise record 98th MLB win (old record 95 in 1957)
• 1993 Cleveland Indians play their final MLB game at Cleveland Stadium; lose 4-0 to Chicago White Sox Chicago

Murder of Interest
1995 Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson found not guilty of the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman in Los Angeles, California


NFL Running Back and Convicted CriminalO.J. Simpson

• 1995 In a huge 3-way hockey trade, Claude Lemieux went to Colorado Avalanche, Steve Thomas to New Jersey Devils and Wendell Clark to the New York Islanders in a swap of high profile NHL forwards
• 1997 1st NHL game outside of North America: Vancouver Canucks beat Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, 3-2 in Tokyo, Japan
• 1997 NHL Carolina Hurricanes lose in their 1st home game, 4-3 vs Pittsburgh Penguins at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina
• 1999 Chelsea scores massive upset when they humble English Premiership champions Manchester United, 5-0 at Stamford Bridge; Gus Poyet sets the tone scoring after just 27 seconds; Nicky Butt is sent-off for United

Baseball Record
1999 St Louis 1st baseman Mark McGwire hits his 65th homer of the season in a rain shortened 9-5 win over Cubs at Busch Stadium; wins 2nd straight HR title over Sammy Sosa, who hits his 63rd HR in same game


MLB First BasemanMark McGwire

MLB OutfielderSammy Sosa
Paul Coffey Retires
2001 After a 21-season career, Paul Coffey officially retires from the NHL, having won 4 Stanley Cups with Edmonton Oilers, finishing 2nd on all-time list for points by defensemen (1,531 in 1,409 games), and playing in 14 All-Star Games


NHL StarPaul Coffey
Henderson Equals Cobb
2001 San Diego outfielder Rickey Henderson scores a run in the 3rd inning of the Padres' 12-5 loss to LA Dodgers to tie the MLB record of 2,245 runs scored held by the legendary Ty Cobb


MLB OutfielderRickey Henderson
Barry Bonds Walks to a Record
2001 San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds Is walked for the 171st time in 11-8 win at Houston; breaks Babe Ruth's 1923 MLB single-season record for walks


MLB LegendBarry Bonds
Patriots Winning Streak
2004 New England Patriots win their 18th consecutive NFL game, beating Buffalo Bills, 31-17 at Ralph Wilson Stadium; Tom Brady 17-for-30 for 298 yards & 2 TDs


NFL QuarterbackTom Brady

Baseball Record
2004 Seattle Mariners Japanese right fielder Ichiro Suzuki adds 2 more singles in a 3-0 defeat to Texas, to finish the season with a MLB record 262 hits


Baseball StarIchiro Suzuki

• 2007 South Africa's Mark Boucher breaks Ian Healy's record to become the wicketkeeper with most dismissals in Test cricket (395); stumps Umar Gul off Paul Harris in 2nd innings of 1st Test win v Pakistan in Karachi
• 2008 American surfer Kelly Slater clinches his record 9th world championship after round 3 of Billabong Pro in Mundaka, Spain; accrues enough points with 5 victories to win title with 2 scheduled ASP Tour contests to be surfed
• 2008 Former NFL star O.J. Simpson found guilty of charges of kidnapping and armed robbery
• 2012 Miguel Cabrera goes 0 for 2 in a 1-0 Tigers win v Royals to end the season as MLB's first Triple Crown winner since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967; leads AL with .330 average, 44 homers and 139 RBI

Hat-Trick for Ronaldo
2012 Star Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo scores his first Champions League hat-trick in Real Madrid's 4-1 win against Ajax in Amsterdam


Football StarCristiano Ronaldo

• 2015 Host nation England crashes out of Rugby World Cup in pool stage; loses to Australia, 33-13 at Twickenham; Bernard Foley scores 2 tries and kicks 4 penalties & 3 conversions for the Wallabies
• 2021 MLB Cleveland win their last game under the Indians name, beating Texas Rangers 6-0
• 2021 MLB Philadelphia Phillies relief pitcher Hector Neris strikes out three Florida Marlins, setting new franchise record of 520, in his last game before becoming a free agent
• 2021 Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady becomes NFL's all-time leader in career passing yardage in 19-17 win vs NE Patriots at Gillette Stadium: Brady 22-43 for 269 yards to pass Drew Brees' high of 80,358

 

OCT 4

British Golf Open

1873 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Scotsman Tom Kidd beats countryman Jamie Anderson by 1 stroke; first Open not held at Prestwick GC


GolferJamie Anderson

• 1873 Toronto Argonauts Football Club (CFL) forms as Argonaut Rowing Club rugby-football squad; oldest existing pro sports team in North America still using original name
• 1878 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Scotsman Jamie Anderson wins 2nd of 3 consecutive Championships; beats Bob Kirk by 2 strokes
• 1895 1st US Open Men's Golf, Newport GC: Englishman Horace Rawlins wins inaugural event; beats Willie Dunn of Scotland by 2 strokes
• 1901 Charlie Barr skippered Columbia (US) beats Shamrock II (UK), 3-0 on New York City Harbour in 11th America's Cup yachting challenge series
• 1906 Chicago Cubs beat Pittsburg Pirates, 4-0 to end MLB season at 116-36 with .763 winning percentage; unmatched since
• 1923 Young Stribling ostensibly beats Mike McTigue on points in Columbus, Georgia for world light-heavyweight boxing title; referee Harry Ertle later calls fight a draw, claims coerced by promoters to award fight to Stribling; McTigue retains title
• 1924 New York Giants became first team to play in 4 consecutive World Series; win Game 1, 4-3 at Griffith Field; lose series, 4-3 in manager John McGraw's 9th and final WS appearance

Heilmann Pips Cobb
1925 Harry Heilmann gets 6 hits in Detroit's doubleheader sweep over St Louis Browns, 10-4 and 11-6, to edge Tris Speaker for AL batting crown, .393 to .389; Ty Cobb bats over .300 for the 20th time


MLB LegendTy Cobb

Baseball PlayerTris Speaker

• 1930 Philadelphia Athletics' Jack Quinn aged 47, oldest to play in World Series; pitches 2 innings in Game 3, 5-0 defeat to St. Louis; win series, 4-2
• 1936 Record crowd 66,669 packs Yankee Stadium for Game 4 of Baseball World Series; Yankees beat Giants, 5-2; win series, 4-2
• 1938 Baseball World Series: NY Yankees win third straight championship; beat Chicago Cubs, 8-3 at Yankee Stadium for 4-0 sweep
• 1944 The only all-St. Louis World Series opens at Sportsman's Park with the visiting Browns beating the Cardinals, 2-1 on George McQuinn's home run; Cards win series, 4-2
• 1948 Cleveland Indians beat Boston Red Sox, 8 - 3, in a one-game playoff to decide the AL pennant; keys are the pitching of Gene Bearden and hitting of Lou Boudreau

World Series
1953 50th Baseball World Series: NY Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 4-3 at Yankee Stadium for 4-2 series win; Yankees record 5th consecutive WS; MVP: NY 2B Billy Martin


Baseball Player and ManagerBilly Martin
World Record Marathon
1953 British runner Jim Peters sets world marathon record 2:18:34.8 in the Turku Marathon in Finland


Marathon RunnerJim Peters

• 1955 Baseball World Series: Brooklyn Dodgers win their first WS with a 2-0 victory against arch-rival NY Yankees at Yankee Stadium in Game 7; MVP: Brooklyn pitcher Johnny Podres

NHL All-Star Game
1958 12th NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC: Montreal Canadiens beat All-Stars, 6-3


Ice Hockey PlayerMaurice Richard

• 1959 First Baseball World Series game played west of St Louis; LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox 3-1 in Game 3; record 92,394 at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

NFL Record
1959 Future Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown makes club record 37 rushing attempts in Cleveland Browns, 34-7 win at Chicago Cardinals


NFL Legend and Civil Rights ActivistJim Brown

• 1959 Netherlands equal best performance against neighbours Belgium; win, 9-1 in soccer friendly at De Kuip, Rotterdam; Piet van der Kuil & Faas Wilkes score 3 apiece

World Series
1961 NY Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford records 3rd straight Baseball World Series shutout in Yankees 2-0 win v Cincinnati Reds in Game 1 at Yankee Stadium; NY wins series, 4-1


MLB PitcherWhitey Ford
World Series
1962 Willie Mays scores in the 2nd inning for the Giants ending Whitey Ford's record Baseball World Series consecutive scoreless inning streak at 33 2⁄3; Yankees beat Giants, 6-2 in Game 1 and 4-3 in the series


MLB LegendWillie Mays

MLB PitcherWhitey Ford

• 1964 Boston Patriots' kicker Gino Cappelletti lands 6-from-6 field goals and 3-from-3 conversions in 39-10 win v Denver Broncos at Bears Stadium, Denver

LPGA Championship
1964 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Stardust CC; Mary Mills shoots final round 69 to win first of her 2 LPGA C'ships, 2 strokes ahead of defending champion Mickey Wright


LPGA GolferMary Mills

LPGA GolferMickey Wright

• 1967 St Louis Cardinals beat Boston Red Sox, 2-1 in Game 1 of Baseball World Series at Fenway Park; first Fall Classic since 1948 not to feature Yankees, Giants or Dodgers; Cards win series, 4-3
• 1969 MLB holds first league championship games; National League Championship Series: New York Mets beat Atlanta Braves, 9-5; Baltimore Orioles beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3 in American League Championship Series
• 1970 Jochen Rindt of Austria posthumously clinches Formula 1 World Drivers Championship at the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen when contender Jacky Ickx finishes 4th; Rindt killed in a practice accident at the Italian GP at Monza 5/9/70

Ted Williams Last Game
1972 Future Baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams manages his final game as Texas Rangers lose to KC Royals, 4-0 in the last game played at Municipal Stadium; Williams replaced by Whitey Herzog


Baseball PlayerTed Williams
Baseball Record
1980 Future Baseball Hall of Fame 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt's 2-run homer off Stan Bahnsen in 11th inning gives Philadelphia, 6-4 win v Montreal and NL East title; Schmidt's 48th of the season; breaks Eddie Mathews' single-season MLB record for 3rd basemen


MLB Third BasemanMike Schmidt

• 1985 Henry G Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia

Baseball Record
1986 NY Yankees closer Dave Righetti saves both doubleheader games at Fenway Park for 5-3 and 3-1 wins v Boston; Righetti's MLB record 46th save


MLB Pitcher and CoachDave Righetti

• 1987 First "Scab Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players as a result of players strike; chiefly related to the expiration of 1982 Collective Bargaining Agreement; players returned October 15
• 1987 Winnipeg CFL defensive back James Jefferson scores 2 TDs on interception returns without making an interception; scores both on laterals in Blue Bombers' 47-14 win v Hamilton Tiger-Cats
• 1989 MLB San Francisco Giants 1st baseman Will Clark hits first NLCS grand slam since 1977 in 11-3 win v Chicago Cubs; Clark goes 4-for-4 with 2 HRs to tie NLCS RBI record (6) for an entire series in less than 4 innings

NHL Trade
1991 Edmonton Oilers trade captain Mark Messier (on the team for all 5 Stanley Cups) to the NY Rangers in exchange for Bernie Nicholls, Steven Rice & Louie DeBrusk; Messier leads Rangers to Cup 2 seasons later


NHL LegendMark Messier

• 1991 San Jose Sharks play first NHL game in franchise history, a 4-3 loss in Vancouver; native Californian Craig Coxe scores club's first goal while Jeff Hackett makes an impressive 48 saves

Solheim Cup
1992 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Dalmahoy CC: Europe beats US, 11½-6½; Laura Davies of England wins all her 3 matches


LPGA GolferLaura Davies

• 1995 Jim Leyritz homers with a man on in 15th inning to give Yankees 2-0 Division Series lead over Mariners
• 1996 Left wing Mike Donnelly becomes first player in NHL history to play for all 3 New York teams (Sabres, Rangers & Islanders) when he suits up for the NY Islanders in a 1-0 loss in Los Angeles
• 1996 Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi breaks record for fastest hundred in one-day cricket history; in first ODI innings, Afridi savages Sri Lanka for 102 in KCA Centenary Tournament match in Nairobi; reaches 100 in 37 balls
• 1998 Australian motorcycle racer Mick Doohan wins the Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island to clinch his 5th world 500cc championship; all 5 titles are won with Honda

Cricket Record
1998 Australian wicketkeeper Ian Healy overtakes countryman Rod Marsh's world record of 355 Test cricket dismissals during 1st Test win v Pakistan in Rawalpindi; catches Wasim Akram off Colin Miller to reach milestone


CricketerWasim Akram

• 1999 Rain prevents play on the final day of the 3rd cricket Test between Sri Lanka and Australia in Colombo; despite 105 from Ricky Ponting, Sri Lanka wins first ever Test series v Australia

Sports History
2001 Boston Bruins retire future Hockey Hall of Fame defenceman Ray Bourque's #77 jersey in the NHL season opener at Boston Garden; beat visiting Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, 4-2


NHL LegendRay Bourque

• 2001 Brendan Shanahan scores a hat trick in Red Wings 4-3 OT win at San Jose; becomes second player in NHL history to score an opening-night hat trick twice in his career

Baseball Record
2001 SF Giants slugger Barry Bonds hits his 70th home run in 10-2 win v Houston; ties Mark McGwire for the most MLB home runs in a single season


MLB LegendBarry Bonds

• 2003 Jockey Jerry Bailey surpasses his own single season record for North American purse earnings ($19,271,814) set in 2002; wins aboard Sightseek in Beldame Stakes & Birdstone in Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park
• 2003 Red Raiders' quarterback B.J. Symons sets a Big 12 Conference record with 8 touchdown passes, leading Texas Tech to a convincing 59-28 win over Texas A & M

Senior Players Championship
2009 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, Baltimore CC: Jay Haas wins his third and final Champions Tour major title by 1 stroke from Tom Watson


GolferTom Watson

• 2010 Ryder Cup Golf, Celtic Manor Resort, Wales: Europe wins 14½-13½; with scores level Irishman Graeme McDowell holds nerve to beat Hunter Mahan 3 & 1

Sports History
2012 7-time Formula 1 world drivers champion Michael Schumacher of Germany announces his retirement from racing at the end of the season


Formula 1 DriverMichael Schumacher
NFL Record
2018 New England's Tom Brady becomes only 3rd NFL quarterback to record 500 career touchdown passes as he connects with Josh Gordon in Patriots' 38-24 win over the Indianapolis Colts at Foxborough


NFL QuarterbackTom Brady
Baseball Record
2022 NY Yankees slugger Aaron Judge breaks Roger Maris's AL single season HR record when he slams his 62nd homer in a 3-2 loss against the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas


Baseball PlayerRoger Maris

 

OCT 5

• 1887 1st US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia Cricket Club: Ellen Hansell wins inaugural event; beats Laura Knight 6-1, 6-0
• 1895 First UK individual cycling time trial is held on a 50-mile course north of London; Frederick Thomas Bidlake organiser

US Golf Open

1900 US Open Men's Golf, Chicago GC: Harry Vardon of Jersey wins his only US title; beats Englishman J.H. Taylor by 2 strokes


GolferHarry Vardon

• 1907 Canadian Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU) plays first game; Montreal beats Toronto, 17-8 in Montreal

Ed Walsh's Best Season
1908 Chicago White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh beats Detroit Tigers, 6-1, his 40th victory of the MLB season; forces AL pennant race to the final day


Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher and ManagerEd Walsh

• 1912 Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Athletics, 3 - 0 for their 105th win of the MLB season, an AL record until 1927 NY Yankees (110)
• 1912 NY Highlanders last game at Hilltop stadium; beat Washington, 8-6; Brooklyn Dodgers last game at Washington Park; lose 1-0 v NY Giants

Ty Cobb's Stealing Record
1915 Detroit Tigers speedster Ty Cobb steals his 96th base of the season in 5-0 loss to Cleveland Indians; stands as MLB record until 1962 (Maury Wills, 104)


MLB LegendTy Cobb

• 1921 First Baseball World Series radio broadcast; all-NY contest, Yankees beat Giants, 3-0 at Polo Grounds; sportswriter Grantland Rice is the caller
• 1921 Writer Grantland Rice does the announcing as the New York Giants-New York Yankees Baseball World Series is broadcast for the first time over radio (WJZ & WGY) - he is not at the game, but in the studio reading updates received by telegraph
• 1922 NY Yankees and NY Giants play out a controversial 3-3 tie in 10 innings in Game 2 of Baseball World Series at Polo Grounds, Manhattan, NYC; Giants win series, 4-0-1
• 1932 With new ownership Detroit Falcons officially change name to Detroit Red Wings, and the Winged Wheel is introduced; previous names Cougars (1926-30), Falcons (1930-32)
• 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike and Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely for Yankees for a famous Baseball World Series error; would have been last out, instead Yankees score 4 and win 7-4; win series, 4-1
• 1942 Baseball World Series: St Louis Cardinals win club's 4th WS; beat NY Yankees, 4-2 at Yankee Stadium for 4-1 series victory

Gionfriddo robs DiMaggio
1947 Brooklyn outfielder Al Gionfriddo makes famous catch off Joe DiMaggio in Game 6 of Baseball World Series; Dodgers beat Yankees, 8-6; catch inspires "back-back-back" expression


Baseball PlayerJoe DiMaggio
Bobby Jones's Rare Disease
1949 Sportswriter Robert Ruark first reports golfing great Bobby Jones's rare spinal disease (syringomyelia) which prevent him from playing any form of golf again


GolferBobby Jones

Knicks Draft Cousy
1950 Boston Celtics owner Walter Brown & coach Red Auerbach draw lots out of hat for 3 members of defunct Chicago Stags franchise; hit jackpot with future 6-time NBA champion, Bob Cousy


NBA Point GuardBob Cousy

NBA Head CoachRed Auerbach
The Honeymooners
1951 Jackie Gleason debuts the character of bus-driver Ralph Kramden on 1st "The Honeymooners" skit (Cavalcade of Stars)


Comedian and ActorJackie Gleason

• 1952 6th NHL All-Star Game, Detroit Olympia, Detroit, MI: 1st Team ties 2nd Team, 1-1; second year format - 1st v 2nd All-Star Teams, with additional players

Yogi Berra's Grand Slam
1956 Catcher Yogi Berra becomes 4th NY Yankee to hit a Baseball World Series grand slam in Game 2 at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn; Dodgers win, 13-8 but lose series, 4-3


MLB Catcher and ManagerYogi Berra

• 1957 11th NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC: All-Stars beat Montreal Canadiens, 5-3
• 1957 Ryder Cup Golf, Lindrick GC: Great Britain-Ireland win, 7½-4½; Dai Rees captains home team to first Cup victory since 1933

NHL All-Star Game
1963 17th NHL All-Star Game, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON: Toronto Maple Leafs tie All Stars, 3-3; MVP: Frank Mahovlich, Toronto, LW


NHL LegendFrank Mahovlich

• 1970 MLB Championship Series both end on the same day with same score; (AL) Baltimore Orioles beat Minnesota Twins, 3-0; (NL) Cincinnati Reds down Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-0; Orioles win WS, 4-1

F1 World Champion
1975 Austrian Niki Lauda wins the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen to claim his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; wins by 19.5 points from Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazil


Auto RacerNiki Lauda

Auto RacerEmerson Fittipaldi

• 1976 MLB expansion draft: Seattle Mariners & Toronto Blue Jays pick 30 unprotected AL players; Ruppert Jones OF (Seattle) & Bob Bailor OF (Toronto) are first picks

F1 World Champion
1980 Australian Williams driver Alan Jones wins the United States East Grand Prix to claim his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; wins by 13 points from Nelson Piquet of Brazil


Auto RacerNelson Piquet

• 1982 First regular season NHL game is played in New Jersey (Newark; NJ Devils play a 3-3 tie against Pittsburgh Penguins at Brendan Byrne Arena; Don Lever scores first Devils' goal

Cricket History
1982 Pakistan cricket leg-spin bowler Abdul Qadir takes 7-142 as Australia is dismissed for 330 in 2nd Test in Faisalabad; Greg Ritchie scores maiden Test century (106 no) but home side prevails by an innings & 3 runs


CricketerAbdul Qadir
NHL Record
1983 Edmonton super star Wayne Gretzky scores a goal and assist in 5-4 win over Toronto in the Oilers season opener; starts NHL record 51-game scoring streak; ends 28/1/84


Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky

• 1983 Panamanian jockey Jorge Velasquez wins his 5,000th career race, riding Banquet Scene to victory in the 4th race at Belmont Park

Dickerson's Overtime Record
1986 Rams running back Eric Dickerson runs for an NFL overtime record 42-yard touchdown as LA defeats Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 26-20 at Anaheim Stadium


NFL Running BackEric Dickerson

• 1990 Pittsburgh Penguins left wing Kevin Stevens has 2 goals & 4 assists in 7-4 opening-night win against the Washington Capitals at Capital Centre to set NHL record for most points in a season opener (6)
• 1991 Fresno State ties NCAA football record with 49 points in a quarter (2nd), as they route New Mexico, 94-17 at Bulldog Stadium, Fresno

3-Point Line Shortened
1994 NBA shortens the 3-point distance to a uniform 22 feet in attempt to help offensive players score more; Michael Jordan sets career highs in 3-point attempts & converted 3-point field goals, nearly double previous statistics


Basketball SuperstarMichael Jordan

• 1996 Cleveland Indians strike out 23 Baltimore Orioles in 12 innings in 4-3 ALDS win at Jacobs Field; Orioles win series, 3-1
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• 1996 New York centre fielder Bernie Williams homers from each side of the plate as the Yankees beat Texas, 6-4 to win the AL Division Series, 3 - 1
• 1997 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Den Bosch, Netherlands: Sandrine Testud wins both her singles to lead France to 4-1 win over the Netherlands; France's first title

Baseball Record
2001 Barry Bonds hits his 71st and 72nd home runs in 11-10 loss v LA Dodgers at Pacific Bell Park; breaks Mark McGwire's MLB single season HR record


MLB LegendBarry Bonds

• 2001 MLB's Atlanta Braves become first pro sports team to win 10 straight division titles after mauling the Marlins, 20-3 to clinch the NL East title; NBA's Boston Celtics (1957-65) & LA Lakers (1982-90) both won 9 in a row
• 2002 For the first time in its 42-year old history, the Anaheim Angels win a post-season series by beating the Yankees, 9-5 to take the ALDS, 3-1
• 2003 Chicago Cubs win their first MLB postseason series since the 1908 World Series with 5-1 win v Atlanta Braves in Game 5 NLDS at Turner Field
• 2003 Kansas City wide receiver Dante Hall scores on game winning 93-yard punt return in Chiefs 24-23 victory v Denver Broncos at Arrowhead Stadium; returns for score in an NFL-record 4th straight game

Scottie Pippen Retires
2004 7-time All-Star and 6-time NBA Champion forward Scottie Pippen announces his retirement from the NBA and the Chicago Bulls


Basketball ForwardScottie Pippen

• 2005 NHL great Wayne Gretzky makes his coaching debut for the Phoenix Coyotes in 3-2 loss to the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Arena
• 2005 NHL opens regular season after 10-month lockout of entire 2004-05 season; Ottawa's Daniel Alfredsson & Dany Heatley first players to score winning goals in a shoot out in NHL history; both score v Toronto goalie Ed Belfour in 3-2 OT victory

Jones Admits Using Steroids
2007 After years of angry denials, triple gold medal winning American sprinter Marion Jones admits she used steroids 2000-01; pleads guilty to lying to federal investigators; announces retirement in tearful apology; medals returned to USOC


Track and Field Athlete and Drug CheatMarion Jones

• 2009 Australia wins cricket's Champions Trophy at Centurion Park in Gauteng, South Africa by 6 wickets (28 balls remaining) v New Zealand; chasing 200, Shane Watson is 105 not out in Australia's 206/4
• 2010 Injured Indian cricket batsman VVS Laxman is the hero with 73 not out as the home team chases down 216 to beat Australia with just 1 wicket to spare in the 1st Test at Mohali
• 2013 New Zealand beats South Africa, 38-27 in Johannesburg to retain the Rugby Championship with an undefeated record; All Black flanker Liam Messam crosses for 2 tries

Klitschko vs. Povetkin
2013 Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko beats Russian Alexander Povetkin in a 12 round unanimous points decision in Moscow to retain his WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO heavyweight titles


BoxerWladimir Klitschko
Bianchi's Horror Crash
2014 French F1 driver Jules Bianchi collides with recovery vehicle during Japanese Grand Prix, dies 10 months later; first F1 death due to racing accident in 21 years (Ayrton Senna 1994)


Formula 1 DriverAyrton Senna
Rabbitohs Win NRL
2014 Russell Crowe owned South Sydney Rabbitohs beat Canterbury Bulldogs, 30-6 to break 43 year drought and win National Rugby League (Australia) Premiership


ActorRussell Crowe

 

OCT 6

American Chess Congress

1857 First American Chess Congress hosted by the American Chess Association in NYC, NY; won by Paul Morphy 10 November


Chess PlayerPaul Morphy

• 1882 1st World Series Baseball Game 1: Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA) beat Chicago White Stockings (NL), 4-0 at Bank Street Grounds, Cincinnati
• 1908 Tigers beat White Sox, 7-0 to win AL pennant
• 1908 Yanks lose 100th game of year go 51-103 for season
• 1910 Braves beat Phillies 20-7

Cy Young's Farewell
1911 Boston Rustlers' future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young's MLB farewell appearance is a letdown; loses 13-3 to Brooklyn Dodgers in his 906th game


MLB PitcherCy Young

• 1919 Chicago White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a Baseball World Series in Game 5 vs Cincinnati Reds; angered when pitchers Eddie Cicotte & Lefty Williams refuse to follow his signals during 5-0 loss
• 1920 1st brothers oppose each other in World Series, Cleveland's Wheeler Johnston pinch-hits as brother Jimmy plays 3rd base for Brooklyn
• 1921 Fewest hits in a Baseball World Series game; NY Yankees beat NY Giants 3-0 at Polo Grounds in Game 2, on 3 hits to Giants 2
• 1923 1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)

Babe Ruth Hits 3 HRs
1926 Babe Ruth becomes first MLB player to hit 3 home runs in a World Series game as NY Yankees beat St. Louis Cardinals, 10-5 in Game 4 at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth
PGA Championship
1928 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Five Farms CC: Leo Diegel dominates Al Espinosa, 6 & 5 in the final to win the first of his 2 consecutive titles


Golfer and Two-Time PGA ChampionLeo Diegel

• 1936 Baseball World Series: Yankees beat Giants, 13-5 at the Polo Grounds to win all-New York series, 4-2
• 1941 Baseball World Series: NY Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 3-1 at Ebetts Field for a 4 games to 1 series win; Yankees 5th title in 6 years and 9th overall
• 1945 Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of Baseball World Series, is escorted out and casts goat curse on Chicago Cubs
• 1947 Baseball World Series: NY Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 5-2 at Yankee Stadium to clinch series, 4 games to 3; 11th championship in team history
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• 1959 Chicago White Sox beat LA Dodgers, 1-0 in Game 5 of Baseball World Series at LA Memorial Coliseum; World Series record attendance 92,706
• 1962 16th NHL All-Star Game, Maple Leaf Garden, Toronto, ON: Toronto Maple Leafs beat All-Stars, 4-1; MVP: Eddie Shack, Toronto, LW

World Series
1963 Baseball World Series: LA Dodgers edge NY Yankees, 2-1 at Dodger Stadium for 4-0 series sweep; MVP: Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax


Baseball PitcherSandy Koufax
Sports History
1966 Orioles pitcher Jim Palmer at 20, is youngest to record a World Series shutout as Baltimore beats LA Dodgers, 6-0 in Game 2 at Dodger Stadium


Baseball PlayerJim Palmer

• 1969 MLB American League Championship: Baltimore Orioles beat Minnesota Twins, 3 games to 0
• 1969 MLB National League Championship: New York Mets sweep Atlanta Braves, 3 games to 0
• 1971 MLB National League Championship: Pittsburgh Pirates beat San Francisco Giants, 3 games to 1

F1 World Champion
1974 Brazilian McLaren driver Emerson Fittipaldi finishes 4th in the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen to win his second Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 3 points from Clay Ragazzoni


Auto RacerEmerson Fittipaldi

• 1976 John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent
• 1977 Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat KC Royals 5-3 in 5th & deciding playoff game

Baseball Record
1978 Royals' George Brett hits 3 HRs, Yanks win championship game 3, 6-5


MLB Third BasemanGeorge Brett

• 1979 MLB American League Championship: Baltimore Orioles beat California Angels, 3 games to 1

NHL Record
1983 Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick


Ice Hockey GreatMike Bossy

• 1983 NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for Meadowlands

F1 World Champion
1985 French McLaren driver Alain Prost clinches his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship with a 4th placing in the European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch


Formula 1 Racing DriverAlain Prost
Sports History
1985 New York Yankees knuckleballer Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games; at 46 becomes oldest to pitch a shut-out, beating Toronto 8-0


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherPhil Niekro

• 1988 Oakland A's sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant
• 1991 NY Met David Cone ties NL record by striking out 19 Phillies
• 1991 Orioles' last game at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (vs Det Tigers)

Sports History
1993 After 9 seasons & 3 Championships with the Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan announces his retirement from the NBA; returns on March 18, 1995 and leads Bulls to another 3 NBA titles


Basketball SuperstarMichael Jordan

• 1995 Colorodo Avalanche (former Que Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit
• 1996 NY Jet Nick Lowrey ties Jan Stenerud with 373 NFL field goals
• 2010 Phillies ace Roy Halladay pitches only the 2nd postseason no-hitter in MLB history in Game 1 NLDS, 4-0 v Cincinnati Reds, at Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia

Sports History
2012 New Zealand wins inaugural Rugby Championship with a 32-16 win over South Africa in Johannesburg; undefeated All Blacks score 4 tries to 1 with Dan Carter booting 3 conversions, a penalty & dropped goal


Rugby PlayerDan Carter

• 2013 Presidents Cup Golf, Muirfield Village GC: US wins for 5th successive time with an 18½–15½ victory over the International team
• 2017 Vegas Golden Knights make their NHL debut in Dallas, winning 2-1 over the Stars
• 2018 Australia records the biggest comeback in Rugby Championship history in beating Argentina 45-34 in Salta; Wallabies trial 31-7 at halftime but score 5 second half tries to none to overwhelm Pumas

Sports History
2018 Khabib Nurmagomedov of Dagestan beats Irishman Conor McGregor by 4th round submission in UFC lightweight title fight in Las Vegas; instantly marred by ugly post-fight brawling incident; belt withheld pending investigation


Mixed Martial ArtistConor McGregor

• 2018 New Zealand claims 6th overall, and 3rd straight Rugby Championship with 32-20 win over South Africa in Pretoria; All Blacks outscore Springboks 4 tries to 3

 

OCT 7

• 1882 1st World Series Baseball Game 2: Chicago White Stockings (NL) beats Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA), 2-0 at Bank Street Grounds, Cincinnati
• 1891 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Hugh Kirkaldy wins by 2 strokes from brother Andrew Kirkaldy and Willie Fernie; last Open contested in a single day over 36 holes

Chesbro's Season Record

1904 NY Highlanders beat Boston Americans, 3-2 at Hilltop Park, NYC for pitcher Jack Chesbro's MLB record 41st win of the season (41-12)


Baseball PitcherJack Chesbro

Georgia Tech Crushes Cumberland 222-0
1916 Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, defeats Cumberland, 222-0; most lopsided score in the history of US college football


American Football CoachJohn Heisman

• 1922 First radio link, WNJ (Newark) & WGY (Senectady) link for World Series

World Series Played in the Rain
1922 MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain


1st MLB CommissionerKenesaw Mountain Landis

• 1923 Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138
• 1927 Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game

World Record 10 Mile
1928 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0)


Runner nicknamed the Flying FinnPaavo Nurmi

• 1933 Baseball World Series: NY Giants beat Washington Senators, 4-3 at Griffith Stadium to clinch 4 games to 1 series victory
• 1935 Baseball World Series: Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4-3 at Navin Field for 4 games to 2 series win; Tigers win first championship in 5 WS appearances

Dodgers Fire Stengel
1936 7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel


Baseball Hall of Fame ManagerCasey Stengel

• 1947 Larry MacPhail resigns as NY Yankees GM after final game of 4-3 World Series win over Brooklyn Dodgers
• 1950 Baseball World Series: New York Yankees beat Philadelphia Phillies, 5-2 at Yankee Stadium to sweep series, 4-0 for 13th WS title in team history; MVP: NY 2B Jerry Coleman
• 1952 Baseball World Series: NY Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 4-2 at Ebbets Field in Game 7 to tie own record 4th straight WS; MVP: NY 1B Johnny Mize

Sports History
1953 Bill Veeck tells St. Louis Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they drop their suit to block his move to Baltimore, they comply


MLB Team Owner and PromoterBill Veeck

• 1961 15th NHL All-Star Game, Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL: All-Stars beat Chicago Black Hawks, 3-1
• 1962 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Stardust CC, LV: Judy Kimball wins her only major title by 4 strokes ahead of runner-up Shirley Spork
• 1972 First NY Islanders NHL game at Nassau Coliseum; Calgary Flames win, 3-2

F1 World Champion
1973 Scotsman Jackie Stewart wins his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship despite withdrawing from the season ending US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen; wins title by 16 points from Emerson Fittipaldi


Auto RacerJackie Stewart

Auto RacerEmerson Fittipaldi

• 1975 MLB American League Championship: Boston Red Sox beat Oakland Athletics, 3 games to 0
• 1975 MLB National League Championship: Cincinnati Reds beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3 games to 0
• 1975 Players' Association files a suit on behalf of Dodgers' Andy Messersmith
• 1978 LA Dodgers win the pennant
• 1978 MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Kansas City Royals, 3 games to 1
• 1978 MLB National League Championship: Los Angeles Dodgers beat Philadelphia Phillies, 3 games to 1
• 1979 Cleveland Browns' Dino Hall sets club records with 9 kickoff returns
• 1979 Ferrari driver Jody Scheckter retires with tyre trouble in US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen; becomes first South African to claim Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; wins by 4 points from race winner Gilles Villeneuve

Sports History
1979 Frank Mahovlich formally retires from the NHL after a failed comeback attempt with the Detroit Red Wings


NHL LegendFrank Mahovlich

• 1981 In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3
• 1984 MLB National League Championship: San Diego Padres beat Chicago Cubs, 3 games to 2
• 1984 Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS, San Diego Padres win pennant

Sports History
1984 Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader


NFL Running BackWalter Payton

NFL Legend and Civil Rights ActivistJim Brown

• 1985 Lynette Woodward chosen as 1st woman in Harlem Globetrotters

Sports History
1986 Steve Yzerman is named captain of the Detroit Red Wings, a title he would hold for over 1,300 games


NHL LegendSteve Yzerman

• 1988 Jim Fregosi is fired as manager of White Sox
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• 1988 Lou Piniella is fired as manager of Yankees for 2nd time

Sports History
1989 Howard Stern's "US Open Sores" tennis match against his producer Gary Dell'Abate. at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York


Radio Shock JockHoward Stern
Baseball Record
1989 Oakland A's Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a playoff series (5 games) against Toronto Blue Jays


MLB OutfielderRickey Henderson

• 1991 Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal & Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead heat in NY thoroughbred racing history
• 1992 Tampa Bay Lightning become 1st NHL expansion team to win opener (7-2)
• 1995 Boston's Fleet Center opens, NY Islanders & Boston Bruins tie at 4-4
• 1995 Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs Yankees
• 2000 Last ever competitive soccer match at Wembley Stadium, England defeated 1-0 by Germany, last goal scored by Liverpool's Dietmar Hammann. Match is Tony Adams' 60th at Wembley, the record for most appearances at the stadium.

Senior Players Championship
2007 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, Baltimore CC: Loren Roberts wins his third of 4 Champions Tour major titles by 6 strokes from Tom Watson


GolferTom Watson

• 2012 ICC Men's Cricket T20 World Cup, Colombo: West Indies beat Sri Lanka by 36 runs for first title; Player of the Series: Australian all-rounder Shane Watson (249 runs • 11 wickets)
• 2012 ICC Women's Cricket T20 World Cup, Colombo: Jess Cameron's 45 from 34 balls leads Australia to 142/4; beat England 138/9 to win by 4 runs to retain WC

NFL Record
2012 New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees breaks Johnny Unitas' NFL record for consecutive games with a TD pass (48) when he connects with Devery Henderson in Saints 31-24 win over San Diego at the SuperDome


NFL QuarterbackDrew Brees

• 2017 New Zealand clinch their 5th Rugby Championship with 25-24 win over South Africa at Cape Town; All Blacks undefeated in 6 games

 

OCT 8

• 1818 Jack Broughton designed padded gloves first used in a competitive boxing match between 2 unnamed English boxers at Aix-la-Chapelle in France
• 1887 Phillies set club record 16th straight victory
• 1888 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Scotsman Jack Burns wins his lone Open title by 1 stroke from Ben Sayers and David Anderson Jr

• 1904 Vanderbilt Cup, first major trophy in American auto racing is conducted on public roads in Nassau County area of Long Island, NY; inaugural winner, American driver George Heath in a Panhard
• 1908 Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant
• 1908 NY Giants set season attendance record at 910,000 (broken in 1920)
• 1915 Phillies win their 1st & only World Series game before 1980, beating Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally
• 1922 Baseball World Series: NY Giants beat NY Yankees, 5-3 at the Polo Grounds in Game 5 for a 4-0-1 series win; Game 2 tied
• 1927 Baseball World Series: NY Yankees beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-3 at Yankee Stadium for a 4-0 series sweep
• 1929 A's Howard Ehmke (7-2) sets World Series record striking out 13 Cubs
• 1930 Baseball World Series: Philadelphia A's beat St Louis Cards, 7-1 at Shibe Park for a 4 games to 2 series victory to retain title
• 1939 Baseball World Series: NY Yankees beat Cincinnati Reds, 7-3 at Crosley Field for 4-0 sweep; Yankees 4th straight WS title
• 1940 Baseball World Series: Cincinnati Reds beat Detroit Tigers, 2-1 at Crosley Field for 4 games to 3 series win; Reds second championship
• 1950 4th NHL All-Star Game, Detroit Olympia, Detroit, MI: Detroit Red Wings beat All-Stars, 7-1
• 1950 Cleveland Browns play Pittsburgh for 1st time, beat Steelers 30-17

Sports History

1953 Birmingham, Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from playing there Robinson gives in & drops white players from his group


Baseball PlayerJackie Robinson

• 1956 Yankees pitcher Don Larsen throws a perfect game as New York beats Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-0 in Game 5 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium
• 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles
• 1958 Braves Eddie Mathews strikes out for World Series record 11th time
• 1959 Baseball World Series: LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 9-3 at Comiskey Park to claim championship, 4 games to 2; MVP: Dodgers pitcher Larry Sherry
• 1960 3rd Rugby League World Cup: Great Britain beats Australia 10-3
• 1961 American Phil Hill's Ferrari team does not participate in season ending US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen having already clinched World Drivers Championship; English driver Innes Ireland wins Lotus' first ever Grand Prix

Sports History
1961 NY Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford breaks Babe Ruth's record of 29-2/3 consecutive scoreless innings in the World Series; he goes on to extend the streak to 33-2/3, which stands until 2000


MLB PitcherWhitey Ford
F1 World Champion
1972 Despite retiring with suspension trouble at the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, Emerson Fittipaldi becomes first Brazilian to win the Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; wins by 16 points from Jackie Stewart


Auto RacerJackie Stewart

Auto RacerEmerson Fittipaldi

• 1972 Harold Carmichael begins NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions

Sports History
1972 In Game 2 of ALCS, Oakland A's Bert Campaneris fires his bat at Det pitcher


Baseball PlayerBert Campaneris

• 1972 MLB Detroit Tiger pitcher Lerrin LaGrow and Oakland A's shortstop Bert Campaneris, each fined and suspended when Campaneris flung his bat at the mound after getting hit by a pitch

Sports History
1973 NLCS game 3 brawl between Cins' Pete Rose & NY Met Bud Harrelson


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose

• 1975 San Antonio Spurs, then members of the ABA, defeat the NBA's Atlanta Hawks, 109-107 in the first basketball game ever played in the Louisiana Superdome
• 1977 Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant)
• 1977 MLB National League Championship: Los Angeles Dodgers beat Philadelphia Phillies, 3 games to 1

F1 World Champion
1978 American Mario Andretti in a Lotus finishes 10th in the season ending Canadian Grand Prix at Île Notre-Dame Circuit, but wins his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 13 points from Ronnie Peterson


Auto RacerMario Andretti

• 1978 Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City
• 1982 New Jersey Devils 1st NHL victory; beat New York Rangers 3-2 at Meadowlands
• 1983 MLB American League Championship: Baltimore Orioles beat Chicago White Sox, 3 games to 1
• 1983 MLB National League Championship: Philadelphia Phillies beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 3 games to 1
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• 1983 Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to NY Islanders 8-7
• 1989 MLB American League Championship: Oakland Athletics beat Toronto Blue Jays, 4 games to 1
• 1989 Oakland beats Toronto, 4-3 in Game 5, to advance to the World Series
• 1992 Ottawa Senators 1st NHL game
• 1994 6th College Football Holy War: Boston College beats Notre Dame 30-11 in Chestnut Hill

NFL Record
1995 Dolphin's Dan Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL career completions record


Hall of Fame NFL QuarterbackDan Marino

• 1995 Edgar Martinez drives home tying & winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees & win AL Division Series

F1 World Champion
2000 German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher wins Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka to clinch his 3rd, and 1st of 5 straight F1 World Drivers Championships


Formula 1 DriverMichael Schumacher

• 2000 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Loch Lomond GC: Europe regains Cup 14½-11½; Carin Koch holes winning putt, coming back from 3 down to beat Michele Redman

Sports History
2005 NHL great Wayne Gretzky gets his first win as a coach as the Phoenix Coyotes beat the Minnesota Wild 2-1 at Jobing.com Arena, Phoenix


Ice Hockey GreatWayne Gretzky

• 2011 Irish professional darts player Brendan Dolan plays 1st perfect 9 dart game on TV in semi-final against James Wade at PDC World Darts Championship in Dublin
• 2016 New Zealand routs South Africa, 57-14 in Durban to win their 4th Rugby Championship; undefeated All Blacks score 9 tries to 1, 2 each to Israel Dagg, TJ Perenara and Beauden Barrett

Sports History
2018 New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees becomes NFL's all-time leader in passing yards; needs 201 yards to pass Peyton Manning's record; gets 363 & 3 TD's in Saints 43-19 win v Washington Redskins at the SuperDome


NFL QuarterbackDrew Brees

• 2018 Red Sox utility Brock Holt becomes first MLB player to hit for the cycle in a postseason game during Boston's 16-1 Game 3 rout of the NY Yankees in the AL Division Series at Yankee Stadium

 

OCT 9

• 1905 First league sanctioned Baseball World Series begins; New York Giants (NL) beat Philadelphia A's (AL), 3-0 in Game 1 at Columbia Park

Baseball History
1909 Ty Cobb steals home in World Series game


MLB LegendTy Cobb

• 1910 Nap Lajorie challenges Ty Cobb batting average with 8 hits, 6 were bunts as Brown's 3rd baseman Red Corriden played deep, Cobb still won

President Attends the World Series
1915 Woodrow Wilson becomes first US President to attend a World Series game


28th US PresidentWoodrow Wilson

• 1919 Baseball World Series: Cincinnati Reds beat Chicago White Sox, 10-5 at Comiskey Park for a 5-3 series victory; due to 'Black Sox Scandal' last WS to take place without a Commissioner of Baseball in place

Ruth's 1st World Series HR
1921 Babe Ruth hits 1st World Series home run; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays


Baseball LegendBabe Ruth

• 1928 Baseball World Series: NY Yankees beat St. Louis Cardinals, 7-3 at Sportsman's Park to become first to sweep consecutive World Series; Babe Ruth hits smashes 3 HRs for Yanks
• 1934 Baseball World Series: St Louis Cardinals rout Detroit Tigers, 11-0 at Navin Field to clinch 4 games to 3 series victory and 3rd championship
• 1938 Cleveland Rams and Chicago Bears play one of only 4 penalty free games in NFL history; Rams win 14-7 at Cleveland Stadium
• 1944 Baseball World Series: in the only all-St Louis WS, the Cardinals beat the Browns, 3-1 at Sportsman's Park for 4 games to 2 series victory
• 1949 Baseball World Series: NY Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 10-6 at Ebbets Field for 4 games to 1 series victory; starts Yankees record run of 5 straight titles
• 1951 5th NHL All-Star Game, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto: 1st Team ties 2nd Team, 2-2; first year format - 1st v 2nd All-Star Teams, with additional players
• 1951 Gil McDougald's World Series grand slam helps Yanks beat Giants 13-1
• 1956 10th NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC: All-Stars tie Montreal Canadiens, 1-1
• 1958 MLB World Series: NY Yankees beat Braves, 6-2 at County Stadium in Milwaukee, clinch 4 games to 3 series triumph; MVP: Yankees pitcher Bob Turley

World Series
1961 Baseball World Series: New York Yankees win 19th championship, 4-1; rout Cincinnati Reds, 13-5 at Crosley Field in Game 5; MVP: Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford


MLB PitcherWhitey Ford

Ryder Cup
1965 Ryder Cup, Royal Birkdale GC: US beats Great Britain 19½-12½; Byron Nelson non-playing American captain; Harry Weetman GB skipper


GolferByron Nelson
World Series
1966 Baseball World Series: Baltimore Orioles claim first championship in franchise history; edge LA Dodgers, 1-0 at Memorial Stadium for 4-0 sweep; MVP: Orioles outfielder Frank Robinson


Baseball Outfielder and ManagerFrank Robinson

• 1974 MLB American League Championship: Oakland Athletics beat Baltimore Orioles, 3 games to 1
• 1974 MLB National League Championship: Los Angeles Dodgers beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3 games to 1
• 1974 Washington Capitals 1st NHL game, losing 6-3 to NY Rangers at Madison Square Garden; start of a 37 game road losing streak for Washington
• 1976 Peter Petherick takes hat-trick on cricket debut New Zealand v Pakistan Javed 1st wkt
• 1976 Test Cricket debut of Javed Miandad (Pakistan), scores 163 on 1st day
• 1976 Yanks 1st AL Championship game, beat Royals 4-1
• 1977 MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Kansas City Royals, 3 games to 2
• 1977 Yanks rally for 3 in 9th & beat Royals 5-3 for pennant #31

Indy 500
1981 United States Auto Club appeals panel restores disputed Indianapolis 500 victory to disqualified first-across-the-line Bobby Unser


Auto RacerBobby Unser

• 1983 NFL Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes for 419 yards with 5 TDs, winning 38-35, in overtime, over Dolphins, in Miami
• 1988 9th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats New Zealand 25-12
• 1988 Dennis Eckersley, 1st to save all 4 games in a championship series
• 1988 MLB American League Championship: Oakland Athletics beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 0
• 1989 27th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Tokyo Japan (3-0)
• 1989 First NFL game coached by an African American (Art Shell), his LA Raiders beat NY Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football
• 1989 MLB National League Championship: San Francisco Giants beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 1
• 1991 San Jose Sharks beat Calgary for their 1st NHL win, 4-3
• 1997 North Carolina's record winning college basketball coach Dean Smith retires
• 1997 NY Rangers are 1st NHL team to open with 4 straight ties

F1 World Champion
2011 German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel finishes 3rd in the Japanese F1 Grand Prix to clinch his second consecutive World Drivers Championship


Formula 1 DriverSebastian Vettel

• 2022 American runner Emily Sisson runs US record 2:18:29 in Chicago Marathon, finishing 2nd by 4:11 to repeat winner Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya

Sports History
2022 Dutch Red Bull driver Max Verstappen secures his second consecutive World F1 Drivers C'ship after finishing in front of Sergio Pérez and Charles Leclerc in the Japanese GP at Suzuka


F1 Racing Car DriverMax Verstappen

 

OCT 10

• 1892 Entire Hong Kong national cricket team dies in shipwreck off Taiwan
• 1899 African-American inventor Issac R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame
• 1904 Boston pitchers achieve 148 complete games-an AL record, also record for total complete games AL 1,098, NL 1,089

• 1916 In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise the price of World Series grandstand seats to $5-up from $3
• 1920 Cleveland Indians outfielder Elmer Smith hits baseball's first ever World Series grand slam and teammate Bill Wambsganss makes the 1st unassisted World Series triple play (Game 5)
• 1920 Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play 1st NFL game, a 0-0 tie
• 1921 NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10
• 1923 NY Giants & NY Yankees become first teams to play each other in 3 consecutive Baseball World Series; Giants win Game 1, 5-4; first WS game played at Yankee Stadium
• 1924 Baseball World Series: Washington Senators edge NY Giants, 4-3 in 12 innings in Game 7 at Griffith Stadium to take series, 4-3; Sens' first World Series victory
• 1926 Baseball World Series: St Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees, 3-2 at Sportsman's Park for 4 games to 3 series victory

Sports History

1930 AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP & BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP


Baseball Player and ManagerJoe Cronin

Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderHack Wilson
Sports History
1930 MLB New York Yankees announce signing former Chicago Cubs manager Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years


Baseball ManagerJoe McCarthy

• 1931 Baseball World Series: St Louis Cardinals beat Philadelphia A's, 4-2 at Sportsman's Park for a 4 games to 3 series win
• 1937 Baseball World Series: in second consecutive all-New York WS, Yankees again beat Giants, 4-2 at the Polo Grounds for a 4-1 series victory
• 1945 Baseball World Series: Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 9-8 at Wrigley Field to clinch series, 4 games to 3; Tigers second championship
• 1948 Then record 86,288 see game 5 of World Series in Cleveland
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• 1949 3rd NHL All-Star Game, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON: All-Stars beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3-1

World Series
1951 Baseball World Series: two-time defending champion NY Yankees beat NY Giants, 4-3 at Yankee Stadium for 4-2 series victory; MVP: Yankees shortstop Phil Rizzuto


Sportscaster and MLB ShortstopPhil Rizzuto
World Series
1956 Baseball World Series: Behind Yogi Berra's 2 HRs, NY Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 9-0 in Game 7 at Ebbets Field; MVP: Yankees pitcher Don Larsen


MLB Catcher and ManagerYogi Berra
Sports History
1956 Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match v Australia in Karachi


CricketerFazal Mahmood

• 1957 Baseball World Series: Milwaukee Braves beat NY Yankees, 5-0 at Yankee Stadium to clinch 4 games to 3 series victory; MVP: Braves pitcher Lew Burdette (3-0)
• 1960 Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards
• 1961 Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros & NY Mets

NHL All-Star Game
1964 18th NHL All-Star Game, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON: All-Stars beat Toronto, 3-2; MVP: Jean Béliveau, Montreal, C


NHL LegendJean Béliveau

• 1964 XVIII Summer Olympic Games open in Tokyo, Japan
• 1968 Baseball World Series: Detroit Tigers beat St Louis Cardinals, 4-1 at Busch Memorial Stadium to clinch, 4-3 series win; MVP: Tigers pitcher Mickey Lolich
• 1973 MLB National League Championship: New York Mets beat Cincinnati Reds, 3 games to 2
• 1974 US general George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in US over his treatment during the 1973 World Series
• 1976 Giant's Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey opens with the NY Giants going down 24–14 to the Dallas Cowboys in from of 76,042 fans
• 1976 Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33
• 1979 Nordiques' Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in 1st game
• 1980 MLB American League Championship: Kansas City Royals beat New York Yankees, 3 games to 0
• 1980 Yanks lose 4-2 & are swept by Royals in AL Championship series
• 1982 MLB American League Championship: Milwaukee Brewers beat California Angels, 3 games to 2
• 1982 MLB National League Championship: St. Louis Cardinals beat Atlanta Braves, 3-0
• 1983 Tom Monaghan becomes CEO of Detroit Tigers
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• 1987 Hartford center Doug Jarvis ends his career having played an NHL record 964 consecutive games as the Whalers lose 6-2 to the New York Rangers
• 1990 MLB American League Championship: Oakland Athletics beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 0
• 1993 NFL Cleveland Browns' Najee Mustafaa sets club record for longest interception (97 yds)

Sports History
1994 NY Giants retire Lawrence Taylor's #56


Hall of Fame American Football PlayerLawrence Taylor
Election of Interest
2002 Former cricketer Imran Khan elected to the Pakistani Parliament after winning the seat of Mianwali-I


Cricketer and Prime Minister of PakistanImran Khan
F1 World Champion
2004 Having already clinched his record 7th F1 World Drivers Championship, German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher wins a record 13th race of the season with victory at the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka


Formula 1 DriverMichael Schumacher
Senior Players Championship
2010 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, TPC Potomac: Mark O'Meara wins his lone Champions Tour major title with par on first playoff hole against Michael Allen


GolferMark O'Meara

• 2019 3,500 women are the first to be allowed to attend a football match in Iran for a World Cup qualifier in Tehran, since the Islamic revolution
• 2020 French Open Women's Tennis: 19 year old Iga Świątek of Poland wins her country's first singles major title; beats American Sofia Kenin 6-4, 6-1