1869 - Cincinnati Red Stockings become the first professional baseball team.
1912 - Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins.
1945 - Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain, NY.
1958 - Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati scores a NCAA midwest region-record 56 points.
1958 - Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game
with encephalitis; He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain is first to score 4,000 pts in an NBA season.
1968 - Bob Beamon sets indoor Long Jump record (27'2-3/4").
1968 - Bob Beamon sets indoor Long Jump record (27'2-3/4").
1985 - Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 rounds for Heavyweight boxing title.
1988 - NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix.
1989 - NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform.
1989 - NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform.
1990 - Tom Harmon, NFL tail back (Heisman Trophy), dies at 70.
1991 - Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record 6.14m (20 feet 1 3/4).
1991 - Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record 6.14m (20 feet 1 3/4).
1997 - Pittsburgh Penguins' Joe Mullen, is first American to score 500 NHL goals.
2007 - Bowie Kuhn, commissioner of baseball (b. 1926) dies at 80.
HAPPY 47TH BIRTHDAY TO MY WIFE JENNY!
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