1661 - First Yacht race, England's King Charles vs his brother James.
1866 - James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, Heavyweight champion boxer (1892-97) is born.
1890 - First baseball tripleheader-Boston vs Pittsburgh.
1890 - First baseball tripleheader-Boston vs Pittsburgh.
1918 - Baseball season ends due to WW I.
1918 - Ty Cobb pitches 2 innings against Browns.
1918 - Ty Cobb pitches 2 innings against Browns.
1923 - Rocky Marciano, Brockton, Massachusetts, Heavyweight
champion boxer (1952-56), (d. 1969) is born.
1945 - Phillies Vince DiMaggio ties NL record with 4th grand slam of season.
1947 - NY Giants 183-185 HR of year breaks Yankee mark of 182 in 1936.
1961 - Bam Bam Bigelow, Secaucus NJ, WWF wrestler (Wrestlemania XI) is born.
1964 - Masanori Murakami is 1st Japanese player in majors (NY Mets).
1973 - George Foreman KOs Jose "King" Roman in 1st Round for Heavyweight boxing title.
1975 - NY Met Tom Seaver is 1st to strike out 200 in 8 consecutive seasons.
1987 - 15 yr old Michael Chang is youngest man to win US Tennis Open match.
1989 - A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commissioner, dies of heart attack at 51.
1996 - Baltimore Ravens (Cleveland Browns) first NFL game, beat Oakland Raiders, 17-14.
MY 1,000TH POST!!!
MY 1,000TH POST!!!
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