THIS DAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - JANUARY 5TH

1920 - Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to NY Yankees.
1925 - French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to 

John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, & Hugh Jennings.
1927 - Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games 

played between Chicago & Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox.
1931 - First woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas 

purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League.

1932 - Chuck Noll, Cleveland, NFL coach (Pittsburgh Steelers) is born.
1934 - National & American Baseball Leagues select a uniform ball.

1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Ponte Vedra Beach Women's Golf Open.
1957 - Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to NY Giants.

1960 - Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance 

of congressional support from NY Senator Kenneth Keating.

1963 - Rogers Hornsby, baseball player, dies of a heart ailment at 66.
1964 - San Diego Chargers win AFL-championship.

1971 - US Heavyweight "Sonny" Liston's found dead by his wife after returning 

from a trip in his home from "lung congestion and heart failure".  Based on the 

advanced decomposition of the body it is believed that Liston actually 

died on December 30th.

1988 - "Pistol Pete" Maravich, American basketball player 

(b. 1947) dies of a heart attack at 40.

1989 - Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990.
1990 - J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL.

1993 - Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame.

2004 - Tug McGraw, American baseball player, father of country and 

western singer Tim McGraw (b. 1944) dies of a brain tumor.