Wednesday, January 22, 2014

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - JANUARY 22ND

1857 - National Association of Baseball Players founded, NY.
1960 - Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson for middleweight boxing title.
1968 - NBA announces it will expand to Milwaukee & Phoenix.
1968 - Duke Kahanamoku, 100m swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-12, 20, 24), dies at 77.
1969 - Roy Campanella & Stan Musial elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
1973 - George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in 2 for Heavyweight boxing title.
1979 - Ali Hassan Salameh, [Abu Hassan], killed by car bomb; believed 
to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes dies.
1980 - PGA begins a senior golf tour.
1984 - Super Bowl XVIII: LA Raiders beat Wash Red Skins, 38-9 in 
Tampa Super Bowl MVP: Marcus Allen, LA Raiders, RB.
1987 - Blizzard in NJ, as 334 attend Devils-Flame NHL game, NJ wins 7-5.
1988 - Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight boxing title.
1989 - Super Bowl XXIII: SF 49ers beat Cin Bengals, 20-16 in 
Miami Super Bowl MVP: Jerry Rice, San Francisco, WR.
1990 - Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with SF Giants.
1993 - Charlie Gehringer, baseball player, dies at 89.
1998 - NHL's Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild.

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