Tuesday, June 24, 2014

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - JUNE 24TH

1894 - Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years
1895 - Jack Dempsey, "Manassa Mauler", Heavyweight
boxing champion (1919-26) is born
1908 - Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is
destined to have worse won-lost pct of any Yankee mgr 27-71 (.276)
1922 - AFPA changes name to NFL, Chicago Staleys become Chicago Bears
1931 - Billy Casper, SD Ca, golfer, 3-time PGA Player of Year ('66, '68, '70) is born
1936 - Joe DiMaggio becomes 5th to hit 2 HRs in 1 inn, Yanks beat Browns 18-4
1947 - Jackie Robinson swipes home for 1st of 19 times in his career
1974 - Steve Busby retires 1st 9 White Sox to set AL record
with 33 consecutive batters retired
1979 - Rickey Henderson debuts for Oakland & steals his 1st base
1992 - Commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans Steve Howe from baseball
1994 - Jeff Bagwell of Astros is 28th to hit 2 HRs in an inning
1997 - Mark McGwire hits a 538 foot home run

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