TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - JUNE 8TH

1921 - Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, & held in jail until 4 PM

1955 - Dodgers option Tommy Lasorda to make room on roster for Sandy Koufax

1961 - Milwaukee sets record of 4 consecutive HRs

(Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron, Joe Adcock & Frank Thomas)

1966 - NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970
1969 - Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired (I was there-BTG)

1976 - Lindsay Davenport, Palos Verdes CA, tennis star (Olympics-gold-96) is born

1977 - Nolan Ryan notches his 4th career 19-strikeout game
1978 - Braves draft Bob Horner #1

1982 - [Leroy] Satchel Paige, US baseball pitcher, dies at 75
1989 - Pirates score 10 in 1st (their best inning since 1942), prompts

Pirate broadcaster Jim Rooker to say he would walk from

Pittsburgh to Philadelphia if Pirates lost, Phillies beat them 15-11,

Rooker walks at end of season

1991 - Mary Bacon, jockey, dying of cancer, commits suicide by gun at 43

1991 - Former NY Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds
1992 - NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for 7th time