Monday, May 25, 2015

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - MAY 25TH

1900 - Eyre M Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in Olympics
1906 - After 20 straight wins, Boston Pilgrims lose to Chicago White Sox 3-0
1919 - Casey Stengel releases a sparrow from under his baseball cap
1922 - Babe Ruth suspended 1 day & fined $200 for throwing dirt on an ump
1935 - Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates
1939 - Carl Storck becomes 2nd NFL president
1941 - Ted Williams raises his batting average over .400 for 1st time in 1941
1951 - NY Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5)
1953 - Braves Max Surkont strikes out record 8 Reds in a row
1963 - Early Wynn wins his 300th baseball game
1965 - Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1 for Heavyweight boxing title rematch
1966 - Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die
1972 - Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Ron Stander
1981 - Bobby Unser becomes 1st Indy 500 winner to be disqualified
1981 - Carl Yastrzemski is 4th to get 3,000 hits (Cobb, Musial & Aaron)
1986 - KC Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit
1994 - Mark Messier guarantees his New York Rangers will beat the
New Jersey Devils in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals, which he
would help deliver on by scoring a natural hat trick in the game

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