Wednesday, May 27, 2015

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - MAY 27TH

1904 - NL record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, NY Giants).
1912 - Sam Snead, Hot Springs VA, PGA golfer (PGA-1963, 65, 67, 70, 72, 73) is born.
1948 - Hank Greenberg buys an interest in the Cleveland Indians.
1955 - Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0.
1968 - NL awards Montreal & SD major league franchises.
1968 - Frank Thomas, "Big Hurt", (Chicago White Sox, 1993 MVP) is born.
1968 - Jeff Bagwell, infielder (Houston Astros), born in Boston, MA is born.
1968 - George Halas retires from coaching, finishing with
318 regular-season wins and 6 NFL titles.
1971 - UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship.
1975 - Ezzard Charles, Heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51), dies of ALS at 53.
1981 - Liverpool wins 26th Europe Cup 1 at Paris.
1982 - John McMullen buys NHL Colorodo Rockies &
gets approval to move to NJ Meadowlands (Devils).
1984 - Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day.
2000 - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921) dies.
2006 - Craig Heyward, American football player (b. 1966) died from
complications from a recurrence of bone cancer from eight years ago.

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