TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - JUNE 21ST

1900 - Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13,

In bottom of 11th Phillies stalls so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers.
1904 - Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee,"

first known reference to NY club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913).

1916 - Boston Rube Forster no-hits NY Yankees, 2-0.
1932 - Jack Sharkey beats Max Schmeling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title (NYC).
1938 - Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit.

1939 - NY Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement after doctors

reveal he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
1950 - Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit.

1964 - Phillies Jim Bunning pitches perfect game (Mets) on Fathers day,

in 2nd game of DH, Mets get 3 hits, 3 being fewest hits in NL DH.

1971 - Indians Ken Harrelson retires from baseball to play pro golf.

1983 - Tennis ace Arthur Ashe undergoes double bypass heart surgery.
1986 - Bo Jackson, Heisman Trophy winner, singns with KC Royals.

1988 - 42nd NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Detroit Pistons, 4 games to 3.

1990 - At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a NY Yankee

baseball cap & proclaims "I am a Yankee!".
1991 - NY Islanders Denis Potvin & Mike Bossy, elected to Hockey Hall of Fame.

1994 - Steffi Graf becomes 1st defending tennis champ to lose

in 1st round of a major tournament (Wimbledon to Lorrie McNeal).

1997 - Women's National Basketball Association

begins as NY Liberty beats LA Sparks.

1998 - Al Campanis, American baseball executive (b. 1916) dies.

2002 - Lennox Lewis retains boxing's WBC world Heavyweight crown

with an eight round knockout over Mike Tyson.
2012 - 66th NBA Championship: Miami Heat beat

Oklahoma City Thunder, 4 games to 1.