Friday, July 24, 2015

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - JULY 24TH

1893 - For only time in history of US Tennis championships, an event
is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago.
1909 - Brooklyn Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates.
1921 - Belgium's Leon Scieur wins Tour de France.
1939 - Walter Bellamy, New Bern NC, NBA center
(Knicks/Olympic-gold-1960), (d. 2013) is born.
1941 - Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game.
1946 - 9 Spokane Baseball Players (Western League) die in a bus crash.
1958 - Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again.
1961 - Roger Maris hits 4 home runs, in a doubleheader.
1964 - Barry Bonds, Riverside CA, left fielder (Pirates, SF Giants, 7X MVP) is born.
1965 - Casey Stengel resigns as manager of NY Mets.
1967 - Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game.
1968 - Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th breaks Cy Young's record for pitching appearances.
1977 - Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881.
1978 - Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games.
1979 - Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR.
1993 - NY Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight.
1996 - "Jock" John Wallace, soccer player/manager, dies at 60.
2005 - Lance Armstrong retires after winning a record seventh
consecutive Tour de France victory (stripped for doping in 2012).

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