Thursday, July 30, 2015

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - JULY 30TH

1844 - 1st US yacht club organized, NY Yacht Club.
1874 - First baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Philadelphia in British Isles.
1890 - Casey Stengel, baseball manager (Yankees (1949-60)/NY Met's 1st) is born.
1909 - John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League.
1934 - Bud Selig, owner (Milwaukee Brewers)/acting baseball commissioner is born.
1937 - Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base & registers no put outs.
1951 - Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying
that the reserve clause makes peons of Baseball Players.
1954 - Bob Kennedy hits the 1st grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles.
1958 - Daley Thompson, Decathalete (Olympic-gold-1980, 1984), is born in London.
1959 - In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4.
1960 - First AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7).
1966 - FIFA 8th World Cup: England beats West Germany 4-2 in London.
1973 - Texas Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits 1st-place Oakland, 6-0.
1982 - Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats.
1990 - George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent
to resign as prinicipal partner of NY Yankees.
1995 - Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter baseball's Hall of Fame.
2007 - Bill Walsh, American football coach, dies of leukemia at 75.

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