TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - JULY 4TH

1907 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 1 for Heavyweight boxing title.
1908 - NY Giant George "Hooks" Witse no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 in 10 inn.
1910 - Jack Johnson KOs James J Jeffries in 15 for Heavyweight boxing title.
1911 - White Sox Ed Walsh stops Ty Cobb's

40-game hitting streak as Cobb goes 0 for 4.
1912 - Jack Johnson TKOs Jim Flynn in 9 for Heavyweight boxing title.

1919 - Cincinnati Reds are 10½ games back in NL, & win World Series.
1919 - Jack Dempsey KOs Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship.
1923 - Jack Dempsey beats Tommy Gibbon in 15 for Heavyweight boxing title.

1929 - Al Davis, Brocton Mass, American businessman

and NFL team owner (Oakland Raiders) is born.

1930 - George Steinbrenner, Rocky River Ohio, owner

(NY Yankees)/ship builder/horse owner, (d. 2010) is born.

1938 - 1st game at Shribe Park, Phila; Braves beat Phillies 10-5.

1938 - Suzanne Lenglen, 6 time Wimbledon champ, dies at 39 of anemia.
1939 - Red Sox Jim Tabor hits 2 grand slams in 1 game.
1939 - Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day.

1960 - Mickey Mantle is 18th to hit 300 HRs.

1973 - In audience with Italian Cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes

who "offer the magnificent show of a healthy, strong, generous youth".

1980 - Nolan Ryan is 4th to strikeout 3,000.

1983 - NY Yankee Dave Righetti no-hits the Red Sox.
1984 - NY Yankee Phil Niekro is 9th to strikeout 3,000.

1995 - Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez, tennis great, dies of stomach cancer at 67.

2005 - Hank Stram, American football coach (b. 1923) dies.
2009 - Steve McNair, American football player (b. 1973) was found dead

from 4 gun shot wounds in a murder-suicide scene, with

Sahel "Jenni" Kazemi as the perpetrator.
2012 - Jimmy Bivins [James], Hall of Fame boxer, dies from pneumonia at 92.