Tuesday, September 1, 2015

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - SEPTEMBER 1ST

1661 - First Yacht race, England's King Charles vs his brother James.
1866 - James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett,
Heavyweight champion boxer (1892-97) is born.
1890 - First baseball tripleheader-Boston vs Pittsburgh.
1918 - Baseball season ends due to WW I.
1918 - Ty Cobb pitches 2 innings against Browns.
1923 - Rocky Marciano, Brockton, Massachusetts,
Heavyweight champion boxer (1952-56), (d. 1969) is born.
1925 - Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of Intl Olympic Committee.
1926 - British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms.
1946 - First US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Berg.
1963 - St Louis Cards pitcher Curt Simmons steals home plate.
1961 - Bam Bam Bigelow, Secaucus NJ, WWF wrestler (Wrestlemania XI) is born.
1964 - Masanori Murakami is 1st Japanese player in majors (NY Mets).
1971 - John Newcombe is 1st top-seed man to lose in 1st round of US Open.
1973 - George Foreman KOs Jose "King" Roman in 1 for Heavyweight boxing title.
1975 - NY Met Tom Seaver is 1st to strike out 200 in 8 consecutive seasons.
1987 - 15 yr old Michael Chang is youngest man to win US Tennis Open match.
1989 - A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commissioner, dies of heart attack at 51.
1996 - Baltimore Ravens (Cleveland Browns)
first NFL game, beat Oakland Raiders, 17-14.
2006 - Roger Goodell begins his tenure as NFL Commissioner.
2013 - Tommy Morrison, American Heavyweight boxing
champion and actor, dies from multiple organ failure at 44.

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