TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - SEPTEMBER 23RD

1845 - 1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code.

1939 - Cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6-Dodgers get 27 hits & beat Phillies 22-4.

1943 - Marty Schottenheimer, McDonald Pennsylvania,

football coach (Cleveland Browns, San Diego Chargers) is born.
1948 - Braves clinch NL pennant.

1952 - First closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event.
1952 - Dodgers clinch NL pennant.
1952 - Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 for heavyweight boxing title.
1955 - Yanks clinch pennant by beating Red Sox, 3-2.

1957 - Milwaukee Braves clinch NL pennant by beating Cards 4-2.
1970 - Gary Muhrcke wins 1st NY Marathon.

1978 - Lyman Bostock, outfielder (Angels), shot & killed at 27.

1983 - Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in 10 for Heavyweight boxing title.
1983 - Phillies Steve Carlton is 16th to wins 300 game (beating Cards).
1984 - SF 49er Joe Montana misses his 1st start in 49 games.
1988 - Jose Canseco is baseball's 1st to steal 40 bases & hit 40 HRs.

1992 - Bill Comrie purchases BC Lions from CFL.
1992 - First female to play in a NHL exhibition game (Manon Rheaume, goalie)

for Tampa Bay Lightning - gives up 2 goals on 9 attempts in 1 period.

1997 - Abe Gibron, head coach (Chicago Bears), dies at 72.
1997 - Seattle Mariners break record for most HRs in a year (258).

2004 - Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918) dies.
2012 - Corrie Sanders, South African boxer, shot dead at 46.