TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - SEPTEMBER 4TH

1916 - Christy Mathewson & Mordecai Brown final baseball game.

1918 - William Talbert, tennis doubles champ (US 1942, 45, 46, 48) is born.

1923 - NY Yankee Sad Sam Jones no-hits Philadelphia A's, 2-0.

1937 - Doris Kopsky, becomes 1st NABA woman cycling champion (4:22.4).

1941 - NY Yankees, win earliest AL pennent (full season).

1942 - Raymond Floyd, Fort Bragg North Carolina,

American golfer (four-time Major winner) is born.

1949 - Tom Watson, KC Mo, golfer (British Open 1975, 77, 80, 82, 83) is born.

1950 - Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural

Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.

1966 - Houston Oilers holds Denver Broncos to no 1st downs winning 45-7.

1972 - US swimmer Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals.

1978 - NY Yankee pitcher Ron Guidry wins his 20th (on way to 25-3 season).

1983 - Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship.

1986 - Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers) dies at 75.

1988 - Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills NY.
1988 - Phoenix Cardinals play 1st regular-season NFL game.

1991 - Panel of 8 baseball experts vote to drop asterisk next to

Roger Maris HR record & determine an official no hitter must go at least 9 innings.
1993 - Mats Wilander defeats Mikael Pernfors 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 1-6, 7-6 (8-6),

6-4 in 4 hrs 1 min US Open Tennis match concluding at 2:26 AM.
1994 - Cleveland Browns is 1st team in NFL to score a 2-point conversion.

2011 - Lee Roy Selmon, American football player (b. 1954) dies.