TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - OCTOBER 3RD

1919 - Reds Adolfo Luque is 1st Latin player to appear in a World Series.
1920 - Browns 1st baseman George Sisler gets his record 257th hit of season.
1920 - NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games.

1931 - Glenn Hall, Saskatchewan, National Hockey League goaltender is born.

1936 - Yanks set new attendance record of 64,842 in 3rd game of World Series.

1936 - John Heisman, American football coach, dies of pneumonia at 66.
1940 - Reds beat Tigers ending NL's 10-game World Series losing streak.
1942 - NY Yanks Frank Crosetti shoves umpire Bill Summers in World Series,

 he is fined $200 & suspended for 1st 30 days of 1943 season.
1945 - Tigers & Cubs meet in World Series for 4th time.

1948 - NFL becomes 1st sport televised as sport of week.
1950 - Baseball rules Phillies lefty Curt Simmons cannot play in

World Series despite his being on furlough from Army.
1951 - Bobby Thomson HR-Giants win pennant defeating Dodgers.

1959 - Frederick Stephen Couples, PGA golfer

(1983 Kemper Open), born in Seattle, Washington is born.

1965 - Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher.

1971 - Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000.
1972 - Steve Carlton wins 27th game for Phillies (almost ½ of their 59 wins).
1972 - Baltimore Roric Harrison is last AL pitcher

to homer until interleague play 25 years later.
1974 - Pele retires as soccer player.
1976 - Hank Aaron singles in his last at bat & drives in his 2,297th run.

1981 - Brewers (since 1970) & Expos (1969) clinch their 1st-ever postseason.

1986 - Vince DiMaggio, American Baseball Player (b. 1912) dies.

1990 - George Brett becomes first to lead league in batting in 3 decades.

1997 - Carolina Hurricanes 1st home game vs Pitts Penguins.
1997 - Vancouver Canucks beats Mighty Ducks, 3-2 in Japan.