TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - DECEMBER 15TH

1909 - Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League.
1925 - 1st hockey game at Madison Square Garden,

Montreal Candiens 3, NY Americans 1.

1933 - Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15.
1935 - Detroit Lions win NFL championship.
1938 - Bob [Robert] Foster, American professional boxer

"The Deputy Sheriff", born in Borger, Texas (d. 2015).

1944 - Stan Bahnsen, pitcher (NY Yankee, 1968 AL Rookie-of-year) is born.
1946 - Chicago Bears beat NY Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game.
1946 - Giants Filchock & Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt.
1965 - William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball.
1973 - Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens.
1973 - Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year.

1973 - Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game.

1980 - NY Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, 10 years $15M.
1982 - Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of NY Giants.

1992 - Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year.

1997 - SF 49ers retire Joe Montana's #16.
2002 - 68th Heisman Trophy Award: Carson Palmer, USC (QB).

2003 - Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1947) dies.
2008 - 74th Heisman Trophy Award: Sam Bradford, Oklahoma (QB).

2010 - Bob Feller, American baseball player (b. 1918) dies.
2011 - Barry Bonds is sentenced to 30 days of house arrest, two years of

probation and 250 hours of community service, for an obstruction of justice

conviction stemming from a grand jury appearance in 2003.