Saturday, January 5, 2013

THIS DAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - JANUARY 5TH

1920 - Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to the NY Yankees.
1925 - French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, & Hugh Jennings.
1927 - Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago & Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to the White Sox.
1931 - First woman to purchase a baseball team is Lucille Thomas with the purchase of the Topeka franchise in the Western League.
1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Ponte Vedra Beach Women's Golf Open.
1957 - Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to NY Giants.
1960 - Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from NY Senator Kenneth Keating.
1971 - US Heavyweight "Sonny" Liston's (36) corpse is found.
1989 - Baseball signs $400M deal with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990.
1993 - Reggie Jackson is elected to the Hall of Fame.

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