Monday, April 22, 2013

THIS DAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - APRIL 22ND

1876 - First NL game, Boston Braves beat Philadelphia Athletics 6-5
 as the Athletics Wes Fisler scores baseball's first run..
1898 - Baltimore James Hughes no-hits Boston Braves 8-0.
1914 - Babe Ruth's first professional game (as a pitcher) is a 6-hit 6-0 win.
1915 - NY Yankees don pinstripes & hat-in-the-ring logo for first time.
1947 - First NBA Championship: Philadelphia Warriors beat Chicago Stags, 4 games to 2.
1955 - KC Athletic's first game, beat Tigers 6-2.
1957 - All NL teams intergates, John Irwin Kennedy is first black on the Phillies.
1959 - Yankee Whitey Ford strikes-out 15, beating Senators, 1-0 in 14 innings.
1959 - Chicago White Sox beat KC Athletics 20-6, in 1 inning 
Sox score 11 runs on 1 hit, 10 walks, & 3 errors.
1982 - Atlanta Braves lose after winning first 13 games of season.
1988 - Women are allowed to compete in Little 500 bicycle race (Indiana).
1988 - NJ Devil Patrik Sundstrom ties NHL playoff record of 
8 points
in a playoff game (hat trick & 5 assists) in 10-4 rout over the Capitals.
1991 - Frank Thomas is first White Sox to homer at new Comiskey Park.
1993 - Seattle Mariner Chris Basio no-hits Boston Red Sox.
1995 - George Foreman beats Axel Schulz in 12 for Heavyweightboxing title.
2004 - Pat Tillman, football player and U.S. Army Ranger (killed in action) (b. 1976).

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