1844 - First US yacht club organized, NY Yacht Club.
1874 - First baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Philadelphia in British Isles.
1874 - First baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Philadelphia in British Isles.
1890 - Casey Stengel, baseball manager (Yankees (1949-60)/NY Met's 1st) is born.
1909 - John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League.
1909 - John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League.
1932 - 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles.
1934 - Bud Selig, owner (Milwaukee Brewers)/acting baseball commissioner is born.
1954 - Bob Kennedy hits the first grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles.
1958 - Daley Thompson, London, Decathalete (Olympic-gold-1980, 1984) is born.
1959 - In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4.
1973 - Texas Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits 1st-place Oakland, 6-0.
1978 - Expos crush Braves, 19-0, collecting 28 hits & NL-record-tying 8 HRs.
1982 - Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats.
1990 - George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent
to resign as prinicipal partner of NY Yankees.
1995 - Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter basaeball's Hall of Fame.
2007 - Bill Walsh, American football coach (b. 1931) dies.
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