THIS DAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - JULY 4TH

1908 - NY Giant George "Hooks" Witse no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 in 10 inn.

1911 - White Sox Ed Walsh stops Ty Cobb's 40-game hitting streak.

1918 - Johnnie Parsons, American race car driver (d. 1984) is born.

1919 - Cincinnati Reds are 10½ games back in NL, & win World Series.

1929 - Al Davis, Brocton Mass, American businessman and 

NFL team owner LA Raiders, (d. 2011) is born.

1930 - George Steinbrenner, Rocky River Ohio, owner 

(NY Yankees)/ship builder/horse owner, (d. 2010) is born.

1938 - First game at Shribe Park, Phila; Braves beat Phillies 10-5.
1939 - Red Sox Jim Tabor hits 2 grand slams in 1 game.
1939 - Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day.

1947 - Morganna Roberts, Louisville Ky, (Baseball's kissing bandit) is born.

1950 - Braves Sid Gordon ties season grand slam record with 4.

1960 - Mickey Mantle is 18th to hit 300 HRs.

1982 - 96th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe (36 63 67 76 64).

1984 - NY Yankee Phil Niekro is 9th to strikeout 3,000.

1989 - Red's Tom Browning is 3 outs away from his 2nd career 

perfect game when Phillie Dickie Thon doubles.

1995 - Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez, tennis great, dies of stomach cancer at 67.

2005 - Hank Stram, American football coach (b. 1923).

2009 - Steve McNair, former football star fatally shot by mistress 

in a murder-suicide incident (b. 1973).