1907 - St Louis Card Ed Karger pitches perfect game vs Braves, 4-0 in 7 inn.
1919 - Green Bay Packers football club founded.
1928 - Carl Hubbell's 1st major league victory is a 4-0 shutout of Phillies.
1919 - Green Bay Packers football club founded.
1928 - Carl Hubbell's 1st major league victory is a 4-0 shutout of Phillies.
1929 - Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers (off Willis Hudlin of Cleveland).
1950 - Hitting just .279, Yank great Joe DiMaggio is benched for 1st time.
1951 - First color baseball game (Braves vs Dodgers) telecast (WCBS-NYC).
1951 - First color baseball game (Braves vs Dodgers) telecast (WCBS-NYC).
1953 - Hulk Hogan, [Terry Bollea], Augusta Ga,
WWF Heavyweight champion (1984-89) is born.
1961 - Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1.
1962 - Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Wills down.
1962 - Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Wills down.
1968 - Satchel Paige, 62, & needing 158 days on a major league
payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves.
1970 - Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues.
1980 - Yanks Reggie Jackson hits his 400th HR off Chicago's Britt Burns.
1984 - 101,799 fans at soccer match Brazil vs France.
1984 - Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform.
1984 - 101,799 fans at soccer match Brazil vs France.
1984 - Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform.
1990 - NY Yankee Kevin Maas is fastest to get 13 HRs (110 at bats).
1993 - Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out (Danny Tartabul-NY).
2003 - Herb Brooks, Ice hockey coach of the "Miracle on Ice"
Olympic Hockey team (b. 1937) dies.
2009 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of Special Olympics,
2009 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of Special Olympics,
sister of John F. Kennedy (b. 1921) dies.
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