THIS DAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - OCTOBER 6TH

1882 - First World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0.

1905 - Helen Wills Moody, Centerville, California, American tennis player

(8 Wimbledon titles 1927-1938) is born.

1911 - Cy Young's farewell appearance in a major league game is a 

letdown as he loses to Brooklyn 13-3 in a Braves uniform in his 906th game.
1919 - White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a World Series.
1920 - 1st brothers oppose each other in World Series, Cleveland's

Wheeler Johnston pinch-hits as brother Jimmy plays 3rd base for Brooklyn.

1938 - Yanks Lefty Gomez sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss.

1945 - Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 

of World Series & is escorted out, he casts goat curse on Cubs.

1966 - Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout.

1969 - Walter Hagen, US PGA golfer (US Open 1914, 19), dies at 76.

1983 - NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for Meadowlands.

1991 - Orioles last game at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (vs Detroit Tigers).
1995 - Colorodo Avalanche (former Quebec Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit.

1998 - Mark Belanger, Baltimore Orioles star shortstop
(b. 1944) dies of lung cancer at the age of 54.
2001 - Arne Harris, television sports director for the Chicago Cubs (b. 1934) dies.
2006 - Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (b. 1911) dies.