TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - JANUARY 29TH

1918 - William Rigney, baseball manager (SF Giants) is born.

1936 - First players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame-Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, 

Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson.
1948 - Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs, 

& Phillies $500 each for signing high school players.
1951 - Baseball signs 6 year All-Star pact for TV-radio rights for $6 million.

1964 - Most lopsided high-school basketball score 211-29 (Louisiana).
1964 - NBC purchases AFL 5 year (1965-69) TV rights for $36 million.
1967 - Branch Rickey & Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.

1981 - AL approves sale of White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf & Eddie Einhorn 

for $20 million, & 80% of Mariners to George Argyros for $104 million.
1982 - Old Dominion ends La Tech's women's basketball rec 54-game win streak.
1982 - Wayne Garland, baseball first millionaire free agent, waived by Indians.

1985 - Jari Kurri of Edmonton Oilers scores 100th pt of season in game 39.

1989 - Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use 

NY Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129.

1995 - Super Bowl XXIX: SF 49ers beat San Diego Chargers, 

49-26 in Miami, MVP: Steve Young, San Francisco, QB.

2002 - Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b. 1928) dies.
2007 - Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 2003) dies.