TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - JULY 12TH

1901 - Cy Young wins his 300th game.

1928 - 1st televised tennis match.
1930 - 34th US Golf Open: Robert T "Bobby" Jones wins.

1931 - 45,715 fans in 35,000 seat Sportsman Park St Louis, help cause

many ground ruled doubles, 11 in 1st game & 21 in 2nd game for 32.

1945 - Cubs stop Braves Tommy Holmes modern-day NL hitting streak at 37 games.

1949 - Baseball owners agree to erect warning paths before each fence.
1949 - LA Rams sign Norm Van Brocklin.

1949 - Rick Hendrick, American NASCAR team owner, and car dealer. is born.
1950 - ILTF re-admit Germany & Japan in Davis Cup, Poland & Hungary withdraws.
1951 - NY Yankees Allie Reynolds no-hits Cleve Indians, 8-0.
1954 - Major Le ague Baseball Players Association founded.

1979 - "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park, causes fans to go

wild & causes White Sox to forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to Tigers.

1987 - Phillies Kent Tekulve pitches his 900th game in relief.

1989 - NY Yankee pitching great Ron Guidry retires (170-91 .651, 3.29 ERA).
1990 - Chicago White Sox Melido Perez no-hits Yankees 8-0 in a rain

shortened 6 inning game at Yankee Stadium (7th no-hitter of 1990).

1996 - Kirby Puckett, retires from Minnesota Twins.
1996 - Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million.
1997 - Cubs play in their 5,000th consecutive gane with out being no-hit.
1997 - Pirates Francisco Cordova & Ricardo Rincon no-hit Astros 3-0 in 10 inn.

2008 - Bobby Murcer, center fielder for the New York Yankees,

San Francisco Giants, and Chicago Cubs from 1965-1983(b. 1946) dies.