Sunday, July 27, 2014

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - JULY 27TH

1945 - Cubs purchase pitcher Hank Borowy from NY Yankees.
1946 - Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs.
1959 - William Shea announces plans to have a baseball team in NYC in 1961.
1970 - Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game.
1973 - 40th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Miami 14, All Stars 3 (54,103).
1973 - Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners.
1983 - Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan & Steve Carlton to reach 3,500
career strikeouts this season, he also wins his first game as a Royal.
1984 - Reds' Pete Rose collects record 3,053rd career single (vs Phila).
1985 - Joseph "Smoky Joe" Wood, pitcher (Boston Red Sox), dies at 95.
1986 - Greg Lemond is 1st American to win Tour de France.
1987 - Travis Jackson, baseball player (NY Giants), dies at 83.
1988 - Tommy John commits record 3 errors on 1 play as Yanks rout Brewers 16-3.
1992 - Astros begins 26-game road trip to make
room for Republican National Convention.
1993 - NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million.
1993 - NY Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games.
1993 - Reggie Lewis, NBA star (Boston Celtics), dies of heart failure at 27.
1996 - Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured.
1997 - Detroit Tigers retire pitching great Hal Newhouser's #16.
2010 - Jack Tatum, American football player (b. 1948) dies.

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