TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - SEPTEMBER 24TH

1903 - Bill Bradley becomes 1st Cleveland baseball player

(Cleveland Naps) to hit for cycle.
1906 - St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game.
1919 - Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey.

1921 - Jim McKay, Phila Pa, sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports) is born.
1927 - NHL's Toronto St Patricks become Maple Leafs.
1930 - Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights.
1931 - Round-robin playoff among NYC's 3 major league teams,

to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants & Yanks.
1934 - 2,500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium.

1938 - Don Budge becomes 1st tennis player to win a grand slam.

1941 - John Mackey, NFL tight end (Baltimore Colts, San Diego Chargers) is born.
1946 - "Mean" Joe Greene, NFL tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers), Coke spokesman is born.
1946 - Yanks set season attendance record of 2,309,029 besting 1929 Cubs.
1953 - Rocky Marciano TKOs Roland LaStarza in 11 for Heavyweight boxing title.
1957 - Brooklyn Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0.

1968 - NY Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack.

1973 - St Louis Cards Jim Bakken sets NFL record kicking 7 field goals.
1977 - Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards.

1979 - Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time.
1980 - Braves join every NL team with 1,000,000+ attendance for this season.
1982 - Tennis great Bjorn Borg retires at 26.
1983 - Braves Dale Murphy is 6th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in season.

1984 - Cubs clinch NL East title.
1985 - Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th),

and joins Willey McCovey to hit 2 HRs in an inn twice.

1991 - Deion Sanders, left Braves July 31 to report to NFL Falcons, returns.