Saturday, September 27, 2014

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - SEPTEMBER 27TH

1881 - Chicago Cubs beat Troy 10-8 before record small "crowd" of 12.
1905 - Boston's Bill Dinneen no-hits Chicago White Sox, 2-0.
1919 - Babe Ruth's 29th HR is 1st of year in Wash
(1st in every park in league in one season).
1923 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 1st of his 493 HRs.
1935 - Chicago Cubs win 21st consecutive game & clinch NL pennant.
1936 - 1st baseman Walter Alston plays in his only major league game.
1939 - White Sox host 1st "day-night" doubleheader, lose to Cleve, 5-2 & 7-5.
1949 - Mike Schmidt, Dayton Ohio, MLB third baseman & HR hitter (Phillies) is born.
1953 - St Louis Browns play last game in Sportsman's Park, losing 100th game.
1956 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias, Hall of Fame athlete, dies of colon cancer at 45.
1973 - Nolan Ryan strikes out 16 in 11 innings, for record 383 of season.
1980 - Marvin Hagler defeats Alan Minter to claim boxing's world Middleweight
championship in London. They have to be escorted away by police after a riot forms.
1983 - Tim Raines is 1st since Ty Cobb to steal 70 & drive in 70 runs.
1992 - LA Dodgers for 1st time in history clinch last place.
1998 - Doak Walker, American football player (b. 1927) dies.
2005 - Atlanta Braves clinch their 14th straight division title
thanks to Philadelphia's loss to the New York Mets.
2010 - George Blanda, American football player (b. 1927) dies.

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