TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - OCTOBER 28TH

1890 - Last NL-AA World Series game Bkln ties Louisville 3 games & 1 tie
1900 - After over 5 months second Olympic games in Paris, France, close

1924 - White Sox beat NY Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend

1926 - Bowie Kuhn, baseball commissioner (1969-1984) is born

1937 - Lenny Wilkins, NBA player/coach (Seattle, Cleveland, Atlanta) is born

1949 - Bruce Jenner, Mt Kisco NY, decathalete (Olympic-gold-1976) is born

1952 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Women's Texas Golf Open
1953 - Red Barber, resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees
1954 - Major league owners vote down sale of A's to a Phila syndicate

1959 - Buffalo Bills enter AFL
1961 - Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for NY Mets
1962 - NY Giant YA Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash Redskins (49-34)
1970 - NBA Cleveland Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99

1976 - Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (NY Yankees)

1989 - Oakland A's sweep SF Giants in earthquake/BART series

1997 - NBA announces hiring of Dee Kantner & Violet Palmer as 1st

women to officiate a major-league all-male sports league

2006 - Red Auerbach, American basketball coach

and executive, dies of a heart attack at 89