TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - OCTOBER 8TH

1818 - Two English boxers are first to use padded gloves.

1915 - Phillies win their 1st & only World Series game before 1980,

beating Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally.

1917 - Danny Murtaugh, baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates) is born.

1938 - Walter Gretzky, father of Wayne Gretzky is born.

1951 - Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of

baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League.
1953 - Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars

from playing there Robinson gives in & drops white players from his group.
1956 - Don Larsen, NY, pitches only perfect World Series game, vs Brooklyn.
1957 - Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles.

1958 - Braves Eddie Mathews strikes out for World Series record 11th time.

1960 - Bobby Richarson hits a World Series grand slammer.

1965 - Matt Biondi, US 100m swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-84, 88, 92) is born.

1972 - Harold Carmichael begins NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions.

1978 - Jim Gilliam, coach (LA Dodgers), dies at 49 of a massive brain hemorrhage

that he suffered on September 15th at his home.

1981 - USAC appeals panel restores disputed Indy 500 victory to Bobby Unser.
1982 - NJ Devils 1st victory, beating NY Rangers 3-2 at Meadowlands.

1992 - Ottawa Sentors 1st NHL game.
1995 - Dolphin's Dan Marino breaks Fran Tarkenton's NFL career completions record.

2002 - Jacques Richard, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952) while driving

home from his 50th birthday party, Richard was killed in a single-vehicle accident

when he drove his car into a culvert.