TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - DECEMBER 31ST

1914 - Colonel Jacob Ruppert & Cap Huston purchase NY Yankees for $460,000.
1918 - Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as White Sox manager.

1950 - Jockeys Willie Shoemaker & Joe Culmone set record of 388 wins in a year.

1958 - Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X.
1961 - Green Bay Packers shutout NY Giants 37-0 in NFL Championship game.
1962 - American Basketball League announces suspension of operation.
1963 - Chicago Bears win NFL Championship.

1967 - First NBA game at Great Western Forum, LA Lakers beat Houston 147-118.
1967 - Oakland Raiders beat Houston Oilers 40-7 in AFL championship game.
1967 - "The Ice Bowl", Packers beat Cowboys 21-17

in NFL championship game (-13°F).
1968 - NY Jets win AFL championship.

1972 - Roberto Clemente, slugger (Pittsburgh Pirate), dies in a plane crash at 38.

1972 - Miami Dolphins beat Pittsburgh Steelers 21-7 in AFC Championship game.

1972 - Washington Redskins beat Dallas Cowboys 26-3 in NFC championship game.

1974 - NY Yankees sign Jim "Catfish" Hunter for 5 yrs for a record $3.75 million.

1989 - Jockey Kent Desormeaux sets record with 598 wins in a year.

1990 - George Allen, US football coach (LA Rams, Washington Redskins), dies.
1991 - Daniel R McCarthy elected NY Yankee managing general partner.

1997 - Marv Levy, retires as coach of Buffalo Bills.

2006 - George Sisler, Jr., baseball executive (b. 1917) dies.

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVE 2014

LET'S HAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR.