TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - JANUARY 15TH

1892 - Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass

1934 - Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut)
1936 - Horace Stoneham elected president of NY Giants
1939 - 1st NFL Pro Bowl, NY Giants beat All Stars 13-10 in Wrigley Field
1942 - Cubs drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WW II
1942 - FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II

1957 - Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new 3 year lease for Ebbets Field
1958 - NY Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV

1967 - Super Bowl I: Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs,

35-10 in LA Super Bowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, QB

1978 - Super Bowl XII: Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos, 27-10 in N Orleans

Super Bowl MVP: Harvey Martin, Dallas, DE & Randy White, Dallas, DT
1981 - Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame

1984 - Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak

1990 - 42 year old George Foreman KOs Gerry Cooney in 2 rounds in Atlantic City

1997 - Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman, Eugene Amosin the groin