TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - JANUARY 22ND

1857 - National Association of Baseball Players founded, NY.

1957 - Mike Bossy, Montreal Quebec, NHL forward

(NY Islanders), 1st 50 goals in 50 game is born.

1960 - Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson for middleweight boxing title.

1968 - Duke Kahanamoku, 100m swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-12, 20, 24), dies at 77.

1968 - NBA announces it will expand to Milwaukee & Phoenix.
1969 - Roy Campanella & Stan Musial elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.

1973 - George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in 2 for heavyweight boxing title.

1979 - Ali Hassan Salameh, [Abu Hassan], killed by car bomb;

believed to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes.
1980 - PGA begins a senior golf tour.

1984 - Super Bowl XVIII: LA Raiders beat Washington Redskins,

38-9 in Tampa Super Bowl MVP: Marcus Allen, LA Raiders, RB.
1987 - Blizzard in NJ, as 334 attend Devils-Flame NHL game, NJ wins 7-5.

1988 - Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight boxing title.
1989 - Super Bowl XXIII: San Francisco 49ers beat Cincinnati Bengals

20-16 in Miami Super Bowl MVP: Jerry Rice, San Francisco, WR.
1989 - After winning his third Super Bowl as head coach

of the San Fransisco 49ers, Bill Walsh retires.
1990 - Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with SF Giants.

1993 - Charlie Gehringer, baseball player, dies at 89.

1998 - NHL's Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild.
1998 - Rickey Henderson, rejoins Oakland A's for 4th time.
1998 - World League of American Football renamed as NFL Europe.