TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - JANUARY 29TH

1900 - American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland,

Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee & Minneapolis.
1936 - 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame: Ty Cobb,

Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson.

1948 - Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees,

Cubs, & Phillies $500 each for signing high school players.
1951 - Baseball signs 6 year All-Star pact for TV-radio rights for $6 million.

1964 - Most lopsided high-school basketball score 211-29 (Louisiana).

1964 - NBC purchases AFL 5 year (1965-69) TV rights for $36 million.
1967 - Branch Rickey & Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.

1980 - NBA-Cleveland Cavaliers beat LA Lakers 154-153 in quadruple OT.
1981 - AL approves sale of White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf & Eddie Einhorn

for $20 million, & 80% of Mariners to George Argyros for $104 million.
1982 - Old Dominion ends Louisiana Tech's women's basketball 54-game win streak.
1982 - Wayne Garland, baseball 1st millionaire free agent, waived by Indians.

1985 - Jari Kurri of Edmonton Oilers scores 100th pt of season in game 39.

1989 - Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years

of use NY Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129.

1994 - Ulrike Maier, olympic skier, breaks neck during world cup skiing at 26.

1995 - Super Bowl XXIX: SF 49ers beat San Diego Chargers,

49-26 in Miami, MVP: Steve Young, San Francisco, QB.

2002 - Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b. 1928) dies.
2007 - Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 2003) dies.

2010 - Tom Brookshier, American football player and sportscaster, dies of cancer at 78.