TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - APRIL 22ND

1876 - First NL game, Boston Braves beat Philadelphia Athletics 6-5.
1876 - Philadelphia Nationals Wes Fisler scores baseball's 1st run.
1898 - Baltimore James Hughes no-hits Boston Braves 8-0.
1906 - 10th anniversary Olympic games open at Athens, Greece.

1914 - Babe Ruth's 1st professional game (as a pitcher) is a 6-hit 6-0 win.
1915 - NY Yankees don pinstripes & hat-in-the-ring logo for 1st time.

1947 - First NBA Championship: Phil. Warriors beat Chicago Stags, 4 games to 2.

1949 - Spencer Haywood, Silver City, MS, NBAer (Oly-gold-1968, Knicks) is born.

1955 - KC Athletic's 1st game, beat Tigers 6-2.

1957 - All NL teams intergates, John Irwin Kennedy is 1st black on Phillies.
1959 - Yankee Whitey Ford strikes-out 15, beating Senators, 1-0 in 14 innings.
1959 - Chicago White Sox beat KC Athletics 20-6, in one inning

Sox score 11 runs on 1 hit, 10 walks, & 3 errors.

1966 - Atlanta Braves win their 1st game, beating NY Mets 8-4.

1969 - Robin Knox-Johnston ends 312 day non-stop sailing.
1970 - NY Met Jerry Grote sets record of 20 put outs by a catcher.
1970 - NY Met Tom Seaver strikes out last 10 Padres, for a total of 19.
1979 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Florida Lady Citrus Golf Tournament.
1981 - Dodgers rookie Fernando Valenzuela tosses his 3rd shutout in 4 starts.

1986 - Marshawn Lynch, Seattle Seahawks star back is born.

1991 - Frank Thomas is first White Sox to homer at new Comiskey Park.
1993 - Seattle Mariner Chris Basio no-hits Boston Red Sox.
1994 - Michael Moorer beats Evander Holyfield in 12 for Heavyweight boxing title.
1995 - George Foreman beats Axel Schulz in 12

for Heavyweight boxing title in Las Vegas.

2004 - Pat Tillman, American football player and

U.S. Army Ranger (killed in action) (b. 1976).

2008 - Ed Chynoweth, Canadian ice hockey executive (b. 1941) dies.

2012 - 30 year old woman collapses and dies during London Marathon.
2013 - Manchester United defeat Aston Villa to claim

the 2012/2013 English Premier League.