TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - APRIL 2ND

1907 - Luke Appling, American baseball player (d. 1991) is born.
1908 - Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday.
1927 - Billy Pierce, pitcher (Chicago White Sox) seven time all star is born.

1931 - Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig in an

exhibition game in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1935 - Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer.

1936 - Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver

(F1 champ 1959, 1960, 1966),  is born in Hurstville, NSW (d. 2014).
1938 - Whirlaway, American thoroughbred racehorse,

1941 Triple Crown Winner (d. 1953) is born.

1955 - Pancho Gonzales retains tennis title by winning a

tournament playing under table tennis rules.

1969 - Milwaukee Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor).

1972 - Gil Hodges, manager (NY Mets), dies of heart attack at 57.
1976 - A's trade prospective free agents Reggie Jackson & Ken Holtzman,

to Orioles for Don Baylor, Mike Torrez & Paul Mitchell.
1977 - Mont Canadiens set NHL record of 34 straight home games without a lose.

1980 - Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season.

1995 - Owners accept baseball players proposal, agree to start season 4/26.
1995 - Wrestlemania XI in Conn-Lawrence Taylor defeats Bam Bam Bigelow.

2010 - Mike Cuellar, Cuban baseball player (b. 1937) dies of stomach cancer

at the Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando, Florida.
2010 - Chris Kanyon, American wrestler (b. 1970) dies at his NY apartment

with an empty bottle of antidepressants. Kanyon had been suffering from

bipolar disorder and threatened suicide in the weeks prior to his death.