TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - MAY 1ST

1751 - First American cricket match is played.
1883 - Baseball returns to Phila, 1st NL game since 1876.
1883 - NY Athletic Club hires Bob Rogers as 1st American pro sports trainer.
1891 - Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Cleveland's

League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3.

1901 - Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in American League.
1906 - Phillies' John Lush no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 6-0.

1920 - Babe Ruth's first Yankee HR & 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds.
1920 - Longest major league baseball game by inninngs -

Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings.

1947 - Cleveland Indians abandon League Park to play all games at Municipal Stad.

1948 - 74th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:05.4.
1951 - Mickey Mantle's 1st HR.
1951 - Minnie Minoso becomes the 1st black to play for the White Sox.

1959 - Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for Heavyweight boxing title.
1959 - White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own HR.
1960 - Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis.

1961 - Steven Cauthen, jockey (1978 Kentucky Derby-Affirmed) is born.

1969 - Houston Don Wilson 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 4-0.
1969 - Leonard Tose buys NFL Philadelphia Eagles for $16,155,000.

1981 - Tennis player Billie Jean King acknowledges a lesbian relationship

with Marilyn Barnett - becoming first prominent sportswoman to come out.

1989 - Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days.
1991 - A's Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base vs Yanks.

1991 - Rickey Henderson breaks Lou Brocks record with his 939th steal.
1991 - Texas Ranger Nolan Ryan pitches record 7th no hitter (beats Toronto 3-0).
1992 - LA Dodgers postpone 3 games due to racial riots over Rodney King beating.

1992 - Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th base.

1996 - Gerald Williams is first NY Yankee since 1934 to get 6 hits in a game.

2003 - Miss Elizabeth, American wrestler (b. 1960) died of

"acute toxicity", brought on by a mix of painkillers and vodka.

2012 - Guggenheim Partners make the largest ever purchase of a

sports franchise after buying the Los Angeles Dodgers for $2.1 billion.