TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - MAY 30TH

1894 - Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 HRs in 1 baseball game.

1911 - First Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 74.59 MPH (120 KPH).

1922 - Cubs swap Max Flack for Cards Cliff Heathcote during middle

of doubleheader. Both play for both teams that day.

1927 - Walter Johnson records 113th & last shutout of his career.

1935 - Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies.

1937 - 20th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pittsburgh FC Aspinwall PA.
1937 - 61,756, 2nd-largest crowd in Polo Grounds history, sees Dodgers

ends Carl Hubbell's consecutive-game winning streak at 24.

1939 - Floyd Roberts, Auto racer, killed during 1939 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1904).

1943 - Gale Sayers, Wichita Kansas, NFL running back (Chicago Bears) is born.

1946 - Braves Bernard Malamud HR shatters Bulova clock in Ebbets Field.

1948 - Schenectady Blue Jays Tom Lasorda strikes out 25 in 15-inning game.

1949 - P.J. Carlesimo, American basketball coach is born.
1951 - Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in 15 for Heavyweight boxing title.

1953 - 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2.

1955 - Jake "The Snake" Roberts, American wrestler is born.

1956 - Mickey Mantle misses by 18" hitting 1st HR out of Yankee Stadium.

1967 - Yankee Whitey Ford, nearing 41, announces his retirement from baseball.

1970 - Baseball All-Star voting is returned to fans.
1971 - Willie Mays hits his 638th HR, sets NL record of 1,950 runs scored.

1981 - LA Dodgers are quickest to get 1,000,000 attendence (22 games).

1982 - Closest Indy 500, Gordon Johncock beats Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds.

1984 - NL suspends Mario Soto 5 days for Reds-Cubs fight on May 27th.
1986 - Bobby Rahal is 1st to average over 170 mph in Indianapolis 500.
1986 - Barry Bonds makes his MLB debut for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1987 - Mike Tyson TKOs Pinklon Thomas in 6 for Heavyweight boxing title.
1987 - Tony Tucker TKOs Buster Douglas in 10 for heavyweight boxing title.
1992 - Minn Twin Bert Blyleven is 2nd to win as teenager & 40 year old.
1992 - NY Yankee Scott Sanderson becomes 9th to beat all 26 teams.

1997 - Ken Dryden becomes president of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs.

2012 - Jack Twyman, American Hall of Fame basketball player,

dies from complications from blood cancer at 78.