TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - JUNE 16TH

1883 - First baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams beat Cleve Spiders 5-2).

1903 - First Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox.
1909 - Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount

(ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals.

1929 - Otto E Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (NY to SF, 4165 miles in 183 days).
1938 - Boston Red Sox Jimmie Foxx is walked a record

6 consecutive times by St Louis Browns.

1957 - White Sox reliever Dixie Howell hits 2 HRs to beat Wash Senators 8-6.

1968 - Lee Trevino is first to play all 4 rounds of golf's US open under par.

1970 - Brian Piccolo, Chicago Bears football player and

the inspiration of the motion picture "Brian's Song", (b. 1943) dies.

1970 - Phil Mickelson, PGA golfer (five-time major winner), born in San Diego, CA.

1977 - Ron Guidry's 1st complete game, 7-0 over KC Royals.

1977 - Kerry Wood, Chicago Cubs star baseball pitcher is born.
1979 - Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit.

1985 - Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58 feet 11 inches) in Indianapolis.

1988 - In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater

on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins.
1989 - Only 17 hole-in-ones recorded since US Open began, today 4 more

are made all on 6th hole (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate & Price).

1992 - Colorado Rockies first Minor League team's (Bend Oregon in Class A) game.
1992 - Red Sox Mark Reardon sets record of 342 saves (vs Yanks 1-0).
1994 - Martin Brodeur becomes first Devil to win Calder Trophy.
1995 - Marlins outfielder Andre Dawson hits his 400th NL career HR (429).

1996 - Mel Allen, American sportscaster (NY Yankees), dies at 83.

1996 - 50th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Seattle Supersonic, 4 games to 2.

2010 - Cam Neely is named President of his former team, the Boston Bruins.
2013 - Golfer, Justin Rose wins the 2013 US Open.

2014 - Tony Gwynn, Hall of Fame, San Diego Padres, 

baseball player, dies from salivary gland cancer at 54.