TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - JULY 27TH

1906 - Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager

(Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants), born in West Springfield, Massachusetts.

1913 - Belgian Philippe Thys wins Tour de France.

1945 - Cubs purchase pitcher Hank Borowy from NY Yankees.
1946 - Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs.

1948 - Peggy Fleming Jenkins, figure skater (Olym-gold-1968), born in San Jose, CA.

1959 - William Shea announces plans to have a baseball team in NYC in 1961.

1973 - 40th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Miami 14, All Stars 3 (54,103).
1973 - Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners.

1982 - California catches A's Rickey Henderson stealing 3 times.
1983 - Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan & Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career

strikeouts this season, he also wins his 1st game as a Royal.
1984 - Reds' Pete Rose collects record 3,053rd career single (vs Phila).

1985 - Joseph "Smoky Joe" Wood, pitcher (Boston Red Sox), dies at 95.

1986 - Greg LeMond is 1st American to win Tour de France.

1987 - Travis Jackson, baseball player (NY Giants), dies at 83.
1988 - Baseball star Tommy John commits record 3 errors

on 1 play as Yankees rout Brewers 16-3.

1992 - Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Rep Natl Convention.
1993 - NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million.
1993 - NY Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games.

1993 - Reggie Lewis, NBA star (Boston Celtics), dies of heart failure at 27.

1996 - Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured.

1997 - Detroit Tigers retire pitching great Hal Newhouser's #16.

2010 - Jack Tatum, American football player (b. 1948) dies.

2012 - Queen Elizabeth II announces the opening of the

London 2012 Olympics at the opening ceremony.
2014 - Vincenzo Nibali of Italy wins the Tour de France.