TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - JULY 29TH

1844 - NY Yacht Club forms.
1874 - Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court.
1899 - Southern California Golf Association forms.
1911 - Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0.
1915 - Pirate Honus Wagner at 41, hits a grand slam HR.
1921 - Cleveland's 125th anniversary celebration: Cy Young, 54, pitches 2 innings.

1925 - Ted Lindsay, Renfrew Ontario, Canadian hockey player is born.

1953 - Ken Burns [Kenneth Lauren], Brooklyn, New York, American director

and documentary film producer (The Civil War, Baseball) is born.

1957 - Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for Heavyweight boxing title.

1961 - Phillies lose 1st of 23 straight games.
1965 - Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10).
1968 - Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1.

1978 - On Old Timer's Day, NY Yankees announce that Billy Martin .

will return as NY Yankee manager in 1980 & Bob Lemon will become GM.

1981 - Anti-apartheid protesters against the Springbok rugby tour are

confronted by police who use batons to stop them marching to

South Africa’s Consul, New Zealand.

1986 - NY jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages.
1988 - Baltimore Orioles trade Mike Boddicker to the

Boston Red Sox for Brady Anderson & Curt Schilling.

1989 - Phillies retire Steve Carlton's # 32.
1989 - White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher & Sam Sosa.

1990 - Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game.
1991 - First Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium (Mets beat Cubs 6-0).

1995 - Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her return to tennis.
1995 - Carolina Panthers beat Jacksonville Jaguars

in their 1st NFL exhibition game 20-14.

2013 - Christian Benítez, Ecuadorian footballer, dies from heart failure at 27.