TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - AUGUST 1ST

1901 - Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (d. 1925) is born.

1919 - Treffers soccer team forms in Groesbeek.
1920 - Papendrecht soccer team forms.
1928 - Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 & is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace.
1936 - Adolf Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin.

1942 - Deurne soccer team forms.
1945 - Mel Ott is first in NL to hit 500th HR (joins Babe Ruth & Jimmy Foxx).
1945 - SVBO soccer team forms in Barger-Oosterveld.
1947 - Valleivogels soccer team forms in Scherpenzeel.
1950 - First Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons).
1953 - Red Sox Ben Flowers sets then record of 8 consecutive games in relief.
1954 - Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France.
1957 - Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam (Last by Bkln).
1957 - Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10").
1959 - New Continental baseball league formed.
1962 - Boston Red Sox Bill Monboquette no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0.

1976 - Seattle Seahawks play first (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20).
1977 - SF Giant Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th grand slammer.
1978 - Braves stop Reds Pete Rose's hitting streak at 44 games.

1982 - Greg Louganis, US becomes first diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives.
1987 - Mike Tyson beat Tony Tucker in 12 for Heavyweight boxing title.

1990 - Stanton Cook becomes CEO of Chicago Cubs.
1991 - Italian/Argentine Soccer star Diego Maradona retires.

1993 - Ewing Kaufman, founder/owner (KC Royals), dies of lung cancer at 76.
1993 - Reggie Jackson enshrined in Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.

2001 - Korey Stringer, (b. 1974) died as a result of complications after suffering from

heat stroke during the Minnesota Vikings 2001 preseason training camp.

2012 - 8 Women's Badminton doubles players are disqualified from the

2012 summer Olympics for "not using one's best efforts to win a match".