TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - SEPTEMBER 2ND

490 - Pheidippides, Greek hero and inspiration for the modern marathon dies.

1850 - Albert Spaulding, baseball player/founded Spaulding sports company is born.

1901 - Adolph Rupp, American college basketball coach (d. 1977) is born.

1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Lang in 6 for Heavyweight boxing title.
1916 - Dorothy May Bundy-Cheney, American tennis player

(141 US tennis titles), born in LA, CA, (d. 2014) is born.

1919 - National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series.

1927 - Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers.

1937 - Peter Ueberroth, organized LA Olympics (1984)/baseball commissioner is born.

1948 - Terry Bradshaw, NFL QB (Pittsburgh Steelers)/announcer (CBS, FOX) is born.
1952 - [James] Jimmy Connors, St. Louis Illinois,

US tennis champion (US Open-78, 82, 83 Wimbledon-74, 82) is born.
1956 - Orioles trailing Red Sox 8-0 come back to win 11-10 in 9 innings.
1957 - Milwaukee Braves' Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game.
1960 - Tamara & Irina Press (USSR) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold.

1960 - Eric Dickerson, TX, NFL halfback (LA Rams, Colts/2,105 yds in '84) is born.
1962 - Stan Musial's 3,516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place.

1965 - Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th HR (off Curt Simmons).

1965 - Lennox Lewis, heavyweight boxer

(Olympic-gold-1988, WBC boxing champ), born in London, England is born.
1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf.
1969 - NY Yankee Joe Pepitone is reinstated.
1970 - First tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (US Open) (9 pt sudden death).
1971 - Chris Evert & Jimmy Connors win their 1st US Open tennis matches.
1972 - Chicago Cub Milt Pappas no-hits SD Padres, 1-0.

1978 - Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years.

1989 - A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commisioner, dies at 51.

1995 - Frank Bruno beats Oliver McCall in 12 for Heavyweight boxing title.