TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - SEPTEMBER 30TH

1904 - White Sox lefty Doc White, pitches his 5th shutout in 18 days.
1915 - Red Sox clinch AL pennant by beating Detroit.
1916 - Giants lose to Braves 8-3, ends 26 consecutive win streak.
1927 - Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th HR (off Tom Zachary).
1934 - Babe Ruth's final game as a Yankee, goes 0 for 3.
1939 - First televised College Football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at NYC).
1939 - White Sox reliever Clint Brown sets record of 61st relief appearance.

1956 - White Sox Jim Derrington, 16, is youngest to start a game (he loses).

1962 - NY Mets lose record 120th game as Cubs turn triple play & beat NY 5-1.
1968 - AL & NL umpires form a new Association of Major League Umpires.

1973 - Mel Gray begins NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions.
1978 - Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati.
1978 - Phillies clinch NL East title.
1978 - Cleveland, Houston, NY, Philadelphia & Pittsburgh Phillies

win 3rd consecutive NL East Division title.
1979 - Milwaukee Brewers lose 5-0 ending 213 straight games without a shutout.

1980 - A's Rickey Henderson sets AL stolen base record at 98 en route to 100.

1980 - Martina Hingis, Kosice Slovakia, tennis star (1997 Aust/US/Wimb) is born.

1984 - Bowie Kuhn ends career as Baseball Commissioner.
1984 - California Angel Mike Witt, is 11th to pitch

a perfect game defeating the Texas Rangers, 1-0.
1984 - NY Yankee Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 avg.

1990 - Chicago White Sox beat Seattle 2-1 in last game at Comiskey Park.
1992 - KC Royal George Brett gets 4 hits to become 18th to get 3,000 hits.

1997 - Yankees Tim Raines, Derek Jeter & Paul O'Neill are 1st to hit

3 consecutively homers in post season (Yankees beat Indians 8-6).

1998 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball pitcher, dies at 45 of brain cancer.