TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - OCTOBER 1ST

1903 - First baseball World Series, Pittsburgh Pirates vs Boston Pilgrims (Red Sox).

1919 - World Series begins as a best of 9 affair, White Sox intentionally

throw this series to satisfy gamblers (Black Sox Scandal).
1922 - Former Chicago Staleys play 1st NFL game as Chicago Bears, win 6-0.
1924 - Landis bans Giants Jimmy O'Connell & Cozy Dolan from World Series

after they admit an attempt to bribe Phils shortstop Heinie Sand.

1932 - World Series moves to Chicago, In 5th inning, Babe Ruth waits

until he has 2 strikes, points & hits next pitch into center field bleachers.

1945 - Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from army.

1945 - Rod Carew, baseball slugger (AL Rookie of Year 1967) is born.

1950 - Phillies win NL pennant on last day of season (10th inning HR).
1951 - First Giant-Dodgers playoff game, Giants win 3-1.
1959 - First World Series since 1948 not to feature a NY team (LA vs Chic).

1961 - Roger Maris sets record of 61 HRs (off of Tracy Stallard).

1963 - Mark McGwire, Pomona California, MLB 1st baseman

(AL rookie of year 1988, Oakland A's, St. Louis Cardinals) is born.

1975 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Joe Frazier in 15 for Heavyweight

boxing title in "The Thrilla in Manila".
1977 - Brazilian soccer great Pele retires with 1,281 goals in 1,363 games.

1984 - Walter Alston, Baseball manager (LA Dodgers), dies at 72.

1984 - Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as 6th commissioner of baseball.

1989 - Dallas Cowboy, Ed "Too Tall" Jones, records his 1,000th NFL tackle.
1993 - Lennox Lewis TKOs Frank Bruno in 7 for Heavyweight boxing title.

1995 - NY Yankees win 1st baseball wildcard ever.
1997 - Carolina Hurricanes 1st game vs Tampa Bay Lightning.
2000 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, the chairman of the IOC declares

the XXVII Olympics in Sydney the "best Olympic Games ever".
2000 - United States retain Basketball's Olympic gold medal defeating France 85-75.
2000 - United States wins the most medals (97), and the most

gold medals (40) in Summer Olympics held in Sydney, Australia.

2004 - Baseball: Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki gets his 258th hit

of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.

2007 - Al Oerter, American discus thrower (b. 1936)

(Olympics-gold-56, 60, 64, 68) dies aged 71.
2014 - Canadian freestyle skier and two-time Olympic

gold medalist Alexandre Bilodeau retires at 27.