TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
1908 Baseball Writers Association forms.
1920 Cleveland Indians’ Bill Wambsganns makes first unassisted World Series triple play.
1920 Cleveland Indians’ Elmer Smith hits the first World Series grand slam.
1921 NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10.
1923 New York Giants and New York Yankees become first teams to play each other for three consecutive World Series, also first played at Yankee Stadium.
1924 Washington Senators win their first World Series, beating New York Giants in seven games.
1926 St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees, four games to three in the 23rd World Series.
1931 St. Louis Cardinals beat Philadelphia Athletics, four games to three in the 28th World Series.
1937 New York Yankees beat New York Giants four games to one in the 34th World Series.
1945 Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, four games to three in the 42nd World Series.
1951 New York Yankees beat New York Giants four games to two in World Series, Joe DiMaggio’s final game.
1957 Milwaukee Braves beat New York Yankees, four games to three in the 54th World Series.
1960 Ron Stewart of the Ottawa Rough Riders rushes for a Canadian Football League-record 287 yards.
1964 The Games of the XVIII Olympiad open in Tokyo, Japan.
1968 Detroit Tigers beat St. Louis Cardinals, four games to three in the 65th World Series.
1968 St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson sets mark for total strikeouts in a World Series, 35.
1976 Greece’s 98-year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis is the oldest man to compete in a marathon. He finishes in 7:33.
1979 Quebec Nordiques’ Real Cloutier sets NHL record by scoring a hat trick in first game.