TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
1920 U.S. National Negro Baseball League is organized.
1937 NFL Boston Redskins move to Washington D.C.
1952 Rocky Marciano defeats Lee Savold for his 39th straight win. 1953 Philadelphia Athletics change name of Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium.
1954 Frank Selvey scores 100 points (basketball) for Furman beating Newberry 149-95.
1965 U.S. female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming.
1971 U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew hits two tee shots into the crowd, injuring two.
1972 XI Olympic Winter Games close in Sapporo, Japan.
1974 James (Cool Papa) Bell is named to the Baseball Hall of Fame. 1976 Dorothy Hamill wins Olympics figure-skating gold in Innsbruck, Austria.
1977 Eric Heiden is first American to win world speed skating championship.
1980 The XIII Olympic Winter Games open in Lake Placid, N.Y. 1982 New York Islanders’ Bryan Trottier scores five goals against the Philadelphia Flyers.
1983 World Boxing Council becomes first to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds.
1987 Detroit Tigers’ pitcher Jack Morris awarded US$1.85-million salary by arbitrator, the highest arbitration award to date.
1988 The XV Olympic Winter Games open in Calgary.
1989 Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to two years in prison.
1990 Larry Bird (Boston Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games.
2006 Adam Dunn and the Cincinnati Reds agreed to a US$18.5million, two-year deal.