TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY

1900 Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 3 games to 1.

1915 Frank (Home Run) Baker, 28, announces retirement following a contract dispute with Connie Mack; he sits out the whole 1915 season.

1936 IV Olympic Winter Games close in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

1950 Writers fail to elect anyone to Baseball’s Hall of Fame.

1952 Hall of Famer Honus Wagner, age 77, retires; Pittsburgh Pirates retire his No. 33.

1967 Red Ruffing selected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1970 Joe Frazier knocks out Jimmy Ellis in five rounds for undisputed heavyweight boxing crown.

1972 First NBA player to score 30,000 points (Wilt Chamberlain in 940 games).

1984 Bill Johnson becomes first American to win Olympic downhill skiing gold.

1985 Livingston Bramble defeats Ray (Boom Boom) Mancini to win WBA champion.

1989 Roger Clemens, Boston Red Sox pitcher signs record US$7.5million, three-year contract.

1991 U.S. female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding.

1992 Los Angeles Lakers retire Magic Johnson’s No. 32 uniform. 1993 Sandra Völker swims world record 50-metre backstroke in 28.33 seconds.

1994 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 1,500 metre in 1:51.29. 1997 At age 25, Jeff Gordon is youngest winner in Daytona 500 history.

2005 The National Hockey League cancels its 2004-2005 season, becoming the first North American professional league to cancel a season due to a labour dispute.

Bill Johnson, who died at age 55 in January 2016 after years of failing health including a series of strokes, became the first American to win an Olympic downhill gold medal, in Sarajevo, 34 years ago today.