TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
1857 Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs.
1900 Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in two games.
1930 Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball. 1940 Montreal Canadiens lose record-tying NHL 15th straight game at home.
1940 Ray Steele beats Bronko Nagurski in St. Louis to become wrestling champion.
1950 World Men’s Figure Skating Championship in London, England won by Richard Button (U.S.A.); this is his third consecutive win. 1951 Ezzard Charles wins 15-round heavyweight decision against Jersey Joe Walcott.
1954 Russia wins title in their first international ice hockey competition.
1955 Baseball commissioner Ford Frick says he favours legalization of spitter.
1979 Baseball exhibition season opens with semi-pro and amateur umpires.
1979 Warren Giles and Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame.
1982 Jarmilla Kratochvilova runs world record 400 metre indoor (49.59 seconds).
1982 NCAA Tournament Selection televised live for first time.
1986 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist.
1987 Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith in 12 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
1988 Jim Abbott, one-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E. Sullivan Award.
1990 H. Wayne Huizenga buys half Joe Robbie Stadium and 15 per cent of Miami Dolphins.
1992 Nicole Stevenson swims world record 200 metre backstroke in 2:06.78.
1994 David Platt appointed captain of English football team