THIS WEEKEND IN SPORTS HISTORY
Saturday
1901 — Cleveland Blues pitcher Bock Baker gives up a record 23 singles as Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland 13-1.
1931 — Program for female athletes approved for 1932 Olympic track and field events.
1934 — Detroit Tigers’ Goose Goslin grounds into four straight double plays.
1956 — Cincinnati Reds’ Frank Robinson hits his first of 586 home runs.
1961 — Milwaukee Braves’ Warren Spahn pitches second no-hitter at age 41, beats San Francisco Giants, 1-0.
1966 — 20th NBA championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3.
1967 — Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and is stripped of boxing title.
1985 — Billy Martin named New York Yankees’ manager for fourth time.
1985 — Fernando Valenzuela sets record of 41 scoreless innings to start season.
1987 — NBA announces expansion to Charlotte, N.C., and Miami, Fla., in 1988, and Minneapolis and Orlando in 1989.
1988 — Baltimore Orioles lose American League record 21 games in a row.
1992 — Milwaukee Brewers beat Toronto Blue Jays 22-2 with American League record 31 hits in 9 innings.
Sunday
1901 — 27th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on His Eminence wins in 2:07.75.
1918 — Tris Speaker ties career outfield record of four unassisted double plays.
1934 — Pittsburgh is last Major League Baseball city to play a home game on a Sunday.
1936 — First pro baseball game in Japan is played; Nagoya defeats Daitokyo, 8-5.
1953 — Joe Adcock is first to homer into Polo Grounds’ centre field bleachers.
1961 — ABC-TV debuts “ABC’s Wide World of Sports,” hosted by Jim McKay.
1962 — Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship.
1981 — Philadelphia Phillies’ Steve Carlton is first lefty to strike out 3,000 batters.
1985 — Tony Tubbs TKOs Greg Page in 15 for heavyweight boxing championship.
1986 — Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox sets the record for the most strikeouts in a nine-inning MLB game, striking out 20 Seattle Mariners.
1988 — Baltimore Orioles beat Chicago White Sox 9-0 for first 1988 win after 21 losses.
1990 — Dan Quisenberry (all-time American League save king, 238) announces his retirement.
1996 — New York Mets pitcher John Franco becomes the first left-hander to record 300 saves.
2006 — Trevor Hoffman appears as a pitcher in his 803rd game for the San Diego Padres, establishing a record for games pitched for any one team.