TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
1894 — Bobby Lowe is first to hit four home runs in one baseball game.
1904 — Frank Chance gets hit by pitch five times in a doubleheader. 1913 — John McGraw joins Fred Clarke, Cap Anson, Frank Selee, and Connie Mack as Major League Baseball managers who have won 1,000 games.
1922 — Chicago Cubs swap Max Flack for St. Louis Cardinals Cliff Heathcote during the middle of a doubleheader. Both play for both teams that day.
1925 — Peter DePaolo becomes first man to average over 100 m.p.h. at Indianapolis 500.
1927 — Walter ‘Big Train’ Johnson records the 113th and last shutout of his career.
1935 — In Babe Ruth’s final Major League Baseball game, he goes hitless for Boston Braves against Philadelphia Phillies. Ruth played 22 seasons, winning 10 World Series and hitting 714 home runs. 1937 — 20th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pittsburgh FC in Aspinwall. Pennsylvania.
1937 — 61,756, second-largest crowd in Polo Grounds history, sees Brooklyn Dodgers end Carl Hubbell’s consecutive-game winning streak at 24 over two seasons. 1938 — New York Yankees sweep Boston Red Sox 10-0 and 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium. 1942 — Satchel Paige pitches five innings to defeat Dizzy Dean AllStars 8-1.
1946 — Boston Braves’ Bernard Malamud’s home run shatters the Bulova clock in Ebbets Field.
1953 — First Major League Baseball TV network game: Cleveland Indians 7, Chicago White Sox 2.
1966 — Graham Hill wins Indianapolis 500 car race (232.2 kph).
1971 — Willie Mays hits his 638th home run, setting National League record of 1,950 runs scored.
1979 — Nottingham Forrest wins 24th Europe Cup 1 at Munich, Germany.
1982 — Indianapolis 500: 1973 winner Gordon Johncock wins his second race over 1979 winner Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds, the closest finish to date.
1983 — American League president Lee MacPhail suspends New York Yankees’ owner George Steinbrenner for one week, for his public criticism of umpires.
1984 — Liverpool wins 29th Europe Cup 1 in Rome, Italy.
1985 — NHL Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4 games to 1.
1986 — Bobby Rahal is first to average over 170 m.p.h. in the Indianapolis 500.
1987 — Mike Tyson TKOs Pinklon Thomas in six rounds for World Boxing Council heavyweight boxing title.
1996 — Albert Belle uses a forearm to break up a double-play and nearly breaks Milwaukee Brewers’ second baseman Fernando Vina’s nose. Belle gets a two-game suspension.
1997 — Ken Dryden becomes president of NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs. 2010 — Roy Halladay of the Philadelphia Phillies pitches the 20th perfect game in Major League Baseball history, defeating the Florida Marlins 1-0.
2010 — Dario Franchitti of Scotland wins his second Indy 500.