TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
1869 — Heavy rain postpones the Red Stockings baseball game against the Anioch Nine; first rainout in professional baseball.
1942 — 25th PGA Championship: Sam Snead wins at Seaview CC in Atlantic City, N.J.
1948 — Tommy Lasorda strikes out 25 Amsterdam Rugmakers (in 15 innings).
1949 — 31st PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Hermitage Country Club, Richmond, Va.
1949 — Charley Lupica begins stay on platform atop a 60-foot pole, vowing to stay until Cleveland Indians clinch pennant. (They don’t, and he comes down 117 days later.)
1950 — Due to rain, Indianapolis 500 shortened to 345 miles, Johnny Parson wins.
1956 — Mickey Mantle home run just misses, by 18 inches, of clearing Yankee Stadium’s roof.
1967 — Bayern München wins 7th Europe Cup II at Neurenberg.
1975 — Fred Newman makes 12,874 baskets in a one-day basketball exhibition.
1983 — 37th NBA Championship: Philadelphia 76ers sweep Los Angeles Lakers in four games.
1985 — New Orleans Saints franchise is sold for US$70,204,000. 1986 — The 1986 FIFA World Cup begins in Mexico.
1987 — Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4 games to 3.
1996 — FIFA decides to give the FIFA World Cup 2002 to Japan and South Korea, becoming the first World Cup with co-host countries in the history of the event, as well as the first World Cup in Asia. 1997 — Canadian Donovan Bailey beats American Michael Johnson in 150-metre race.
2002 — The 2002 FIFA World Cup begins, co-hosted by South Korea and Japan.
2008 — Usain Bolt of Jamaica sets a world record of 9.72 seconds in the 100-metre sprint at the Reebok Grand Prix at Icahn Stadium in New York.