THIS WEEKEND IN SPORTS HISTORY
Saturday
1875 — Matthew Webb becomes first to swim English Channel (21 hours, 45 minutes).
1904 — Jim Jefferies knocks out Jack Munroe and retains boxing heavyweight title.
1921 — New York Yankees’ pitcher Harry Harper hits three batters in an inning, tying record.
1922 — Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring MLB game.
1936 — Three Boston Braves’ players hit twice in an inning getting two hits each.
1946 — Ben Hogan wins the PGA Championship.
1950 — Sugar Ray Robinson knocks out Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title.
1952 — Detroit Tigers’ Virgil Trucks second no-hitter of year, beats New York Yankees, 1-0.
1960 — The Games of the XVII Olympiad open in Rome, Italy.
1967 — Minnesota Twins’ Dean Chance second no-hitter of month beats Cleveland Indians, 2-1.
1968 — New York Yankees’ outfield Rocky Colavito pitches 2 2/3 innings and beats the Detroit Tigers 6-5; he played right field in the second game and hit a home run.
1969 — Detroit Lions beat Boston Patriots 22-9 in Montreal (NFL expo).
1979 — California Angels trounce Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2.
1985 — New York Mets’ Dwight Gooden becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games.
1986 — At Tiger Stadium, Oakland Athletics’ rookie Mark McGwire hits his first major league home run off of Walt Terrell.
2005 — St. Louis Cardinals’ manager Tony LaRussa wins his 2,195th career game, moving into third place in all-time major league history. Sunday
1903 — Philadelphia Phillies walk 17 Brooklyn Dodgers in a game.
1938 — Montreal Maroons hockey team is dropped from the NHL.
1939 — The first MLB game is telecast, a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field.
1955 — First colour telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup).
1961 — Official International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto.
1971 — New York Giants football team announces it’s leaving the Bronx for New Jersey in 1975.
1971 — Baltimore Orioles’ Don Buford strikes out five times in a game.
1972 — The Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich, Germany.
1985 — Baltimore Orioles’ Eddie Murray knocks in nine RBI in a game versus California Angels.
1989 — The Trumbull (Connecticut) All-stars become the first U.S. team to win the Little League World Series since 1983.
1991 — Kansas City Royals’ Brett Saberhagen no-hits Chicago White Sox 7-0.
2002 — The first video-streaming coverage of a Major League Baseball game takes place on the internet. Approximately 30,000 fans visit MLB.com to see the New York Yankees defeat the Texas Rangers, 10-3.