THANKSGIVING WEEKEND IN SPORTS HISTORY
Saturday
1908 — New York Yankees lose 100th game of the year (will go 51-103 for season).
1926 — Babe Ruth hits three home runs in a World Series game, New York Yankees beat St. Louis Cardinals 10-5 (World Series No. 23).
1966 — Baltimore Orioles’ player Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout (World Series No. 63).
1977 — New York Yankees win American League pennant by rallying for three runs in 9th to beat Kansas City Royals 5-3 in 5th and deciding playoff game.
1978 — Kansas City Royals’ George Brett hits three home runs, but New York Yankees win championship Game 3, 6-5.
1983 — New York Islander’s Mike Bossy’s 25th career hat trick.
1985 — New York Yankees’ Phil Niekro becomes the 18th pitcher to win 300 games and also at 46 becomes the oldest to pitch a shutout, beating the Toronto Blue Jays, 8-0. 1993 — After nine years of playing in the NBA, Michael Jordan retires from basketball. 2001 — The Seattle Mariners tie the 1906 Chicago Cubs with 116 wins in a single season for winningest team in major league history. Sunday
1916 — In Lebanon, Tenn., Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided victory in American college football.
1952 — New York Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series; New York Yankees tie their own record of four consecutive World Series wins.
1964 — New York Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 and 29th in 61st World Series.
1965 — 50 m.p.h. gust carries 165-pound Robert Mitera’s tee shot 447 yards to score the world’s longest straight hole-in-one at Miracle Hills in Omaha, Neb.
1978 — The Los Angeles Dodgers win their second straight National League pennant. 1984 — Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL’s career rushing leader. 1989 — Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a playoff series (5 games). Thanksgiving
1818 — Two English boxers are first to use padded gloves.
1951 — Ford C. Frick replaces Happy Chandler as third commissioner of baseball.
1951 — Warren C. Giles becomes president of baseball’s National League.
1956 — Don Larsen, New York Yankees, pitches only perfect World Series game, versus Brooklyn Dodgers (World Series No. 53).
1957 — Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles.
1960 — Bobby Richardson hits a World Series grand slammer (World Series No. 57).
1978 — Australia’s Ken Warby sets the world water speed record of 317.6 m.p.h. (511.13 km/h) at Blowering Dam, Australia.
1981 — USAC appeals panel restores disputed Indianapolis 500 victory to Al Unser.
1982 — New Jersey Devils first victory, beating New York Rangers 3-2 at the Meadowlands Coliseum.
1986 — Houston Astro’s Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats New York Mets 1-0.