THIS WEEKEND IN SPORTS HISTORY
SATURDAY
1961 — American Basketball League starts play.
1973 — Alabama sets offensive record (828 yards), beating Virginia Tech 77-6.
1979 — New York Islanders score two goals within 6 seconds, three goals within 44 seconds.
1984 — Washington State’s Rueben Mayes sets college football record of 357 yards rushing.
1985 — Kansas City Royals beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 (a score of 11-0 in the final game) in 82nd World Series. Kansas City is the first team World Series history to lose the first two games at home and then come back to win the World Championship.
1986 — The New York Mets win the World Series, defeating the Boston Red Sox in 7 games.
1991 — Minnesota Twins beat Atlanta Braves 1-0 in 10 innings to win the World Series in seven games.
1999 — The New York Yankees complete a four-game sweep of the Atlanta Braves to win their second consecutive World Series.
2002 — The Anaheim Angels defeat the San Francisco Giants in Game 7 of the 2002 World Series of baseball to win the title.
2004 — The Boston Red Sox win the World Series for the first time since 1918, defeating the St. Louis Cardinals in four games. Curt Schilling becomes the first starting pitcher to win a World Series for three different teams.
2004 — Barry Bonds’ 700th home run ball sells for US$804,129 in an online auction.
2006 — At the Busch Stadium, the St. Louis Cardinals beat the heavily favoured Detroit Tigers, 4-2, in Game 5 of the Fall Classic to win the 2006 World Series. The Cardinals, who lost 10 of their last 14 regular season games, won fewer games than any World Series champion in baseball history.
SUNDAY
1900 — After more than five months of competition, the Paris Olympic Games close.
1911 — Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game.
1934 — Brooklyn Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates play a penalty free NFL game.
1959 — Buffalo Bills enter the AFL. 1961 — Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for New York Mets.
1962 — New York Giants’ Y.A. Tittle passes for seven touchdowns versus Washington Redskins (4934).
1976 — Billy Martin named American League Manager of the Year (New York Yankees).
1979 — Billy Martin is fired as New York Yankees’ manager (second time), replaced by Dick Howser.
1981 — The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the New York Yankees 9-2, to capture the World Championship in six games.
1989 — The Oakland Athletics sweep of the San Francisco Giants winning the World Series.
1995 — The Atlanta Braves defeat the Cleveland Indians to win the World Series.
2007 — The Boston Red Sox win the 2007 World Series in a fourgame sweep against the Colorado Rockies.