TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
1722 — The game of Billiards is mentioned in the New England Courant.
1900 — 165-pound Robert Fitzsimmons knocks out 305-pound Ed Dunkhost in a boxing match.
1903 — New York Highlanders first home game, (Hilltop Park-168th Street and Broadway, Manhattan). They beat Washington Senators, 6-2.
1910 — Cleveland Naps’ pitcher Addie Joss wins second no-hitter beating Chicago White Sox.
1921 — American Professional Football Association reorganizes in Akron, Ohio.
1946 — Cleveland Indians’ Bob Feller’s second no-hitter beats New York Yankees, 1-0.
1953 — Little-Bigger League changes its name to Babe Ruth League. 1958 — Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extrabase hits.
1967 — Baltimore Orioles’ Stu Miller and Steve Barber lose 2-1 despite no-hitting Detroit Tigers. 1969 — Cincinnati Reds’ Jim Maloney third no-hitter, beats Houston Astros, 10-0.
1970 — Chicago Cubs’ Billy Williams is first National League player to play in 1,000 consecutive games. 1971 — 25th NBA Championship: Milwaukee Bucks beat Baltimore Bullets in four games.
1976 — Muhammad Ali beats Jimmy Young in 15 round for heavyweight boxing title.
1985 — Dale Murphy drives in record tying 28th and 29th runs of April.
1987 — Lou Lamoriello is named New Jersey Devils’ president.
1987 — NASCAR driver Bill Elliott sets all time fastest lap at Talladega Motor Speedway: 211 mph (340 km/h).
1988 — Baltimore Orioles win record 14th straight from beginning of season.
1988 — New York Yankees’ Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April; sets American League and ties major league record.
1990 — As New York Mets pitcher David Cone argues a call at first base, two Atlanta Braves’ players score.
1993 — Tennis star Monica Seles is stabbed in the back by an obsessed fan of rival Steffi Graf at a tournament in Hamburg, Germany.
2005 — Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig asks players to agree to a 50-game suspension for the first offence for the use of steroids, 100-game suspension for the second offence, and a lifelong ban after the third offence. 2006 — In the Australian Football League, a match between Saint Kilda and Fremantle ends in controversial circumstances after Saint Kilda’s Steven Baker is alleged to have kicked a behind after the final siren had went. The Saints are stripped of two points and the full win is handed to Fremantle.