TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
1907 — Philadelphia Phillies’ Eddie Grant goes 7 for 7 in a doubleheader.
1908 — Addie Joss’s perfect pitching game stops Ed Walsh, 1-0. Walsh had won 40 baseball games in a row.
1932 — The New York Yankees sweep the Chicago Cubs in the 29th World Series.
1936 — Tony Lazzeri becomes the first New York Yankees player to hit a World Series grand slam.
1938 — Cleveland Indians’
Bob Feller strikes out
18 Detroit Tigers hitters.
1947 — Yogi Berra becomes the first to pinch-hit a World Series homer.
1949 — The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, tied for first place, play the final game of the season. The Yankees win, 5-3, and clinch pennant No. 16.
1954 — The New York Giants sweep the Cleveland Indians in the 51st World Series.
1957 — The New York Yankees appear in their 26th World Series. 1966 — Two perfect-game pitchers face each other (Jim Bunning versus Sandy Koufax).
1968 — Bob Gibson sets a World Series record of 17 strikeouts in a game.
1969 — The Seattle Pilots play their last game in Seattle, Wash., defeated by the Oakland Athletics 3-1 for their 98th loss of year. The American League’s newest franchise attracts only 677, 944 fans for the season and will play in Milwaukee as the Brewers in 1970.
1970 — A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team crashes, killing 30. 1972 — Montreal Expos’ Bill Stoneman pitches his second no-hitter, beating the New York Mets, 7-0.
1978 — The New York Yankees defeat the Boston Red Sox, 5-4, at Fenway Park to clinch the American League East after being 14 1/2 games out of first place only two months earlier. 1980 — Larry Holmes retains the WBC heavyweight title, defeating Muhammad Ali.
2009 — The International Olympic Committee in Copenhagen votes 66-32 for the 2016 Olympic Games to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over Madrid, Spain. Chicago, Ill., was eliminated on the first ballot, and Tokyo, Japan, was eliminated on the second ballot.