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.
1921 — American Professional Football Association reorganizes in Akron, Ohio.
1944 — New York Giants’
Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs in a game.
1944 — New York Giants’ Mel Ott scores six runs in one game drawing five walks for fourth time. 1946 — Cleveland Indians’
Bob Feller’s second no-hitter beats the New York Yankees, 1-0. 1950 — Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA 144-hole Golf Weathervane.
1953 — Little-Bigger League changes its name to the Babe Ruth League.
1958 — Ted Williams becomes the 10th major-league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits.
1961 — San Francisco Giants’ Willie Mays hits four home runs in a game.
1967 — Baltimore Orioles’
Stu Miller and Steve Barber lose 2-1 despite no-hitting Detroit Tigers. 1967 — New York Mets pitcher Tom Seaver wins his first game. 1968 — Three Baltimore Orioles pitchers walk 14 New York Yankees in a nine-inning game.
1970 — Chicago Cubs’
Billy Williams is the 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 rounds for the heavyweight boxing title. 1985 — Dale Murphy drives in a record-tying 28th and 29th runs in the month of April.
1986 — Seattle Mariners strike out 16 times, set record of 36 in two consecutive games.
1987 — Lou Lamoriello is named New Jersey Devils president.
1987 — NASCAR driver Bill Elliott sets all time fastest lap at Talladega Motor Speedway: 211 m.p.h. (340 km/h).
1988 — Baltimore Orioles win a record 14th straight from the beginning of the season. 1988 — New York Yankees’ Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April; sets the American League and ties the major-league record. 1990 — As New York Mets pitcher David Cone argues a call at first base, two Atlanta Braves players score.
1990 — Seattle Mariners’ Brian Holman’s perfect game is broken up with two outs in ninth. 1993 — Tennis star Monica Seles is stabbed in the back by an obsessed fan of rival Steffi Graf at a tournament in Hamburg, Germany.