ON THIS DATE

1893: Frank Selke, nine-time Stanley Cup winner and the man for whom the award is named, is born. Berlin, Ontario, Canada (d. 1985).

1917: Babe Ruth of the Red Sox allowed two hits as he outdueled Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators 1-0. Ruth knocked in the winning run with a sacrifice fly.

1929: Dick Williams, manager of the World Champion Swingin’ A’s in 1972and 1973, is born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2011).

1933: Hall of Fame quarterback Johnny Unitas is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1938: Jockey Eddie Arcaro wins the first of his record five Kentucky Derby wreaths.

1957: Cleveland pitcher Herb Score is in the right eye by a line drive off the bat of Gil McDougald, ending his season and derailing his career.

1959: A crowd of 93,103turns out at the Los Angeles Coliseum on “Roy Campanella Night” to show its affection for the paralyzed Dodger catcher.

1972: The Los Angeles Lakers win their first NBA championship with a 114-100victory over the New York Knicks in Game 5.

1982: A federal jury rules that the NFL violated antitrust laws when it unsuccessfully attempted to prevent the Oakland Raiders from moving to Los Angeles.

1983: Jockey Ed Delahoussaye wins the Kentucky Derby for the second year in a row.

1984: Happy birthday Alex Smith and good luck in your recovery.

1992: Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 races.

1997: The Giants give up 13runs in the sixth inning after giving up five in the fifth of a 19-3loss to the Montreal Expos. Ozvaldo Fernandez and three relievers scattered 22 hits over six innings.

2005: Giacomo, a 50-1longshot, wins the Kentucky Derby. Closing Argument, a 70-1 shot, finishes second.

2007: Bengie Molina of the Giants homers twice in one inning — a two-run shot followed by a three-run shot — in a 9-4 win over the Mets.

2010: Jamie Moyer, 47, becomes the oldest player in major league history to pitch a shutout, supplanting Phil Niekro (46) in record books.

2010: Starlin Castro of the Chicago Cubs hit a three-run homer in his first major league at-bat and drove in a record six runs.

2011: Justin Verlander of the Detroit Tiger pitched his second career no-hitter, coming within an eighth-inning walk of a perfect game.

2011: Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros, winner of three Masters and two British, dies of brain cancer at 54

2013: George Sauer, the leading pass-catcher on the Joe Namath Super Bowl Jets, dies from heart failure at 69.