TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
1910 Regina Roughriders football club forms. 1920 First radio broadcast of a boxing prize fight. 1946 All-America Football Conference plays first game (Cleveland Browns 44, Miami Seahawks 0).
1954 New York Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters. 1963 Major league baseball’s 100,000th game.
1973 New York Times reports almost all Superfecta harness racing run at Yonkers, Roosevelt and Monticello from January to March of 1973 were fixed.
1980 Chantal Langlace sets women’s record for fastest 100 km run of 7:27:22.
1980 College football’s longest losing streak of 50 games ends for Macalaster University of Saint Paul, Minn., beating Mount Senario 17-14.
1981 Bob Lemon becomes the New York Yankees’ manager for the second time. 1987 Saskatchewan Roughriders’ Dave Ridgway kicks a Canadian Football League record 60-yard field goal. 1989 Amateur Athletic Federation strips Ben Johnson of all track records.
1989 England holds Sweden to a 0-0 draw in Sweden, qualifying for the
1990 FIFA World Cup. The game became famous after Terry Butcher suffered a deep cut to his forehead early in the game. He received stitches but played on the entire game. By the end of the game, the front of Butcher’s white shirt and shorts where almost entirely covered in blood.
1995 Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles breaks the all time consecutive games played record in Major League Baseball with his 2,131st game.
2001 Barry Bonds becomes the fifth major-leaguer to hit 60 home runs in a season, reaching the milestone in the shortest time, just 141 games. 2010 New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez reaches 100 RBIs for a record 14th season, passing Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Jimmie Fox, all tied at 13 seasons.