1964 - The Golden Tornadoes of Gary Emerson, notch their only victory of the season; an 18-14 squeaker over the Highland Trojans at Gary's Gilroy Stadium. 1981 - The Griffith Panthers shut out the East Chicago Roosevelt Roughriders 21-0. Despite the loss, ECR, which...
1912 – Philadelphia second baseman Eddie Collins sets an MLB record by stealing six bases in a game. 1927 – Babe Ruth hits his 50th homer during his record-setting 60 homerun season. 1928 – Ty Cobb plays in his final MLB game. This will not be the only notable moment...
1993 - RDP comes to life in a 49-0 Lowell blowout of Morton at the Inferno. The Devils improve to 3-0 - for the first time since the Les Klein club of '69. It's also just the third time in the post World War II era the Lowell program hasn't lost at least one of their...
1918 – Players on both the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs threaten to strike during the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 for each player on the winning team and $1,000 for each player on the losing team. 1950 – Joe DiMaggio becomes the first player to...
1966 - Eddie Herbert's Hornets of Gary Lew Wallace opened the 1966 season with a dominating 49-0 shutout win at home over Valpo. It was the first of 10 straight wins for Wallace, who went undefeated with a 10-0 record that season. All told, Wallace would win 19...
1904 – The New York baseball team is referred to as the Yankees for the first time, with the name appearing in an article in the Boston Herald. The name would not become official until 1913. 1945 – Jimmie Foxx hits the 534th, and final, home run of his career. 1960 –...
1989 - Dave Templin's 2-0 Wallace Hornets, hosted Jerry Vlasic's 2-0 Bishop Noll Warriors in a week three contest along 47th Avenue in Glen Park, where a close, hard fought, low scoring battle ensued, with Lew Wallace coming out ahead 13-11. The Hornets improved to...
1894 – A boxing match is captured on film for the first time as William K.L. Dickson, an employee of Thomas Edison, films the exhibition bout between James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney. 1939 – Indians pitcher Bob Feller, aged 20, becomes the youngest pitcher to win...
1941 – The Hobart Brickies shutout the Griffith Panthers 20-0 at Franklin Field on Broad Street in...
