1951 – Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta to win the middleweight title. 1966 – Wilt Chamberlain breaks the NBA scoring record with 20,884 career points. 1995 – The Portland Trailblazers trade Clyde Drexler to the Houston Rockets. 2018 – Shaun White wins his 3rd...
1920 – The National Negro Baseball League is formed. 1937 – The Boston Redskins receive permission from the NFL to move to Washington D.C. 1952 – Rocky Marciano wins his 40th straight fight with a second round knockout of Gino Buonvino. 1974 – James “Cool Papa” Bell...
1878 – Harvard’s Frederick Thayer receives and official US patent number for the invention of the catcher’s mask. 1908 – An auto race from New York to Paris (through Alaska and Siberia) begins. George Schuster wins the race, which takes him 88 days. 1909 – American...
1928 – The Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland open. 1970 – The Atlanta Hawks set an NBA record for points in the second half by putting up 97 in the second half in a 155-131 win over San Diego. 1971 – John Believau of the Montreal Canadiens scores his 500th...
1920 – Baseball outlaws all pitches that involve tampering with the baseball. 1949 – Joe Fulks of Philadelphia scores 63 points in a 108-87 win over Indianapolis to set an NBA scoring record that would last for nearly a decade. 1952 – The Baltimore Bullets play a 48...
1895 – The sport of volleyball is invented by WG Morgan in Massachusetts. 1942 – The Philadelphia Phillies temporarily change their name to the “Phils”. 1960 – The AFL and NFL agree to a no tampering pact. 1966 – The NHL expands to double the size of the league,...
1936 – Jay Berwanger from the University of Chicago is the first player ever selected in the NFL Draft. Berwanger is drafted by the Eagles and then traded to the Bears. 1945 – Paul Brown agrees to coach the new expansion football team in Cleveland, which would later...
1949 – Joe DiMaggio signs a new contract with the Yankees, making him the first player in MLB history to earn over $100,000 per season. 1959 – The Chicago White Sox are sold to Bill Veeck for $27 million. 1976 – Darryl Sittler of the Toronto Maple Leafs sets an NHL...
