1930 – Brooklyn’s Al Lopez records the last recorded bounce home run in MLB history.
1964 – The Andrean 59ers open the season with a Saturday contest at Gilroy Stadium where they get a 21-14 win over the Blue Devils of Gary Froebel.
1975 – The River Forest Ingots and Wirt Troopers go to overtime before the Ingots finally score a touchdown to win 6-0.1976 – Seattle Seahawks play their first regular-season game in a 30-24 loss against St. Louis.
1979 – Carl Yastrzemski of the Red Sox picks up career hit #3,000.
1980 – The Hobart Brickies travel to the Holy Lands on Broadway, where they blank the Andrean 59ers 35-0.1984 – Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden sets an MLB rookie record by recording his 251st strikeout of the season.
1986 – EC Central wins their third of three straight in the inaugural season, as they down Gavit in a close one 12-9. The Glads, who dressed about 15 players per game, went on to capture a sectional title that year.1987 – Vince Coleman steals 100 bases for the third straight season.
1988 – The Cowboys beat the Cardinals in the first NFL regular season game played in Arizona.
1995 – After 24 years and 8,829 games, the Harlem Globetrotters winning streak ends, as they lose to a team led by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in a non-scripted game in Vienna, Austria.
1997 – Don Howell defeats Crown Point for the final time in his illustrious career, as his team does just enough to get a one point win, 30-29 over the Bulldogs at Brickie Bowl.
2003 – Bill Melby’s Gavit Gladiators win by a field goal over the Clark Pioneers 15-12 at the Gavit Graveyard. Woodmar’s warriors went 7-4 in ’03 – marking the last time the school on 175th Street ever had a winning end-of-season record.
2003 – In his first season as the head of Brickie football, Wally McCormack evens up his record at 2-2 with 16-14 win over the Trojans at the Zipper in Highland.
2003 – Chip Pettit and the Crown Point Bulldogs travel to St. John where they edge the Lake Central Indians 17-16 at the Burial Grounds.
2005 – NHL great Mark Messier announces his retirement.
2008 – The Portage Indians bump off the Merrillville Pirates 22-20 in a nailbiter at the Warpath.
2008 – By one of the oddest football scores you’ll ever see, Lake Central wins on the road over Crown Point 10-5.
2010 – Houston Texans running back Arian Foster becomes the first player in NFL history to rush for over 200 yards and three touchdowns in the opening week of the season as the Texans beat the Colts 34-24.
2014 – The Phoenix Mercury complete a three game sweep of the Chicago Sky to win the WNBA championship.
2014 – Roy Richards and Morton put a 53-14 hurting on Hammond High in week four at the Governor’s Mansion. Roy and the boys would finish the season with a 10-2 record.
It would be the fifth and final time in the Richards regime that a Morton team would win at least 10 games in a season.
2014 – The Lake Central Indians, and their head coach Brett St. Germain, hand Kevin Enright and the Crown Point Bulldogs their first loss of the season, a 27-13 defeat at home in week four.
It’s the fourth consecutive win for LC in the series.
2015 – Kent State’s April Goss becomes the second female to score a point in a Division I football game, kicking a PAT as part of the team’s 45-13 win over Delaware State.
2015 – David Ortiz becomes the 27th member of the 500 home run club.
