Taking a look back at what happened this week in sports history.
March 4th
- 1970: New York Rangers set NHL record of 126 straight games without being shut-out
- 1995: Michael Johnson runs world record 400 meter indoor at 44.63 seconds
March 5th
- 1864: First collegiate track meet held – Oxford and Cambridge, England
- 1924: Frank Caruana becomes first to bowl two successive perfect 300 games in official bowling competition
March 6th
- 1982: NBA highest scoring game – San Antonio beats Milwaukee Bucks 171-166 in triple overtime
- 1985: Mike Tyson makes his professional debut in Albany, NY, a match he wins by a first round knockout of Hector Mercedes
March 7th
- 1857: Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs
- 1996: Magic Johnson becomes the 2nd NBA player in history to reach 10,000 career assists
March 8th
- 1941: First American MLB player drafted into the war – Hugh Mulcahy of the Philadelphia Phillies
- 1968: Six-year old Tommy Moore gets a hole-in-one at a golf course in Hagerstown, MD
March 9th
- 1979: Commissioner Bowie Kuhn orders MLB to give equal access to female reporters
- 1995: MLB announces two new teams into the league, the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays; the teams did not be assigned leagues until January of 1997
March 10th
- 1963: Pete Rose debuts with hits in his first two at bats in spring training
- 1991: Eddie Sutton is the first NCAA basketball coach to lead four different schools into playoffs
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