This Week in Sports History

Taking a look back at what happened this week in sports history.

 

March 4^th  

• 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 5^th

• 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 6^th

• 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 7^th

• 1857: Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs
• 1996: Magic Johnson becomes the 2^nd NBA player in history to reach 10,000 career assists

March 8^th

• 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 9^th  

• 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 10^th

• 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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