1941 – Red Sox pitcher Lefty Grove picks up career victory #300. 1946 – Nine players from the Spokane baseball team in the Western League die in a bus crash. 1965 – Casey Stengel resigns as manager of the New York Mets. 1968 – Pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm, then with the White...

1921 – At the annual Harvard-Yale vs. Cambridge-Oxford track meet, Harvard’s Edward Gourdin becomes the first person to surpass 25 feet in the long jump. 1925 – Lou Gehrig hits his first of a record 23 career grand slams. 1930 – Pie Traynor of the Pittsburgh Pirates...

1923 – Future Hall of Fame pitcher Walter Johnson records career strikeout #3,000. He’s the first pitcher in MLB history to reach that milestone and would finish his career with 3,508 Ks. 1926 – At Mitchell Field in New York, Babe Ruth catches a ball that had been...

1876 – Princeton takes first place at the first ever IC4A (Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes Association) track and field meet. 1952 – American Parry O’Brien wins the gold medal in the shot-put at the Helsinki Olympics. O’Brien is the first thrower to...

1858 – For the first time, fans had to pay to see a baseball game. Spectators paid 50 cents to watch New York beat Brooklyn 22-18. 1916 – The New York Giants trade legendary pitcher Christy Mathewson to the Cincinnati Reds. Mathewson was immediately named...

1903 – French cyclist Maurice Garin wins the first-ever Tour de France. 1909 – Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball completes the first unassisted triple play in modern MLB history. 1910 – Cy Young picks up career victory #500. He’s the only pitcher in MLB history to reach...