1876 Chicago Cubs 1st NL game, beats Louisville 4-0 (1st NL shutout)1901 Erve Beck hits American League’s 1st home run1901 In last of 9th, Detroit
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1880 Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men’s athletics in England & Wales, is founded in Oxford, England1894 Phillies Lave Cross hits for cycle vs
1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) win their 2nd game beating Washington Senators 7-21919 US Major League Baseball opens a reduced 140-game season1933 Dovo soccer team forms
1876 1st official National League baseball game is played; Boston Red Caps beat Philadelphia Athletics, 6-5 at the Jefferson Street Grounds, Philadelphia1876 Philadelphia native Tim
1898 Phillies’ pitcher Bill Duggleby hits a grand slam on 1st at bat1902 6th Boston Marathon won by Sam Mellor in 2:43:121910 Cleve Naps play
1903 7th Boston Marathon won by Irishman John Lorden in 2:41:29.81908 12th Boston Marathon won by Tom Morrissey in 2:25:43.21908 Opening day of competition of
1897 1st Boston Marathon (B.A.A. Road Race), won by John J. McDermott in 2:55:10; the world’s oldest annual marathon inspired by success of the first
1809 First run of 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket, England1869 1st international cricket match, held in San Francisco, won by California1898 2nd Boston Marathon
1869 1st pro baseball games-Cincinnati Reds 24, Cin amateurs 151875 Modern Snooker invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain, a bored British officer in Jabalpur, India1892 1st
1900 4th Boston Marathon won by Canadian Jim Caffrey in race record 2:39:44.41906 10th Boston Marathon won by 18-year old Tim Ford in 2:45:45; youngest