1905 1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, Ark)1916 NY Yankees buy Frank ”Home Run” Baker from the Athletics for $37,5001921 Arthur Mailey completes
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1887 Cubs sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record $10,0001896 Stanley Cup, Victoria Skating Rink, Montreal, Quebec: Winnipeg Victorias beat Montreal Victorias, 2-01928 Clas
1912 England cricket team regains the Ashes1920 National Negro Baseball League organizes1923 1st Black pro Basketball team, ”Renaissance”, organizes1928 Clas Thunberg of Finland wins his
1878 Harvard player Frederick Thayer patents baseball catcher’s mask (pat # 200,358)1899 1st 2-man team 6-day bicycle race in US begins, Madison Square Garden, NYC1908
1851 Inaugural 1st-class cricket match in Australia; Tasmania v Victoria in Launceston; Tasmania wins by 3 wickets1878 1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms1908
1912 Hobbs & Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand v Aust at MCG1920 Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with ball1924 Bucky Harris at 27,
1540 The first recorded race meet in England (Roodee Fields, Chester)1895 William Morgan presents his new sport ”Mintonette” to the world at Springfield College, Massachusetts,
1908 Wilhelmina ’08 soccer team forms in Weert, Netherlands1932 American speed skater Irving Jaffee wins the 10,000m at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; clinches distance
1884 Canadian Rugby Football Union forms1893 Vanderbilt University claims it participated in the first organised intercollegiate basketball game at the Nashville YMCA Gymnasium; Vanderbilt beats
1926 NFL rules college students ineligible until college classes graduates1926 St Louis Browns acquire catcher Wally Schang from NY Yankees1932 1st Olympic dog sled race