This Day In Sports History is a new daily blog post that will feature the most significant sports events that occurred on this date in history. Click here to see what you missed yesterday. 1897 - New York Giants player William Joyce sets a record with 4 triples in one game.
1912 - Philadelphia A's beat the Detroit Tigers 24-2; the Tigers used amateur players in protest of Ty Cobb's suspension.
1933 - The first baseball All-Star game is announced for July 6th at Comiskey Park as part of the Chicago World's Fair.
1937 - Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson was born.
1942 - New York City ends night baseball games for the remainder of World War II.
1945 - The Tigers and the A's both have seven straight games postponed due to rain.
1963 - Ernie Davis, the first African-American Heisman Trophy winner, dies of leukemia at age 23.
1968 - Washington Senators outfielder Frank Howard ties an American League record with a homerun in 6 consecutive games; this ten total homeruns over those six games is a record.
1968 - Al Kaline hits his 307th career homerun passing Hank Greenberg for the most homeruns as a Tiger.
1982 - Tigers outfielder Larry Herndon becomes the 14th player to hit 4 consecutive homeruns.
1983 - Titans quarterback Vince Young was born.
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