On 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.1860 - The San Francisco Olympic Club forms making in the first organized athletic club in the United States.
1915 - Babe Ruth makes his pitching debut and hits his first career homerun in a 4-3 loss to the Yankees.
1925 - Ty Cobb hits his 5th homerun in two games tying the record set by Cap Anson in 1884.
1929 - The American League announced it will discontinue the awarding of the MVP trophy; the award was brought back in 1931 after revamping the voting process.
1931 - Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays was born.
1934 - The Boston Red Sox set a record by hitting four consecutive triples.
1953 - St. Louis Browns pitcher Bobo Holloman throws a no-hitter in his first career start making him only the second pitcher to ever do so (the other was Bumpus Jones of the Cincinnati Reds in 1892); this was Holloman's only season in professional baseball.
1974 - The smallest attendance at Philadelphia's Veteran's Stadium (4,149).
1982 - Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry becomes the 15th pitcher to record 300 wins as he defeated the New York Yankees.
1985 - NBA All-Star Chris Paul was born.
1992 - New York Met pitcher Anthony Young begins his streak of losing 26 consecutive decisions; the streak lasted until July 24th 1993 and is the longest in baseball history.
1995 - The Classic Sports Network makes its debut on cable television.
1997 - The NHL's Hartford Whalers become the Carolina Hurricanes.
1998 - Kerry Wood strikes out 20 batters tying the Major League record set by Roger Clemens; it was only his 5th career start.
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Hey man, love your blog, but lose the "this day in sports history" thing. I can look that up anywhere. Write more content like your Remy article, it was great. Keep up the good work.
I appreciate the feedback, but I'm afraid "this day in sports history" is here to stay. I've had a good amount of positive feedback about that daily post so it wouldn't be in the best interest of my site to discontinue it. I'll try to mix in more posts about other news in the future. Thank you for your feedback.
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