S&H Farm Supply "On This Day In History" presented by Hiland Dairy, Laborers Local 663, Post Game Pizza, & Farmers Insurance Group

  

September 6th ...

He could have hit .300 with a fountain pen. 

- Joe Garagiola, sportscaster, on Stan Musial

• 1880 W. G. Grace scores 152 in debut Test Cricket innings, v Aust The Oval
• 1883 - Chicago Cubs' Burns (extra bases), Williamson and Pfeiffer get three hits in one inning.
• 1904 Soccer team Rheden forms
• 1905 - Chicago White Sox' pitcher Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0.
• 1910 - Regina Roughriders football club forms.
• 1912 - New York Giants' Jeff Tesreau no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 3-0.
• 1913 19th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers

   

 

• 1920 Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight
• 1920 US Men's National Tennis Championship, Forest Hills NY: Bill Tilden wins 1st of 6 straight US titles; beats Bill Johnston 6-1, 1-6, 7-5, 5-7, 6-3
• 1920 - First radio broadcast of a boxing prizefight.
• 1924 - Charles Paddock captures 100- and 200-yard Amateur Athletic Union national senior outdoor track and field championships.
• 1924 - Urban Shocker (St. Louis Brown) pitched two complete games against the Chicago White Sox. He won both games 6-2. 
• 1927 Red Sox beat NY Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings at Fenway Park
• 1930 - Brooklyn Dodgers beat Philadelphia Phillies 22-8.

                 

            

• 1942 Czech marathon runner Oskar Hêks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau
• 1943 - The youngest player to appear in an American League baseball game was pitcher Carl Scheib of the Philadelphia Athletics. Scheib was 16 years, eight months and five days old.
• 1943 63rd U.S. Men's National Championship: Joseph R. Hunt beats Jack Kramer (6-3, 6-8, 10-8, 6-0)
• 1943 US Women's National Tennis Championship: Pauline Betz Addie successfully defends title; beats Louise Brough Clapp 6-3, 5-7, 6-3
• 1945 A's catcher Greek George punches umpire Joe Rue gets suspended
• 1946 - All-American Football Conference plays first game (Cleveland Browns 44, Miami Seahawks 0).
• 1948 37th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (5-0)
• 1953 Roy Campanella sets record for HRs by a catcher at 38
• 1954 US Men's National Championship: Vic Seixas beats Australian Rex Hartwig 3-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4
• 1954 - New York Yankees use a record ten pinch hitters.
• 1954 68th U.S. Women's National Championship: Doris Hart beats Louise Brough Clapp (6-8, 6-1, 8-6)
• 1959 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open

                              

      

        

• 1960 Australian middle distance runner Herb Elliott breaks his own world record in winning the 1,500m at the Rome Olympics in 3:35.6
• 1960 American Otis Davis runs a world record 44.9 to win the gold medal in the 400m at the Rome Olympics; German Carl Kaufmann records same time but ruled second via photo finish
• 1963 Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is 100,000th in Major League baseball history
• 1963 - Major league baseball's 100,000th game.
• 1972 - Rick DeMont lost the gold medal he received in a 400-meter swimming event because a banned drug was found in his system during routine drug testing. 
• 1972 - The Summer Olympics resumed in Munich, West Germany, a day after the deadly hostage crisis that took the lives of 11 Israelis and five Arab abductors.
• 1973 - New York Times reports almost all Superfecta harness racing run at Yonkers, Roosevelt and Monticello from January to March of 1973 were fixed.
• 1975 Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova asks for US political asylum in New York City during the US Open
• 1975 US Open Women's Tennis: Chris Evert wins her first of 6 US titles; beats Evonne Goolagong Cawley 5-7, 6-4, 6-2
• 1976 - Steve Yeager (Los Angeles) was seriously injured when part of a broken bat struck him in the throat. He was waiting in the on-deck circle when the incident occurred. 
• 1977 Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash, 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977

     

       

• 1980 - Chantal Langlace sets women's record for fastest 100km run (7:27:22).
• 1980 - College football's longest losing streak of 50 games ends for Macalaster University of Saint Paul, Minnesota beating Mount Senario 17-14.
• 1980 US Open Women's Tennis: In the centenary women's singles final, Chris Evert-Lloyd wins her 5th US title; beats Hana Mandlíková 5-7, 6-1, 6-1
• 1981 Robert Granville "Bob" Lemon named NY Yankee manager for 2nd time
• 1981 - Fernando Valenzuela (Los Angeles Dodgers) tied a National League record of seven shutouts by a rookie pitcher. 
• 1981 - Bob Lemon becomes the New York Yankees' manager for the second time.
• 1982 Pittsburgh Pirates retire Willie Stargell's #8
• 1985 Mark Messier loses control of his Porsche and totals three cars, and would later be charged with hit and run and careless driving (he would pay a fine)
• 1986 Michael Spinks TKOs Steffen Tangstad in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1986 US Open Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova wins her 3rd US singles title; beats Czech star Helena Sukova 6-3, 6-2
• 1987 Douglas Wakiihuri wins marathon (2:11:48)
• 1987 - Saskatchewan Rough Riders' Dave Ridgway kicks a Canadian Football League record 60-yard field goal.
• 1989 - Amateur Atheletic Federation strips Ben Johnson of all track records.
• 1989 - England holds Sweden to a 0-0 draw in Sweden, qualifying for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. The game became famous after Terry Butcher sustained a deep cut to his forehead early in the game. He received stitches but played on the entire game. By the end of the game, the front of Butcher's white shirt and shorts where almost entirely covered in blood.
• 1989 - The Pittsburgh Steelers were banned from practicing on their own field, Three Rivers Stadium, because The Rolling Stones were rehearsing for their upcoming concert. 

   



  

• 1995 - Bruce Hornsby and Branford Marsalis performed the National Anthem in Baltimore's Camden Yards before Cal Ripken Jr. set baseball's all-time consecutive games played record. 
• 1995 - Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination at the O.J. Simpson trial. 
• 1991 33rd Walker Cup: US, 14-10
• 1993 Helen Dobson wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
• 1994 Tom Dolan swims world record 400m medley (4:12.30)
• 1995 - Cal Ripken Junior of the Baltimore Orioles breaks the all time consecutive games played record in Major League Baseball with his 2131st game.
• 1996 - Eddie Murray (Baltimore Orioles) hit his 500th career home run during a game against the Detroit Tigers. He was only the third person to have at least 3,000 hits and 500 home runs. 

           

• 2000 - Scott Sheldon (Texas Rangers) became the third player in major league baseball history to play all nine positions in one game. 
• 2001 - Barry Bonds becomes the fifth major leaguer to hit 60 home runs in a season, reaching the milestone in the shortest time, just 141 games.
• 2009 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Priddis Greens GC: Suzann Pettersen of Norway wins by 5 strokes from a group of 5 players
• 2010 - New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez reaches 100 RBIs for a record 14th season, passing Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Jimmie Fox, all tied at 13 seasons.