Events in Sport
Sports History
Mar 1 Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck sets up spring training camp in racially tolerant Phoenix, AZ in anticipation of signing team's first black players; Larry Doby is first acquisition later in the season
- Mar 21 Test Cricket debut of Bert Sutcliffe, NZ v England at Christchurch
- Mar 25 9th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Holy Cross beats Oklahoma, 58-47; Crusaders' first victory in first title game
- Mar 25 Last day of Test cricket for Walter Hammond (v NZ, Christchurch)
- Mar 29 101st Grand National: 100/1 Irish outsider Caughoo ridden by 35-year-old jockey Eddie Dempsey wins by 20 lengths from Lough Conn
Golf Tournament
Mar 30 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins her first of 3 Titleholders titles by 5 strokes ahead of Dorothy Kirby
Birthdays in Sport
- Mar 2 Harry Redknapp, English soccer winger (West Ham United; AFC Bournemouth) and manager (Bournemouth, West Ham, Tottenham, Portsmouth, QPR, Southampton), born in London, England
- Mar 3 Otto Stuppacher, Austrian racing driver (d. 2001)
- Mar 5 Kent Tekulve, American MLB baseball relief pitcher, 1980 All-Star (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1974-85 and 2 other teams), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Mar 6 Dick Fosbury, American high jumper (Olympic gold 1968, "Fosbury Flop"), born in Portland, Oregon
- Mar 7 Walter Röhrl, German race and rally car driver
- Mar 9 Dougie Morgan, Scottish rugby union halfback (21 caps Scotland, 2 British & Irish Lions; Stewart's Melville FP), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 2020)
- Mar 13 Tomas Hinojosa, jockey
- Mar 15 David Colley, cricketer (NSW quickie, 3 Tests for Australia 1972)
- Mar 15 Tomas Pettersson, Swedish cyclist (Olympic silver 1968)
- Mar 18 David Lloyd, cricketer (England opener, 214 v India 1974)
- Mar 19 Earlie Fires, jockey (Hialeah Park)
- Mar 19 Marinho Peres, Brazilian football player
Alan Sugar
Mar 24 Alan Sugar, English computer manufacturer (Amstrad; chairman / part-owner Tottenham Hotspur FC 1991-2001) and television celebrity (The Apprentice), born in London, England
- Mar 27 Doug Wilkerson, American football guard (Pro Bowl 1980–82; First-team All-Pro 1982; SD Chargers), born in Fayetteville, North Carolina (d. 2021)
Deaths in Sport
- Mar 9 Stanley Jackson, English cricketer (20 Tests for England 1893-1905), dies at 76
- Mar 19 William Starling Burgess, American yacht designer (America's Cup yachts "Enterprise", "Rainbow", "Ranger") and aviation pioneer, dies at 68
- Mar 27 Charles Smith, cricketer (batted for South Africa in 1902-03), dies