Events in Sport
Event of Interest
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
Bill Veeck
- 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
- 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 baseball player
- 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
Alan Sugar
- Mar 27 Dough Wilkerson, American football player, born in Fayetteville, North Carolina