Events in Sport
Golf Tournament
Mar 1 American golfer Babe Zaharias wins a controversial Sarasota Women's Open by 7 strokes as playing partner Louise Suggs refuses to sign the scorecard after Zaharias given a beneficial ruling
Louise Suggs
- Mar 3 Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee
Golf Tournament
Mar 15 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Patty Berg wins her 5th Titleholders title by 9 strokes from Betsy Rawls
Betsy Rawls
- Mar 15 West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1
Event of Interest
Mar 16 AL rejects Bill Veeck's request to move St Louis Browns to Baltimore
Bill Veeck
- Mar 17 Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St Louis Browns for $2,475M
- Mar 18 15th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Kansas, 69-68; Jayhawks' center B. H. Born is named tournament Most Outstanding Player
- Mar 18 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee
- Mar 18 NL approves Boston Braves move to Milwaukee (1st shift since 1903)
- Mar 21 NBA record 106 fouls & 12 players foul out (Boston-Syracuse)
- Mar 21 England beats Scotland, 26-8 at Twickenham, London to clinch their 14th Five Nations Rugby Championship
- Mar 28 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
- Mar 28 107th Grand National: Bryan Marshall wins aboard Irish 8-year old Early Mist; first of 3 consecutive GN victories for trainer Vincent O'Brien
Birthdays in Sport
- Mar 1 Bandula Warnapura, Sri Lankan cricket batsman (4 Tests; first SL Test captain; 12 ODIs), born in Rambukkana, Sri Lanka
- Mar 1 Carlos Queiroz, Portuguese soccer coach (Portugal, UAE, RSA, Iran, Colombia; Real Madrid), born in Nampula, Portuguese Mozambique
- Mar 1 Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson, American football linebacker (NFL Pro Bowl 1978; Super Bowl 1977; Dallas Cowboys), born in Austin, Texas
- Mar 3 Zico, Brazilian footballer
- Mar 4 Paweł Janas, Polish football manager and former footballer
- Mar 8 Jim Rice, American Baseball Hall of Fame left fielder (AL MVP 1978; 8-time MLB All Star; Boston Red Sox), born in Anderson, South Carolina
- Mar 8 Don Werner, American baseball player
- Mar 13 Andy Bean, American golfer (11 PGA Tour titles), born in LaFayette, Georgia
- Mar 14 Tim McKee, American 400m medley swimmer (Olympic silver 1972)
- Mar 15 Colin Croft, West Indian cricket fast bowler, broadcaster (27 Tests, 125 wickets @ 23.30), born in Lancaster Village, Demerara, British Guiana
- Mar 17 Chuck Muncie, American football running back, (d. 2013)
- Mar 18 Nicholas Wisdom, cricketer (son of comic Norman, 2 games Sussex 1974)
- Mar 19 Hans Rinn, German DR, 2 man lugist (Olympic gold 1976, 80)
- Mar 23 Bo Diaz, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1990)
- Mar 25 Haroon Rashid, cricketer (Pakistani & WSC batsman late 70's)
- Mar 26 Tatyana Providokhina, Russian 1K runner (world record)
- Mar 31 Rene Portland, American college basketball coach (Penn State 1980-2007), born in Broomall, Pennsylvania (d. 2018)
Deaths in Sport
- Mar 2 Jim Lightbody, American athlete (Olympic gold 800m, 1500m, 2590m Steeplechase 1904), dies at 70
James J. Jeffries
Mar 3 James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer, dies at 77
James J. Jeffries
Jim Thorpe
Mar 28 Jim Thorpe, American all-round athlete (Olympic gold decathlon, pentathlon 1912; College & Pro Football Hall of Fame), dies of heart failure at 65
Jim Thorpe
