On This Day in Sport for May 4
Events in Sport
- 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings play their 1st official baseball game, a win against the Great Western Base Ball Club, 45-9
- 1871 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double
- 1893 Cowboy Bill Pickett invents bulldogging, the skill of grabbing cattle by the horns and wrestling them to the ground
- 1897 23rd Kentucky Derby: Buttons Garner aboard Typhoon II wins in 2:12.5
- 1898 24th Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Plaudit wins in 2:09
- 1899 25th Kentucky Derby: Fred Taral aboard Manuel wins in 2:12
- 1919 1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC, 35,000 watch the Phillies beat the NY Giants 4-3
- 1924 VIII Summer Olympic Games open at Olympic Stadium of Colombes, Paris, France
- More Events in Sport
Betsy Rawls
Don ShulaWeddings in Sport
- 1944 Baseball player Ted Williams marries Doris Soule (divorced 1954)
- 2003 Indian cricketer Rahul Dravid (30) weds surgeon Vijeta Pendharkar in Bangalore, India
More Weddings & Divorces in Sport
May in Sport History
The 100-year Football Curse that Appears to be Working
S.L. Benfica has failed to win a European Championship since 1962, when former coach Béla Guttmann placed a 100 year curse on the club. Is the curse working?
May 2, 1962All-Female Crew Triumphs in Whitbread
After New Zealand’s Peter Blake crushed all opposition in the 1989-90 Whitbread round the world race an all-female crew came home on this day, stealing the show
May 28, 1990
