- Jan 1 45th Rose Bowl: #2 Iowa beats #16 California, 38-12
- Jan 1 25th Sugar Bowl: #1 LSU beats #12 Clemson, 7-0
- Jan 1 25th Orange Bowl: #5 Oklahoma beats #9 Syracuse, 21-6
- Jan 11 Hanif Mohammad completes 499 runs for Karachi, then 1st class cricket world record
- Jan 11 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mayfair Golf Open
- Jan 11 NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 28-21
- Jan 18 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
- Jan 23 9th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 124-108 at Detroit
- Jan 26 47th Women's Australian Championships: Mary Carter Reitano beats Renee Schuurman Haygarth (6-2, 6-3)
- Jan 26 47th Men's Australian Championships: Alex Olmedo beats Neale Fraser (6-1, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3)
- Jan 28 Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US
- Feb 1 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Havana Golf Tournament
- Feb 1 Zack Wheat unanimously elected to baseball Hall of Fame
Contract of Interest
Feb 2 Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach Green Bay Packers
Vince Lombardi
Golf Tournament
Feb 15 Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Tournament
Louise Suggs
- Feb 22 1st Daytona 500: Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH)
Golf Tournament
Feb 23 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
Betsy Rawls
- Feb 27 Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players
- Feb 28 Ice Dance Championship at Colo Springs USA won by Denny & Jones of Great Britain
- Feb 28 NFL trade, Chicago Cards trade Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players
- Mar 1 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament
- Mar 3 San Francisco Giants rename their stadium Candlestick Park
- Mar 7 6th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats North Carolina, 80-56
Golf Tournament
Mar 8 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
Mickey Wright
- Mar 10 Dorothy Comiskey Rigney, sells 54% of White Sox to Bill Veeck
- Mar 15 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
NBA Record
Mar 18 Boston Celtic's Bill Sharman begins record of 56 straight free-throws
Bill Sharman
- Mar 21 21st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: California beats W Va 71-70
- Mar 21 113th Grand National: Michael Scudamore aboard Oxo wins
- Mar 22 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Nehi Golf Tournament
- Mar 25 Bill White traded to St Louis for pitchers Sam Jones & Don Choate
- Mar 29 Wes Hall takes Pakistani cricket hat-trick at Lahore
- Apr 5 23rd Masters Golf, Augusta: Art Wall Jr wins by 1 from Cary Middlecoff for his only PGA Tour major victory
- Apr 9 Balt Orioles pull their 2nd triple play (3-6-3 vs Washington Senators)
- Apr 9 Bill Sharman hits a NBA record 56 consecutive foul shot
- Apr 9 13th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics sweep Minn Lakers in 4 games Boston Celtics wins 8th straight title
- Apr 11 Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale hits his 2nd Opening Day HR
- Apr 12 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
- Apr 16 NY Yankees unveil their 1st message scoreboard
- Apr 16 Phils' Dave Philley gets a major league record 9th straight pinch hit
- Apr 18 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1
- Apr 19 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
- Apr 20 63rd Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:22:42
Event of Interest
Apr 22 Yankee Whitey Ford strikes-out 15, beating Senators, 1-0 in 14 innings
Whitey Ford
Boxing Title Fight
May 1 Floyd Patterson KOs Englishman Brian London in 11, in his 4th World Heavyweight Boxing title defence
Floyd Patterson
- May 2 85th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Tomy Lee wins in 2:02.2
- May 3 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament
Event of Interest
May 7 "Roy Campanella Night" Largest baseball crowd (93,103 in LA Coliseum) sees Dodgers' Sandy Koufax beat Yankees 6-2 in exhibition
Roy Campanella
Event of Interest
May 9 Dorothy Rigney, husband John, and Hank Greenberg resign from White Sox
Hank Greenberg
- May 10 Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Howard Johnson Golf Invitational
Event of Interest
May 11 Yankee catcher Yogi Berra's errorless streak of 148 games ends
Yogi Berra
- May 25 US Supreme Courtt rules Louisiana prohibiting black-white boxing unconstitutional
- May 30 Indianapolis 500: Rodger Ward wins in 3:40:47.470 (218.641 km/h)
- May 30 58th Men's French Championships: Nicola Pietrangeli beats Ian Vermaak (3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1)
- May 30 58th Women's French Championships: Christine Truman beats Zsuzsi Kormoczy (6-4, 7-5)
- May 31 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Cavalier Golf Open
- Jun 3 4th European Cup: Real Madrid beats Stade Reims 2-0 at Stuttgart
- Jun 7 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
Event of Interest
Jun 11 Charlie Sifford becomes the 1st African American to play in a US Golf Open
Charlie Sifford
- Jun 12 SF Giants Mike McCormick no-hits Phillies, 3-0 in 5 inning game
- Jun 13 59th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 282 at Winged Foot GC NY
- Jun 13 91st Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Sword Dancer wins in 2:28.6
- Jun 14 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
- Jun 22 Most Phillies strike out in a game (16 by Sandy Koufax)
- Jun 26 Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
- Jun 27 14th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
- Jun 28 Phils Wally Post is only outfielder to throw out 2 runners in an inning twice (Losing to Giants 6-0)
Golf Major
Jul 3 British Open Golf, Muirfield: South African Gary Player wins by 2 from Fred Bullock and Flory Van Donck
Gary Player
Tennis Open
Jul 3 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maria Bueno of Brazil wins her first of 3 Wimbledon singles titles beating Darlene Hard 6-4, 6-3
Maria Bueno
Darlene Hard
- Jul 6 LPGA Championship, Sheraton Hotel CC: Betsy Rawls wins by 1 stroke from Patty Berg
Event of Interest
Jul 7 26th MLB All Star Game, Forbes Field, Pittsburgh: Willy Mays triples to score Hank Aaron as NL wins 5-4
Hank Aaron
- Jul 9 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Open
- Jul 9 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament
- Jul 12 NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during Yankee-Red Sox game
- Jul 18 African American William 'Bill' Wright is the 1st colored person to win a major golf tournament (U.S. Amateur Public Links Championships)
- Jul 18 46th Tour de France won by Federico Bahamontes of Spain
- Jul 19 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Machine International Golf Open Alliance
- Jul 21 Red Sox are last team to use a black player (Pumpsie Green)
- Jul 26 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Western Golf Open
- Jul 27 William Shea announces plans to have a baseball team in NYC in 1961
- Jul 30 In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4
- Aug 2 PGA Championship, Minneapolis GC: Bob Rosburg wins by 1 stroke from Jerry Barber and Doug Sanders
- Aug 2 Milwaukee Braves outfielder Bill Bruton hits 3 triples in 11-5 win v Cardinals, 2 of them bases loaded, first time in 20th Centiury
- Aug 2 Future Hall of Fame 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 MLB home runs in Giants 5-3 win v Pirates
- Aug 3 27th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Memorial Coliseum, LA
- Aug 5 Chicago Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 55-26 in Toronto
- Aug 14 26th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 29, All-Stars 0 (70,000)
- Aug 14 AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver & Houston
- Aug 16 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Seattle Golf Open
- Aug 22 Cincinnati Red Frank Robinson hits 3 consecutive HRs
- Aug 23 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open
- Aug 31 48th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (3-2)
- Aug 31 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
- Sep 6 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
- Sep 11 Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4
- Sep 11 Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0
- Sep 13 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open
- Sep 13 79th U.S. Men's National Championship: Neale Fraser beats Alex Olmedo (6-3, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4)
- Sep 13 73rd U.S. Women's National Championship: Maria Bueno beats Christine Truman Janes (6-1, 6-4)
Golf Tournament
Sep 17 59th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus
- Sep 20 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Links Golf Invitation Open
- Sep 22 Chicago White Sox clinch AL pennant
- Sep 26 Milwaukee Braves Warren Spahn becomes winningest NL lefty
- Sep 26 SF Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St Louis Cards, 4-0
- Sep 27 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open
- Sep 27 Braves & Dodgers finish in a tie (86-68)
- Sep 29 Dodgers win game 2 of playoff, 6-5, & take NL pennant
- Oct 1 1st World Series since 1948 not to feature a NY team (LA vs Chic)
- Oct 3 13th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-1 at Montreal
- Oct 4 1st World Series game played west of St Louis (in LA)
- Oct 4 LA Dodgers set World Series attendance record at 92,394
- Oct 6 Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA)
- Oct 8 LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series
- Oct 28 Buffalo Bills enter AFL
- Oct 29 10 nation soccer league to play all games on NY Randalls Is, announced
Event of Interest
Nov 1 Jacques Plante becomes the first goaltender to wear a mask during a National Hockey League game
Jacques Plante
Event of Interest
Nov 4 Ernie Banks, Cubs shortstop, wins 2nd consecutive NL MVP
Ernie Banks
- Nov 5 AFL announced with 8 teams
- Nov 7 13th Ryder Cup: US wins 8½-3½ at Eldorado Golf Club (Indian Wells, California)
- Nov 7 16th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 22-14 in Baltimore
- Nov 12 White Sox 2B Nellie Fox wins AL's MVP
- Nov 15 Cleveland Browns' halfback Bobby Mitchell sets club record for longest run from scrimmage (90-yards), beat Wash 31-17
- Nov 22 AFL's 1st draft - NY Titans choice George Izo, QB, Notre Dame
- Nov 22 Boston Patriots enters AFL
- Nov 28 47th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 21-7
- Nov 28 24th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 10-0 in Birmingham, breaking a streak of five consecutive victories by Auburn in the series
- Nov 30 Joe Foss named 1st commissioner of AFL
- Nov 30 1960 NFL Draft: Billy Cannon from LSU first pick by Los Angeles Rams
- Dec 1 25th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Cannon, LSU (HB)
Event of Interest
Dec 8 President Eisenhower watches Pakistan v Aust Test Cricket at Karachi
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Event of Interest
Dec 11 NY Yankees trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer and Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley and Joe Deaestri
Roger Maris
- Dec 12 10th Formula One WDC: Jack Brabham wins by four points
Event of Interest
Dec 18 Sammy Baugh named 1st coach of NY Titans (AFL)
Sammy Baugh
Event of Interest
Dec 21 Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988)
Tom Landry