This Day in Sport for 15th February
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Events in Sport
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1916 - NY Yankees buy Frank "Home Run" Baker from the Athletics for $37,500
1921 - Arthur Mailey completes 9-121 v England, Australian Test Cricket rec
1930 - Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes
1931 - Spring training site of NY Yankees in St Petersburg is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the team's late manager
1932 - 3rd Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, NY
1932 - Aust beat S Africa in cricket by an inn in 5 hrs 53 min playing time
1932 - US bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer & Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold)
1936 - Sonja Henie, Norway, wins 3rd consecutive Olympic figure skating gold
1959 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Tournament
1961 - Australia beat WI 2-1 in one of best Test Cricket series ever
1970 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1973 - Friendsville Academy (Tenn) ends 138-game basketball losing streak
1976 - 12th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria
1976 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1978 - England all out 64 for 1st loss to NZ in cricket (Boycott capt)
1978 - Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 - Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 500m in 38.03 sec
1980 - Wayne Gretzy assists on NHL-record-tieing 7 goals
1981 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1982 - Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), begins streak of 63 consecutive free throw
1986 - 44,180 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit
1990 - Baseball owners lock out players
1991 - Troy State sets NCAA Div II record with 103 points in 2nd half routing DeVry Institute 187-117
1998 - Dale Eggeling wins Los Angeles Women's Golf Championship
Birthdays in Sport
Results 1 - 39 of 39
1897 - Earl H Blaik, Det, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1965)
1904 - Antonin Magne, French bicyclist (Tour de France 1931, 34)
1929 - Graham Hill, London, auto racer (1962, 68 international racing champ)
1940 - John Hadl, American football player
1948 - Ron "Penguin" Cey, Tacoma Wash, 3rd baseman (LA Dodgers)
1948 - Ron Cey, American baseball player
1949 - Ken Anderson, NFL quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals)
1956 - Desmond Haynes, cricket (WI opener-greatest batsman in 1-day history)
1956 - Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese racing driver (d. 1992)
1957 - Jimmy Spencer, American race car driver
1957 - Steve Farhood, American boxing historian and analyst
1959 - Guy De Alwis, cricket wicket-keeper (Sri Lankan mid 80s)
1959 - Joe Hesketh, US baseball player (Boston Red Sox)
1960 - Darrell Green, NFL cornerback (Washington Redskins)
1964 - Mark Price, NBA guard (Washington Bullets, Orlando Magic)
1965 - Craig Matthews, cricket pace bowler (South African Test)
1966 - Melido Perez, Dominican/US baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
1966 - Petra Huber, Austria, tennis star
1969 - Brian Williams, Lancaster SC, pitcher (Detroit Tigers, Astros)
1969 - Edgar Bennett, NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1970 - Nathaniel Mills, Evanston Ill, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Tyrone Legette, NFL cornerback (NO Saints)
1971 - Barbara Failey-Herbert, South Africa, golfer (1989 winner SA Champ)
1971 - Jim Butler, Iowa City Iowa, table tennis player (Olympics-92, 96)
1971 - Tyrone Legette, cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1971 - Ray Sefo, New Zealand kick boxer
1972 - Jaromir Jagr, Kladno Cze, NHL right wing (Penguins, Czech Oly-G-1998)
1972 - Lance Scott, NFL offensive linesman (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 - Tim Hall, running back (Oakland Raiders)
1974 - Seattle Slew, American racehorse (d. 2002)
1974 - Alexander Wurz, Austrian race car driver
1975 - Robert Fuchs, soccer player (PSV)
1976 - Óscar Freire, Spanish cyclist
1979 - Gordon Shedden, Scottish Race Car Driver
1979 - Josh Low, English footballer
1981 - Diego Martínez, Mexican footballer
1983 - Russell Martin, Canadian baseball player
1986 - Gabriel Paletta, Argentine footballer
1990 - Erwin Sak, Polish footballer
Deaths in Sport
Results 1 - 5 of 5
1961 - Marubel Vinaon Owen, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1932), dies
1964 - Ken Hubbs, 2nd baseman (Chic Cubs), dies in plane crash at 22
1971 - Dimitrios Loundras, Greek gymnast (b. 1885)
1981 - Jack Crapp, cricketer (7 Tests for England 1948-49, 319 runs), dies
1991 - Gary Gears, Chicago disk jockey, dies at 46 of a heart attack
