Events in Sports History in October 1973

Sports History

Oct 1 Future Baseball Hall of Fame player and manager Leo Durocher ends his 45 year career in the sport when he resigns as Houston Astros manager

Baseball Player and Manager Leo Durocher

F1 World Champion

Oct 7 Scotsman Jackie Stewart wins his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship despite withdrawing from the season ending US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen; wins title by 16 points from Emerson Fittipaldi

Sports History

Oct 8 MLB NLCS game 3 interrupted by brawl spawned by fight between Cincinnati Reds Pete Rose and New York Mets Bud Harrelson at Shea Stadium in New York

Oct 10 MLB National League Championship: New York Mets beat Cincinnati Reds, 3 games to 2
Oct 11 MLB American League Championship: Oakland Athletics beat Baltimore Orioles, 3 games to 2

Sports History

Oct 14 42-year-old future Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder Willie Mays' last MLB career hit, as NY Mets beat A's, 10-7 in World Series Game 2 in Oakland

Sports History

Oct 20 US President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe to have been the greatest athlete of the 1st half of the 20th century

Oct 21 23rd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Benny Parsons wins

World Series

Oct 21 Baseball World Series: defending champion Oakland A's beat NY Mets, 5-2 in Game 7 at Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum to retain title; A's manager Dick Williams immediately quits; MVP: A's outfielder Reggie Jackson

Oct 21 Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.

Sports History

Oct 23 19-year-old American tennis star Chris Evert retains her WTA Tour Championship at Boca Raton, Florida; beats Nancy Richey Gunter 6-3, 6-3 in the final