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• 1819 - Abner Doubleday was born.

• 1910 - For the second consecutive year, Hazel Hotchkiss won the singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles at the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championships.

• 1916 - The Chicago White Sox and the Cleveland Indians appeared in a game with numbers on their sleeves. The event marked the first time that players were identified by numbers that corresponded to the scoreboard.

• 1938 - Lonney Frey (Cincinnati Reds) had eight hits in a doubleheader split with the Philadelphia Phillies.

• 1944 - The New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees played against each other in a six inning contest in a war bonds fund-raiser. Over 50,000 people watched the game. The final score was Dodgers 5, Yankees 1 and the Giants 0.

• 1962 - Earl Wilson (Boston Red Sox) pitched a 2-0 no-hitter against the Los Angeles Angels. Wilson also hit a home run.

• 1970 - Frank Robinson (Baltimore Orioles) hit two grand slams against the Washington Senators in a 12-2 win.

• 1976 - Shortstop Toby Harrah (Texas Rangers) played an entire doubleheader without handling a batted ball from the Chicago White Sox.

• 1979 - Muhammad Ali, at 37 years old, announced that he was retiring as world heavyweight boxing champion.

• 1985 - Wilbur Snapp was ejected after playing "Three Blind Mice" during a baseball game. The incident followed a call made by umpire Keith O'Connor.

• 1986 - Jockey Sandy Hawley won his 5,000 career race.

• 1990 - Jennifer Capriati, at age 14, became the youngest winner of a match in Wimbledon history.

• 1998 - Jamaica won soccer's World Cup. It was the first time a Caribbean team had won the World Cup since 1938.

• 1999 - Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs) hit his 300th career home run.

• 1999 - Cal Ripken (Baltimore Orioles) got his 995th extra base hit.

• 2000 - Alex Cabrera (Arizona Diamondbacks) hit a two-run home run in his first major league at-bat.

• 2001 - Ray Bourque (Colorado Avalanche) announced his retirement just 17 days after winning his first Stanley Cup. Bourque retired after 22 years and held the NHL record for highest-scoring defenseman and playing in 19 consecutive All-Star games.

James Thomas Anthony Valvano, nicknamed Jimmy V, was an American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster. While the head coach at NC State, his team won the 1983 NCAA Division I men's basketball title against improbable odds

Valvano is also remembered for an inspirational and memorable speech delivered at the 1993 ESPY Awards while terminally ill with cancer. Valvano implored the audience to laugh, think, and cry each day, He gave the speech less than two months before his death

Born: March 10, 1946, Queens, New York, NY

Died: April 28, 1993 (age 47 years), Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC

“I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.”

- Jim Valvano

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TODAY'S SPORTS TRIVIA QUESTIONS

QUESTIONS

1) This team won 8 straight NBA titles from 1959 to 1966. No other team has won more than 3 consecutive.

2) Tiger Woods is still three majors away from this man’s record for most major titles

3) What is the only number retired across all of baseball and who is it for?

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