Sports History
1851 - The New York Knickerbockers became the first baseball team to wear uniforms. They wore straw hats, white shirts and blue trousers.
1932 - Lou Gehrig American League player to hit four home runs in one game.
1980 - ESPN began televising college world series games.
1987 - The Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros combined for three grand slams in one game.
1989 - The Houston Astros beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-4. The game lasted 22 innings and took over seven hours to play.
2003 - Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs) broke a bat when he grounded out against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The bat he was using was a corked bat.
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