Today will be the first of what I can hopefully do every day. A brief history of sporting facts that occurred on this day in history. Mainly it will be of what I consider to be important or interesting in the history of sport. Feel free to let me know if anything occurred that I missed.
1857: World's First Football (Soccer) club formed - Sheffield FC in England.
1972: Jackie Robinson (First black baseball player - Brooklyn Dodgers) dies at 53
1984: Steffi Graf plays her first professional Tennis Match
1996: Hasan Razza makes Test debut for pakistan aged 14 Years 238 days (although i always question the age of players from the sub continent)
Also on this day the Toronto Blue Jays are noted as being the first non-American team to win the World Series. Worthy of a mention but more worthy of a criticism. Don't get me wrong I like watching baseball and the World Series but really it is an American Baseball Competition. How one can truly call it a world series I don't know.
This is a good post for a Monday. Should do it every Monday to get over the Monday-itess!
ReplyDeleteThanks. Might be a bit easier to do a week in sports history as well.
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