April 15
1901 — Boston Marathon received for second straight 12 months by Canadian Jim Caffrey.
1907 — Boston Marathon received by Canadian Tom Longboat.
1927 — Yankees slugger Babe Ruth hits MLB report 60 HRs is a season.
1937 — The Detroit Pink Wings beat the New York Rangers 3-0 to take the Stanley Cup within the fifth and last sport.
1947 — Jackie Robinson turns into 1st African-American to play in US main league baseball.
1952 — The Detroit Pink Wings beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-0 to seize the Stanley Cup. The Pink Wings holds the Canadiens to 2 objectives within the four-game sweep.
1958 — 1st baseball sport in California, SF Giants beat LA Dodgers, 8-0.
1979 — forty third US Masters Event, Augusta Nationwide GC: Fuzzy Zoeller wins his solely Masters with a birdie on the 2nd gap of a playoff with Ed Sneed and Tom Watson.
1984 — Ben Crenshaw wins the Masters by two strokes over Tom Watson.
1985 — Marvin Hagler retains his world middleweight title by stopping Tommas Hearns within the third spherical at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Each slug it out with reckless abandon for eight minutes, which many contemplate essentially the most electrifying three rounds in boxing historical past.
1990 — PGA Seniors’ Championship Males’s Golf, PGA Nationwide GC: South African Gary Participant wins his third occasion title by 2 strokes.
1991 — Magic Johnson units an NBA report for profession assists in a 112-106 victory over the Dallas Mavericks. Johnson, who wanted 9 assists to interrupt Oscar Robertson’s report of 9,887, will get 19.
1993 — Sparky Anderson earns his 2,000th victory as a supervisor because the Detroit Tigers rally to beat the Oakland Athletics 3-2.
1993 — Andre Dawson turns into the twenty fifth participant to hit 400 dwelling runs because the Boston Pink Sox beat the Cleveland Indians 4-3.
1997 — Baseball honors Jackie Robinson by retiring #42 for all groups.
1998 — The primary-ever AL-NL doubleheader is held in New York’s Shea Stadium. The New York Yankees beat the Anaheim Angels 6-3 and the New York Mets edge the Chicago Cubs 2-1.
2000 — Cal Ripken turns into the twenty fourth participant to succeed in 3,000 hits when he strains a clear single to heart off Twins reliever Hector Carrasco. He reaches the milestone along with his third hit in a 6-4 victory over the Minnesota Twins and turns into the seventh participant in main league historical past to get 3,000 hits and 400 dwelling runs.
2000 — NFL Draft: Penn State defensive finish Courtney Brown first decide by Cleveland Browns.
2005 — Prime-ranked Roger Federer’s 25-match profitable streak ends when French teenager Richard Gasquet saves three match factors earlier than capturing a third-set tiebreaker on the Monte Carlo Masters. Federer’s 35-1 report this 12 months is the perfect begin on the lads’s tour since John McEnroe was 39-0 in 1984.
2005 — Two-time Olympic champion Steven Lopez of america wins his third world taekwondo title, capturing the welterweight gold medal with a 3-2 victory over Ali Tajik of Iran.
2018 — Victor Oladipo scores 32 factors and the Indiana Pacers maintain off Cleveland’s second-half rally for a shocking 98-80 victory in Sport 1 of the Jap Convention collection, handing LeBron James and the Cavaliers’ their first loss within the opening spherical in eight years.
2019 — LA Clippers overcome an NBA report 31-point deficit to attain an inconceivable 135-131 Sport 2 playoff victory over the Golden State Warriors.
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