Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008

This Date In Sports

1939

The first Major League Baseball game is televised. NBC-TV broadcasts a doubleheader at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field between the Cincinnati Reds and the Dodgers.

1972

The New York Cosmos win the NASL championship by defeating the St. Louis Stars 2-1.

1995

Greg Norman sinks a 66-foot chip on the first playoff hole to capture the World Series of Golf and become the leading money winner in PGA history. Norman wins $360,000 in his third tour victory this year to raise his lifetime earnings to $9.49 million and overtake Tom Kite.

1997

Carl Lewis finishes his track and field career anchoring a star-studded team to victory in the 400-meter relay to cap the ISTAF Grand Prix meet in Berlin. The team of Olympic 100-meter champion Donovan Bailey, former world record-holder Leroy Burrell, Namibian sprint champion Frankie Fredericks and Lewis wins in 38.24 seconds.