1901 - After two consecutive rainouts, just over 10,000 fans witnessed the Philadelphia Athletics make their American League debut with a 5-1 loss to the Washington Senators.
1908 - Ty Cobb signs with the Detroit Tigers for $4,000 and will receive an $800 bonus if he finishes the season with a .300 batting average. 1921 - Gene Paulette is banned from organized baseball for throwing games.
It takes more than one great player to win a championship. These all-time great MLB players had their fair share of personal accomplishments but were never able to win a World Series.
The Naismith College Player of the Year is an annual basketball award given by the Atlanta Tipoff Club to the top men's and women's collegiate basketball players. It is named in honor of the inventor of basketball (in 1891), Dr. James Naismith.Can you name every men's college basketball player who has won the Naismith Award?
What are baseball's records least likely to be broken during your lifetime? Give or take a half-century or so, many of the game's most impressive marks have stood the test of time and seem to be out of reach.
The unpredictability and drama of sports have been played out for well over 100 years. Those traits certain apply to the following scenarios, contests in which one team looked all but defeated only to pull off stunning comebacks of epic proportions.