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Baseball (Major League)

Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....

• World Series
  World Series
  
  The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball, the culmination of the sport's playoff each October. Since the Series takes place in mid-autumn, sportswriters many years ago dubbed the event the Fall Classic, a usage reflected in the logo for the 2008 World Series; it is also sometimes known as the October Clas...
   - New York Giants
  New York Giants
  
  The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The team plays its home games at Giants Stadium, which also serves as its headquarters, and trains at an adjacent practice facility within the Meadowlands Sports Complex....
   defeat New York Yankees
  New York Yankees
  
  The New York Yankees are a professional baseball based in the Borough of the Bronx, in New York City, New York and are a member of the American League East of Major League Baseball's American League....
  , 4 games to 0 with one tie. The best-of-seven format will remain in place.

Baseball (Negro League)

Negro league baseball

The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the #Significant Negro leagues that are sometimes termed "Negro Major Leagues"....

• The Chicago American Giants
  Chicago American Giants
  
  Chicago American Giants were a Chicago based Negro League baseball team, formed by player-manager Rube Foster. From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the American Giants were the most dominant team in black baseball....
   win their third consecutive Negro National League
  Negro National League (the first)
  
  The Negro National League was one of the several Negro League baseball which were established during the period in the United States in which organized baseball was segregated....
   pennant

Cycling

Cycling

Cycling is the use of bicycles, or - less commonly - unicycles, tricycles, Quadracycle s and other similar wheeled human powered vehicles as a means of transport, a form of recreation or a sport....

• September 17 - Dutch
  Netherlands
  
  The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
   cyclist Piet Moeskops
  Piet Moeskops
  
  Pieter Daniel Moeskops was a Dutch cyclist, who won the UCI Track Cycling World Championships - Men's Sprint 5 times in the 1920s.Born in Loosduinen, as a boy he rode a delivery bike for his father's business....
   becomes World Champion in the UCI Track Cycling World Championships - Men's Sprint
  UCI Track Cycling World Championships - Men's Sprint
  
  The UCI Track Cycling World Championships - Men's Sprint is the world championship sprint event held annually at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships....
  .

Football

Football

File:Football4.pngFootball is the word given to a number of similar team sports, all of which involve kicking a ball with the foot in an attempt to score a Goal ....
 (American Football

American football

American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
)

• June 24 - The American Professional Football Association adopts the name of the National Football League
  National Football League
  
  The National Football League is the Major North American professional sports leagues American football Sports league in the United States. It is an unincorporated 501#501.28c.29.286.29 association controlled by its members....
  
• Canton Bulldogs
  Canton Bulldogs
  
  The Canton Bulldogs were the first professional American football team based in Canton, Ohio. They played in the Ohio League from 1903 to 1906 and 1911 to 1919, and in the National Football League from 1920 to 1923 and 1925 to 1926....
   win the National Football League title with a record of 10 wins 0 loses and 2 ties

Football

Football

File:Football4.pngFootball is the word given to a number of similar team sports, all of which involve kicking a ball with the foot in an attempt to score a Goal ....
 (Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian football, or simply known as football, footy, Aussie rules or as AFL, is a team sport played between two teams of 18 players with a football in the shape of a prolate spheroid....
)

• Victorian Football League
  Victorian Football League
  
  The Victorian Football League, formerly known as the Victorian Football Association is the premier league in Victoria. It is also known as the VFA/VFL, is the second-oldest Australian rules football league, formed in 1877, replacing the loose affiliation of clubs that had been the hallmark of the Australian Rules Football - Early...
   - Fitzroy
  Fitzroy Football Club
  
  Fitzroy Football Club, most recently nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner city Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Australian Football League on its inception in 1897 in sports....
   wins the 26th VFL Premiership (Fitzroy 11.13 (79) d Collingwood
  Collingwood Football Club
  
  Collingwood Football Club, officially nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League....
   9.14 (68))

Football (soccer)

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....

England

• First Division
  Football League First Division
  
  The Football League First Division was the highest division of The Football League between 1993 and 2004, and the highest division of Football in England overall between 1892 and 1992....
   - Liverpool
  Liverpool F.C.
  
  Liverpool Football Club is a professional association football club based in Liverpool, England. The club plays in the Premier League, and it is the Football records in England#Most successful clubs overall in the history of Football in England; the club has won List of football clubs in England by major honours won than any other English cl...
   win the 1921-22
  1921-22 in English football
  
  The 1921-22 season was the 47th season of competitive football in England....
   title
• FA Cup
  FA Cup
  
  The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a Single-elimination tournament cup competition in Football in England, run by and named after The Football Association....
   - Huddersfield Town beat Preston North End
  Preston North End F.C.
  
  Preston North End Football Club is an England professional football club located in the Deepdale area of the city of Preston, Lancashire, currently playing in the second tier of English league football, Football League Championship....
   1-0

Golf

Golf

Golf is a sport in which players using many types of Golf club including wood , iron , and putter , attempt to hit golf ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes....
 

• June 20-23 - British Open
  The Open Championship
  
  The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four men's major golf championships in men's golf. It is the only major held outside the USA and is administered by the R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico....
   - Walter Hagen
  Walter Hagen
  
  Walter Charles Hagen was a major figure in golf in the first half of the 20th century. His tally of eleven Men's major golf championships is third behind Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods ....
  
• July 13-15 - U.S. Open
  U.S. Open (golf)
  
  The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual Open Golf Tournaments of the United States. It is the second of the four men's major golf championships in golf and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the PGA European Tour....
   - Gene Sarazen
  Gene Sarazen
  
  Gene Sarazen is one of only five golfers to win all the men's major golf championships in his career, the Career Grand Slam :U.S. Open in 1922, 1932,...
  
• August 18 - PGA Championship
  PGA Championship
  
  The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the Professional Golfers Association of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four men's major golf championships in professional golf, and it is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August ....
   - Gene Sarazen
  Gene Sarazen
  
  Gene Sarazen is one of only five golfers to win all the men's major golf championships in his career, the Career Grand Slam :U.S. Open in 1922, 1932,...
  
• British Amateur
  The Amateur Championship
  
  The Amateur Championship is a golf tournament which is held in the United Kingdom. In the rest of the world, it is often known as the "British Amateur" or the "British Amateur Championship"....
   - Ernest Holderness
• U.S. Amateur - Jess Sweetser
  Jess Sweetser
  
  Jesse W. "Jess" Sweetser was an amateur golfer, best known as the first United States-born player to win the The Amateur Championship .Born in St....
  

Hockey (Ice)

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...

• Toronto St. Pats win their 1st Stanley Cup, defeating the Vancouver Millionaires
  Vancouver Millionaires
  
  The Vancouver Millionaires were a professional ice hockey team that competed in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the Western Canada Hockey League between 1911 and 1926....
   3 games to 2

Horse racing

Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrianism sport that has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot racing of Ancient Rome are an early example, as is the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology....
 

• May 13 - Morvich
  Morvich
  
  Morvich was an United States Thoroughbred who was the first California horse racing to win the Kentucky Derby. Bred by sugar magnate Adolph B. Spreckels at his Napa, California Stock Farm, Morvich was sired by James R....
   wins the Kentucky Derby
  Kentucky Derby
  
  The Kentucky Derby is a graded stakes race for three year-old Thoroughbreds, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival....
  

Events

• June-July - Water skiing
  Water skiing
  
  Water skiing is a sport where an individual is pulled behind a motor boat or a Cable skiing on a body of water wearing one or more skis. The surface area of the ski keeps the person skimming on the surface of the water allowing the skier to stand upright while holding the tow rope....
   invented in Lake City, Minnesota
  Lake City, Minnesota
  
  Lake City is a city in Goodhue County, Minnesota and Wabasha County, Minnesota counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It lies along Lake Pepin, a wide portion of the Mississippi River....
   by Ralph Samuelson
  Ralph Samuelson
  
  Ralph Wilford Samuelson was the inventor of water skiing, which he first performed in the summer of 1922 in Lake City, Minnesota, just before his 19th birthday....
  
• July 9 - Johnny Weissmuller
  Johnny Weissmuller
  
  Johnny Weissmuller was an United States swimming and actor who was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic Games gold medals and one bronze medal....
   swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking a world swimming
  Swimming
  
  Swimming is the movement by humans or animals through water, usually without artificial assistance. Swimming is an activity that can be both useful and recreational....
   record and the 'minute barrier'

Births

• March 7 — Július Torma
  Július Torma
  
  J?lius Torma was a Slovakia boxing. He won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1948 for Czechoslovakia in the category up to 67 kg. He competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics ....
  , Slovak boxer (d. 1991)
• March 28 — Joey Maxim
  Joey Maxim
  
  Giuseppe Antonio Berardinelli, , was an USA Boxing. He was a light heavyweight champion of the world. He took the ring-name Joey Maxim from the Maxim gun, the world's first self-acting machine gun, based on his ability to rapidly throw a large number of left jabs....
  , American boxer, world champion (d. 2001)
• July 10 — Herb McKenley
  Herb McKenley
  
  Herbert Henry McKenley was a Jamaican Athletics , winner of a gold medal in the 4x400 m Relay race at the 1952 Summer Olympics.Born in Pleasant Valley, Jamaica, Clarendon, Jamaica, Herb McKenley enrolled at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and won the National Collegiate Athletic Association championships in and in 1946 an...
  , Jamaican athlete (d. 2007)
• September 9 — Fortune Gordien
  Fortune Gordien
  
  Fortune Everett Gordien was an United States athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw.Born in Spokane, Washington he competed for the United States in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the discus throw where he won the bronze medal behind two Italians, Adolfo Consolini and Giuseppe Tosi....
  , American athlete (d. 1990)
• September 19 — Willie Pep
  Willie Pep
  
  Guglielmo Papaleo was an United States boxing who was better known as Willie Pep. Pep fought a total of 242 bouts during his 26 year career, a considerable number of fights even for a fighter of his era....
  , American featherweight boxer (d. 2006)
• November 8 — Ademir Marques de Menezes
  Ademir Marques de Menezes
  
  Ademir Marques de Menezes, best known as Ademir was a Brazilian Football player, regarded as one of the best centre forwards in the history of the Brazil national football team....
  , Brazilian football (soccer) player (d. 1996)
• November 19 — Curt Stone
  Curt Stone
  
  Curtis Charles Stone is a retired long-distance Running from the United States. He represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1948....
  , American long-distance runner
• December 1 — Vsevolod Bobrov
  Vsevolod Bobrov
  
  Vsevolod Mikhailovich Bobrov was a Soviet Union athlete, who excelled in both football , bandy, and ice hockey. He is considered one of the best Russians ever in all of those sports....
  , Soviet footballer and ice hockey player (d. 1979)
• December 23 — Micheline Ostermeyer
  Micheline Ostermeyer
  
  Micheline Ostermeyer was a France Athletics and piano.A great-niece of the French author Victor Hugo, and a niece of the composer Lucien Paroche, Ostermeyer was born in Rang-du-Fliers, France....
  , French athlete and pianist (d. 2001)

Deaths

• December 25 - Percy Jones
  Percy Jones (boxer)
  
  Rhondda Percy Jones became the first Welshman ever to win a World Boxing Title when he took the World Flyweight Championship from Bill Ladbury in 1914....
  , former world boxing champion (b. 1892)