October 1, 2012

90 years ago
1922

Baseball
Rogers Hornsby of the St. Louis Cardinals batted 3 for 5 in a 7-1 win over the Chicago Cubs at Cubs Park in Chicago, enabling him to finish the season with a batting percentage of .401. Mr. Hornsby finished the season with 250 hits, a National League record.

80 years ago
1932

Football
ARU
Calgary (2-0) 5 @ Edmonton (0-2) 4

Baseball
World Series Game 3
New York Yankees 7 @ Chicago Cubs 5 (New York led best-of-seven series 3-0)

Lou Gehrig hit 2 home runs for the Yankees, but it was the homer that Babe Ruth hit that became one of the most famous in history. Facing Cubs' pitcher Charlie Root in the 5th inning, Mr. Ruth took 2 strikes and then allegedly waved or pointed toward center field and then hit the ball into the center field bleachers.

In the Pacific Coast League, 17-year-old Joe DiMaggio played his first professional game with the San Francisco Seals, getting a hit against the San Jose Missions.

70 years ago
1942

Baseball
World Series Game 2
New York Yankees 3 @ St. Louis Cardinals 4 (Best-of-seven series tied 1-1)

The Yankees scored 3 runs in the top of the 8th inning at Sportsman's Park to tie the game, but Stan Musial singled home Enos Slaughter in the bottom of the 8th to provide the winning run.

60 years ago
1952

On the radio
I Was a Communist for the FBI, starring Dana Andrews
Tonight’s episode: Pennies from the Dead

On television tonight
The Unexpected, hosted by Herbert Marshall, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Blackmail, starring William Bakewell, William Cottrell, Edgar Dearing, Leif Erickson, and Marie Windsor

Baseball
World Series Game 1
New York Yankees 2 @ Brooklyn Dodgers 4 (Brooklyn led best-of-seven series 1-0)

Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, and Pee Wee Reese hit home runs as Joe Black won the pitchers' duel over Allie Reynolds at Ebbets Field.

50 years ago
1962

Music
The Beach Boys’ first album, Surfin’ Safari, was released on Capitol records.

Protest
2 people were killed and at least 75 injured in rioting at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. The rioters were protesting the admission of James Meredith as the university's first negro student.

Football
CFL
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats traded halfback Ron Howell to the British Columbia Lions for halfback Gary Schreider and an undisclosed amount of cash. Mr. Schreider had retired from the Lions several weeks earlier to enter Osgoode Hall law school in Toronto, and the trade would enable him to balance studies and football.

Toronto (2-7) 38 @ Calgary (6-5-1) 23

Tobin Rote completed 17 of 25 passes for 305 yards, completing one for a touchdown to Aubrey Linne and setting up 4 other TDs as the Argonauts upset the Stampeders at McMahon Stadium. Gerry McDougall rushed for 2 Toronto touchdowns, while Dick Shatto caught 9 passes from Mr. Rote, rushed for a touchdown, and passed 26 yards to Dave Mann for another. Calgary quarterback Eagle Day completed 15 of 26 passes for 201 yards, including touchdowns of 31 yards to Pete Manning and 39 yards to Lovell Coleman, and rushed 1 yard for a TD of his own.

Baseball
Billy Pierce pitched a 3-hitter and Willie Mays hit his 48th and 49th home runs of the season as the San Francisco Giants routed the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-0 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in the first game of a best-of-three playoff for the National League pennant. Sandy Koufax, pitching for just the third time since coming back from a circulatory ailment that had kept him out of action for much of the second half of the season, took the loss.

40 years ago
1972

On television tonight
Rod Serling's Night Gallery, on NBC
Tonight's episode: The Girl with the Hungry Eyes, starring James Farentino, John Astin, and Joanna Pettet

Died on this date
Louis Leakey, 69. U.K. paleontologist. Dr. Leakey was known for his work in Africa, particularly in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. His wife Mary discovered a fossil hominid called paranthropus boisei in 1959, for which Dr. Leakey created the genus Zinjanthropus. Disputes over the taxonomies of this and other hominids continues to this day.

Crime
An Israeli court sentenced two ultra-Orthodox rabbinical students to 18 months and 1 year in prison, respectively, for setting fire to Tel Aviv’s only sex boutique. Their conviction in August of arson and attempting to run down a policeman who witnessed the fire had provoked protests in Israel and at the United Nations, where Orthodox sympathizers had protested Israel’s “persecution” of the students. The judge rejected claims that the defendants, as observant Jews, had acted on “moral compulsion.”

War
21 U.S. sailors were killed and 10 others wounded in a gun explosion aboard the U.S.S. Newport News, which was cruising off Vietnam’s Quangtri province.

Football
CFL
Hamilton (7-3) 25 @ Ottawa (7-3) 20
Saskatchewan (6-5) 14 @ Calgary (4-6) 31

The Tiger-Cats built a 22-0 lead early in the 2nd quarter but barely hung on to defeat the Rough Riders before 25,658 fans at Lansdowne Park. Quarterback Chuck Ealey rushed 1 yard for the first Hamilton touchdown in the 1st quarter, set up by a 76-yard pass to Garney Henley. Dave Buchanan rushed 4 yards for the next Hamilton touchdown in the 2nd quarter, and 33 seconds later, Ottawa quarterback Rick Cassata fumbled when hit, defensive tackle Angelo Mosca dribbled the ball 18 yards to the Ottawa end zone, and Bruce Smith recovered for the third Tiger-Cat touchdown. Mr. Cassata completed an 18-yard touchdown pass to Hugh Oldham in the 4th quarter and handed off to Terry Wellesley for a 2-yard touchdown run with 1:39 remaining in the game, but Hamilton defensive back John Williams ended the Ottawa rally with an interception in the final seconds. It was the Tiger-Cats' third win over the Rough Riders in as many games in 1972, and they were the only losses suffered by Ottawa all year.

Jesse Mims rushed for 2 touchdowns and Jerry Keeling completed a TD pass to Gerry Shaw as the Stampeders beat the Roughriders before a sellout crowd of 23,616 at McMahon Stadium. Larry Robinson added 3 converts and 3 field goals. Bubba Wyche, playing quarterback for the Roughriders in place of injured regular Ron Lancaster, completed a 78-yard pass to Gord Barwell for a touchdown and handed off to George Reed for a 1-yard TD run.

Baseball
Dick Bosman pitched a 3-hitter as the Texas Rangers ended a 15-game losing streak with a 2-1 win over the Chicago White Sox. For losing pitcher Wilbur Wood, whose record dropped to 24-17, it was his 49th start of the season, tied for the second-highest figure in the 20th century.

30 years ago
1982

Politics and government
The West German government of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt lost a non-confidence vote in the Bundestag. In September, the Free Democrats had abandoned their 13-year coalition with Mr. Schmidt’s party, the Social Democrats. Mr. Schmidt’s government was replaced by that of the Christian Democratic Party, whose leader, Helmut Kohl, became the 6th Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Baseball
The Baltimore Orioles swept a doubleheader from the visiting Milwaukee Brewers 8-3 and 7-1 before 51,000 fans to move within 1 game of the American League East Division leaders with 2 games remaining in the regular season.

25 years ago
1987

Protest
Nine people were reported to have died when a crowd calling for Tibetan independence from China stoned and burned a police station in Lhasa.

Politics and government
Televangelist Pat Robertson announced that he would seek the 1988 Republican party nomination for President of the United States.

Disasters
An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck southern California, causing 6 deaths, more than 100 injuries, and $59 million in damages. 15 aftershocks were felt in the next few hours in the strongest quake to hit the area since 1971. The city of Whittier was hardest hit.

Baseball
The Detroit Tigers took advantage of 3 errors to score 5 unearned runs and defeat the Baltimore Orioles 9-5 before 19,749 fans at Tiger Stadium to move within 1 game of the idle first-place Toronto Blue Jays in the American League East Division pennant race.
Both the Blue Jays and Tigers had 3 games remaining--against each other, in Detroit.

The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Montreal Expos 8-2 to clinch the National League East Division pennant.

20 years ago
1992

World events
The Czechoslovakian parliament rejected the draft bill on division of the country, throwing the timetable for separation into chaos. The two republics were to separate on January 1, 1993, but no agreement could be reached on how to accomplish the change.

Defense
The United States Senate approved a treaty, signed in 1991, that would reduce the number of strategic (long-range) weapons held by the U.S.A. and four independent states that were formerly part of the U.S.S.R. Under its terms, the number of U.S. warheads would drop from 12,646 in 1990 to 8,556, and the number of Russian warheads would decline from 11,012 held by the Soviet Union in 1990 to 6,163. The former Soviet republics of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine would have no nuclear weapons. Only Kazakhstan of the four former Soviet republics had approved the treaty so far.

The aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, while taking part in NATO exercises, accidentally fired two missiles that hit a Turkish destroyer, killing 5 and injuring 15.

Politics and government
The Ukrainian government was defeated 295-6 in a parliamentary non-confidence vote, the day after the resignation of Prime Minister Vitold Fokin.

After withdrawing from the race in July, Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot announced that his withdrawal had been a mistake, and that he was back as an independent candidate for President of the United States.

Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau called for Canadians to vote “No” in the constitutional referendum on October 26.

Abominations
The United States Senate voted 73-26 to overturn President George Bush’s veto of a bill that sought to overturn an administration regulation prohibiting abortion counselling at federally-financed family planning clinics.

Economics and finance
The Canadian dollar dropped to U.S. 80.06c, down from 80.24c the day before.

10 years ago
2002

Baseball
American League Division Series Games 1
Anaheim 5 @ New York 8 (New York led best-of-five series 1-0)
Minnesota 7 @ Oakland 5 (Minnesota led best-of-five series 1-0)

National League Division Series Game 1
St. Louis 12 @ Arizona 2 (St. Louis led best-of-five series 1-0)

The Yankees scored 4 runs in the bottom of the 8th inning to defeat the Angels at Yankee Stadium.

The Twins came back from a 5-1 deficit to defeat the Athletics at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.

Matt Morris easily won the pitchers' duel over Randy Johnson as the Cardinals routed the Diamondbacks at Bank One Ballpark.

The New York Mets fired manager Bobby Valentine, while the Texas Rangers fired manager Jerry Narron.