Baseball Record

Today's 11 May Sport in History

1887 13th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Lewis aboard Montrose wins in 2:39.25 1888 16th Preakness: F Littlefield aboard Refund wins in 2:49 1892 18t…

1889 15th Kentucky Derby: Thomas Kiley aboard Spokane wins in 2:34.50 1901 Cleveland's Earl Moore no-hits Chicago White Sox 9 inn but los…

1863 Irish boxer Joe Coburn KOs American Mike McCoole in the 67th round in his first defense of Heavyweight C'ship of America in Charle…

1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings play their first official baseball game, defeating the Great Western Base Ball Club 45-9 1871 First baseball le…

1374 BC Solar eclipse lasting 2 minutes 7 seconds is seen at Ugarit by Mesopotamian astronomers, "On the day of the new moon, in the mont…

1900 26th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Boland aboard Lieut Gibson wins in 2:06.25 1902 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 2…

1876 Ross Barnes hits the first home run in the National League 1903 29th Kentucky Derby: Hal Booker riding Judge Himes wins in 2:09 1904 30…

1751 The New York Gazette and Post Boy carries first public report of a cricket match played in America; New York XI v London XI on the site o…

757 Paolo Orsini replaces his brother Pope Stephen II as Pope Paul I Event of Interest 1220 King of the Germans Frederick II grants…

1900 Newly renamed American League opener in Cleveland draws 6,500 (still as a minor league, was Western League) 1901 Jimmy Collins, having l…

1880 Amateur Athletic Association, the governing body for men's athletics in England and Wales, is founded in Oxford, England W…

1479 BC Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 1…