On This Day in Sports History

On this day, over one hundred years ago one of the greatest managers in the history of Baseball began his career as a manager. John McGraw would begin his thirty year tenure with the then New York Giants on this day. A star player before his retirement McGraw would mount an incredible 2,840 victories as a manager and was a member of the first class to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937. McGraw would win three World Series Championships and twelve league championships with only Connie Mack having more career victories as a manager.

See if you can follow what happened on this day in 1948 when three managers were given the boot in the same day with one finding a new home the same day he had been fired. The Phillies fired Ben Chapman and hired Eddie Sawyer, New York Giants fired Mel Ott and hired Leo Durocher while the Brooklyn Dodgers fired Leo Durocher and hired Burt Shotton. Did you follow that?

Imagine over 200,000 people coming together to watch the World Cup, that happened in 1960 for a game between Brazil and Uruguay. Fast forward to 2017, Tennis legend Roger Federer beats Marin Čilić 6-3, 6-1, 6-4 for a record 8th Wimbledon men's title. I honestly don't know a lot about Tennis and more or less picked this because it was one of the interesting things I found that didn't have to do with Baseball. Federer is one of the only male tennis players I've heard of, but this is something new we can do outside of the bigger posts that I've been doing the last few weeks.

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