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On This Day in Sports History

 

On this day in sports history way back in 1959, William A Shea announced his plans to have a baseball team in NYC in 1961. This team would join the MLB alongside the Houston Colt 45's in 1962 becoming the replacement teams in New York after the Giants & Dodgers left town in 1957. The new team would become the New York Mets and the team would name their first stadium after the teams founder known as Shea Stadium which would be the teams home from 1964-2008.

 

In one year two hall of famers would join the 3,500 strikeout club in 1983. Both Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton would join the 3,500 strikeout club on this day in 1983. Carlton would end his career with 4,136 strike outs and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1994 ironically enough eleven years after this moment. The "remarkable" Ryan would finish his career with 5,714 strike outs and would be inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1999.

 


A few interesting notes based on random interesting events that have happened on this day in sports history. In 1990, Tom Moody would score 100 in 26 mins in County Cricket, a world record. On this day in 1993, NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million. Fast forward to 1996 it was on this day when a bomb exploded at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed and 110 injured.


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