Back in Time: July 1

Back in Time: July 1
Back in Time: July 1 /

1968

Bob Gibson's 47 2/3 innings scoreless streak ends on a wild pitch.


1982

Cal Ripken Jr. (seen here with his father, Cal Ripken Sr.) plays his first major league game.


1989

NFL owners vote unanimously to form the World League of American Football.


1997

Nevada Athletic Commission suspends Mike Tyson for biting Holyfield in the ear during a match a few days earlier.


2005

Kenny Rogers is suspended for 20 games and fined $50,000 for actions which sends a cameraman to the hospital and launches a police investigation.


2007

Stephon Marbury's rambling, disjointed, quixotic and hilariously nonsensical TV interview with Bruce Beck on the local NBC affiliate's Sunday night sports show quickly becomes a landmark moment in viral video history.


Born on this Day

Jarome Iginla (1977) Carl Lewis (1961)



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