Jack Nicklaus’s first major golf tournament win was the 1962 U.S. Open, where he beat the popular champion Arnold Palmer.
It was Nicklaus’s second year as a pro.
He went on to win 71 tour victories and 20 major championships over the next two decades.
The Brooklyn Dodgers left Ebbets Field and moved to Los Angeles after the 1957 baseball season.
The National Football League was founded in 1920 in Canton, Ohio. Originally called the American Professional Football Association, it adopted its name in 1922. Athlete Jim Thorpe was its first president. The NFL and the American Football League merged in 1970 to create the new 26-team NFL.
The practice, which takes place before the home team comes to bat, became popular in 1860 because the number seven is considered lucky.
This phrase texas leaguer for a weak hit falling just over the heads of the infielders may first have been used to describe the hits of Arthur Sunday, a player from Texas. Another version is that the term was coined in Syracuse, New York, in 1886 by a pitcher who lost a game because of…
The first baseball game played at night was at Crosley Field in Cincinnati on May 24, 1935. It was a game between the Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies. The Reds beat the Phillies, 2-1.
The first man to win the tennis grand slam in the same calendar year was J. Donald (Don) Budge (b. 1915) in 1938.