THIS DAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
1945 - Tommy Brown of the Brooklyn Dodgers became the youngest player to hit a home run in a major league ball game. Brown was 17 years, 8 months and 14 days old.
1949 - Cleveland’s Indians and Chicago’s White Sox played at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland before the largest crowd, 78,382 people, to see a nighttime major-league baseball game.
2005 - Thomas Herrion (San Francisco 49ers) collapsed and died after a preseason game in Denver.
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