Sports History Network August 24, 1908 – Technology had a breakthrough to help fans stay connected to their team, even when out of town. Though John McGraw and his New York Giants baseball club were battling another top contender, the Pirates some 500 miles away in Pittsburgh, the scoring was shown on electric display baseball diamonds known as “Compton’s … Read more
Today we have Super Bowl XLI, which was held on February 4, 2007, at Dolphin Stadium in Miami, Florida, between the second-time NFC champion Chicago Bears and the AFC champion Indianapolis Colts, who were in the Super Bowl for the first time since moving to Indy in 1984. As always, we have a pop quiz, … Read more
This week I spoke with Michael Mertes about a project he started to celebrate the NFL’s 100th season, called “The Quarterback Project.” He started the project to find a way to determine who the greatest quarterbacks were of all time in the NFL. To do this, Michael created a formula to assign a score. This … Read more
August 23, 1883 – I am not sure if you would call it a comedy of errors, because I am sure that those that witnessed the game played this day between the Philadelphia Quakers and the Providence Grays were laughing. Well, maybe those on the side of the Grays were as Philadelphia committed 27 errors in the … Read more
August 22, 1917 – Keeping pace with the opposition is usually a good thing in sports. However, the Pittsburgh Pirates took it to a whole new level on this day. The Bucs played in a fourth straight extra-inning game. In the contest left fielder Carson Bigbee set an MLB record of 11 at-bats in 22 innings. … Read more
