TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY SEPTEMBER 25

2003  Sammy Sosa becomes the 1^st NL player to have 100 RBI in 9 straight seasons

2003  Carlos Delgado hits 4 HRs in the game – 15^th to do so

2002  Michael Jordan announces he is returning to the NBA

2001  Chicago Cubs pitchers get their 1,250^th strikeout of the year – MLB record

2000  Cleveland plays an odd double header – beat Chicago in the first one and lose to Minnesota in the second game – only 2^nd time there was a 3 team double header in MLB history (1951)

1998  NYY win their 112^th game of the season – AL record

1996  Barry Bonds gets his 149^th walk of the season – NL record

1992  Seattle and Texas use MLB record 54 players in a 16 inning game – Rangers strand 20 and strikeout 18 times
 1984  NY Mets Rusty Staub joins Ty Cobb as the only players to hit a HR in their teens and their forties

1965  Willie Mays becomes the oldest (34) to hit 50 HRs in a season – also the youngest to hit 50 ten years earlier

1965  Sandy Koufax gets his 24^th win and 365^th strikeout of the season – ERA 2.12

1962  Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in the 1^st to win the heavyweight title

1941  The Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1^st pennant in 21 years

1911 Groundbreaking begins on Fenway Park