Today in sports history, October 1
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1903: Deacon Phillippe and the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated Cy Young and Boston 7-3 in the first game of the first World Series.
1921: Walter Hagen defeated Jim Barnes 3 and 2 to win the PGA Championship, capturing his third major title.
1922: The Chicago Bears played their first NFL game under the Bears nickname, defeating the Racine Legion 6-0 after franchise founder George Halas changed the club’s name from the Staleys.
1922: St. Louis Cardinals star Rogers Hornsby finished the season at .401, becoming the only major leaguer ever to bat .400 while also hitting 40 home runs in the same season.
1932: Babe Ruth hit his celebrated and disputed “called shot” home run off Charlie Root as the New York Yankees defeated the Chicago Cubs 7-5 in Game 3 of the World Series.
1961: New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris hit his 61st home run of the season off Boston’s Tracy Stallard, breaking Babe Ruth’s single-season record of 60.
1975: Muhammad Ali defeated Joe Frazier when trainer Eddie Futch stopped the fight after the 14th round of their brutal heavyweight championship bout in the Philippines known as the “Thrilla in Manila.”
1977: Pelé played the final game of his career before more than 75,000 fans at Giants Stadium, playing one half for the New York Cosmos and the other for Santos in the Cosmos’ 2-1 exhibition victory.
1978: San Diego Padres pitcher Gaylord Perry became the third major leaguer to reach 3,000 career strikeouts, achieving the milestone against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
1988: Sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner won her third gold medal of the Seoul Olympics.
1988: Steffi Graf defeated Gabriela Sabatini for Olympic gold in Seoul, completing the only Golden Slam in tennis history by winning all four major championships and Olympic gold in the same calendar year.
1988: The Soviet Union defeated Brazil 2-1 to win the men’s Olympic soccer gold medal in Seoul.
1994: The NHL began a lockout that eventually canceled 468 games and reduced the 1994-95 regular season to 48 games per team.
1997: The WNBA announced expansion franchises in Detroit and Washington for the 1998 season, increasing the league from eight teams to 10.
2004: Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki collected his 258th hit of the season to break George Sisler’s 84-year-old major league single-season record, then finished the year with 262.
2006: Michael Schumacher won the Chinese Grand Prix for his 91st and final Formula One victory, pulling even with Fernando Alonso in the championship standings with two races remaining.
2007: The Colorado Rockies defeated the San Diego Padres 9-8 in 13 innings in an NL wild-card tiebreaker when Matt Holliday scored the winning run on Jamey Carroll’s sacrifice fly, completing Colorado’s late-season surge into the playoffs.
2023: Ethiopia’s Diribe Welteji won the women’s road mile at the inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships in Riga in a world-record 4:20.98, earning her first senior world title.
2023: Europe defeated the United States 16½-11½ at Marco Simone Golf & Country Club outside Rome to regain the Ryder Cup and extend its home winning streak in the event to seven.
— USA TODAY Network
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