2006 Bob Barker, from The Price is Right, retires after 35 years as host
2006 Andre Agassi retires after winning 60 career titles
2005 Lance Armstrong retires after winning his 7th straight Tours de France
2005 Garry Kasparov retires professionally from chess
1998 All-Star Florida Marlin catcher Darren Daulton, retires
1997 Marv Levy, retires as coach of Buffalo Bills
1997 NC's Dean Smith winningest college basetball coach retires
1997 Newscaster David Brinkley, 74, retires after 54 years in broadcasting
1996 Tommy Lasoda retires as Los Angeles Dodger manager
1996 Kirby Puckett, retires from Minnesota Twins
1994 Chicago Cub 2nd baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million of his $25 million contract
1994 Charles Kuralt, retires as CBS newsman
1993 General Colin Powell retires at 56
1993 Montreal Expo retires their 1st #, #10 for Rusty Staub
1992 NY Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75
1992 Daryl Gates retires as Los Angeles police chief
1992 Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races
1992 Lou Conaseca retires as coach of St. John's basketball team
1992 Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires
1991 Chuck Knox retires as Seattle Seahawks coach
1991 Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years
1991 Tampa Bay Bucaneer Dexter Manley, retires after failing drug test
1991 Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus and retires from Los Angeles Lakers
1991 Italian/Argentine Soccer star Diego Maradona retires
1991 Philadelphia '76ers retires Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey
1990 Nolan Ryan pitches his 6th no-hitter beating Oakland, in 9th he retires Ken Phelps, Rickey Henderson and Willie Randolph (all ex Yanks)
1990 Los Angeles Lakers retires Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's #33
1990 Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race
1989 Reds reliever Kent Tekulve retires after 1,070 appearances
1989 New York Yankee pitching great Ron Guidry retires (170-91 .651, 3.29 ERA)
1989 23 year old olympic barefoot South African runner Zola Budd retires
1989 Billy Smith, last original New York Islander, retires
1989 Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt, 39, retires
1988 New York Islander's and NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy retires
1988 Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football "for personal reasons"
1988 Andrei Gromyko retires
1988 Quarterback Dan Fouts retires
1988 LA Dodger/SD Padre Steve Garvey retires
1987 Houston Oiler Earl Campbell, retires from NFL
1987 Tom Seaver retires after 3rd try with New York Mets
1987 Dick Howser retires from managing Kansas City Royals, due to brain tumor
1987 Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires
1987 Kansas City Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires
1986 Mary Lou Retton retires as a gymnast
1986 Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires
1985 Howard Cosell retires from television sports after 20 years with ABC
1984 Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football
1984 After 518 goals and 14 years with Mont Canadiens, Guy LaFleur retires
1984 NFL quarterback Ken Stabler retires
1984 Royals pitcher Paul Splittorff, retires
1984 Boston Red Sox retires #9 (Ted Williams) and #4 (Joe Cronin)
1984 Edwin Newman retires from NBC News after 35 years with the network
1983 Royals defeat Yanks, 5-4, completing "pine-tar" game (12 minutes). Hal McRae strikes out and Dan Quisenberry retires Yankees in order
1983 New York Yankee Bobby Murcer retires
1982 Sugar Ray Leonard retires for 1st time
1982 Tennis great Bjorn Borg retires at 26
1981 Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires, replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on high court
1981 Pirate Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Brave Terry Harper, then retires next 27 batters
1980 Sadaharu Oh, 40, pro baseball's all-time HR run king with 868, retires
1980 Tiger reliever John Hiller, 37, (who had a 1971 heart attack), retires
1980 Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis
1979 Muhammad Ali retires as boxing champ
1978 CIA director, Admiral Stansfield Turner retires from the Navy
1978 Red Rum wins 3rd consecutive Grand National and retires
1977 Brazilian soccer great Pele' retires with 1,281 goals in 1,363 games
1977 English football international Bobby Moore retires
1977 Lindy McDaniel retires with 2nd most pitching appearances (987 games)
1974 Pele retires as soccer player
1974 NBA guard Oscar Robinson retires
1974 Steve Busby retires 1st 9 White Sox to set AL record with 33 consecutive batters retired
1972 San Francisco Giant Jim Barr retires 1st 20 batters he faces added to last 21 he retired 6 days earlier for record 41 in a row
1972 Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching University of Kentucky
1972 NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons
1971 NHL great Gordie Howe retires
1971 Indians Ken Harrelson retires from baseball to play pro golf
1970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report"
1969 Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder
1969 New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle retires
1967 Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured and leaves
1967 Rocky Marciano retires as undefeated boxing champ
1966 Arnold "Red" Auerbach retires as Boston Celtic's coach
1966 Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)
1966 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires
1963 Oriole's Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief
1962 Larry Doby, retires from Cleveland Indians to play in Japan
1962 Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races)
1962 Philadelphia retires pitcher Robin Roberts' # 36
1960 Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98
1960 Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis
1960 Ford Frick voids Indians-Red Sox deal as Sam White retires
1957 Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to New York Giants
1956 Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield and $35,000 Robinson retires
1956 Heavyweight champ, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing
1954 Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins
1954 Robin Roberts gives up a HR then retires next 27 men in a row
1953 Israel's PM Ben-Gurion retires
1953 Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row
1952 Hall of Famer Honus Wagner, 77, retires; Pirates retire his #33
1950 Connie Mack retires as manager of A's after 50 years
1949 Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champ
1948 William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as PM of Canada
1948 Bradman retires hurt, 57 in his last Test Cricket innings in Australia
1945 Gilbert Dodds, record miler (4:05.3), retires to do gospel work
1940 University of Mich retires Tom Harmon's #98
1938 German colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt retires
1932 John McGraw retires from baseball
1927 Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as AL president
1927 Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game
1926 Walter Johnson retires, signs 2-year contract to manage Newark
1923 After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires next 27 Yanks
1917 Ernie Shore replaces Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth with a runner on, he throws him out and retires all 26 he faces for a perfect game
1912 Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
1905 James J Jeffries retires as boxing champ
1859 Paul Morphy returns from 10-month chess tour of Europe, retires
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