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1994 Henk Terlingen, radio/TV-host (Sport in Image), dies at 52

1992 Libby [Elizabeth] Callahan, Columbia, South Carolina, sport pistol 1996 Olympics

1989 To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition and not a sport, in a New Jersey court

1986 IOC announces baseball will become a medal sport in 1992

1969 "Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy

1967 Rein van Duynhoven, soccer player, Helmond Sport, MVV

1967 Helmond Sport soccer team forms

1957 Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport

1953 U.S. Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business

1953 U.S. Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport and not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling

1949 David Sullivan, English softporno/newspaper publisher, Sunday Sport

1948 NFL becomes 1st sport televised as sport of week

1944 Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial and Sport Fishing

1936 David Vine, British sport commentator

1932 1st Olympic dog sled race, Lake Placid, New York (demonstration sport)

1922 U.S. Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport and not a business and thus not subject to antitrust laws

1897 George Davis (Giants) home run off Sport McAllister (Spiders) in DH

1876 Alban Collignon, Belgian sport journalist

1621 Governor Bradford of U.S. colony Plymouth disallows sport on Christmas Day


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