On This Day in Sports - March 15

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• 1869 - Cincinnati Red Stockings become the first professional baseball team
  
  
• 1912 - Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
  
  
• 1958 - Cincinnati Royals' basketball star Maurice Stokes collapses during a playoff game with encephalitis; he goes into a coma and is permanently disabled
  
  
• 1962 - Wilt Chamberlain is first to score 4,000 points in an NBA season
  
  
• 1968 - Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27 feet 2.75 inches)
  
• 1978 - Oakland Athletics trade Vida Blue to San Francisco Giants for seven players and US$390,000
  
  
• 1988 - NFL's Saint Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix, Arizona
  
  
• 1989 - New York Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's number 1 uniform
  
  
• 1991 - Sergei Bubka pole vaults record 20.25 feet
  
• 1997 - Pittsburgh Penguins' Joe Mullen is first American to score 500 NHL goals
  
  
• 2007 - Death of Bowie Kuhn, Major League Baseball Commissioner