On This Day in Sports - St. Patrick's Day/March 17

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• 1871 - National Association of Professional BaseBall players is organized
  
  
• 1876 - First recorded high jump over 6 feet (Marshall Jones Brooks).
• 1897 - British boxer Robert James Fitzsimmons knocks out American James Corbett in 14 rounds for the world heavyweight championship
  
• 1914 - Birth of Sammy Baugh in Temple, Texas
  
  
• 1963 - Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game
  
• 1965 - Almos Alonzo Stagg, football coach (University of Chicago), dies in California at age 102
  
  
• 1978 - Cincinnati Reds don green uniforms for Saint Patrick's Day
  
  
• 1988 - Highest scoring NCAA basketball game: Loyola-Marymount 119, Wyoming 115
  
  
• 1996 - Mike Tyson beats Frank Bruno in third round to gain Heavyweight title (BRUTAL!)
  
• 2009 - Martin Brodeur, goalie for the NHL's New Jersey Devils, wins his 552nd game, breaking the former NHL record