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Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers and Frank Chance standing together in Chicago Cubs uniforms

On This Date: Tinker, Evers and Chance Take the Field Together for the First Time (Sept. 13, 1902)

On this date in 1902, at the West Side Grounds in Chicago, the club the newspapers were just starting to call the Cubs beat St. Louis 12-0. Nobody noticed the lineup. Frank Chance, a converted catcher, played first base. Joe Tinker, a rookie, played shortstop. Johnny Evers, a 20-

Ralph Boston in mid-air during the long jump at the 1960 Rome Olympics, U.S.A. across his chest

On This Date: Ralph Boston Sets the Long Jump World Record — for the Sixth Time (Sept. 12, 1964)

On this date in 1964, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Ralph Boston jumped 27 feet, 4¼ inches at the final U.S. Olympic Trials and set the world record in the long jump. It was the sixth time he had done that. Earlier in the same competition he'

Aerial view of a packed Beaver Stadium at Penn State

The 10 Largest College Football Stadiums — and Why America Owns This List

Here is a fact that should be stranger than it is: every stadium on Earth that seats more than 100,000 people is either a cricket ground, a North Korean propaganda venue, or an American college football stadium. Eight of the ten largest stadiums in the world belong to U.

Pete Rose swinging at Riverfront Stadium against the Padres, Sept. 11, 1985

On This Date: Pete Rose Passes Ty Cobb — Two Men Who Played the Game the Same Way (Sept. 11, 1985)

On this date in 1985, at 8:01 on a Wednesday night at Riverfront Stadium, Pete Rose took a 2-1 slider from Eric Show of the Padres and lined it into left-center field. It was career hit number 4,192, one more than Ty Cobb. The 47,237

Molla Bjurstedt Mallory standing at the net on an indoor court, 1910s

Who Has Won the Most US Opens? The 12 Players With Five or More

The 2026 US Open crowns its champions this weekend, which makes this the right moment to ask the question every trophy ceremony raises: who owns this tournament? The answer is not who you'd guess. It isn't Serena, or Federer, or Djokovic — Djokovic isn't in

Abebe Bikila crossing the finish line barefoot at the 1960 Rome Olympic marathon, arms outstretched

On This Date: Abebe Bikila Runs Barefoot Past His Country's Stolen Obelisk (Sept. 10, 1960)

On this date in 1960, at 5:30 in the evening, 69 runners left the Capitoline Hill in Rome and set out on an Olympic marathon designed to finish after dark. Hundreds of Italian soldiers lined the route holding torches. Twenty-six miles later, a 28-year-old Ethiopian corporal

Willie McCovey swinging for the San Francisco Giants

The 10 Greatest Late-Summer Debuts in Baseball History

On Aug. 15, a 23-year-old Cardinals outfielder named Joshua Báez walked into Wrigley Field for his first major league game and homered on the first pitch he saw — 449 feet to dead center. Then he homered again. Then he homered a third time. Nobody in the history of