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Sports History Oddities On This Day

Sports History Oddities On This Day

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Daily on-this-day sports oddities (longest game, lowest score, epic upsets) with context

Sports History Oddities On This Day
Sports History Oddities On This Day
2026-10-21

Two safeties in one quarter, and fifty-three years of nobody matching it

On 21 October 1973 Fred Dryer recorded the only two-safety game in NFL history, in the fourth quarter of the Rams' 24-7 win over Green Bay — four points by a defensive end whose afternoon depended on a Packers offense that gained 63 yards all day.

Sports History Oddities On This Day
Sports History Oddities On This Day
2026-10-20

Twenty-nine runs in one World Series game, and a bullpen phone that wouldn't ring

On 20 October 1993 Toronto beat Philadelphia 15-14 at Veterans Stadium — still the most runs two clubs have scored in a World Series game, won by a six-run eighth inning that arrived while the dugout's line to the bullpen was dead.

Sports History Oddities On This Day
Sports History Oddities On This Day
2026-10-19

The champion won one race. The runner-up won four. The title was decided by one point.

On 19 October 1958 at Casablanca, Mike Hawthorn finished second to Stirling Moss and took the Formula One title 42 points to 41 — one win against Moss's four, with a margin that hung on seven points taken from him at Porto and handed back at 11 that night.

Sports History Oddities On This Day
Sports History Oddities On This Day
2026-10-18

The jump was 55 centimetres past the record. The measuring rail ran out first.

On 18 October 1968 Bob Beamon jumped 8.90 metres in Mexico City, 55 centimetres past a world record that had been improving by about six, and the electronic measuring rail ran out before it reached his mark.

Sports History Oddities On This Day
Sports History Oddities On This Day
2026-10-17

October 17, 1860: eight men, 36 holes, one belt — and the man who built the course lost

On 17 October 1860 eight professionals played 36 holes in one afternoon at Prestwick for a £25 belt and no prize money, and Willie Park Sr. beat Old Tom Morris, the greenkeeper who had laid out the course, by two strokes.

Sports History Oddities On This Day
Sports History Oddities On This Day
2026-10-16

October 16, 2016: an 85-year-old ran a marathon in 3:56 and cut 38 minutes off the record

On 16 October 2016 an 85-year-old Canadian named Ed Whitlock ran the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 3:56:33, more than 38 minutes faster than any man of 85 to 89 had ever run one — a record that still stands.

Sports History Oddities On This Day
Sports History Oddities On This Day
2026-10-15

October 15, 1983: five goals in 84 seconds, and an 18-goal night in Toronto

On October 15, 1983 the Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Black Hawks scored five goals in 84 seconds of the second period — still the fastest five goals by two teams in NHL history — on the way to an 18-goal, 10-8 night at Maple Leaf Gardens.

Sports History Oddities On This Day
Sports History Oddities On This Day
2026-10-14

October 14, 1862: Jim Creighton, baseball's first star, and the fatal home run he never hit

On 14 October 1862 baseball's best pitcher, Jim Creighton, reached base four times without being put out; he was dead four days later at 21, and the home run that supposedly killed him did not reach print until 48 years afterwards.

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Sports History Oddities On This Day
Sports History Oddities On This Day
2026-10-13

October 13, 1982: Jim Thorpe's medals come back as copies, and as a shared title

On October 13, 1982, the IOC gave Jim Thorpe back the two gold medals it had stripped from him in 1913 — posthumously, as newly struck copies, and with both titles shared with the men who had been given his medals.

Sports History Oddities On This Day
Sports History Oddities On This Day
2026-10-12

October 12, 1979: the first three-pointer, and the first games of Larry Bird and Magic Johnson

On the night of October 12, 1979, the NBA's new three-point line produced its first basket, Larry Bird played his first NBA game and Magic Johnson played his — three firsts on one evening.

Sports History Oddities On This Day
Sports History Oddities On This Day
2026-10-11

Twelve strikeouts, one in every inning: the Hitless Wonders beat the 116-win Cubs

On 11 October 1906 the worst-hitting team in baseball, the Chicago White Sox, beat the 116-win Chicago Cubs 3–0 in the World Series on a bases-loaded triple by a substitute third baseman, and their pitcher Ed Walsh struck out 12 men — a World Series record that stood for 23 years.

Sports History Oddities On This Day
Sports History Oddities On This Day
2026-10-10

Two ground balls to the same third baseman: Washington's only World Series, 1924

On 10 October 1924 the Washington Senators won the only World Series the city would see for 95 years when two ground balls hopped past the same 18-year-old third baseman — once with the bases loaded in the eighth inning, once with the winning run on second in the twelfth.

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