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Last updated: 2008 June 28.

1957 January 4 Brooklyn Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000. [1] January 5 Brooklyn Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to New York Giants. [1] January 10 Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in the Detroit Tigers, even though he owns part of Pittsburgh Pirates. [1] January 13 Mickey Wright wins Sea Island Golf Open. [1] NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 19-10. [1] January 15 Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new three year lease for Ebbets Field. [1] January 20 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open. [1] James Connolly first Olympic winner (1896) since Barasdates (369 CE), dies. [1] January 24 Daniel Taylor cricketer (brother of Herbie, two Tests for South Africa 1914), dies. [1] January 27 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open. [1] February 3 Patty Berg win LPGA Havana Golf Open. [1] February 10 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open. [1] February 11 NHL Players Association forms (New York City, New York), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president. [1] February 14 Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites. [1] February 17 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Saint Petersburg Golf Open. [1] February 20 Hughie Tayfield takes 9-113 vs England, 13 wickets for match. [1] February 21 Dodgers (Fort Worth) and Cubs (Los Angeles) "trade" minor league franchises. [1] February 22 Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win. [1] Walter O'Malley says Brooklyn Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958. [1] February 25 Buddy Holly and the Crickets record "That'll Be the Day". [1] US Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport. [1] February 28 Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory. [1] March 3 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open. [1] World Ice Dance Championship in Colorado Springs won by June Markham and Courtney Jones (Great Britain). [1] World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul (Canada). [1] World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Carol Heiss (USA). [1] World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins (USA). [1] March 10 Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy. [1] March 12 Harry Dean cricketer (England left-arm bowler in 3 Tests, 1912), dies. [1] March 16 Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship. [1] Toronto Maple Leafs tie NHL record 37 points beating New York Rangers 14-1. [1] March 19 Cleveland Indians reject Boston's offer of $1 million for Herb Score. [1] March 23 19th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Kansas 54-53 (3 overtimes). [1] March 25 NBA modifies the free-throw rule. [1] March 28 First National Curling Championship held. [1] April 7 21st Golf Masters Championship: Doug Ford wins, shooting a 283. [1] April 8 Frank Chester cricketer (distinguished one-armed England Test ump), dies. [1] April 12 Jim Spalding set a 2088 pin nine-game bowling record. [1] April 13 11th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Saint Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3. [1] April 14 Leah Neuberger wins her 8th women's singles ping pong championship. [1] Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open. [1] April 16 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1. [1] April 20 61st Boston Marathon won by John J Kelley of Connecticut in 2:20:05. [1] New York Yankees' Bill Skowron becomes third player to hit a ball out of Fenway Park. [1] April 21 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open. [1] April 22 All National League teams intergates, John Irwin Kennedy is first black on Philadelphia Phillies. [1] April 24 Chicago Cub pitchers walk National League record 9 Cincinnati Reds in 5th inning. [1] April 28 Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open. [1] May 1 Flevo Boys soccer team forms in Emmeloord. [1] May 4 83rd Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Iron Liege wins in 2:02.2. [1] May 5 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open. [1] May 7 Cleveland Indians' pitcher Herb Score is hit in the face by a line drive off Gil McDougald. [1] May 12 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Smokey Golf Open. [1] Race car driver A.J. Foyt gets his first professional victory, in a U.S. Automobile Club (USAC) midget car race in Kansas City, Missouri. [129] May 16 New York Yankees involved in Copacabana Incident, leads to Billy Martin trade. [1] May 18 83rd Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold Ruler wins in 1:56.2. [1] May 21 Edwin Saint Hill cricketer (two Tests for West Indies 1930-31), dies. [1] May 22 Boston Red Sox set American League record by smashing four homeruns in 6th inning in 11-0 win. [1] May 26 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open. [1] May 28 National League approves Brooklyn Dodgers' and New York Giants' move to west coast. [1] May 29 New York City Mayor Robert Wagner says he plans to confer with the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers about the proposed move to the west coast. [1] May 30 Real Madrid wins second Europe Cup 1 in Madrid. [1] Test Cricket debut for Rohan Kanhai vs England at Edgbaston. [1] June 12 Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6,270 pounds). [1] June 13 Ted Williams becomes first American League member to have two, 3-home run games in a season. [1] June 15 New York Yankees trade Billy Martin and Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran. [1] June 16 Chicago White Sox reliever Dixie Howell hits two home runs to beat Washington Senators 8-6. [1] July 6 Althea Gibson became first black tennis player to win Wimbledon. [1] July 9 American League beats National League 6-5 in 24th All Star Game (Busch Stadium, Saint Louis). [1] July 21 First black to win a major US tennis tournament (Althea Gibson). [1] July 28 Chicago White Sox' James Landis struck out five times in a game. [1] August 1 Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10"). [1] August 18 Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4.5"). [1] Juan-Manuel Fangio, wins his last auto World Championship at age 46. [1] August 19 New York Giants vote to move their franchise to San Francisco in 1958. [1] August 20 Chicago White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Washington Senators, 6-0. [1] Chicago White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Senators 6-0. [1] September 2 Milwaukee Braves' Frank Torre scores six runs in one game. [1] September 3 Warren Spahn sets record for a lefty pitcher with 41st shut-out. [1] September 8 Mal Anderson and Althea Gibson win tennis' US Open. [1] September 15 San Francisco Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game. [1] September 24 Brooklyn Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0. [1] September 29 New York Giants play and lose their last game at Polo Grounds (9-1 to Pittsburgh Pirates). [1] October 2 New York Yankees appear in their 26th World Series (World Series #54). [1] October 8 Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles. [1] October 10 Braves' Lew Burdette beats New York Yankees for third time in one world series (World Series #54). [1] Milwaukee Braves beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 53rd World Series. [1] October 19 Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Mont, became first NHL player to score 500 goals. [1] November 10 NFL record crowd (102,368), San Francisco 49ers vs Los Angeles Rams in Los Angeles. [1] November 22 Mickey Mantle beats Ted Williams by 1 vote for Most Valuable Player. [1] December 3 23rd Heisman Trophy Award: John Crow, Texas A&M (HB). [1] December 7 Tony Kubek of the New York Yankees selected as American League Rookie of the Year. [1] December 23 Test Cricket debut for Wally Grout and Bobby Simpson vs South Africa. [1] December 28 CBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on. [1] December 29 Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 50-14 in NFL championship game. [1] Tom Richmond cricketer (Notts leg-spinner took 2-86 in England Test), die. [1] December 30 New York Giants win NFL championship. [1] December 31 AAU awards Bobby Morrow, James Sullivan Memorial Trophy. [1]