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Major sport events between 1950 -1959.
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Ted Williams eanters spring traning as baseball's highest - paid player, with a $125,000 contract
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Ben Hogan makes a couragous comback from a near - fatal auto accident to win the U.S opens
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Florence Chadwick swims the English Chanel in 13h 20mins a women's record.
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Althea Gibson becomes the first black women to compete in a national tennis tournament.
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College basketball fans are shocked by a point-shaving scandal involving players from City College of New York (CCNY), Long Island University (LIU), and New York University (NYU).
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NBA(National Basketball Association) holds first All-Star basketball game which is held at Boston Gardens. East won the game 111-94.
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MLB dismesses its second commisioner A. B. Chandler. In 1947 Chandler ovverode the baseball owner's vote against signing Jackie Robinson
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Jersey Joe Wolcott wins the heavyweight championship at age 37 becoming the oldest man ever to hold the title.
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Gold metals are won by Andrea Mead for slalmo and giant slalom skiing, and Dick Button in figure skating. Button is the first figure skater to preform a triple jump in competition.
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The international Olympics Committe(IOC) elects American Avery Brundaage, who has been the USOC president since 1929 will continue as IOC president until 1972.
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At summer olympics in Helsiniki, Finland Bob Mathias wins the decathlon and the unofficial title "world's greatest athlete" for the second straight time.
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Rocky Marciano becomes the only heavyweight champion in boxing.
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Dallas Texans become the Baltimore Colts.
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New york Yankees become the first team in baseball history to win five consecutive World Series.
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Frank Selvy breaks NCAA single-game record be making 100 points in a basketball game.
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The All- American Girls Profesional Baseball League folds after the 1954 season and dies a quiet death.
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The NBA introduces the 24- second shot clock, which wil revolutionize the game.
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Bill Vukovich dies in a crash in 1955 race becoming one of the first to die in a major autorace.
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New York Yankee pitcher Don Larson pitches the only perfect game in World Series history.
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The supreme court rules that the National Football league is not similar to major League Baseball and must comply with antitrust laws.
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NotreDame beats Oklahoma 7-0. It is Oklahoma's first loss since 1953, ending a streak of 47 games.
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The broadway version of baseball's Faust becomes a Hollywood film. Damn Yankees stars Tab Hunter.
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NBA adopts a policy to protect its black players from discrimination at hotels.
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Supreme Court rules that interacial boxing matches are legaly protected.
