On this day in:

• 1869Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st professional baseball team

• 1877Commencement of 1st Test Cricket, Australia v England at the MCG, Melbourne, Australia

• 1901Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race March 16th

• 1912 Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins

• 1935George Headley completes 270 in cricket v England at Kingston

• 1945Bert Shepard (1 legged WW II vet) tries out as a pitcher for Senators

• 1945Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain NY

• 1948 Bradman scores 115 for the Australian cricket team v Western Australia

• 1949Cricket's master batsman Don Bradman receives his knighthood from the Governor-General of Australia, the Rt Hon. WJ McKell at the investiture in Queen's Hall, Parliament House, Melbourne

• 1958 Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati Royals scores a NBA midwest region-record 56-point game

• 1962 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 pts in an NBA season

• 1968Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27'2-3/4")

• 1979 Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick

• 1985 Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing