Sports Fact of the Day 5/3/2008

5/3/1968:

Ron Schock scores at 2:50 of double overtime to give the St. Louis Blues a 2-1 victory over the Minnesota North Stars and clinch the NHL Western Conference playoff championship in seven games. It’s the fourth game in this series that needs overtime to determine a winner. The teams are scoreless at the St. Louis Arena until less than four minutes remain in regulation. Then, in quick succession, Walt McKechnie scores for Minnesota and Dickie Moore counters for the Blues only 31 seconds later, setting the stage for Shock’s game winner.

 

Birthdays:

Sugar Ray Robinson b. 1920

Garfield Heard b. 1948

Rod Langway b. 1953

Jeff Hornacek b. 1963

Ron Hextall b. 1964

 

1986:

Bill Shoemaker won the Kentucky Derby for the fourth time in his career. The 54-year-old rode Ferdinand to victory and became the oldest jockey ever to win the prestigious race at Churchill Downs in Kentucky.

 

“Reset your stopwatches. Turn back your clocks. In this 112^th running of the Derby, Shoemaker reached all the way back to the 1950s and ‘60s, to the decades when he dominated this sport with the lightest, sweetest pair of hands in the game.” –William Nack, May 12, 1986