On this day: October 3
POSTED: 10:53 PM PDT Oct 02, 2012
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Oct 02, 2012
Bobby Thomson hits the "shot heard 'round the world," Woody Guthrie passes away, Germany comes together, and O.J. Simpson is found not guilty, all on this day.
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1954: Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Dennis Eckersley, who became the first of only two pitchers in Major League history to have both a 20-win season and a 50-save season in a career, is born in Oakland, Calif. Eckersley saved 390 games in his career, won the American League's Cy Young Award and MVP in 1992, and helped the Oakland Athletics to a World Series championship in 1989.
