Week of September 25th

Relive some of the greatest moments in Sports History

Episode Transcript

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Looking back at the world of sports. It's the iHeartRadio Weekend Sports Time Capsule.
Well, it's happening in sports fans. It's Andy West, and I'm
here to take you on a journeyback to this week in sports history.
We'll start off this week in nineteenthirteen, Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators
finished the season with thirty six victories, by virtue of a one nothing decision

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over the Philadelphia A's. This weekin nineteen fifty four, Willie Mays made
his famous over the shoulder catch ofVic Wurtz's long drive to center field and
pinch hitter Dusty Rhodes homeward of BobLemon in the tenth inning to lead the
New York Giants to a five twovictory over the Cleveland Indians in Game one
of the World Series. This weekin nineteen fifty five, Baltimore Colts fullback

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Alan Amichi becomes the first rookie inNFL history to top one hundred yards rushing
in his first two games, onehundred and fifty three against Detroit after one
hundred and ninety four yards in hisdebut against the Bears. Jumping ahead.
This week in nineteen eighty six,Chicago Cubs rookie Greg Mannox defeated the Philadelphia
Phillies eight to three. The losingpitcher was his brother Mike, also a

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rookie. It was the first timebrothers faced each other as rookie pitchers.
And this week in nineteen ninety eight, on a Sunday night football game between
the Bengals and Ravens, ESPN debutsthe first and ten line, which marked
on screen where the first down linewas. Only TV viewers were able to
see it, even though it appearedto be a solid yellow line on the
field. Now, it would seemweird if we didn't see that line while

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watching football. And that's just someof what happened this week in sports history.
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