Sports History on 4th of May

Born May 4, 1970, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Guard Dawn Staley. An outstanding athlete, Staley played college basketball at Virginia '92. She was on the Olympic Gold Medal USA team at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and then she went on to play professionally in the American Basketball League and the WNBA for the Charlotte Sting. While still paying pro ball, she started coaching the Temple University Owls women's basketball team in 2000. In eight years at Temple, she led the program to six NCAA tournaments, three regular season conference championships, and four conference tournament titles. WNBA Jersey 5

Sports history is made every day of the year. We will preserve at least a small sampling from some great athletes every day based on the uniform number they wore. 4 - 26 - 22 - 34 - 13 - 27 - 87 - 8 May 4, 1871 - The first official league game of baseball was played in the National Assoc...