Baseball great Mickey Mantle dies of cancer. Joe Montana, the most successful quarterback in pro
football history, retires after 16 seasons. Cal Ripken Jr. breaks Lou Gehrig's record for most
consecutive major league baseball games played.
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April 18, 1995
Superstar quarterback Joe Montana retires
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Saying football has started to feel like a job and expressing concerns about injury, quarterback
Joe Montana, 39, retires after 14 seasons with the San Francisco 49ers and two with the Kansas
City Chiefs. Widely considered the National Football League's greatest quarterback, Montana took the 49ers to four Super Bowl championships, winning the game's MVP award three times.
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August 13, 1995
Hall of Fame slugger Mickey Mantle dies
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Mickey Mantle, the star slugger on the powerful New York Yankees teams of the 1950s and early '60s, dies at the age of 63 after a struggle with cancer. A three-time Most Valuable Player, Mantle hit 536 homers from 1951 to 1968, during which time the Yanks won seven World Series. Almost as famous for his carousing as a player, Mantle acknowledged years of alcoholism in 1994 and underwent a liver transplant the next year.
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September 6, 1995
Cal Ripken Jr. plays in his 2,131st consecutive game
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It was one record many baseball fans thought would never be broken. But in his 15th season with the Baltimore Orioles, shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. becomes the game's new iron man, breaking Lou Gehrig's 56-year-old mark of 2,130 consecutive games played. Play is halted when the game becomes official in the fifth inning, and the popular Ripken, circling the field to shake hands with fans in Baltimore's Camden Yards, receives 20 minutes of cheers.
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