On This Day

In game 4 of the 1998 World Series Yankee pitcher Andy Pettite threw shut out ball to complete the 4 game sweep of the Padres for another Yankee World Series victory.

As a result of stalled collective bargaining negotiations with the National Basketball Players Association, the NBA announced that all 114 preseason games for 1998 have been canceled.

The 35-year-old right-hander Roger Clemens received 25 first-place Cy Young Award votes and 134 points, Randy Johnson of Seattle finished second.

Dee Kantner and Violet Palmer, were among five officials added to the NBA's 58-member staff.

Wayne Gretzky's wife, Janet Jones, was taken to a Manhattan hospital with a concussion after being struck by a pane of treated glass that fell from the boards during the Rangers' game at Madison Square Garden.

North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith announced his retirement after 36 seasons and two national championships.

In the first NHL regular-season game played outside North America the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim 3-2 at Yoyogi Arena in Tokyo, Japan.

Mark McGwire was traded by Oakland Athletics to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1996, the next season he agreed to an average of $9.5 million a year on a three-year, $28.5 million contract with the Cards.

Don Mattingly is the first Yankee to have his number retired without winning a Championship, his uniform number 23 was retired and his plaque was dedicated in Monument Park at Yankee Stadium.

The Comets’ Cynthia Cooper had 25 points, including 14 in the second half, and Tina Thompson added 18, but the key to the victory was a 9-minute, 24-second stretch of the second half in which the smothering Houston defense held New York to just four point