Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index See also: 1906 in sports, other events of 1907, 1908 in sports and the list of years in sports. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Baseball 3 Births 4 Deaths Events Norman Brookes of Australia becomes the first international Wimbledon Mens Singles champion. Baseball The Chicago Cubs defeated the Detroit Tigers four games to none (with one tie) in the World Series Tris Speaker debutes September 14; Walter Johnson debutes August 2 Jake Beckley retires Births February 11 - E W Swanton, author & sports commentator. February 17 - Buster Crabbe, swimming champion, actor (+ 1983) April 2 - Luke Appling, baseball player (+ 1991) August 11 - Bobo Newsom, baseball player (+ 1962) September 12 - Spud Chandler - baseball player (+ 1990) October 22 - Jimmie Foxx - Hall of Fame baseball player (+ 1967) Deaths This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.