History Hop Tags - Retires

1859-04-30

Paul Morphy returns from 10-month chess tour of Europe, retires

1905-05-13

james j jeffries retires as boxing champion

1912-03-15

Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins

1917-06-23

Ernie Shore replaces Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth with a runner on, he throws him out & retires all 26 he faces for a perfect game

1923-09-11

After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires next 27 Yanks

1926-10-14

Walter Johnson retires, signs 2-year contract to manage Newark

1927-10-07

Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game

1927-10-17

Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as AL president

1932-07-03

John McGraw retires from baseball

1938-11-01

German colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt retires

1940-11-25

U of Mich retires Tom Harmon's #98

1945-01-17

Gilbert Dodds, record miler (4:05.3), retires to do gospel work

1948-02-06

Bradman retires hurt, 57 in his last Test Cricket innings in Australia

1948-11-15

Mackenzie King retires after spending 22 years as the Prime Minister of Canada

1949-03-01

Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champ

1950-10-18

Connie Mack retires as manager of A's after 50 years

1952-02-16

Hall of Famer Honus Wagner, 77, retires; Pirates retire his #33

1953-05-16

Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row

1953-12-07

Israel's PM Ben-Gurion retires

1954-05-13

Robin Roberts gives up a HR then retires next 27 men in a row

1954-08-10

Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins

1956-04-27

Heavyweight champ, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing

1956-12-13

Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield & $35,000 Robinson retires

1957-01-05

Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to NY Giants

1960-03-25

Ford Frick voids Indians-Red Sox deal as Sam White retires

1960-05-01

Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis

1960-09-16

Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98

1962-03-21

Philadelphia retires pitcher Robin Roberts' # 36

1962-04-03

Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races)

1962-06-23

Larry Doby retires from Cleve Indians to play in Japan

1963-08-17

Oriole's Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief

1966-03-10

5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires

1966-03-12

Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)

1966-04-26

Red Auerbach retires as Boston Celtic's coach

1967-08-16

Cin Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured & leaves

1968-05-27

George Halas retires from coaching, finishing with 318 regular-season wins and 6 NFL titles

1968-05-31

American movie star Jimmy Stewart retires from the Air Force after 27 years of service, and is promoted to major general by President Reagan

1969-03-01

NY Yankees' Mickey Mantle retires

1969-08-11

Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder

1970-07-31

Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report"

1971-06-21

Indians Ken Harrelson retires from baseball to play pro golf

1971-09-09

NHL great Gordie Howe retires

1972-03-12

NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons

1972-03-27

Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching U of Kentucky

1972-08-29

SF Giant Jim Barr retires 1st 20 batters he faces added to last 21 he retired 6 days earlier for record 41 in a row

1974-06-24

Steve Busby retires 1st 9 White Sox to set AL record with 33 consecutive batters retired

1974-09-03

NBA guard Oscar Robertson retires

1974-10-03

Pele retires as soccer player

1977-01-03

Lindy McDaniel retires with 2nd most pitching appearances (987 games)

1977-05-14

English football international Bobby Moore retires

1977-10-01

Brazilian soccer great Pele retires with 1,281 goals in 1,363 games

1978-03-31

Red Rum wins 3rd consecutive Grand National & retires

1978-12-31

CIA director, Admiral Stansfield Turner retires from the Navy

1979-10-07

Frank Mahovlich formally retires from the NHL after a failed comeback attempt with the Detroit Red Wings

1980-04-16

Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis

1980-05-30

Tiger reliever John Hiller, 37, (who had a 1971 heart attack), retires

1980-11-04

Sadaharu Oh, 40, pro baseball's all-time HR run king with 868, retires

1981-05-19

Pirate Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Brave Terry Harper, then retires next 27 batters

1981-06-18

Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on US Supreme Court)

1982-09-24

Tennis great Bjorn Borg retires at 26

1982-11-09

Sugar Ray Leonard retires for 1st time

1983-06-20

NY Yankee Bobby Murcer retires

1983-08-18

Royals defeat Yanks, 5-4, completing "pine-tar" game (12 minutes). Hal McRae strikes out & Dan Quisenberry retires Yankees in order

1984-01-31

Edwin Newman retires from NBC News after 35 years with the network

1984-05-29

Boston Red Sox retires #9 (Ted Williams) & #4 (Joe Cronin)

1984-07-01

Royals pitcher Paul Splittorff, retires

1984-10-22

NFL quarterback Ken Stabler retires

1984-11-26

After 518 goals & 14 years with Mont Canadiens, Guy Lafleur retires

1984-12-14

Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football

1985-12-20

Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires from television sports after 20 years with ABC

1986-05-07

Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires

1986-09-29

Mary Lou Retton retires as a gymnast

1987-02-02

KC Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires

1987-02-19

Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires

1987-02-23

Dick Howser retires from managing KC Royals, due to brain tumor

1987-06-22

Tom Seaver retires after 3rd try with NY Mets

1987-06-27

Supreme Court Justice Powell retires

1987-08-18

Houston Oiler Earl Campbell, retires from NFL

1988-01-13

LA Dodger/SD Padre Steve Garvey retires

1988-03-24

Quarterback Dan Fouts retires

1988-09-30

Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko retires as Soviet Foreign Minister

1988-10-20

Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football "for personal reasons"

1988-10-24

NY Islander's & NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy retires

1989-01-22

After winning his third Super Bowl as head coach of the San Fransisco 49ers, Bill Walsh retires

1989-05-29

Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt, 39, retires

1989-06-05

Billy Smith, last original NY Islander, retires

1989-06-07

23 year old olympic barefoot South African runner Zola Budd retires

1989-07-12

NY Yankee pitching great Ron Guidry retires (170-91 .651, 3.29 ERA)

1989-07-17

Reds reliever Kent Tekulve retires after 1,070 appearances

1990-02-03

Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race

1990-03-20

LA Lakers retires Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's #33

1990-06-11

Nolan Ryan pitches his 6th no-hitter beating Oakland, in 9th he retires Ken Phelps, Rickey Henderson & Willie Randolph (all ex Yanks)

1991-03-18

Phila '76ers retires Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey

1991-08-01

Italian/Argentine Soccer star Diego Maradona retires

1991-11-07

Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus & retires from LA Lakers

1991-12-12

Tampa Bay Bucaneer Dexter Manley, retires after failing drug test

1991-12-26

Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years

1991-12-27

Chuck Knox retires as Seattle Seahawk coach

1992-04-13

Lou Conaseca retires as coach of St John's basketball team

1992-05-07

Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races

1992-06-27

Daryl Gates retires as LA police chief

1992-12-26

NY Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75

1993-05-15

Montreal Expo retires their 1st #, #10 for Rusty Staub

1993-09-30

US General Colin Powell retires at 56

1994-05-01

Charles Kuralt retires as CBS newsman (On the Road)

1994-06-13

Chicago Cub 2nd baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million of his $25 million contract

1996-06-23

Archbishop Tutu retires as Archbishop of Cape Town and head of the Anglican Church in South Africa

1996-07-12

Kirby Puckett retires from Minnesota Twins

1996-07-30

Tommy Lasoda retires as LA Dodger manager

1996-08-03

US General William F. Garrison accepts responsibility for outcome of the 1993 raid in Somalia, and retires from military service.

1997-09-28

Newscaster David Brinkley, 74, retires after 54 years in broadcasting

1997-10-09

NC's Dean Smith winningest college basetball coach retires

1997-12-31

Marv Levy, retires as coach of Buffalo Bills

1998-01-30

All-Star Fla Marlin catcher Darren Daulton, retires

1999-08-31

Dino Ciccarelli retires from the NHL

1999-10-12

Pat LaFontaine formally retires from the NHL due to lingering concussion problems

2000-10-26

Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d'Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï. Bret Hart retires.

2002-06-13

Scotty Bowman wins his 9th Stanley Cup as a coach, an NHL record, and retires

2004-09-30

The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat retires.

2005-07-24

Lance Armstrong retires after winning a record seventh consecutive Tour de France victory (stripped for doping in 2012)

2006-01-31

Alan Greenspan retires as Chairman of the Federal Reserve

2006-07-03

Steve Yzerman officially retires from the NHL, finishing with 692 goals and 1755 points

2006-08-24

After signing a one-day contract with the San Francisco 49ers, Jerry Rice officially retires from the NFL

2006-09-22

The F-14 Tomcat retires from the United States Navy.

2008-01-08

Joe Gibbs retires, for the second time, as head coach of the Washington Redskins

2008-02-24

Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.

2008-04-21

The United States Air Force retires the F-117 Nighthawk.

2009-07-09

Joe Sakic retires after 21 NHL seasons with the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche franchise, finishing with 625 goals and 1,641 points

2012-10-04

Formula One legend, Michael Schumacher, retires

2014-10-01

Canadian freestyle skier and two-time Olympic gold medalist Alexandre Bilodeau retires at 27

2015-11-19

Richie McCaw: All Blacks great retires after record 148 caps

2018-02-12

Pierce joins Celtics legends as team retires his No. 34

1927-04-21

Danny Williams, Danny Williams Retires

2013-02-19

Danny Williams, Danny Williams Retires