This Week in National Press Club History: Sports, sports and a broken record

July 12, 1984: ABC sportscaster Howard Cosell previews the upcoming Los Angeles Summer Olympics in his usual brash style.

July 13, 1994: Bud Selig, current commissioner of baseball, addresses a NPC luncheon and discusses the players’ strike that eventually cancelled over 900 games in the 1994 season, as well as the entire post-season and World Series.

July 21, 1938: Business magnate and pilot Howard Hughes describes his successful July 14 round-the-world flight in record-breaking time (3 days, 48 hours) at a National Press Club luncheon. He says that this success - in a Lockheed Super Electra twin-engine monoplane with the latest radio and navigational equipment - demonstrates the feasibility of safe, long-distance travel.

This Week In National Press Club History is sponsored by the History & Heritage Committee, which preserves and revitalizes the Club’s unique century-plus history through lobby displays, events, panel discussions and oral history interviews. For more information on the Committee’s activities, or to join it, contact Chair Gilbert Klein at [email protected].