Today in Sports History: June 8th  6/08/1934 - Reds first to
travel by plane  The Cincinnati Reds become the first
professional sports team to use an airplane, as the team flies
to Illinois to take on the Chicago Cubs. It wasn't for another
decade that teams regularly began flying to to their
destinations. For the first half of the 20th century, every
Major League Baseball team was bunched near the north-east
corner of the United States, so it was still feasible to travel
only by buses. However, as the league expanded to the west coast
and southern markets, it became clear that traveling by plane
was the only viable option.  6/08/1966 - The NFL and AFL merge
The landscape of American sports changes forever as the National
Football League and the American Football League merge into one
league. For five years, the NFL and AFL had competed directly
against each other, with both leagues bidding extravagantly to
convince college rookies to spurn one and play for the other.
But with the cost of players' salaries i