Now, that I have published my list of best and worst sports moments of 2022 it is time for me to evaluate which are the best sports moments of every year of my life and beyond. As a sports history buff, there are stories I have fallen in love with that span as far back as the 1950’s, so altogether, I have come up with a list of my favorite sports moments for every year since 1951. Again, these are not what are necessarily considered the objectively greatest moments of each year (that list is coming later), but instead these are my favorite sports moment from each calendar year. Please note that the bolded moments below are my favorite sports moment from each decade.
| 1951 | Kentucky football upsets Oklahoma in Sugar Bowl ending their 31 game winning streak |
| 1952 | United States wins Summer Olympic medal count over the Soviet Union |
| 1953 | Wake basketball wins first-ever conference tourney as member of the SoCon |
| 1954 | Milan High School wins Indiana State High School Basketball Championship (pictured below) |
| 1955 | Wake Forest baseball wins College Baseball World Series |
| 1956 | San Francisco Dons win mid-major national basketball title with perfect 29-0 record |
| 1957 | Wilmington’s Althea Gibson becomes first black player to win Wimbledon |
| 1958 | Kentucky Wildcats win national basketball championship over Seattle |
| 1959 | California wins epic one point NCAA Bball title game over West Virginia |
| 1960 | Bill Mazeroski walk off World Series home run |
| 1961 | Wake Forest wins first ACC basketball Tournament title |
| 1962 | Wake Forest basketball makes only Final Four appearance and wins third place game |
| 1963 | Loyola Chicago basketball wins national basketball championship |
| 1964 | Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) wins heavyweight title over Sonny Liston |
| 1965 | Jack Nicklaus breaks Masters scoring record en route to title |
| 1966 | England wins first and only World Cup Soccer Championship |
| 1967 | Jack Nicklaus breaks US Open socring record en route to title |
| 1968 | Bob Beamon 29 foot gold medal long jump |
| 1969 | Joe Namath guarantees Super Bowl Upset |
| 1970 | Willis Reed Inspires NY Knicks to NBA Title |
| 1971 | Western Kentucky makes Cinderella Run to NCAA Tournament Final Four |
| 1972 | American Mark Spitz wins record seven Olympic gold medals |
| 1973 | Secretariat wins Triple Crown by 31 lengths |
| 1974 | Muhammad Ali upsets Foreman in Rumble in the Jungle |
| 1975 | Muhammad Ali beats Joe Frazier in Thrilla in Manilla |
| 1976 | Kentucky football wins share of SEC title for first time in 26 years |
| 1977 | Seattle Slew wins horse racing triple crown |
| 1978 | Kentucky basketball wins national title over Duke |
| 1979 | Wake Forest football stuns # 12 Georgia on the road |
| 1980 | Miracle On Ice |
| 1981 | Larry Bird wins first NBA title with the Boston Celtics |
| 1982 | “The Play” Cal-Stanford |
| 1983 | NC State “Cardiac Pack” win national title |
| 1984 | BYU wins Holiday to become last consensus national champ outside of the Power 5 |
| 1985 | Villanova Cinderella Championship |
| 1986 | Jack Nicklaus wins Masters |
| 1987 | Minnesota Twins win World Series in 7 games |
| 1988 | Kirk Gibson World Series Home Run |
| 1989 | Michael Chang becomes youngest man to win Grand Slam with French Open title |
| 1990 | Loyola Marymount makes Cinderella run to Elite 8 in honor of Hank Gathers |
| 1991 | Michael Jordan wins first NBA Championship with Chicago Bulls |
| 1992 | Andre Agassi wins first grand slam and only Wimbledon title of his career |
| 1993 | Boston College stuns Notre Dame in epic college football upset |
| 1994 | George Foreman becaomes oldest heavyweight champ |
| 1995 | Northwestern football wins Cinderella Big Ten Title |
| 1996 | Kentucky basketball wins first national title of my lifetime |
| 1997 | Michael Jordan Flu Game captapults Bulls to 5th NBA Title |
| 1998 | Kentucky basketball wins national title with three straight comeback wins |
| 1999 | Andre Agassi wins French Open to complete career grand slam |
| 2000 | South Carolina football shocks world with upset of # 10 Georgia |
| 2001 | 15-seeded Hampton beats Iowa State in first round of NCAA Tournament |
| 2002 | Patriots upset Rams in Super Bowl |
| 2003 | Ohio State shocks Miami in 2OT to win BCS Title Game |
| 2004 | Boston Red Sox end Curse of the Bambino |
| 2005 | # 4 Wake Forest basketball beats # 3 North Carolina in regular season thriller |
| 2006 | Wake Forest football wins ACC Championship |
| 2007 | Boise State beats Oklahoma in Fiesta Bowl |
| 2008 | Kansas beats Memphis in NCAA Title Game with buzzer beater |
| 2009 | Alabama wins SEC Football Championship |
| 2010 | South Carolina baseball wins first NCAA baseball championship |
| 2011 | Kentucky football ends epic drought against Tennessee |
| 2012 | Andy Murray wins Olympic Gold |
| 2013 | Andy Murray ends great British drought with Wimbledon men’s singles title |
| 2014 | Florida State’s final drive ends SEC reign of terror |
| 2015 | American Pharoah wins Horse Racing Triple Crown |
| 2016 | Villanova hits buzzer beater to beat UNC in National Title Game |
| 2017 | New England Patriots complete greatest comeback in SB history over Falcons |
| 2018 | UMBC pulls off first 16 over 1 upset in NCAA Tournament |
| 2019 | Expos/Nationals franchise wins first world series |
| 2020 | Dominic Thiem wins first grand slam title in fifth set tiebreaker |
| 2021 | Wake Forest football wins the ACC Atlantic title |
| 2022 | St. Peter’s Peacocks make greatest Elite 8 Cinderella run ever as 15 seed |
Ramblings of the Ultimate Sports Sentimentalist 