My first reaction was that the only way any game gets remembered in 300 years is if every player is swallowed by a giant sinkhole while koala bears fly out their ears, leading directly to a world war.
But wouldn’t it be something if, like rock music, the 1970s and 1980s were truly the golden age of sports, and in 300 years everyone will know Wayne Gretzky’s numbers and the Red Sox heartbreaker loss in 1986 as if they were there…
Thanks to the holodeck, they will be. 
If I was going to put money on one event lasting 300 years in the hearts and minds of the populace, it would be Babe Ruth pointing out the home run for the little kid.
In 300 years people will still be talking about 1967: the last time the Toronto Maple Leafs ever won the Stanley Cup.
Just like that dodgeball double-fault final-play elimination in the Helsinki episode of 1919. I think we all remember how THAT turned out!
Ha ha. I don’t think I would even go that far, but I’ll bet in 300 years Darryl Sittler will have achieved saint-like status in Canada (with Lanny McDonald ever-present at his side). All Canadians will have a national holiday to contemplate his 10-point game, and his utter betrayal by the Ballard-monster and others.
We know the exact route he took, so we know the distance, and it was part of a bet so the time being below four minutes, and the bet won, was confirmed by both parties and an independent adjudicator, nor was he the only one to hace achieved it in the pre-Corinthian-spirit era.
I can see that.
I doubt that Australians will have forgotten the Bodyline Ashes series of 1932/33, either.
Even if the sport of cricket has died out by that time, both of those events will be remembered because of the way they were an expression of the condescension of a larger nation towards a smaller one.
That’s assuming, of course, that entities like Australia and New Zealand (and even the very concept of nations) will still exist in 2313.
Tiger Woods winning all four majors in 2014.
I was doing some more thought, and you know about like high school history texts? Maybe in an entire chapter on say the Roman Empire, you might get a paragraph about the gladiatorial games. Imagine if say the entire 20th century history of baseball was condensed into a paragraph. Would even any names be mentioned? I doubt even team names would make the cut. Iirc, you might get 1 paragraph on a handful of the major US presidents, but a sentence at most on say Benjamin Harrison or Martin Van Buren.
If course, if you got a specialized text on say 20th century baseball, you’d get more details. However, I did read one when I was younger, which had about 20 or so essays on different topics about the major leagues. Topics I remember: Christy Mathewson, Cy Young, Mickey Mantle, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, etc. In other words, only the absolute biggest names of that time period. I don’t even any batters were mentioned until Babe Ruth in the 20’s. Some passing mention on say Ty Cobb, but maybe 5 players total before 1920.
Therefore, I think we can’t really expect a single game to possibly survive. In the pre 1920’s era, the black sox game was the most famous, and even then, the game itself is barely mentioned. What was the final score? Who were the starting pitchers?
Therefore, while a single sporting event may survive in history, e.g. the Munich Massacre, would the game as well?
Even in our current memory:
I’m thinking that this just goes beyond just time. We remember “important” things. The final score doesn’t matter as much as who won, who were the starters doesn’t matter as much as who finished.
Still beating that dead horse in the hopes of giving it life, eh Tony?
Was the timing confirmed to be accurate using modern timekeepng devices to verify the older device? If it’s inaccurate for one, it’s inaccurate for all.
Did the course have any downhill component at all?
All I’ve found are claims by one or two writers with no verification.
Just a little belated Christmas present for you and NFM.
All sporting events will be remembered in the sense that they will be written in a book somewhere. But if you were to stop people in the street and ask them if they could remember a sporting event from 300 years ago, almost no one would be able to. There might be a few savants who have memorized all the baseball stats since 1900 or something like that, but just about everyone else would have no idea about any sporting event from 300 years ago.
The average layman today could hardly tell you about sporting events a few years ago. Unless they personally watched it, they likely have very little memory of it. Ask a layman to name a specific sporting event before he was born and he probably wouldn’t be able to.
Good point. In addition to bare-knuckles boxing, Wikipedia says he was expert at Singlestick, a popular sport. It lasted quite a while, too – rules are known from the 1600s, and Teddy Roosevelt (born 1858) is known to have been an aficionado.
Remember all those great Singlestick matches? Whoo boy, that was some cudgeling!
The route had turns in it, though, right? Do we know precisely how he cornered? Was he entirely on the street, or did he cut across the sidewalk at the corners? Yeah, these questions would only amount to a difference of a few feet, but to the precision that modern records are kept, those few feet matter.
That hardly counts, since Teddy Roosevelt was an aficionado of anything that involved beating people up.
I can tell you who was in the Stanley Cup playoffs last year (although I had to think about it), but I’m not even sure about the year before that. Vancouver and … Boston, right.
And the year before that … no idea. At all.
ETA: Chicago and Philadelphia. I would never have been able to guess that for any amount of money, and it’s only been **three **years.