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Today in sports history
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1885 : Richard Sears captured the U.S. National Men’s Singles Championship for the fifth consecutive year.
1891 : Chicago Colts outfielder Walt Wilmot drew six walks in a 17-6 victory over the Cleveland Spiders, setting a major-league single-game record.
1898 : Malcolm Whitman won the U.S. National Men’s Singles Championship, the first of three consecutive titles.
1917 : The Brooklyn Robins defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-5 in 22 innings, the longest game by innings in National League history at the time. It was their third-straight extra-inning game.
1927 : Babe Ruth hit his 40th home run of the season for the New York Yankees against Cleveland on his way to a then-major league-record 60 homers.
1948 : The West defeated the East 3-0 in the first 1948 Negro Leagues East-West Game, at Comiskey Park.
1950 : Althea Gibson became the first Black player accepted into the U.S. national tennis championships, now known as the U.S. Open.
1951 : Jackie Robinson produced the winning hit in both games as the Brooklyn Dodgers swept the St. Louis Cardinals with two walk-off victories at Ebbets Field.
1957 : Heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson knocked out Pete Rademacher in the sixth round in Seattle after Rademacher became the first boxer to challenge for a world title in his professional debut.
1959 : Frank Robinson hit three consecutive home runs and drove in six runs to lead Cincinnati to an 11-4 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.
1959 : Team owners meeting in Dallas officially adopted the name “American Football League,” a key business milestone in pro football history.
1961 : Roger Maris hit his 50th home run of the season for the Yankees, remaining ahead of Babe Ruth’s record-setting 1927 pace.
1964 : The BBC debuted “Match of the Day” with highlights of Liverpool’s 3-2 victory over Arsenal, beginning one of soccer’s longest-running television programs.
1965 : San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marichal struck Los Angeles Dodgers catcher John Roseboro with a bat, triggering a 14-minute brawl in one of baseball’s most infamous on-field incidents.
1984 : American sprinter Evelyn Ashford ran the 100 meters in a world-record 10.76 seconds at a meet in Zurich.
1984 : New York Mets rookie Dwight Gooden recorded his 200th strikeout, becoming the 11th rookie pitcher in major league history to reach the mark.
1989 : Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan struck out Oakland’s Rickey Henderson to become the first major leaguer to record 5,000 career strikeouts.
2004 : Chile’s Nicolás Massú defeated American Mardy Fish in five sets to win the Athens Olympic men’s singles tennis gold medal after earlier winning doubles gold.
2004 : Justin Gatlin won the Athens Olympic 100 meters in 9.85 seconds to claim the gold medal.
2004 : Japan’s Mizuki Noguchi won the Olympic women’s marathon in 2 hours, 26 minutes, 20 seconds, with American Deena Kastor earning bronze.
2007 : The Texas Rangers routed the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, setting the modern major league record for runs in a game and the American League record for margin of victory.
2010 : Fred Funk captured his third and final senior major golf championship.
2010 : Arjun Atwal won the Wyndham Championship, becoming the first golfer born in India to win on the PGA Tour and the first Monday qualifier to win a Tour event in 24 years.
2018 : Ohio State suspended football coach Urban Meyer for three games after an investigation concluded that he mishandled allegations involving former assistant coach Zach Smith.
2021 : Detroit Tigers star Miguel Cabrera hit his 500th career home run, becoming the 28th player in major league history to reach the milestone.
2021 : Anna Nordqvist won the AIG Women’s Open at Carnoustie by one stroke for her third career major championship.
2023 : Las Vegas Aces forward A’ja Wilson scored 53 points in a 112-100 victory over Atlanta, matching the WNBA single-game scoring record.
— USA TODAY Network
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