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Today in sports history
Today is Aug. 19. On this date in:
1900: Rube Waddell pitched all 17 innings to beat Chicago in the opener of a doubleheader, then returned to win the second game as Milwaukee’s starter, completing one of baseball’s greatest single-day pitching feats.
1921: Ty Cobb collected the 3,000th hit of his major league career, against the Boston Red Sox , becoming, at age 34, the youngest to do so at the time.
1922: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory defeated Helen Wills at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills to win her seventh U.S. National women’s singles tennis title.
1931: Philadelphia Athletics ace Lefty Grove won his 16th consecutive game, tying the American League record shared by Walter Johnson and Joe Wood.
1951: St. Louis Browns owner Bill Veeck sent 3-foot-7 Eddie Gaedel to the plate as a pinch hitter wearing uniform No. 1/8. Gaedel drew a four-pitch walk in his only major league plate appearance.
1957: New York Giants owner Horace Stoneham announced that the club’s board had approved moving the franchise from New York to San Francisco.
1965: Cincinnati’s Jim Maloney threw a 10-inning no-hitter against the Chicago Cubs , striking out 12 and allowing 10 walks before Leo Cárdenas’ home run produced a 1-0 victory.
1969: Chicago Cubs left-hander Ken Holtzman no-hit the Atlanta Braves 3-0 at Wrigley Field, with Ron Santo’s three-run homer accounting for all the scoring.
1984: Lee Trevino closed with a final-round 69 at Shoal Creek in Birmingham, Alabama, to win the PGA Championship , securing his second PGA title and sixth — and last — major championship.
1988: Hockey Hall of Famer Guy Lafleur began an NHL comeback by agreeing to a one-year contract with the New York Rangers after having been out of the league since 1984.
1990: Chicago White Sox closer Bobby Thigpen recorded his 40th save of the season, becoming one of the fastest to reach 40 saves and continued toward his then-major-league-record 57-save season.
2001: David Toms won the PGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club by one stroke over Phil Mickelson, saving par on the 72nd hole and finishing at 265 for his only major championship.
2004: Carly Patterson won Olympic gold in the women’s gymnastics individual all-around at Athens, finishing ahead of Svetlana Khorkina and Zhang Nan.
2016: Germany defeated Sweden 2-1 in the Olympic women’s soccer final in Rio, winning the nation’s first women’s football gold medal.
2018: Novak Djokovic defeated Roger Federer 6-4, 6-4 in the Western & Southern Open final in Cincinnati to claim his first title at the event and become the first player to win all nine ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, completing a career “Golden Masters.”
— USA TODAY Network
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