TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
1896 — Ed Delahanty becomes the second Major League Baseball player to hit four home runs in a game.
1934 — Babe Ruth hits home run No. 700, against the Detroit Tigers.
1943 — First all-star night game (American League nips National League, 5-4, at Shribe Park, Philadelphia).
1954 — Pitcher Dean Stone gets credit for American League win, although he didn’t retire a batter; he threw out Shoendienst trying to steal home. American League beats National League, 11-9, in 21st all-star game.
1963 — Early Wynn wins his 300th and last game at age 43.
1965 — National League nips American League, 6-5, in 36th all-star game (Metropolitan Stadium, Minneapolis).
1971 — American League beats National League, 6-4, in 42nd all-star game (Tiger Stadium, Detroit).
1972 — Los Angeles Rams (Irsay) and Baltimore Colts (Rosenbloom) swap owners.
1973 — New York Yankees’ Bobby Murcer’s three homers account for all RBIs, beating Kansas City Royals, 5-0.
1976 — National League beats American League, 7-1, in 47th all-star game (Veteran’s Stadium, Philadelphia).
1982 — In the first all-star game played outside the U.S., the National League records its 11th straight win, beating the American League at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, 4-1.
1984 — The Yankees retire Roger Maris (number 9) and Elston Howard (number 32) uniform numbers. The team also erects plaques in their honour.
1984 — Sergei Bubka of the USSR pole-vaults a record 5.89 metres.
2001 — Beijing wins the bid to host the 2008 Summer Olympics.
2007 — The 15th Pan Am Games opens in Rio de Janeiro.
2010 — George Steinbrenner, New York Yankees owner, dies at age 80 in Tampa.