THIS WEEKEND IN SPORTS HISTORY
Saturday
1907 — St. Louis Cardinals’ Ed Karger pitches perfect game versus Boston Braves, 4-0 in seven innings.
1919 — Green Bay Packers football club is founded.
1929 — Babe Ruth becomes first in MLB to hit 500 homers.
1951 — First colour baseball game (Boston Braves versus Brooklyn Dodgers) telecast on WCBS.
1951 — New York Giants beat Ottawa Rough Riders 38-6 in Ottawa.
1961 — Warren Spahn records victory number 300, beats Chicago Cubs 2-1.
1970 — Jim Bunning becomes second (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues.
1971 — Harmon Killebrew hits home runs Nos. 500 and 501.
1974 — Lee Trevino wins PGA Championship.
1980 — Reggie Jackson hits his 400th homer.
1984 — Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens’ 1936 feat, wins four Olympic track golds.
1985 — Hubert Green wins PGA Championship.
1986 — Bob Tway wins PGA Championship.
1991 — Rookie John Daly wins the PGA title. Sunday
1928 — Games of the IX Olympiad close in Amsterdam.
1950 — New York Giants beat Ottawa Rough Riders 20-6.
1960 — Ralph Boston of the U.S. sets long jump record at 26 feet 11.25 inches.
1964 — Mickey Mantle switch-hits home run in a game for 10th time.
1969 — Boston Celtics team sold for an NBA record $6 million.
1974 — Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Boston Red Sox players.
1974 — Yankees’ Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford become first teammates elected to Baseball Hall of Fame on the same day.
1984 — Don Drysdale, Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Luis Aparicio and Pee Wee Reese are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1994 — MLB players go on strike, eventually causing the cancellation of the World Series and delaying opening of the 1995 season.
2007 — Tiger Woods wins PGA title, his 13th career major.
2008 — Michael Phelps wins Olympic gold in 200 metre freestyle, becoming only the fifth person to win nine career Olympic gold medals.
2008 — Togo wins its first ever Olympic medal, bronze in the men’s single kayak slalom won by Benjamin Boukpeti.