WEEKEND IN SPORTS HISTORY
Saturday
1868 — New York Athletic Club forms.
1954 — With a 3-2 count, Philadelphia Phillies’ Richie Ashburn fouls next 14, then walks.
1955 — Earliest clinching of a National League pennant (Brooklyn Dodgers).
1957 — Mal Anderson and Althea Gibson win tennis’ U.S. Open.
1965 — Kansas City Athletics’ Bert Campaneris plays all nine positions in a game.
1972 — Chicago Cubs’ Ferguson Jenkins wins his 20th game for 6th straight year.
1973 — Hank Aaron sets record of most home runs in one league (709).
1978 — Second game of the Boston Massacre; New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox 13-2.
1985 — Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with 4,191 hits.
1988 — Javier Sotomayer of Cuba high jumps world record 2.43m.
1990 — Gabriella Sabatini beats Steffi Graf to win the U.S. Open.
1991 — Buffalo Bills’ Jim Kelly passes for six touchdowns against the Pittsburgh Steelers (52-34).
1998 — St. Louis Cardinals’ first baseman Mark McGwire breaks Major League Baseball’s singleseason home-run record, formerly held by Roger Maris. McGwire hits No. 62 at Busch Stadium in the fourth inning off of Chicago Cubs’ pitcher Steve Trachsel.
2008 — Roger Federer wins a fifth straight U.S. Open men's tennis title, defeating Andy Murray 6-2, 7-5, 6-2, in one hour 51 minutes at Flushing Meadows.
Sunday
1904 — Boston Herald again refers to New York baseball club as Yankees, when it reports “Yankees take 2,” name not official till 1913.
1936 — New York Yankees clinch 8th pennant.
1945 — Jimmie Foxx hits his 534th and final home run.
1958 — Pittsburgh Pirates’ player Roberto Clemente ties record of three triples in a game.
1960 — 4th American Football League plays first game (Denver 13, Boston 10).
1965 — Sandy Koufax pitches his fourth no-hitter, a perfect game against the Chicago Cubs (1-0).
1968 — First U.S. Open tennis tournament, held as an “open” (Arthur Ashe wins).
1968 — Minnesota Vikings’ Tommy Kramer passes for six touchdowns vs Green Bay Packers (42-7).
1971 — NHL great Gordie Howe retires.
1978 — Third game of the Boston Massacre; New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox 7-0.
1978 — Baltimore Orioles pull their 7th triple play (5-4-3 versus Toronto Blue Jays).
1979 — John McEnroe beats Vitas Gerulaitis for the U.S. Open Tennis title. 1983 — Vitas Gerulaitis bets his house that Martina Navratilova can’t beat the 100th ranked male tennis player. 1984 — John McEnroe beats Ivan Lendl for the U.S. Open Tennis title. 1984 — California Angels’ Michael Witt is 11th to pitch a perfect game. 1987 — Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter. 1989 — Steffi Graf beats Martina Navratilova in U.S. Open final.