ON THIS DATE

1911: The New York Giants scored a major league record 10 runs before making an out in the first inning.

1914: Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is born in Lafayette, Alabama (d. 1981).

1942: Jim Tobin of the Boston Braves becomes the only pitcher in modern history to hit three home runs in one game. (His fourth at-bat was a fly ball caught against the fence in left field.)

1952: Ron Necciai of the Bristol Twins (Appalachian League) strikes out 27 batters in nine innings.

1955: Mickey Mantle hits three consecutive home runs — two left-handed, one right-handed and none less than 463 feet.

1958: Stan Musial becomes the eighth major leaguer with 3,000 hits.

1961: Dennis Rodman is born in Trenton, New Jersey. On his 42nd birthday, in 2003, he marries Michelle Moyer, his third wife (and counting).

1965: Chris Washburn, the biggest bust in Warriors draft history — and that’s saying something — is born in Hickory, North Carolina

1976: The New York Nets, led by Julius Erving — he averaged 29.3 points and 11 rebounds that season — beat the Denver Nuggets in six games to win the ninth and final ABA championship.

1978: Barry Zito is born in Las Vegas.

1983: Reggie Jackson of the California Angels becomes the first major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times

1999: Golf great Gene Sarazen dies of pneumonia at 97.

2005: Tiger Woods misses the cut at the Byron Nelson Championship to end his record of 142 consecutive cuts made over the last seven years on the PGA Tour.

2011: Derek Boogaard, NHL enforcer, dies at 28 of an accidental overdose of alcohol and oxycodone.

2012: Manchester City wins the English title for the first time in 44 years.

2013: Chuck Muncie, Heisman Trophy runner-up from Cal in 1975, dies from a heart attack at 60.

2017: WNBA superstar Diana Taurasi weds Phoenix Mercury teammate Penny Taylor.