ON THIS DATE
1934: Babe Ruth hits his 700th home run.
1943: The first night game in AllStar history is played (and it’s all downhill from there).
1948: Pardon the interruption, but Tony Kornheiser turns 72 today.
1963: Early Wynn, at 43, finally gets his 300th win. (He retires at the end of the season with 300 wins.)
1965: The NL took the lead over the AL for the first time since the All-Star series began, winning 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minn.
1971: Reggie Jackson hits a mammoth home run off the power generator on the right-field roof at Tiger Stadium to highlight a barrage of six homers — three by each team — as the AL beats the NL 6-4 in the All-Star Game.
1972: Robert Irsay buys the stock of the Los Angeles Rams for $19 million and swaps the franchise for the Baltimore Colts (and then 12 years later leaves Baltimore in the dark of night).
1980: Amy Alcott shoots a record score of 280 to win the U.S. Women’s Open by nine strokes over Hollis Stacy.
1982: The NL registered its 11th consecutive All-Star victory, winning 4-1 at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium on the strength of Dave Concepcion’s two-run homer off Boston’s Dennis Eckersley.
1993: Davey Allison, winner of the 1992 Daytona 500, dies in a helicopter crash at 32.
1999: Boston’s Pedro Martinez set an All Star record by striking out the first four batters — Barry Larkin, Larry Walker, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire — but the night belongs to Ted Williams, who makes his final appearance at Fenway Park.
2003: Beth Daniel, 46, becomes the oldest winner in LPGA Tour history, beating Juli Inkster by a stroke in the Canadian Women’s Open.
2010: The National League wins the All-Star Game for the first time in 14 years.
2014: Madison Bumgarner becomes only the second pitcher in MLB history to hit two grand slams in a season. (Tony Cloninger wins the tiebreaker for hitting both of his in one game.)