THIS WEEKEND IN SPORTS HISTORY
Saturday 1890 Denton True “Cy” Young pitches and wins his 1st major league baseball game. 1948 Bob Mathias, U.S., wins decathlon at London Olympics. 1948 Fanny Blankers-Koen (Netherlands) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics. 1949 Chicago White Sox Luke Appling sets record of 2,154 (en route to 2,218) games at shortstop. 1952 Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to pitch a complete game shutout. 1953 Ted Williams returns to the Boston Red Sox from the military. 1960 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto. 1966 Muhammad Ali KOs Brian London in 3 for heavyweight boxing title. 1972 Hank Aaron hits 660th & 661st home runs for Atlanta Braves (record for 1 team).
1973 Roberto Clemente and Warren Spahn inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. 1978 60th PGA Championship: John Mahaffey shoots a 276 at Oakmont CC, PA. 1979 61st PGA Championship: David Graham shoots a 272 at Oakland Hills, Mich. 1981 Due to strike, the New York Yankees, Oakland A’s, Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers are declared first-half champions. 1984 Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. 1989 Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski’s No. 8. 2005 10th World Championships in Athletics open in Helsinki, Finland.
Sunday 1907 Walter Johnson wins the first of his 416 victories, 7-2 over the Cleveland Indians. 1938 Leo Durocher hits the 2,000th home run in Brooklyn Dodger history. 1950 37th Tour de France won by Ferdi Kubler of Switzerland 1956 Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans. 1983 65th PGA Championship: Hal Sutton shoots a 274 at Riviera CC, LA. 1983 Grete Waitz of Norway wins 1st all-women marathon (Helsinki, Finland). 1983 1 World Championships in Athletics open at Helsinki, Finland.
1984 Japan beats U.S. for Olympic gold medal in baseball in Los Angeles. 1986 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Argentina. 2007 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron’s record by hitting his 756th home run. 2010 Jerry Rice is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.