ON THIS DATE
1922: Jake LaMotta, middleweight champ immortalized by Robert DeNiro in ‘Raging Bull’, is born in New York City. (d. 2017)
1924: Johnny Bach is born in Brooklyn and will grow up to coach the Golden State Warriors from 1983-86. (d. 2016)
1932: A’s pitcher Eddie Rommel scatters 29hits and 14 runs over 17 innings to get the W in an 18-17 victory over Cleveland.
1934: Carl Hubbell strikes out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons and Joe Cronin in succession at the All Star Game.
1943: Arthur Ashe is born in Richmond, Va. (d. 1993)
1951: Sugar Ray Robinson (134-1) loses in 15 rounds to the new world middleweight champiom of the world... Randy, the Leamington Licker, Turrrrrrrpin. 1960: 49ers great Roger Craig turns 60 today. No way.
1968: The American League and National League reach an agreement to split into two divisions in 1969. The twelve teams in each league will be divided and play a best-of-five games League Championship Series to determine the pennant winner. (How quaint.)
1971: Lee Trevino rebounds from a double-bogey on the next-to-last hole with a birdie on the final hole to win the 100th British Open.
1976: Johnny Miller shoots a 66 in the final round to beat 19-year-old Spaniard Seve Ballesteros by six strokes to take the British Open.
1982: Larry Parrish of the Texas Rangers hits his third grand slam in seven days.
1992: The Major Soccer League, the only major nationwide professional soccer competition in the United States, folds after 14 seasons. (Turns out they just had the name wrong; Major League Soccer is now in its 25th season.)
1999: Brandi Chastain immortalizes herself with the goal and the celebration.
2009: Jonathan Sanchez of the Giants no-hits the Padres, striking out 11, and it still boggles the mind.
2010: Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher of the Nashville Predators tie the knot and, yes, today is their 10th anniversary.
2016: Three years after becoming the first Englishman since 1936 to win the Wimbledon singles title, Andy Murray does it again.
2019: Jim Bouton, 21-game winner for the 1963 Yankees and author of the 1968 book “Ball Four,” dies at 80.