ON THIS DATE

1903: Detroit Tigers Hall of Fame second baseman Charlie Gehringer is born in Fowlerville, Michigan (d. 1993).

1928: Walter Hagen wins the third of his four British Open championships.

1952: Mike Lupica, big-shot New York City sportswriter, is born in Oneida, New York.

1955: Ernie Banks hits the first of his five grand slams of the season, a National League record that still stands.

1959: Yankee catcher Yogi Berra makes an error — his first in 149games.

1962: Happy Birthday, Steve Bono, born in Norristown, Pennsylvania.

1963: Sandy Koufax pitches the second of his four career no-hitters, blanking the Giants 8-0.

1971: Steve Dunning of the Cleveland Indians becomes the last American League pitcher to hit a grand slam before the inception of the designated hitter rule in 1973.

1976: Atlanta Hawks coach Lloyd Pierce, the pride of Yerba Buena High and Santa Clara University, is born in San Jose.

1977: Ted Turner manages an Atlanta Braves game. 1980: Pete Rose, 39, steals second, third and home in one inning for the Phillies. (Bet that he could do it.)

1988: Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph).

1989: Cam Newton, now a 31-year-old quarterback without a team, is born in Atlanta.

1990: The New York Yankees trade Dave Winfield to the Angels for Mike Witt.

1992: The Portland Trail Blazers win the highest-scoring playoff game in NBA history, 153-151in double OT against the Phoenix Suns in the Western Conference semifinals.

2000: The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Chicago Cubs 14-8in the longest nine-inning game in National League history - 4hours, 22minutes. The teams tied the MLB set by Baltimore and the Yankees on Sept. 5, 1997.

2006: Heavyweight champ Floyd Patterson dies of prostate cancer at 71.

2008: Sergio García wins the PGA Players Championship in a sudden-death playoff over Paul Goydos.

2009: In the tallest pitching matchup in baseball history — 6-foot-10 Randy Johnson of the San Francisco Giants vs. 6-foot-9 Daniel Cabrera — the taller man won. It was Johnson’s 298th victory.

2016: Max Scherzer strikes out 20 batters, matching Roger Clemens (twice), Kerry Wood and Randy Johnson for the most strikeouts in nine innings.