ON THIS DATE

1925: Yogi Berra is born Lawrence Peter Berra in St. Louis, Missouri

(d. 2015).

1955: Sam “Toothpick” Jones of the Cubs gets a no-hitter the hard way striking out the last three batter after walking the bases full.

1966: Busch Memorial Stadium opens in St. Louis, and the Cardinals win 4-3 on a 12th-inning single by Lou Brock. (Future Giants manager Felipe Alou hit two home runs for Atlanta.)

1968: Tony Hawk is born in Carlsbad, California.

1970: Ernie Banks hits his 500th career home run.

1972: The Milwaukee Brewers and Minnesota Twins play 22innings. (The Brewers won 4-3, for those keeping score at home.)

1973: The Indiana Pacers win the ABA championship; the team includes Darnell Hillman, who remains the player drafted highest (eighth overall) out of San Jose State.

1974: The Boston Celtics win the NBA championship with a Game 7victory over the Milwaukee Bucks.

1975: Lawrence Phillips, whose last chance at NFL glory would come with the 49ers, is born in Little Rock, Arkansas. (In 2016, at age 40, he died in prison in what was ruled a suicide.) 1979: Chris Evert loses on clay for the first time in 126matches, falling to 16-year-old Tracy Austin at the Italian Open.

1979: Andre Carter, the pride of Oak Grove High School in San Jose and the first-round pick of the 49ers in 2001, is born in Denver, Colorado.

2000: Boston’s Pedro Martinez strikes out 17batters, giving him 32 over two games, tying the AL record set in 1968by Cleveland’s Luis Tiant. 2000: Racecar driver Adam Petty, son of Kyle, grandson of Richard, great-grandson of Lee, dies in a crash at age 19.

2001: A.J. Burnett of the Florida Marlins allows nine walks — and no hits — in a 3-0victory over the San Diego Padres.

2006: Justin Gatlin breaks the 100-meter world record with a time of 9.76seconds at the Qatar Grand Prix. A week later, it is determined that his time (9.766) should have been rounded up, tying Asafa Powell’s world mark of 9.77.

2010: Homer Bailey gives the Cincinnati Reds back-to-back completegame shutouts — something a team hadn’t since Tim Hudson and Barry Zito did it for the A’s on Sept. 9-10, 2000.

2014: LeBron James of the Miami Heat ties his playoff career high with 49points — a mark he surprassed with 51against the Warriors in Game 1of the 2018 NBA Finals.

2018: Three-time NFL coach of the year Chuck Knox — Rams, Bills, Seahawks — dies of dementia at 86.