ON THIS DATE
1880: Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner is born — to sell Babe Ruth to the Yankees. (He would be 140 today and still unable to live it down.)
1916: The Cubs and Reds play a nine-inning game with just one baseball (Just like we did as kids!)
1941: Joe DiMaggio extends his hitting streak to 41 games, breaking the American League record set by George Sisler of the St. Louis Browns in 1922.
1949: Dan Dierdorf, born in Canton and enshrined in Canton, is 71 today.
1956: Pedro Guerrero, a feared hitter and a feared Dodger, is born in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic. (But is not a shortstop.)
1957: Jackie Pung loses the U.S. Women’s Open when she turns in an incorrect scorecard kept by her partner. Betsy Rawls is declared the winner.
1958: Pele, a 17-year-old coming off a hat trick in the semifinal, scores twice in the final as Brazil wins the World Cup with a 5-2 victory over Sweden.
1968: Detroit’s Jim Northrup hit his third grand slam in a week.
1968: Theo Fleury, the first opposing player Sharks fans truly hated, is born in Oxbow, Saskatchewan.
1990: Fernando Valenzuela follows Dave Stewart’s nohitter with one of his own, the first time in MLB history that two no-hitters are pitched in both leagues on the same day.
1991: Britain’s Nick Brown, the lowest ranked player in the Wimbledon field at 571, beats 10th-seeded Goran Ivanisevic, the biggest upset, based on comparative rankings, since the ATP began compiling world rankings in 1973.
1994: Martina Navratilova plays her 266th match at Wimbledon record, breaking Billie Jean King’s record of 265.
2003: Eric Byrnes hits for the cycle and matches a franchise record with five hits as the A’s beat the Giants 5-2.
2004: Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks becomes the fourth pitcher with 4,000 strikeouts.
2007: NFL Europe goes the way we thought it would 16 years ago.
2012: Aaron Hill of the Diamondbacks hits for the cycle for the second time in 12 days.
2012 : The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency files formal charges against Lance Armstrong, accusing the seven-time Tour de France winner of using performance-enhancing drugs throughout the best years of his career.