ON THIS DATE

1906: Satchel Paige is born in Mobile, Ala. (Might still be pitching if death hadn’t caught him in 1982.)

1923: Boston pitcher Lefty O’Doul allows 13 runs in the sixth inning, then opens a bar in San Francisco. (Seriously, he is converted to an outfielder and becomes a two-time batting champion.)

1959: Willie Mays triples home Hank Aaron — wow! — in the bottom of the eighth inning as the National League rallies to win the All Star Game 5-4 at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh.

1960: Ralph Sampson is 60 years old today. (His knees are 90.)

1972: One of the greatest women’s basketball players of all time is born in Gardena, Calif., and she is named Lisa Leslie.

1980: Happy 40th to Michelle Kwan. (Wait. What?)

1985: Boris Becker, 17, becomes the youngest champion and first unseeded player in history to win the men’s singles title at Wimbledon.

1990: Martina Navratilova wins her ninth Wimbledon women’s singles championship, breaking the record she shared with Helen Wills Moody.

1997: Jerry Doggett, Morgan Hill resident and broadcast partner to Vin Scully for 31 seasons, dies at 80. 1998: The American League beats the NL 13-8 in the highest-scoring game in All-Star history. (It happens at Coors Field, so asterisk.)

2002: Juli Inkster, Santa Cruz native, South Bay resident and the pride of San Jose State University, shoots a final-round 66 to win the U.S. Open, her seventh major, most among active players.

2011: Dick Williams, manager of the A’s championship teams in 1972 and 1973, dies at 82.

2013: Andy Murray becomes the first British man to win the Wimbledon title since Fred Perry in 1936.