ON THIS DATE

1858: In the first baseball game with paid admission — 50 cents! — New York and Brooklyn give fans their money’s worth with a 22-18 final. That’s a little more than a penny per run!

1900: Maurice Leyland, who still could pass as the younger brother of Jim Leyland, is born in Harrogate, England.

1929: Mike Ilitch, owner of the Red Wings and the Tigers and founder of Little Caesars, is born in Detroit. (Pizza, pizza.)

1973: Knuckleballer Wilbur

Wood of the Chicago White Sox starts — and loses

— both games of a doubleheader. (He goes 24-20 for the season.)

1974: Bengie Molina, born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, turns 46 today. Those numbers might be transposed.

1976: Hank Aaron, a 42-yearold DH for the Milwaukee Brewers, hits the 755th and final home run of his career.

1997: Justin Leonard closes with a 65 to win the British Open, taking the lead from

Jesper Parnevik with a birdie on No. 17.

2002: Tiger Woods, trying to win the third leg of the Grand Slam, shoots his worst round (81) as a professional.

2003: Ben Curtis, an unknown PGA Tour rookie in his first major championship, wins the British Open despite four bogeys on the final seven holes.

2006: A day after falling more than eight minutes off the pace, Floyd Landis has a once-in-a-lifetime ride to cut the deficit to 30 seconds. (The wonder of drugs.)

2008: Padraig Harrington wins the British Open for the second year in a row, the first European in more than a century to do that.

2009: Matt Holliday homers twice, including a tying grand slam in the seventh inning, and Jack Cust followed with another shot, helping the Athletics rally from a 10-run deficit — the largest comeback in Oakland history — and beat the Minnesota Twins 14-13.