August 22: This Day in Sports History (Video)
Search for Sports Apps! Indeed a busy and eventful day in the history of sports. Take a look.
1851 - The yacht “America” wins 1st Royal Yacht Squadron Cup over a 53 mile course (the cup would be re-named America’s Cup in 1870)
1917 - Carson Bigbee sets a record of 11 at-bats for the Pittsburgh Pirates in a 22 inning loss to the Dodgers
1927 - Babe Ruth hits number 40 on his way to 60 home runs
1941 - Bill Parcells, former NFL head coach, is born in Englewood, NJ
1946 - Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it
1946 - Mikko Hietanen wins the Oslo marathon
1947 - The NFL All-Stars defeat the Chicago Bears 16-0 in the 14th NFL Chicago All-Star game
1950 - Althea Gibson becomes the first African-American competitor on a US tennis tour at the US Open in Forest Hills, NY
1951 - The Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052
1957 - Floyd Patterson retains the heavyweight title knocking out Pete Rademacher in the 6th round
1960 - Gil Hodges sets the National League home run record for right-handers with career number 352
1965 - San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marachal starts a 14 minute brawl, hitting LA Dodger catcher John Roseboro on the head with his bat
1980 - Bill Veeck’s sale of the Chicago White Sox to Eddie DeBartolo Sr is blocked by AL owners
1982 - Joanne Carner wins the LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women’s Golf
1989 - Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson), becoming the only pitcher with 5,000 Ks in MLB history – watch Ryan acknowledge his pitching coach during his Hall of Fame speech
1998 – During his record-setting home run year, the St. Louis Cardinals’ Mark McGwire acknowledges he had been using the supplement androstenedione
2007 - The Texas Rangers score 30 unanswered runs in a rout of the Baltimore Orioles, 30-3 – the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history
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