1839 – 1st baseball game played in America
1880 – John Lee Richmond pitches 1st major league perfect game, Worcester 1, Cleveland’s Forest City 0
1916 – Tennis legend Bill Tilden’s 1st appearance at US tennis championship
1922 – St Louis Brown Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth 3 straight times
1928 – NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 2 triples & 2 HRs to beat White Sox 15-7
1939 – Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY
1957 – Stan Musial plays in 823rd game (new NL consecutive-game streak)
1975 – Hank Aaron’s 1st HR in Milwaukee since 1965
1981 – Baseball Players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike
1990 – NY Yankee reliever Dave Righetti becomes 9th to record 200 saves
1990 – Oakland A’s Rickey Henderson becomes 2nd to steal 900 bases
1990 – Orioles Cal Ripken plays in his 1,308th consecutive game to move past Everett Scott into 2nd place on the all-time list
1990 – NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs 19-8 at Wrigley Field, Cubs outfielder Doug Dazcenzo pitched a scoreless 9th inning
1997 – 1st ever baseball inter-league game SF Giants beat Texas Rangers 4-3
2000 – Steve Young (San Francisco 49ers) retired from the NFL.