Events in Sports History on August 17

  • 1904 Boston's Jesse Tannehell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 6-0
  • 1920 New York Yankees cancel game with Cleveland Indians in memory of Ray Chapman who dies after being hit by a pitch the previous day

Lou Gehrig's Playing Streak

1933 MLB player Lou Gehrig plays record 1,308th consecutive game

  • 1938 Henry Armstrong wins his 3rd concurrent boxing championship
  • 1944 Yanks Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 consecutive doubles in a game
  • 1948 Phillies commit 8 errors in a baseball game for the 2nd time
  • 1950 Pee Wee Reese (Dodgers) & Sam Calderone (Giants) hit inside park HRs
  • 1951 18th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 33, All-Stars 0 (92,180)

Baseball History

1957 Baseball player Richie Ashburn fouls and hits fan Alice Roth twice in the same game at bat playing for the Philadelphia Phillies, 1st hit breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher

  • 1963 Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit for cycle
  • 1964 Boycott scores his 1st Test Cricket century, 113 v Aust at the Oval

Baseball Record

1966 Willie Mays takes 2nd place on all-time HR list

  • 1969 NY Jets beat NY Giants, 37-14 in their first meeting (pre-season)

PGA Championship

1969 PGA Championship Men's Golf, NCR CC: Ray Floyd wins first of his 4 major titles by 1 stroke from South African Gary Player

Sports History

1972 MLB Philadelphia Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game

Sports History

1973 Lee Trevino's 1st hole-in-one

  • 1973 Mets first baseman Willie Mays hits 660th & last career home run. off Don Gullett of Cincinnati Reds, in 2-1 loss at Shea Stadium, in New York

Sports History

1980 George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401

  • 1982 LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18)

Sports History

1984 Pete Rose returns to Cincinnati Reds as player-manager (gets 2 hits)

  • 1986 Red Sox trade shortstop Rey Quinones & pitcher Mike Trujillo to Mariners for shortstop Spike Owen & outfielder Dave Henderson

Baseball Record

1987 Bunt single gives Milwaukee Brewers' Paul Molitor longest MLB hit streak of 1980's at 32 games

Hall of Fame

1987 Muhammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame

  • 1989 32nd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 12½-11½

Sports History

1989 Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken plays in his 1,208th consecutive game, moves to 3rd place all-time, behind NY Yankees Lou Gehrig and Boston Red Sox/NY Yankees Everett Scott

  • 1990 Carlton Fisk hits White Sox record 187th HR

Sports History

1990 Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment

  • 1991 Royals Warren Cromartie's 1st major league HR since 1983
  • 1992 Kevin Gross of Dodgers tosses only 9-inning no-hitter of season, a 2-0
  • 1995 Marco van Basten announces his retirement from professional football

PGA Championship

1997 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Winged Foot GC: Davis Love III wins his only major title by 5 strokes from Justin Leonard

  • 2003 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Oak Hill CC: Shaun Micheel wins his lone major title by 2 strokes from Chad Campbell
  • 2004 Yana Klochkova of Ukraine wins the 200m individual medley in 2:11.14 at the Athens Olympics to wrap up the 200/400m medley double
  • 2008 Australian women's 4 x 100m medley relay team of Emily Seebohm, Leisel Jones, Jessicah Schipper & Libby Trickett upset the United States to win the gold medal in world record 3:52.69 at the Beijing Olympics

Canadian Women's Open

2008 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Ottawa Hunt GC: Australian Katherine Hull wins by 1 from Se Ri Pak

  • 2008 China wins its 33rd gold medal of the Beijing Olympics by beating Singapore in the table tennis women's team event; most successful Olympiad ever for China; wins all 10 singles and all 5 doubles matches
  • 2008 Four years after winning Olympic silver in the rowing quad sculls in Athens, Briton Rebecca Romero becomes only 2nd woman to earn medals in 2 different sports at the summer Games when she wins the pursuit track cycling gold in Beijing
  • 2008 German swimmer Britta Steffen beats American Dara Torres by 0.01 in the 50m to wrap up the 50/100m double at the Beijing Olympics
  • 2008 Gulnara Samitova-Galkina of Russia wins the 3,000m steeplechase gold medal at the Beijing Olympics in world record 8:58.81
  • 2008 Jamaica dominates the 100m at the Beijing Olympics with Shelly-Ann Fraser taking the gold medal in 10.78; her teammates Sherone Simpson & Kerron Stewart dead-heat for silver in 10.98

Olympic Gold

2008 Rafael Nadal of Spain beats Chile's Fernando González 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 to win the men's tennis singles at the Beijing Olympics; Spain's first ever Olympic gold medal in tennis

Sports History

2008 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Crosswater Club: Fred Funk wins first of 3 Champions Tour majors by 3 strokes from Mike Goodes

World Record

2008 US team Michael Phelps, Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen & Jason Lezak wins 4 x 100m medley relay at the Beijing Olympics in world record 3:29.34; Phelps' 8th gold medal of Games breaks Mark Spitz's 1972 record (7)

Sports History

2013 14th Athletics World Championships: Usain Bolt wins 200m

LPGA Championship

2014 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Monroe GC: Defending champion Inbee Park of South Korea beats runner-up Brittany Lincicome on 1st hole of a sudden-death playoff for her 5th major title

  • 2015 2012 Olympic 1500m champion from Turkey Asli Cakir Alptekin is stripped of her gold medal for doping by the IAAF
  • 2016 American sweep in 100m women's hurdles at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics with Brianna Rollins taking gold ahead of Nia Ali & Kristi Castlin; 1st time US has swept medals in an Olympic women's track & field event
  • 2016 German pair Laura Ludwig & Kira Walkenhorst upsets Brazilian hometown favourites Ágatha Bednarczuk & Bárbara Seixas 21–18, 21–14 to win the Olympic women's beach volleyball gold in Rio de Janeiro
  • 2016 Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson wins 200m gold medal in 21.78; wraps up 100/200m Rio de Janeiro Olympics double
  • 2016 Kenyan runner Conseslus Kipruto records an Olympic record 8:03.28 to win the men's 3,000m steeplechase gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Games
  • 2021 Joel Embiid signs a four-year, $196 million NBA extension with the 76ers