- Aug 1 East German runner Waldemar Cierpinski wins his second consecutive Olympic Games marathon in 12:11:03 in Moscow
- Aug 1 Gerd Wessig of East Germany becomes the first male to set a high jump world record at the Olympics (2.36m [7' 9"] Moscow)
- Aug 2 Cuban super-heavyweight Teofilo Stevenson becomes the 1st fighter to win 3 Olympic gold medals in the same division, scores 4-1 points decision over Pyotr Zayev (Soviet Union) in Moscow
Baseball Hall of Fame
Aug 3 Al Kaline, Duke Snider, Chuck Klein and Tom Yawkey are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
- Aug 3 XXII Summer Olympic Games close in Moscow, Russia
- Aug 4 7-time All Star Maury Wills becomes only the 3rd black manager in MLB history when Darrell Johnson is fired by Seattle Mariners after a 9 game losing streak
- Aug 5 Montreal Expos Dick Williams wins his 1,000th career game as a manager in 11-5 win v Mets, for whom Doug Flynn hits MLB record tying 3 triples
Canadian Women's Open
Aug 10 Canadian Open Women's Golf (Peter Jackson Classic), Richelieu Valley GC: Pat Bradley wins by 1 from JoAnn Carner for her first of 6 major titles
PGA Championship
Aug 10 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Oak Hill CC: Jack Nicklaus wins 5th and final PGA C'ship by a convincing 7 strokes from Andy Bean
Sports History
Aug 11 Yanks Reggie Jackson hits his 400th HR off Chicago's Britt Burns
Sports History
Aug 17 George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401
- Aug 18 KC Royals' George Brett, batting avg reach .400
- Aug 19 Kansas City Royals' George Brett hitting streak ends at 30 games
- Aug 20 Cleveland Indians pitcher Dan Spillner, 5.45 ERA, is 2 outs from a no-hitter when Chicago White Sox rookie Leo Sutherland singles
- Aug 20 NY Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
- Aug 20 Pittsburgh Pirate Omar Moreno pillages record 70 bases for 3rd consecutive season
Agreement of Interest
Aug 22 Bill Veeck agrees to sell MLB Chicago White Sox to Eddie DeBartolo Sr for $20,000,000, AL owners block the sale
- Aug 23 Charles O. Finley sells Oakland A's MLB franchise for $12.7m to Walter Haas Jr. (owner and CEO of Levi Strauss)
Sports History
Aug 25 MLB Texas Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs
- Aug 31 80th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton
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