Events in Sports History in August 1986

Aug 1 Twins pitcher Bert Blyleven becomes 10th to reach 3,000 MLB strikeout milestone, 2-hits A's, 10-1

Sports History

Aug 2 American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee beats her own world heptathlon record by 13 points (7,161) in Houston

Track and Field Athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Aug 2 Curtis Cup Women's Golf, Prairie Dunes CC: Great Britain & Ireland beats the US 13-5, the visitors first win on American soil
Aug 2 Lee Elder fires a record 11-under par 61 on his way to winning the Senior PGA Merrill Lynch/Golf Digest Commemorative at Sleepy Hollow CC; mark stands for 11 years
Aug 3 First NFL 'American Bowl' exhibition game at London's Wembley Stadium, Chicago Bears beat Dallas Cowboys 17-6

Baseball Hall of Fame

Aug 3 Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr and Ernie Lombardi are inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY

Hall of Fame Baseball Player Bobby Doerr

Aug 4 After winning only token damages in antitrust lawsuit against the NFL, USFL owners vote to suspend operations for 1986 season; folded before 4th season

Baseball Record

Aug 5 Giants left-handed pitcher Steve Carlton becomes 2nd to reach 4,000 strikeout milestone when he gets center-fielder Eric Davis in 11-5 loss v Reds

World Record

Aug 5 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 5,000m world record (14:37.33) in Stockholm, Sweden

Aug 6 Baltimore's Jim Dwyer & Larry Sheets, and Rangers Toby Harrah hit MLB record 3 grand slams in Texas' 13-11 win
Aug 7 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina

Sports History

Aug 10 Billy Martin Day, his uniform number 1 retired

Baseball Player and Manager Billy Martin

Sports History

Aug 10 Pitcher Bob Forsch grand slams to lead Cardinals to a 5-4 win over Pittsburgh Pirates, in St. Louis

PGA Championship

Aug 11 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Inverness Club: Bob Tway holes a famous bunker shot on the 18th to beat Australian Greg Norman by 2 stokes

Aug 12 Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season
Aug 12 Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single
Aug 14 Phillies & Pirates play a 6 game series in 4 days
Aug 17 Red Sox trade shortstop Rey Quinones & pitcher Mike Trujillo to Mariners for shortstop Spike Owen & outfielder Dave Henderson
Aug 18 Jim Kelly signs with NFL Buffalo Bills ($75 million for 5 years)

Cricket Record

Aug 21 Ian Botham takes world-record 356th Test Cricket wkt (v NZ, The Oval)

Aug 21 Red Sox Spike Owens scores 6 runs in a 24-5 rout of Cleveland Indians
Aug 21 With 2 outs in 6th inning, Red Sox score 11 runs

McGwire Hits 1st HR

Aug 25 A's Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league home run

Sports History

Aug 26 Rosa Mota wins Stuttgart female marathon (2:28:38)

Aug 30 Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54)
Aug 30 Yuriy Sedykh of the Soviet Union sets new world hammer throw record 86.74m (284 ft 6 in) in Stuttgart, Germany