Events in Sports History in 1989 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 299 of 299

Aug 10 A's bat out of order against White Sox in 3rd inning
Aug 10 Australia 0-301 at end of day one, 5th Test Cricket at Trent Bridge

PGA Championship

Aug 13 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Kemper Lakes GC: Payne Stewart wins first of 3 major titles by 1 from Andy Bean, Mike Reid & Curtis Strange

Sports History

Aug 15 In 2nd start since after cancer treatment, Giants Dave Dravecky breaks his pitching arm while throwing to Tim Raines

Aug 15 Italian swimmer Giorgio Lamberti sets world record 200m freestyle (1:46.69) in Bonn, West Germany
Aug 17 32nd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 12½-11½

Sports History

Aug 17 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

Aug 18 Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green as NY Yankee manager

Baseball Record

Aug 20 Howard Johnson joins Barry Bonds & Willie Mays hitting 30 HRs & steal 30 bases

Baseball Record

Aug 22 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson)

Aug 23 LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings (Rick Dempsey HR)

Sports History

Aug 24 Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling

Baseball History

Aug 28 Frank Viola and NY Mets outduel Orel Hershiser and LA Dodgers 1-0

Tennis Open

Sep 1 Chris Evert becomes the first player ever to win 100 matches in the US National/Open Tennis Championship by beating Patricia Tarabinia 6-2, 6-4

Sep 3 American tennis star Chris Evert beats 15-year-old Monica Seles 6-0, 6-2 in a 4th round match for her 101st and last US Open singles victory
Sep 5 Chris Evert's final US Open tennis match; defeated by Zina Garrison 7-6, 6-2 in the quarter finals

Baseball Record

Sep 8 American MLB player George Brett gets his 2,500th hit

US Open Women's Tennis

Sep 9 US Open Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf retains her title; beats Martina Navratilova 3-6, 7-5, 6-1

Sep 10 Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record

Sports History

Sep 10 Five days after hitting a HR for Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners, MLB and NFL player Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown, his first

Sports History

Sep 10 Indianapolis running back Eric Dickerson rushes for 106 yards against San Francisco to become the fastest player to top the 10,000 yard plateau; 91st career game

US Men's Tennis Open

Sep 10 US Open Men's Tennis: Boris Becker of Germany wins his only US title; beats Czech Ivan Lendl 7-6, 1-6, 6-3, 7-6

Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major Champion Ivan Lendl

Sep 13 Fay Vincent elected baseball's 8th commissioner
Sep 14 Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2
Sep 14 Jeff Reardon is 1st to record 30 saves in 5 consecutive seasons
Sep 17 NYC court of appeals overturns lower court decision & returns America's Cup back to US (from NZ)
Sep 19 Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to NZ (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran)
Sep 22 MLB St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Leon Durham suspended for 60 days due to drugs
Sep 23 Blue Jays bat out of order against Brewers in 6th inning
Sep 24 Ryder Cup: US & Europe draw, 14-14 at The Belfry, England

Baseball Record

Sep 25 Boston Red Sox Wade Boggs is 1st to get 200 hits & 100 walks in 4 consecutive seasons

Sep 30 Nolan Ryan's perfect game broken in 8th, but gets his 300th strikeout
Sep 30 Toronto Blue Jays wins AL East title
Oct 1 Dallas Cowboy defensive end, Ed "Too Tall" Jones records his 1,000th NFL tackle in a 30-13 defeat to the New York Giants at Texas Stadium

Sports History

Oct 1 MLB batting titles are decided on final day of regular season: AL, Kirby Puckett goes 2-for-5 edges Carney Lansford .339 to .336; NL, Tony Gwynn's 3-for-4 beats Will Clark .336 to .333

Baseball Hall of Fame Outfielder Tony Gwynn

Hockey Hall of Fame

Oct 3 Darryl Sittler, Vladislav Tretiak, and Herbie Lewis are inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as players, along with builders Alan Eagleson and Father David Bauer

Sports History

Oct 3 Oakland Raiders promote 42-year-old Art Shell as the first African-American to be an NFL head coach in modern times; takes over from Mike Shanahan

Oct 4 MLB San Francisco Giants 1st baseman Will Clark hits first NLCS grand slam since 1977 in 11-3 win v Chicago Cubs; Clark goes 4-for-4 with 2 HRs to tie NLCS RBI record (6) for an entire series in less than 4 innings

Sports History

Oct 7 Howard Stern's "US Open Sores" tennis match against his producer Gary Dell'Abate. at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York

Baseball Record

Oct 7 Oakland A's Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a playoff series (5 games) against Toronto Blue Jays

Oct 8 MLB American League Championship: Oakland Athletics beat Toronto Blue Jays, 4 games to 1
Oct 8 Oakland beats Toronto, 4-3 in Game 5, to advance to the World Series
Oct 9 27th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Tokyo Japan (3-0)
Oct 9 First NFL game coached by an African American (Art Shell), his LA Raiders beat NY Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football
Oct 9 MLB National League Championship: San Francisco Giants beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 1

Sports History

Oct 12 Dallas running back Herschel Walker is traded from Cowboys to Minnesota Vikings for 5 players and 6 future draft picks including future stars Emmitt Smith, Russell Maryland, Kevin Smith and Darren Woodson

Oct 13 Bob Quinn resigns as NY Yankee VP/GM & replaced by Harding Peterson
Oct 14 MLB Oakland A's Dave Stewart is 1st MLB pitcher to start consecutive World Series openers since Cincinnati Reds Don Gullett in 1976
Oct 14 Texas A&I University running back Johnny Bailey sets NCAA season rush record at 6,085 yards

Sports History

Oct 15 Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe as NHL's all time top scorer

Oct 17 Earthquake in San Francisco (6.9) cancels 3rd game of World Series, kills 67
Oct 21 Betram Lee & Peter Bynoe purchase the Denver Nuggets for $65m - 1st African American owners of a major sports team,
Oct 22 Denver Nuggets beat Jugoplastika Split 135-129 in 3rd McDonald Open

F1 World Champion

Oct 22 Over-competitive McLaren teammates Alain Prost & Ayrton Senna famously collide and skid into an escape road during Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka; Prost retires from race and claims 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship

Oct 24 After a weeks delay due to earthquake, World Series game 3 is played
Oct 28 Baseball World Series: Oakland A's beat San Francisco, 9-6 at Candlestick Park to sweep Giants in earthquake affected "Bay Bridge Series"; MVP: A's pitcher Dave Stewart
Oct 29 Ozzie Newsome ends NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions
Nov 1 Despite 107 from Desmond Haynes, Saleem Malik with 71 leads Pakistan to 4 wicket win v West Indies in cricket's Nehru Cup Final in Kolkata, India
Nov 3 Lou Piniella is named manager of the Cincinnati Reds, replacing Pete Rose who is banned for life for gambling on MLB games
Nov 3 NBA expansion Minnesota Timberwolves make NBA debut; lose 106-94 against SuperSonics at Seattle Center Coliseum; Tyrone Corbin T-Wolves top scorer with 20 points
Nov 3 Šarūnas Marčiulionis and Alexander Volkov become first Russians to play in a regular season NBA game; Marciulionis scores 19 as Golden State lose 136-106 to Phoenix; Volkov held scoreless in Atlanta's 126-103 defeat by Indiana
Nov 4 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Gulfstream Park; winners: Bayakoa, Dancing Spree, Go for Wand, Prized, Rhythm, Steinlen, Sunday Silence
Nov 4 First NBA game at Orlando Arena, Orlando Magic loses to NJ Nets, 111-106

NYC Women's Marathon

Nov 5 19th NYC Women's Marathon won by Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway in 2:25:30

Nov 5 20th NYC Marathon won by Juma Ikangaa in 2:08:01
Nov 5 French McLaren driver Alain Prost withdraws early in wet Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide but wins his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; wins by 16 points from teammate Ayrton Senna
Nov 5 US plays El Salvador in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
Nov 7 Baltimore Orioles Gregg Olson is 1st relief pitcher to win AL Rookie of Year
Nov 8 Cubs Jerome Walton wins the NL Rookie of Year
Nov 14 Padres reliever Mark Davis wins NL Cy Young Award
Nov 15 Bret Saberhagen wins AL Cy Young Award

Younis and Tendulkar

Nov 15 Test Cricket debut of Waqar Younis & Sachin Tendulkar at Karachi

Nov 15 Walter Davis (Denver) begins NBA free throw streak of 53 games
Nov 17 Bret Saberhagen signs record $2,966,667 per year KC Royal contract
Nov 19 39th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Rusty Wallace wins
Nov 19 German tennis No. 1 Steffi Graf regains the WTA Tour Championship in NYC; beats Martina Navratilova 6–4, 7–5, 2–6, 6–2
Nov 19 US beats Trinidad, 1-0 qualifing for 1990 world soccer cup finals it was US' 1st qualification since 1950
Nov 20 Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Robin Yount wins AL MVP
Nov 22 MLB center fielder Kirby Puckett signs record $3,000,000 per year contract with Minnesota Twins

The Bounty Bowl

Nov 23 The "Bounty Bowl": Philadelphia Eagles defeat Dallas Cowboys 27-0 at Thanksgiving in an ill-tempered game, after which Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson accuses Eagles coach Buddy Ryan of placing bounties on players

Nov 24 Sachin Tendulkar scores a Test Cricket fifty aged 16 years 214 days, a record

David Boon

Nov 25 David Boon scores 200 v NZ at cricket WACA

Nov 26 CFL Grey Cup, SkyDome, Toronto: Saskatchewan Roughriders defeat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 43-40 on Dave Ridgway's field goal winner was known as 'The Kick'
Nov 28 Rickey Henderson signs record $3,000,000 contract per year with baseball's Oakland Athletics

Nadia Comăneci

Dec 1 Romanian 5-time Olympic gold medal winning gymnast Nadia Comăneci arrives in NYC requesting political asylum to the United States; granted

Dec 2 54th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 30-20 in Auburn
Dec 2 55th Heisman Trophy Award: Andre Ware, Houston (QB)
Dec 3 Stefan Edberg of Sweden claims his first and only ATP Masters Grand Prix tennis title with a 4–6, 7–6, 6–3, 6–1 win over defending champion Boris Becker at Madison Square Garden, NYC
Dec 11 Mark Davis signs record $3.25 million per year KC Royals contract
Dec 13 Walter Davis (Denver) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games
Dec 16 Commencement of 1st Test Cricket play at Bellerive Oval, Hobart (v SL)
Dec 17 78th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Stuttgart (3-2)
Dec 17 Michael Bevan scores cricket century on 1st-class debut (114 SA v WA)

Bird Begins Free Throw Streak

Dec 19 Larry Bird (Celtics) begins NBA free throw streak of 71 games

Ballon d'Or

Dec 26 Ballon d'Or: Milan's second straight 1-2-3; Dutch striker Marco van Basten wins his 2nd best football player in Europe title ahead of Franco Baresi and Frank Rijkaard