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On July 19 in ...

1877 - The final match of the first tennis tournament at Wimbledon is held. W. Spencer Gore defeats William Marshall 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 in 48 minutes. 1909 - First baseman Neil Ball turns unassisted triple-play. 1927 - Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th Major League Baseball hit. 1952 - (to August 3) The Games of the XV Olympiad are held in Helsinki, Finland. 1957 - Don Bowden becomes first American to break 4 minute mile (3:58.7). 1960 - San Francisco Giants' Juan Marichal debuts, with a one hitter against Philadelphia Phillies. 1963 - Philadelphia Phillies' Roy Siever hits home run number 300. 1973 - Willie Mays named to National League all star team for 24th time (ties Stan Musial). 1974 - Cleveland Indians' Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland Athletics, 4-0. 1977 - National League beats American League 7-5 in 48th All Star Game (Yankee Stadium, New York). 1980 - (to August 3) The Games of the XXII Olympiad are held in Moscow, USSR. USA and other countries boycott the games due to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. 1986 - Cleveland Indians' pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game. 1990 - Cincinnati Reds' player Pete Rose is sentence to five months for tax evasion. 1991 - With New York Yankees victory, 10 of 14 American League teams are at .500 or better. 1994 - Four 26-pound ceiling tiles fall from the roof of the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington, just hours before a scheduled Seattle Mariners game. 1996 - (to August 4) Games of the XXVI Olympiad are held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 1799 - Rosetta Stone Found 1941- Joe DiMaggio goes 3 for 9 in a double header at Briggs Stadium, Detroit. He has hit Safely in 76 of 88 games this season and is batting .372. Remarkably between May 15 and August 4 DiMaggio will hit safely in 72 of 73 games.  Ted Williams will pinch hit in the first game of a double header at Sportsmans Park III in St. Louis, he is 0 for 1 off of starter Johnny Allen, Red Sox lose 9-3, He pinch Hits in the second game and walks Red Sox lose 4-3. Williams now hitting a season low .393 Johnny Allen Born in Lenoir, North Carolina, Allen spent part of his youth in the Baptist orphanage in Thomasville, North Carolina, and he attended Thomasville High School. Allen reached the Yankees in an unusual way. While working as a bellhop in a hotel, he was told to take some fans to the room of Yankee scout Paul Krichell. Allen told Krichell that he was a pitcher, and the scout arranged a tryout. Allen was an immediate success for the Yankees, debuting in 1932 with a 17–4 record and a 3.70 ERA for the world champions. He was less stellar in that year's World Series, starting Game 4 and leaving after giving up three runs off five hits in just two-thirds of an inning. He continued to post decent records for the Yankees, but a sore arm and his constant demands for more money threatened his career. For these reasons, he was dealt to the Indians before the 1936 season.[1] Allen turned things around in Cleveland, going 20–10 with a 3.44 ERA in 1936 and following that up by winning his first fifteen decisions of 1937, one short of the record held by Walter Johnson. He lost his next start 1–0 on an unearned run, but his 15–1 mark that year set a winning percentage record that lasted until Roy Face bettered it with an 18–1 record in 1959. In 1938, he won his first twelve decisions and made his only All-Star team. During the All-Star break, he suffered an unknown injury, some claim he slipped on a bar of soap in the shower, and never did approach his earlier success again, finally retiring in 1944 after six mediocre campaigns. He became a minor league umpire after retiring, eventually becoming the umpire-in-chief of the Carolina League. He died at age 54 in St. Petersburg, Florida.[1] Baseball Hall of Fame member Al Simmons named Allen the toughest pitcher for him to hit[2] and Hall of Fame slugger Hank Greenberg named him among the five toughest pitchers he faced in his career.[3]