September 10th ...
Setting a goal is not the main thing.
It is deciding how you will go about
achieving it and staying with that plan.
- Tom Landry
- 1858 - John Holden hits the first recorded home run (Brooklyn versus New York).
- 1875 15th British Golf Open: Willie Park, Sr. shoots a 166 at Prestwick Golf Club
- 1902 Utrecht soccer team UVV forms
- 1918 Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners & $1,000 each for the losers
- 1919 - Cleveland Indians' Ray Caldwell no-hits New York Yankees 3-0.
- 1922 - Largest Polo Grounds baseball crowd; Non Meusel, Babe Ruth, and Lou Gehrig make consecutive home runs.
- 1924 Giants rip Braves 22-1, Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out
- 1927 22nd Davis Cup: France beats USA in Philadelphia (3-2)
- 1931 51st U.S. Men's National Championship: Ellsworth Vines beats George Lott (7-9, 6-3, 9-7, 7-5)
- 1932 US Men's National Tennis Championship, Forest Hills: American Ellsworth Vines successfully defends his title; beats Frenchman Henri Cochet 6–4, 6–4, 6–4
- 1932 Dodgers' Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit HR of the season
- 1933 53rd U.S. Men's National Championship: Fred Perry beats Jack Crawford (6-3, 11-13, 4-6, 6-0, 6-1)
- 1937 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0)
- 1937 Cleveland (Los Angeles) Rams plays their 1st NFL game, lose 28-0
- 1948 Bradman scores 153 in his last 1st-class cricket innings in England
- 1950 - Joe DiMaggio becomes first to hit three home runs in a game at Griffith Stadium.
- 1954 Attempting to handle Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball catcher, Ray Katt of Giants sets a major league record with 4 passed balls
- 1960 - New York Yankees player Mickey Mantle hits 643-foot home run over right field roof in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1960 - Running barefoot, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila wins Rome Olympic marathon.
- 1960 Fencer Aladár Gerevich is part of the gold medal winning Hungarian sabre team at the Rome Olympics; Gerevich's 6th consecutive gold medal in the event
- 1961 - Mickey Mantle tied a major league baseball record for home runs when he hit the 400th of his career.
- 1961 Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari
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- 1961 81st U.S. Men's National Championship: Roy Emerson beats Rod Laver (7-5, 6-3, 6-2)
- 1961 75th U.S. Women's National Championship: Darlene Hard beats Ann Jones (6-3, 6-4)
- 1962 82nd U.S. Men's National Championship: Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson (6-2, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4)
- 1962 76th U.S. Women's National Championship: Margaret Court beats Darlene Hard (9-7, 6-4)
- 1962 - Rod Laver wins the Grand Slam of tennis.
- 1963 - Philadelphia Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s, 16-0.
- 1963 Stan Musial hits a HR in his 1st at bat as a grandfather
- 1965 - Philadelphia Phillies' 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phillies beat Saint Louis Cardinals.
- 1966 Muhammad Ali TKOs Karl Mildenberger in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1967 - Chicago White Sox player Joel Horlen no-hits Detroit Tigers, 6-0.
- 1967 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Pacific Golf Classic
- 1967 87th U.S. Men's National Championship: John Newcombe beats Clark Graebner (6-4, 6-4, 8-6)
- 1967 81st U.S. Women's National Championship: Billie Jean King beats Ann Jones (11-9, 6-4)
- 1969 - New York Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in first place for first time.
- 1972 - Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship.
- 1972 20th Olympic games close at Munich, German FR
- 1972 - US Men's Olympic basketball team's first loss, 51-50 to USSR (disputed).
- 1972 - Gayle Sayers of the Chicago Bears retired from the National Football League (NFL).
- 1972 US Open Men's Tennis: Ilie Năstase of Romania beats Arthur Ashe 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 6-3, 6-3 for his first Grand Slam title
- 1972 American men's 4 x 100m relay team of Larry Black, Robert Taylor, Gerald Tinker & Eddie Hart combine for a world record 38.19 to beat the Soviet Union for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics
- 1972 American long distance runner Frank Shorter scores a famous win in the men's marathon in 2:12:19.8 at the Munich Olympics
- 1972 East v West in a women's 4 x 100m relay at the Munich Olympics; West Germany beats East Germany by 0.13 seconds for the gold medal
- 1972 American freestyle wrestler Dan Gable wins the 68kg division gold medal at the Munich Olympics; only Olympic wrestler not to have a single point scored against him in the competition
- 1972 Yugoslavia beats Czechoslovakia, 21-16 in the inaugural Olympic handball final in Munich
- 1972 An American double in the inaugural Olympic archery competition in Munich; John Williams wins the men's individual gold medal; Doreen Wilber takes the women's gold
- 1972 Cuban boxer Teófilo Stevenson wins first of 3 consecutive Olympic heavyweight gold medals when Munich Games opponent Ion Alexe of Romania withdraws from the final because of a broken thumb
- 1972 Kazimierz Deyna scores twice as Poland beats Hungary 2-1 in the Olympic football gold medal match; 80,000 at the Munich Olympic Stadium
- 1972 West Germany beats Pakistan 1-0 to become first European nation since 1920 to win the field hockey Olympic title; marred by disgraceful behaviour of Pakistani players, fans & officials after losing the Munich final
- 1973 - Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton.
- 1973 - New York Jets trade pro football's leading receiver Don Maynard to Saint Louis Cardinals.
- 1974 - Lou Brock ties (104) and then sets (105) baseball stolen base mark.
- 1974 - Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 miles in 24 hours.
- 1975 Darryl Sittler is named captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
- 1977 - Toronto Blue Jays beat New York Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits.
- 1977 Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5)
- 1977 US Open Women's Tennis: Chris Evert wins her 3rd straight US title; beats Wendy Turnbull of Australia 7-6, 6-2
- 1978 - Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yards and 30 inches).
- 1978 - 4th game of the Boston Massacre; New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for first place. Yankees out-hit Red Sox 67-21; score 42-9.
- 1978 US Open Men's Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Björn Borg 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 to become the 1st player to win the US Open on 3 different surfaces
- 1980 - Bill Gullickson sets rookie record of striking out 18.
- 1983 Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1983 US Open Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert-Lloyd 6-1, 6-3 for her first US singles title
- 1984 - Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days).
- 1988 - Steffi Graf wins US Open, achieved tennis' first Grand Slam since Margaret Court in 1970.
- 1989 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
- 1989 Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record
- 1989 Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
- 1989 - Boris Becker beats Yvan Lendl for the US Open championship.
- 1989 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
- 1990 1st time since 1966 that all 8 grand slam tennis champs are different
- 1990 1st time in NY Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0
- 1990 - Nineteen-year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win the US Open of tennis.
- 1990 - First time in New York Yankees' history they are completely swept in a season series, Oakland Athletics beat them 12 games to 0.
- 1990 - Seattle Mariners' Matt Young becomes 21st American League player to strike out four in one inning.
- 1991 Yolanda Gail Devers runs US female record 100m hurdles (12.48 secs)
- 1992 Bud Selig becomes interm commissioner of baseball
- 1992 - In Minneapolis, MN, a federal jury struck down professional football's limited free agency system.
- 1994 US Open Women's Tennis: Arantxa Sanchez Vicario of Spain wins her only US singles title; beats Steffi Graf 1-6, 7-6, 6-4
- 1995 35th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland beats US, 14-10
- 1995 Alison Nicholas wins PING-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
- 1995 Cleveland's major league sports franchises, NFL Browns & MLB Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleveland for only time, both win; Browns 22-6 v Tampa, Indians 5-3 v Orioles
- 1995 US Open Men's Tennis: Pete Sampras wins his 3rd US title; beats fellow American Andre Agassi 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5
- 1997 Mark McGwire joins Babe Ruth as only the players to hit 50 HRs in 2 consecutive years
- 2000 US Open Men's Tennis: Marat Safin of Russia wins his first Grand Slam title; beats Pete Sampras 6-4, 6-3, 6-3
- 2002 - Gary Suter retired from the NHL after a 17 year career.
- 2005 125th US Open Women's Tennis: Belgian Kim Clijsters wins her first of 4 Grand Slam titles; beats Mary Pierce 6-3, 6-1
- 2006 - Seven-time World Champion Michael Schumacher announces he will retire from Formula One racing at the end of the year.
- 2006 - Roger Federer won his third straight U.S. Open and his 12th overall.
- 2007 - (to September 30) The 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup is held in China.
- 2012 US Open Men's Tennis: Andy Murray of Scotland wins his first Grand Slam event; beats defending champion Novak Đoković 7-6, 7-5, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2
- 2016 US Open Women's Tennis: Angelique Kerber beats Karolína Plíšková 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 to become first German player to win the event since Steffi Graf in 1996
- 2017 US Open Men's Tennis: Spain's Rafael Nadal wins his 3rd US title; beats Kevin Anderson of South Africa 6-3, 6-3, 6-4
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