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September 11th  ....

My motto was always to keep swinging.  Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly  or having trouble off the field,  the only thing to do was keep swinging.  - Hank Aaron

• 1839 - First Canadian track and field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds).
• 1862 3rd British Golf Open: Tom Morris Sr shoots a 163 at Prestwick Golf Club
• 1886 - Sailing ship Mayflower (US) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup.
• 1890 30th British Golf Open: John Ball shoots a 164 at Prestwick Golf Club
• 1895 FA Cup stolen in Birmingham
• 1903 - The first race is held at the oldest major speedway in the world, The Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin, USA.
• 1912 Netherland Olympic Committee forms
• 1912 - Philadelphia Athletics' Eddie Collins steals six bases in one game.
• 1918 - Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, four games to two in 15th World Series.
• 1923 - After a single, Boston Red Sox player Howard Ehmke retires the next 27 New York Yankees.
• 1926 - US defeats France for their 7th straight Davis Cup championship.
• 1926 - New York Yankees' Bob Meusel ties record with three sacrifice flies.
• 1927 Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers
• 1928 Ty Cobb last hitting appearance, pops out against Yankees

   

 

• 1933 Britain's Fred Perry thwarts Australian Jack Crawford's bid for a Grand Slam by defeating him at US Tennis championship
• 1935 - US captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year.
• 1936 - Philadelphia Athletics' pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game.
• 1937 57th U.S. Men's National Championship: Don Budge beats Gottfried von Cramm (6-1, 7-9, 6-1, 3-6, 6-1)
• 1937 51st U.S. Women's National Championship: Anita Lizana beats Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (6-4, 6-2)
• 1943 - The NHL approved the Hockey Hall of Fame. The official building for the hall of fame was not opened until August 26, 1961 on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition. 
• 1946 - The Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds played to a scoreless tie in 19 innings. 

                 

            

  

• 1951 - Florence Chadwick became the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions. 
• 1955 6th Formula One WDC: Juan Manuel Fangio wins by 16.5 points
• 1955 75th U.S. Men's National Championship: Tony Trabert beats Ken Rosewall (9-7, 6-3, 6-3)
• 1955 69th U.S. Women's National Championship: Doris Hart beats Patricia Ward Hales (6-4, 6-2)
• 1956 Yanks Yogi Berra ties career record for HRs (236) by a catcher
• 1956 - Cincinnati Reds' player Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th home run.
• 1959 - Elroy Face's 22-game win streak ends as Los Angeles Dodgers beat Pittsburgh Pirates 5-4.
• 1959 - Baltimore Orioles' player Jerry Walker pitches 16 innings beating Chicago White Sox 1-0.
• 1959 - Roy Face (Pittsburgh) ended a 22-game winning streak. He finished the season 18-1.

                            

      

         

• 1960 - The Games of the XVII Olympiad close in Rome, Italy.
• 1964 - Gillette's 20-year contract with Madison Square Gardens and ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at the Cleveland Auditorium.
• 1965 Braves 2nd straight one-hitter against the Mets
• 1966 - Johnny Miller becomes the first New York Yankees' player to hit a home run on his first at bat.
• 1971 US Open Women's Tennis: In an all-American final Billie Jean King beats doubles partner Rosemary Casals 6-4, 7-6
• 1974 - Saint Louis Cardinals beat New York Mets, 4-3, in 25 innings (7 hours 4 minutes), record 202 plate appearances, Felix Milan and John Milner come to bat 12 times each.
• 1976 Minnie Minoso bats for White Sox after a 12-year hiatus (hitless)
• 1976 - Evonne Goolagong loses her fourth straight US Open Final (Chris Evert wins).
• 1977 - Guillermo Vilas beats Jimmy O'Connors winning US Open.

     

       

• 1982 - Chris Evert scores 6th US Open tennis title defeating Hana Mandlikava.
• 1983 - Franco Harris becomes third NFL player to rush 11,000 yards.
• 1983 Pittsburgh running back Franco Harris runs for 118 yards in Steelers 25-21 win at Green Bay to become the only the third player in NFL history to rush for 11,000 yards
• 1985 Sri Lanka score their 1st Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs v India
• 1985 - At Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, Major League Baseball player/manager Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds gets career record hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record.
• 1987 - Howard Johnson (New York Mets) became the first National League infielder to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in the same season. 
• 1988 Sports Aid-jogging to feed the world
• 1988 US Open Men's Tennis: Mats Wilander wins his only US title and 7th & final Grand Slam event; beats Ivan Lendl 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 in the longest final in event's history

   



  

• 1991 NY Yankees final game at Baltimore Oriole's Memorial Stadium
• 1991 Atlanta Braves Kent Mercker, Mark Wohlers & Alejandro Pena pitched 1st combined no-hitter in NL, beating San Diego Padres, 1-0
• Sport awardTennis Open
• 1993 US Open Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf wins 15th Grand Slam singles title, 3rd US title; beats Helena Sukova 6-3, 6-3
• 1994 Missie McGeorge wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
• 1994 US Open Men's Tennis: Andre Agassi wins first US title; beats Michael Stich of Germany 6-1, 7-6, 7-5
• 1995 Ohio's Governor Voinovich proclaims "Cleveland Indians Day"
• Sport awardTennis Open
• 1999 US Open Women's Tennis: Serena Williams wins her first Grand Slam title; beats World No. 1 Martina Hingis 6-3, 7-6
• 1999 - Eric Milton of the Minnesota Twins pitches a 7-0 no-hitter against the Anaheim Angels
• 1999 - Brett Favre and Robert Brooks of the Green Bay Packers completed a 99-yard touchdown reception against the Chicago Bears to tie an NFL record. 

           

• 2004 - Barry Bonds becomes the first major league baseball player to walk over 200 times in a single season
• 2004 US Open Women's Tennis: In an all-Russian final Svetlana Kuznetsova wins her first Grand Slam title; beats Elena Dementieva 6-3, 7-5
• 2005 US Open Men's Tennis: Roger Federer retains title; beats Andre Agassi 6-3, 2-6, 7-6, 6-1
• 2007 - (to September 24) Inaugural Twenty20 World Championship is held.
• 2008 - Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports pays nearly US$1 billion for the commercial and marketing rights to the inaugural Twenty20 Champions League of cricket for the next ten years.
• 2011 US Open Women's Tennis: Samantha Stosur becomes first Australian to wins a Grand Slam title since 1980; upsets Serena Williams 6-2, 6-3
• 2014 South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is found not guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (and is later found guilty of culpable homicide)
• 2016 US Open Men's Tennis: Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland wins his 3rd major title; beats Novak Đoković 6-7, 1-7, 6-4, 7-5, 6-3