October 2 ...
I always felt that my greatest asset
was not my physical ability,
it was my mental ability.
- Bruce Jenner
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- 1876 British Open Golf, St Andrews: Bob Martin wins when fellow Scot Davie Strath refuses to take part in a playoff after pair finish on 176
- 1906 Canadian world heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Burns KOs American challenger 'Fireman' Jim Flynn in 15 rounds to retain his title in Los Angeles, California
- 1907 - Philadelphia Phillies' Eddie Grant goes 7 for 7 in a doubleheader.
- 1908 - Addie Joss' perfect pitching game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who had won 40 baseball games in a row.
- 1909 First Rugby Union match is played at the English RFU owned Twickenham ground; Harlequins beat Richmond, 14-10
- 1913 - Philadelphia Phillies beat New York Giants two games out of three in a tripleheader.
- 1916 - Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 16th shutout of the year.
- 1920 - Cincinnati Reds beat Pittsburgh Pirates two games out of three in a tripleheader.
- 1921 New York Yankees outfielder Babe Ruth hits then record 59th HR in 7-6 win over former club Boston Red Sox at Polo Grounds
- 1921 Chicago White Sox backstop Ray Schalk becomes the first and only MLB catcher to make a putout at all bases; White Sox beat Indians 7-4
- 1926 - Bert Gibb of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a NFL football game.
- 1932 - New York Yankees sweep Chicago Cubs in 29th World Series.
- 1932 - Boston Braves play first NFL game, lose 14-0.
- 1936 - Tony Lazzeri becomes the first New York Yankees' player to hit a World Series (World Series #33) grand slam.
- 1938 - Cleveland Indians' Bob Feller strikes out 18 Detroit Tigers' players.
- 1938 - Detroit Tigers' Chester Laabs strikes out five times in a game.
- 1947 - Yogi Berra becomes first to pinch hit a World Series (World Series #44) homer.
- 1947 - The Federatino Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) formally established Formula One racing in Grand Prix competition.
- 1948 - The first automobile race to use asphalt, cement and dirt roads took place in Watkins Glen in New York. It was the first road race in the U.S. following World War II.
- 1949 - Saint Louis Browns use nine pitchers, lose to Boston White Sox 4-3.
- 1949 - New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, tied for first place, play the final game of the season. New York Yankees win 5-3 and clinch pennant #16.
- 1950 - Bob Shaw of the Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with five touchdown catches.
- 1950 - Chicago Cardinals' Jim Hardy passes for six touchdowns versus Baltimore Colts (55-13).
- 1952 Don Liddle beats Bob Lemon 7-4 as the New York Giants complete an unlikely Baseball World Series sweep of the powerful Cleveland Indians; Cleveland season record of 111-43 sets American League mark for regular season wins
- 1953 - Brooklyn Dodgers' Carl Erskine strikes out 14 New York Yankees in the 50th World Series.
- 1954 8th NHL All-Star Game, Detroit Olympia: All-Stars tie Detroit Red Wings, 2-2
- 1954 - New York Giants sweep Cleveland Indians, in 51st World Series.
- 1955 9th NHL All-Star Game, Detroit Olympia: Earl "Dutch" Reibel scores twice and adds an assist as Detroit Red Wings beat All-Stars, 3-1
- 1957 - New York Yankees appear in their 26th World Series (World Series #54).
- 1962 - San Francisco and Los Angeles play a 4-hour, 18-minute nine-inning game.
- 1963 LA Dodgers' Sandy Koufax strikes out World Series record 15 NY Yankees in Game 1 of the Baseball World Series at Yankee Stadium; Dodgers win, 5-2 and sweep series, 4-0
- 1964 - Philadelphia Phillies tie major league record with season's third triple play (Cincinnati Reds).
- 1965 - Philadelphia Phillies' Chris Short strikes-out 18 New York Mets.
- 1966 - Two perfect game pitchers face each other (Bunning versus Koufax).
- 1968 - Bob Gibson sets a World Series record of 17 strikeouts (World Series #65).
- 1969 - Seattle Pilots play last game in Seattle, Washington, defeated by the Oakland Athletics' 3-1 for their 98th loss of year. The American League's newest franchise attracts only 677, 944 fans for the season and will play in Milwaukee as the Brewers next season.
- 1970 - Billy Martin named manager of the Detroit Tigers.
- 1970 - Plane carrying Wichita State University football team crashes killing 30.
- 1972 - Montreal Expos' Bill Stoneman pitches second no-hitter, beats New York Mets, 7-0.
- 1972 - Ron Johnson becomes first New York Giants' player to score four touchdowns (vs Philadelphia Eagles).
- 1974 Future Baseball Hall of Fame right fielder Hank Aaron hits his final home run as a member of the Atlanta Braves, in a 13-0 drubbing of the Cincinnati Reds; Aaron's 733rd career HR on his last NL at bat
- 1977 Dusty Baker hits his 30th homer of the season against Astros' J.R. Richard; Dodgers become the first team in MLB history to have 4 players hit 30 or more HRs; joins Steve Garvey (33), Reggie Smith (32) and Ron Cey (30)
- 1978 - The New York Yankees defeat the Boston Red Sox 5-4 at Fenway Park to clinch the American League East after being 14 games out of first place only two months earlier.
- 1980 - Larry Holmes retains WBC heavweight title defeating Muhammad Ali.
- 1983 Wide receiver Art Monk begins NFL streak of 183 consecutive games with a reception in the Washington Redskins' 37-35 win over the LA Raiders
- 1984 Due to a strike by MLB umpires, first 4 NLCS games played with replacement umpires; Game 1: Chicago Cubs beat SD Padres, 13-0
- 1986 Astros starter Mike Scott finishes MLB regular season with 306 strikeouts with 8 in a 2-1 win in San Francisco; 3rd NL pitcher to reach 300 in a season
- 1986 New York Mets' Dwight Gooden becomes first pitcher to collect 200 strikeouts in each of his first 3 seasons when he records 7 in 8-2 win v Pittsburgh Pirates
- 1988 Minnesota Twins total 3,030,672 in attendance at Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome; first AL club ever to break 3 million in a MLB season
- 1988 Mike Tyson wrecks furniture in his mansion in Bernardsville, NJ, during a domestic dispute
- 1988 New Zealand horseman Mark Todd wins individual eventing gold medal aboard Charisma at the Seoul Olympics; his 2nd consecutive gold after winning in 1984
- 1988 Future world heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis, representing Canada, wins super-heavyweight gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; beats American Riddick Bowe by 2nd round TKO
- 1988 South Korean light middleweight boxer Park Si-hun is controversially awarded the Seoul Olympic gold medal after appearing well beaten by future 4 weight class world champion Roy Jones Jr
- 1988 Gelindo Bordin of Italy wins the men's marathon in 2:10:32 at the Seoul Olympics; beats world champion Douglas Wakiihuri of Kenya by 15 seconds
1991 NHL #1 draft pick Eric Lindros rejects Quebec Nordiques' offer of a 10 year, $50m contract
1991 Steffi Graf beats Magdalena Maleeva of Bulgaria 6-2, 6-2 in the Volkswagen Cup in Leipzig to become the youngest woman to win 500 professional tennis matches
1991 Toronto Blue Jays clinch AL East title with a 6-5 win v California Angels; become first sport franchise in history to draw 4 million fans in one season
1996 - Mark Fuhrman was given three years' probation and fined $200 after he pled no contest to perjury at O.J. Simpson's trial.
1998 With his team struggling at 28 for 3, Australian cricket batsman Steve Waugh smashes a brilliant 157 to guide the tourists to an innings & 99 run win over Pakistan in the 1st Test in Rawalpindi
1999 #21 University of Alabama football team beats #3 Florida, 40-39 in overtime to snap the Gators' 30-game home win streak; future Seattle Seahawks running back Shaun Alexander crosses for 4 touchdowns for the Crimson Tide
- 2005 NFL plays first regular season game outside United States when the Arizona Cardinals defeat the San Francisco 49ers, 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico
- 2009 - The International Olympic Committee in Copenhagen votes 66-32 for the 2016 Olympic Games to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over Madrid, Spain. Chicago, Illinois was eliminated on the first ballot, and Tokyo, Japan was eliminated on the second ballot.
- 2010 20th College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 31-13 in Chestnut Hill
- 2016 Veteran broadcaster Vin Scully calls his final LA Dodgers game (7-1 loss in SF) after a record 67 MLB seasons
- 2016 Ryder Cup Golf, Hazeltine National GC: US regains Cup; beats Europe, 17-11; Americans Brooks Koepka, Brandt Snedeker & Patrick Reed each win 3 matches
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