On This Day

Oakland's Mark McGwire set a rookie HR record at 39, he ended his rookie season in the MLB with 49 home runs.

Brooklyn Dodger pitcher John Quinn, became the oldest pitcher at 49 years old to win a MLB game, decades later Jamie Moyer will become the oldest by a few months.

Tyler Austin and Aaron Judge hit home runs in their first at-bats, and became the first pair of players to hit back-to-back homers in their first big league at-bats.

American Ryan Murphy set the 100 meter backstroke record at the Rio Olympic Games.

Trans-National Communications bought the Boston Celtics for an NBA record $6 million dollars, Red Auerbach described the president as "the absolute worst" owner he had ever worked for.

Katie Ledecky's medal tally of 4 golds, 1 silver made her the most decorated US female athlete at one Olympics, she won gold for win 200m, 400m and 800m freestyle swimming.

The World Championship was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1948 to 1957, in 1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias won it.

The gymnastics competition at the Berlin Olympics concludes with Germany dominating, winning 6 of 9 gold medals including the men’s & women’s teams events.

For the first time in MLB history, since Major League Baseball expanded to thirty teams, the home teams won all 15 games played.

Major League Lacrosse announced that attackman Tim Goettelmann of the Long Island Lizards has been named as the 2010 New Balance MLL Sportsman of the Year.