Back in Time: August 11

Author:
SI Staff
Publish date:
Aug 11, 2010

Back in Time: August 11

Maury Wills

Dodgers protest the wetting down of Candlestick Park's infleld to slow speedster Maury Wills down.

Jim Bunning

With a 6-5 victory over the Astros, the Phillies' Jim Bunning becomes the first pitcher since Cy Young to win 100 games in both leagues.

Carl Lewis

Carl Lewis wins his fourth gold of the Summer Olympics when the 4 x 100 meter relay team he is anchoring finished in a time of 37.83 seconds, a new world record.

John Daly

John Daly shoots a 276 to capture the PGA Championship, his first of two career majors.

Wilson Alvarez

In only his second big league start, 21-year old southpaw Wilson Alvarez no-hits the Orioles, 7-0.

Barry Bonds

For the first time in his 16-year career, Barry Bonds hits his 50th homer of the season. The 36-year old Giants outfielder will go yard 23 more times to establish a new big league single-season record with 73 homer runs.

Kerry Wood

Kerry Wood becomes the fastest major leaguer to record his 1,000th career strikeout, needing only 134 games to reach the milestone. It took 143 games for Roger Clemens to accomplish the feat.

Born on this Day

Hulk Hogan (1953, pictured) Craig Ehlo (1961) Jonathan Hayes (1962) Ennis Whatley (1962) Brad Dalgarno (1967) Aaron Miller (1971) Edgardo Alfonzo (1973) Bubba Crosby (1976) Jermain Taylor (1978) Lee Suggs (1980) Melky Cabrera (1984)