June 1977 in Sport

Events in Sport

Tennis Open

Jun 5 76th Men's French Open: Guillermo Vilas beats Brian Gottfried (6-0, 6-3, 6-0)

Tennis Player and Four-Time Major Champion Guillermo Vilas — Tennis Player and Four-Time Major Champion
Guillermo Vilas

Tennis Open

Jun 5 76th Women's French Open: Mima Jausovec beats Florenta Mihai (6-2, 6-7, 6-1)

Tennis Player and French Open Champion Mima Jausovec — Tennis Player and French Open Champion
Mima Jausovec

Jun 6 Doobie Brothers sponsor a Golf Classic & Concert for United Way
Jun 7 White Sox draft Harold Baines #1

Baseball Record

Jun 8 Nolan Ryan notches his 4th career 19-strikeout game

MLB Pitching Legend Nolan Ryan — MLB Pitching Legend
Nolan Ryan

Jun 11 109th Belmont: Jean Cruguet riding Seattle Slew wins in 2:29.6
Jun 12 23rd LPGA Championship won by Chako Higuchi
Jun 15 NY Mets trade Tom Seaver to Reds for Pat Zachry
Jun 16 Ron Guidry's 1st complete game, 7-0 over KC Royals

Event of Interest

Jun 18 Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation

MLB Right Fielder Reggie Jackson — MLB Right Fielder
Reggie Jackson

Jun 19 77th US Golf Open: Hubert Green shoots a 278 at Southern Hills Tulsa
Jun 19 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
Jun 19 Red Sox set 3 game record of 16 HRs, all against Yanks
Jun 25 8th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats Great Britain 13-12
Jun 26 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic

Birthdays in Sport

Jun 1 Brad Wilkerson, American baseball player
Jun 1 Richard Williams, British racing driver
Jun 3 Cris, Brazilian footballer
Jun 3 Az-Zahir Hakim, American football player
Jun 3 Travis Hafner, American baseball player
Jun 4 Dionisis Chiotis, Greek footballer
Jun 4 Alex Manninger, Austrian footballer
Jun 5 Chantal Lefebvre, Ville LaSalle Que, ice dancer (1996 Canadians-2nd)
Jun 6 David Connolly, Irish footballer
Jun 7 Marcin Baszczyński, Polish football player
Jun 7 Odalis Pérez, Dominican baseball player (Atlanta Braves, LA Dodgers), born in Las Matas de Farfán, Dominican Republic
Jun 8 Yvette Basting, Breda Neth, tennis star (1994 Futures-Flensberg-GER)
Jun 9 Zephnad Wattimury, Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen)
Jun 9 Peja Stojakovic, Serbian basketball player
Jun 10 Mike Rosenthal, American football player, sports radio talk show host
Jun 11 Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer
Jun 12 Andrea Schwartz, 200m butterfly (Olympics 1996), born in Winnipeg, Manitoba
Jun 13 Alexei Kariozhny, NHL forward (Team Belarus, Olympics 1998)
Jun 14 Chris McAlister, American football player
Jun 15 Michael Doleac, American basketball player
Jun 16 Kerry Wood, American baseball player
Jun 16 Petros Papadakis, American sportscaster, former USC football player
Jun 17 Mark Tauscher, American football player
Jun 19 Peter Warrick, American NFL running back (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
Jun 20 Gordan Giriček, Croatian basketball player
Jun 21 Jochen Hecht, Mannheim GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
Jun 23 Hayden Foxe, Australian soccer defender (Olyroos, Olympics 1996)
Jun 23 Miguel Ángel Angulo, Spanish footballer
Jun 24 Cliff Bayer, American fencer-foil (Olympics 1996), born in NYC, New York
Jun 24 Dimosthenis Dikoudis, Greek basketball player
Jun 27 Raúl, Spanish footballer
Jun 28 Lindsay Lee, tennis star (1995 Futures-Woodlands TX), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Jun 28 Chris Spurling, American baseball player
Jun 29 Sharon Cripps, Australian 100m/200m (Olympics 1996)

Weddings in Sport

Wedding of Interest

Jun 8 Retired NBA player Bill Russell (43) weds 1968 Miss USA Dorothy Anstett

Basketball Player Bill Russell — Basketball Player
Bill Russell

Deaths in Sport

Jun 9 Bill Merritt, cricketer (6 Tests of leg-spin for NZ, 12 wkts), dies

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