June 1982

June 1982 in Sport

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Events in Sport

Event of Interest

Jun 1 Rickey Henderson is fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a year

MLB Outfielder Rickey Henderson — MLB Outfielder
Rickey Henderson

Tennis Open

Jun 6 81st Men's French Open: Mats Wilander beats Guillermo Vilas (1-6, 7-6, 6-0, 6-4)

Tennis Player and Seven-Time Major Champion Mats Wilander — Tennis Player and Seven-Time Major Champion
Mats Wilander

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

Tennis Open

Jun 6 81st Women's French Open: Martina Navratilova beats Andrea Jaeger (7-6, 6-1)

Tennis Player Martina Navratilova — Tennis Player
Martina Navratilova

Jun 7 NY Mets draft Dwight Gooden, Roger McDowell & Randy Myers
Jun 8 36th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Philadelphia 76ers, 4 games to 2

Boxing Title Fight

Jun 11 Larry Holmes TKOs Gerry Cooney in 13 for heavyweight boxing title

WBC Heavyweight Champion Larry Holmes — WBC Heavyweight Champion
Larry Holmes

Jun 13 28th LPGA Championship won by Jan Stephenson

Golf Major

Jun 20 82nd US Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 282 at Pebble Beach Golf Links California

Golfer Tom Watson — Golfer
Tom Watson

Jun 20 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open

Event of Interest

Jun 20 Pete Rose is 5th to appear in 3,000 games (Cobb, Musial, Aaron, Yaz)

MLB Player and Manager Pete Rose — MLB Player and Manager
Pete Rose

Jun 22 Pete Rose gets his 3,772nd hit, moves past Aaron into 2nd place
Jun 27 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
Jun 30 NJ NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan balloting, runner-up names are Blades, Meadowlanders & Americans

Birthdays in Sport

Jun 1 Justine Henin (formerly Henin-Hardenne), Belgian tennis player
Jun 3 Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter (Olympic gold 2004, 08), born in Volgograd, Russia
Jun 7 Virgil Vasquez, American baseball player
Jun 8 Dickson Etuhu, Nigerian footballer
Jun 8 Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
Jun 10 Tara Lipinski, figure skater (1997 World Champ), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jun 11 Joey Graham, American basketball player
Jun 11 Steven Graham, American basketball player
Jun 11 Diana Taurasi, American basketball player
Jun 12 Loïc Duval, French racing driver
Jun 12 Jason David, American football player
Jun 13 Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian athlete
Jun 14 Jamie Green, British racing driver
Jun 15 Abdur Razzak, Bangladeshi cricketer
Jun 16 Chris Wingert, American soccer player
Jun 17 Marek Svatoš, Slovakian ice hockey player
Jun 19 David Pollack, American football player
Jun 19 Alexander Frolov, Russian hockey player
Jun 22 Ian Kinsler, American baseball player
Jun 24 Kevin Nolan, English footballer
Jun 24 Jarret Stoll, Canadian ice hockey player
Jun 25 Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player, born in Moscow, Russia
Jun 30 Mitch Maier, American baseball player

Deaths in Sport

Jun 8 Satchel Paige, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (5-time Negro League, 2-time MLB All Star), dies of a heart attack at 75
Jun 13 Ken "Slasher" Mackay, cricketer (Aussie all-rounder 1956-63), dies
Jun 13 Peter Maivia, wrestler (b. 1935)

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