May 1984 in Sports History

Events in Sport

Event of Interest

May 6 Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken Jr hits for cycle

MLB Legend Cal Ripken Jr — MLB Legend
Cal Ripken Jr

Event of Interest

May 8 Minnesota Twins Kirby Puckett debuts with 4 singles

MLB Center Fielder Kirby Puckett — MLB Center Fielder
Kirby Puckett

May 8 The Soviet Union announces it will not participate in Los Angeles Summer Olympics in retaliation for the American boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics
May 9 Chicago White Sox beat Milwaukee Brewers, 7-6, in 25 innings (started 5/8)
May 11 Johan Cruijff quits soccer
May 13 Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff''s last competitive match
May 16 Juventus of Italy win 24th European Cup Winner's Cup against Porto of Portugal 2-1 in Basel

Event of Interest

May 16 Phillie pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer

Baseball Pitcher Steve Carlton — Baseball Pitcher
Steve Carlton

May 16 Mackay pays $218,718 for 44,166 tickets to keep Twins in Minnesota Twins sell 51,863 tickets but only 6,346 fans show up for the game
May 17 Cincinnati Reds Mario Soto throws 4 strikeouts in one inning

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May 19 109th Preakness: Puerto Rican jockey Ángel Cordero Jr., aboard Gate Dancer wins his second Pimlico classic

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May 19 Stanley Cup Final, Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton, AL: Wayne Gretzky scores twice as Edmonton Oilers beat NY Islanders, 5-2 for a 4-1 series win; Oilers first SC title

Ice Hockey Great Wayne Gretzky — Ice Hockey Great
Wayne Gretzky

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May 19 Pat LaFontaine scores 2 goals within 22 sec in an NHL playoff game

NHL Star Pat LaFontaine — NHL Star
Pat LaFontaine

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May 20 Boston's Roger Clemens beats Twins, 5-4, for his 1st victory

MLB Pitching Legend Roger Clemens — MLB Pitching Legend
Roger Clemens

May 23 Detroit Tigers win AL record tying 16th straight road game
May 24 Det Tigers win AL record 17th straight road game
May 25 Det Tigers lose to Seattle 7-3 ends record tying 17 consecutive wins
May 25 Red Sox trade pitcher Dennis Eckersley to Cubs for Bill Buckner

Event of Interest

May 27 Manuela Maleeva of Bulgaria wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day; Italian Open 1984, beats Virginie Ruzici, Carling Basset and Chris Evert in the final 6-3 6-3; only 7th player to beat Evert on clay

Tennis Legend Chris Evert — Tennis Legend
Chris Evert

May 27 Indianapolis 500: Rick Mears wins in 3:03:21.638 (263.308 km/h)

Event of Interest

May 29 Boston Red Sox retires #9 (Ted Williams) & #4 (Joe Cronin)

Baseball Player Ted Williams — Baseball Player
Ted Williams

Baseball Player and Manager Joe Cronin — Baseball Player and Manager
Joe Cronin

May 30 NL suspends Mario Soto 5 days for Reds-Cubs fight on May 27th
May 30 28th European Cup: Liverpool beats Roma (1-1, 4-2 on penalties) at Rome
May 31 Viv Richards hits 189* (170 balls) v England, ODI cricket record

Birthdays in Sport

May 1 Mišo Brečko, Slovenian soccer defender (77 caps; FC Köln, FC Nürnberg), born in Trbovlje, Slovenia
May 1 David Backes, American ice hockey center (NHL All Star 2011; Olympic silver 2010; St. Louis Blues, Boston Bruins), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 1 Alexander Farnerud, Swedish soccer midfielder (8 caps; Strasbourg, Young Boys), born in Landskrona, Sweden
May 2 Saulius Mikoliūnas, Lithuanian footballer, born in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR
May 2 Thabo Sefolosha, Swiss basketball player, born in Vevey, Switzerland
May 4 Manjural Islam, Bangladeshi test cricket player, born in Khulna, Bangladesh (d. 2007)
May 4 Kevin Slowey, American baseball player, born in Conroe, Texas
May 4 Montell Owens, American football player, born in Wilmington, Delaware
May 7 Alex Smith, American football player
May 7 Drew Stanton, American football player
May 7 James Loney, American baseball player
May 9 Prince Fielder, American MLB player (Milwaukee Brewers), born in Ontario, California
May 10 Edward Mujica. Venezuelan baseball player
May 11 Andrés Iniesta Luján, Spanish football player (Barcelona, Spanish national team), born in Fuentealbilla, Spain
May 14 Michael Rensing, German footballer
May 15 Sérgio Jimenez, Brazilian racing driver
May 17 Christian Bolaños, Costa Rican footballer, born in Hatillo, Costa Rica
May 18 Niki Terpstra, Dutch cyclist
May 18 Joakim Soria, Mexican baseball player
May 18 Simon Pagenaud, French auto racer (IndyCar champion 2016; Indianapolis 500 2019), born in Poitiers, France
May 19 Marcedes Lewis, American NFL tight end (Pro Bowl 2010; Jacksonville Jaguars, Green Bay Packers), born in Los Alamitos, California
May 21 Gary Woodland, American golfer (US Open 2019), born in Topeka, Kansas
May 24 Brodney Pool, American football player (Cleveland Browns), born in Corpus Christi, Texas
May 25 Kyle Brodziak, Canadian ice hockey player, born in St. Paul, Alberta, Canada
May 25 Shawne Merriman, American football player, born in Washington, D.C.
May 29 Carmelo Anthony, American basketball forward (10-time NBA All Star), born in Brooklyn, New York
May 30 Jordan Palmer, American football player
May 31 Nate Robinson, American basketball player

Deaths in Sport

May 1 Jüri Lossmann, Estonian athlete (Olympic silver marathon 1920), dies at 93
May 8 Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1916)
May 10 Joaquin Agostinho, Portuguese cyclist, dies at 41
May 14 Elmer Riddle, American baseball pitcher (NL wins leader 1943; Cincinnati Reds), dies at 69