Events in Sport
- Aug 1 St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning of 9-8 loss v Cubs to set a NL rookie record 74
Cricket History
Aug 2 England captain David Gower scores his 5,000th run in Test cricket during the drawn 4th Test v Australia at Old Trafford
Hall of Fame
Aug 4 New York Yankees retire Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop Phil Rizzuto's #10
- Aug 4 Scott Verplank beats Jim Thorpe in Western Open playoff, first amateur to win a PGA Tour event since Gene Littler 1954
Sports History
Aug 4 Tom Seaver of Chicago White Sox becomes 17th pitcher to win 300 MLB career games, beating New York, 4-1; 54,032 at Yankee Stadium
Baseball Record
Aug 10 Oakland A's Dave Kingman is 21st to hit 400 HRs (off Matt Young at Seattle)
- Aug 10 Uno Lindstron of Sweden juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles
- Aug 11 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Cherry Hills CC: Hubert Green wins by 2 strokes from fellow American Lee Trevino
- Aug 11 Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7'10"12)
- Aug 12 Baltimore Orioles W Gross & L Sheets are 6th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
Sports History
Aug 20 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden)
- Aug 20 Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win
- Aug 22 30th Walker Cup: US wins 13-11
- Aug 23 Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
- Aug 25 Met Dwight Gooden becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)
Sports History
Aug 26 Baltimore Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs California Angels
Sports History
Aug 31 Ángel Cordero Jr. becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100m
Birthdays in Sport
- Aug 3 Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby league footballer, born in Auckland, New Zealand
- Aug 4 Ha Seung-Jin, Korean basketball player
- Aug 4 Luis Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
- Aug 4 Mark Milligan, Australian footballer
- Aug 5 Laurent Ciman, Belgian footballer, born in Farciennes, Belgium
- Aug 5 Salomon Kalou, Ivorian footballer (Chelsea), born in Oumé, Ivory Coast
- Aug 8 Brayan Ruiz, Costa Rican football player
- Aug 9 Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer, born in Orange County, california
- Aug 9 JaMarcus Russell, American football player, born in Mobile, Alabama
- Aug 9 Luca Filippi, Italian racing driver, born in Savigliano, Italy
- Aug 14 Christian Gentner, German footballer, born in Nürtingen, Germany
- Aug 22 Brittany Lang, American golfer (US Open 2016), born in Richmond, Virginia
- Aug 26 David Price, American MLB player (2012 Cy Young Award), born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee
- Aug 30 Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer (3 Olympic medals), born in Perth, Australia
- Aug 30 Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer (2 Olympic golds, 1 silver), born in Katherine, Australia
- Aug 30 Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer, born in Swansea, Wales
- Aug 30 Steven Smith, Scottish footballer (Rangers), born in Bellshill, Scotland
Deaths in Sport
- Aug 2 Sandy Bell, South African cricket fast bowler (16 Tests, 48 wickets, BB 6/99; Western Province, Rhodesia), dies at 79
- Aug 9 Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league fullback (37 Tests; NSW 27 games; South Sydney; RL "Immortal") and coach (Australia 29 Tests, South Sydney), dies at 58
- Aug 12 Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)
- Aug 15 Joe Carveth, Canadian ice hockey right wing (NHL All Star 1950; Stanley Cup 1943, 50 Detroit Red Wings; Boston Bruins, Montreal Canadiens), dies at 67
- Aug 22 Ginty Lush, Australian cricketer (NSW quickie of 30's), dies at 71
