Events in Sport
- Oct 2 Astros starter Mike Scott finishes MLB regular season with 306 strikeouts with 8 in a 2-1 win in San Francisco; 3rd NL pitcher to reach 300 in a season
Baseball Record
Oct 2 New York Mets' Dwight Gooden becomes first pitcher to collect 200 strikeouts in each of his first 3 seasons when he records 7 in 8-2 win v Pittsburgh Pirates
- Oct 3 Baltimore loses 6-3 to Detroit Tigers, assuring Orioles of club's first ever last-place finish in AL East standings
Baseball Record
Oct 4 NY Yankees closer Dave Righetti saves both doubleheader games at Fenway Park for 5-3 and 3-1 wins v Boston; Righetti's MLB record 46th save
Sports History
Oct 5 Rams running back Eric Dickerson runs for an NFL overtime record 42-yard touchdown as LA defeats Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 26-20 at Anaheim Stadium
Sports History
Oct 7 Steve Yzerman is named captain of the Detroit Red Wings, a title he would hold for over 1,300 games
- Oct 12 California Angels within 1 pitch of pennant victory lose to Red Sox
- Oct 13 25th NY, NL appearance in World Series (Mets vs A's)
- Oct 13 IOC announces baseball will become a medal sport in 1992
- Oct 14 IOC decides to stagger Winter & Summer Olympic schedule
- Oct 15 Longest post season game, Mets beat Astros 7-6 in 16 & win NL pennant
- Oct 15 MLB American League Championship: Boston Red Sox beat California Angels, 4 games to 3
- Oct 15 MLB National League Championship: New York Mets beat Houston Astros, 4 games to 2
Cricket History
Oct 19 Allan Border scores the 1,000,000th run in all test cricket (vs India in Bombay)
- Oct 21 1st-class cricket debut of Andy Flower, ZCU Presidents XI v Young WI
- Oct 24 MLB Los Angeles Dodgers' infielder Bill Russell (38) announces his retirement
- Oct 25 Trailing 5-3 with 2 out & no one on in bottom of 10th, NY rallies to win Game 6 of the World Series, 6-5, Bill Buckner misplays a ball
F1 World Champion
Oct 26 French McLaren driver Alain Prost retains his Formula 1 World Drivers Championship with victory in season ending Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide; wins title by 2 points from Nigel Mansell
Cricket History
Oct 29 Pakistan cricket leg-spin bowler Abdul Qadir takes 6-16 as the West Indies dismissed for 53 in 186 run defeat in 1st Test at Faisalabad
Birthdays in Sport
- Oct 7 Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer, born in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
- Oct 7 Lee Nguyen, American soccer midfielder (9 caps; New England Revolution 203 games), born in Richardson, Texas
- Oct 9 Laure Manaudou, French swimmer, born in Villeurbanne, France
- Oct 12 Sergio Peter, German footballer (SpVgg Neckarelz), born in Ludwigshafen, West Germany
- Oct 14 Tom Craddock, English footballer
- Oct 21 Chibuzor Chilaka, English footballer
- Oct 22 Kara Lang, Canadian soccer forward (92 caps; Vancouver Whitecaps FC), born in Calgary, Alberta
- Oct 24 John Ruddy, English footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers), born in St Ives, Cambridgeshire, England
- Oct 27 David Warner, Australian cricket batsman (HS 335no 2019; 2nd highest by an Australian; "Sandpaper-gate" 2018 12-month suspension), born in Sydney, Australia
- Oct 27 Matty Pattison, South African footballer (Whickham), born in Johannesburg, South Africa
- Oct 30 Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper (3 Olympic gold 2006, 10), born in Spittal an der Drau, Austria
- Oct 31 Chris Alajajian, Australian racing driver, born in Sydney, Australia
Weddings in Sport
- Oct 18 NFL player Frank Gifford (56) marries 3rd wife Kathie Lee Johnson (35)
Deaths in Sport
- Oct 3 Vince DiMaggio, American baseball center fielder (MLB All Star 1943-44; Pittsburgh Pirates), dies at 74
- Oct 5 Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (b. 1947)
- Oct 8 Walter Burkemo, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1953), dies at 67
- Oct 11 Norm Cash, American baseball 1st baseman (5 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1968; AL batting champion 1961; Detroit Tigers), dies from drowning at 51
- Oct 26 Jackson Scholz, American athlete (Olympic gold 4 x 100m 1920, 200m 1924), dies at 89
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