1986 in Sport (Part 2)

Events 101 - 200 of 229

• Jun 10 A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's NL

• Jun 15 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
• Jun 18 Don Sutton becomes 19th pitcher to win 300 games

• Jun 21 Bo Jackson, Heisman Trophy winner, signs with KC Royals
• Jun 21 Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record)
• Jun 22 Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
• Jun 23 Pedro Morales swims world record 100m butterfly (52.84)
• Jun 25 Phillies give Steve Carlton, 41, his unconditional release
• Jun 27 Robby Thompson (SF Giants) sets record, caught stealing 4 times in 1 game
• Jun 29 FIFA World Cup: Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in football's 13th World Cup in Mexico City
• Jun 29 Boston Red Sox trade for Tom Seaver
• Jun 29 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic

• Jul 6 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship
• Jul 9 Padres trade pitcher Tim Stoddard to Yankees for pitcher Ed Whitson

• Jul 15 57th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-2 at Astrodome, Houston
• Jul 15 All star MVP: Roger Clemens (Boston Red Sox)

• Jul 19 Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with

• Jul 20 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic

• Jul 27 24th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Czechoslovakia in Prague Czech (3-0)
• Jul 27 73rd Tour de France won by Greg LeMond of USA
• Jul 29 NY jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages
• Aug 1 Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000
• Aug 2 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)
• Aug 3 Amy Alcott wins LPGA National Golf Pro-Am
• Aug 3 Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr, and Ernie Lombardi inducted in Baseball Hall of Fame
• Aug 6 Orioles (Dwyer & Sheets) & Rangers (Harrah) hit record 3 grand slams
• Aug 7 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina
• Aug 8 Record 3 grandslams in a game-(Harrah-Tex, Sheets & Dwyer-Orioles)

• Aug 10 Pitcher Bob Forsch grand slams to lead Cards to a 5-4 win over Pirates
• Aug 11 68th PGA Championship: Bob Tway shoots a 276 at Inverness Club Toledo
• Aug 12 Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single
• Aug 14 Phillies & Pirates play a 6 game series in 4 days
• Aug 17 Cindy Mackey wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am
• Aug 17 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
• Aug 17 Red Sox trade shortstop Rey Quinones & pitcher Mike Trujillo to Mariners for shortstop Spike Owen & outfielder Dave Henderson
• Aug 18 Jim Kelly signs with NFL Buffalo Bills ($75 million for 5 years)

• Aug 21 Red Sox Spike Owens scores 6 runs in a 24-5 rout of Cleveland Indians
• Aug 21 With 2 outs in 6th inning, Red Sox score 11 runs
• Aug 24 Juli Inkster wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic

• Aug 26 Rosa Mota wins Stuttgart female marathon (2:28:38)
• Aug 30 Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54)
• Sep 1 Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
• Sep 1 Texas Rangers O McDowell & Porter are 7th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
• Sep 3 Astros & Cubs use a record 53 players in an 18 inning game
• Sep 6 Michael Spinks TKOs Steffen Tangstad in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
• Sep 7 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
• Sep 7 Cleveland Browns becomes 1st team in NFL history to have a play reviewed by instant replay, Chicago 41, Browns 31

• Sep 7 106th Women's U.S. Open: Martina Navratilova beats Helena Sukova (6-3, 6-2)
• Sep 14 Judy Dickinson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
• Sep 14 Saskatchewan & Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game
• Sep 18 David Boon's 3rd Test cricket century, 122 v India at Madras
• Sep 19 Chicago White Sox Joe Crowley no-hits California Angels, 7-1
• Sep 21 Miami Dan Marino passes for 6 touchdowns vs NY Jets (51-45)
• Sep 21 NY Jets beat Miami Dolphins 51-45 in OT; record 884 passing yards
• Sep 21 New Orleans Saints Mel Gray returns kickoff 101 yards for a touchdown

• Sep 21 SD Padre Jimmy Jones pitchs 1-hitter in his major league debut
• Sep 22 India v Australia Test Cricket at Madras finishes in a tie
• Sep 25 Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants, 2-0
• Sep 28 Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)
• Sep 28 Tight end Brian Foster of RI catches NCAA record 18 passes for 327 yds
• Sep 28 Cleveland Browns' Gerald McNeil sets the team record for the longest punt return with an 84-yard run (and TD), Browns 24, Detroit 21

• Sep 29 Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a HR on 1st major league pitch he sees
• Sep 29 Mary Lou Retton retires as a gymnast
• Oct 2 Mike Scott is 3rd NL pitcher to strike out 300 in a season (306)
• Oct 2 NY Met Dwight Gooden is 1st to strike out 200 or more in 1st 3 seasons
• Oct 3 Baltimore loses assuring Orioles of their 1st last-place finish

• 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 National League Championship: New York Mets beat Houston Astros, 4 games to 2
• Oct 15 MLB American League Championship: Boston Red Sox beat California Angels, 4 games to 3
• Oct 19 Allan Border scores the 1,000,000th run in Tests (v India, Bombay)
• Oct 21 1st-class cricket debut of Andy Flower, ZCU Presidents XI v Young WI
• Oct 24 Dodgers' 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
• Oct 26 37th Formula One WDC: Alain Prost wins by two points
• Oct 27 NY Mets beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 83rd World Series
• Oct 29 Kirk Muller scores NJ Devil record 6 point, beat Penguins, 8-6

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Birthdays 101 - 200 of 200

• Jun 3 Tomas Verner, Czech Republic ice skater
• Jun 3 Adrián Vallés, Spanish racing driver
• Jun 3 Al Horford, American basketball player
• Jun 8 Patrick Kaleta, American hockey player
• Jun 14 Jonathan Clare, English cricketer
• Jun 16 Urby Emanuelson, Dutch footballer
• Jun 16 Farhad Reza, Bangladeshi Cricketer
• Jun 16 Rodrigo Defendi, Brazilian footballer
• Jun 16 Robert Rothbart, Bosnian-Israeli Basketball Player
• Jun 16 Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan footballer
• Jun 18 Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
• Jun 19 Marvin Williams, American basketball player
• Jun 22 Ramin Ott, American Samoan football player
• Jun 24 Stuart Broad, English cricketer
• Jun 24 Phil Hughes, American baseball player
• Jun 25 Charlie Davies, American soccer player
• Jun 27 LaShawn Merritt, American sprinter
• Jun 30 Victoria Crawford, American wrestler and model
• Jul 4 Terrance Knighton, American NFL Player, born in Hartford, Connecticut
• Jul 6 Derrick Williams, American football player
• Jul 8 Renata Costa, Brazilian footballer
• Jul 11 Yoann Gourcuff, French footballer
• Jul 11 Ryan Jarvis, English footballer
• Jul 12 JP Pietersen, South African rugby union footballer
• Jul 23 Nelson Philippe, French racing driver
• Jul 24 Andrei Lutai, Russian figure skater
• Jul 27 Courtney Kupets, American gymnast
• Jul 31 Evgeni Malkin, Russian hockey player
• Aug 1 Andrew Taylor, Hartlepool, English footballer
• Aug 1 Anton Stralman, Tibro, Swedish ice hockey player
• Aug 1 Elena Vesnina, Sochi, Russian tennis player
• Aug 5 Paula Creamer, American golfer
• Aug 13 Joseph Lapira, American soccer player
• Aug 14 Terin Humphrey, American gymnast
• Aug 17 Rudy Gay, American basketball player
• Aug 17 Tyrus Thomas, American basketball player
• Aug 19 Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player

• Aug 23 Josh Morris, Australian rugby league player for St. George Illawarra Dragons
• Aug 23 Brett Morris, Australian rugby league player for St. George Illawarra Dragons
• Aug 24 Nick Adenhart, American baseball player, born in Silver Spring, Maryland (d. 2009)
• Aug 24 Arian Foster, American football running back (Houston Texans, Miami Dolphins), born in Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Aug 31 Feng Tianwei, Singaporean table tennis player
• Sep 1 Gaël Monfils, French tennis player
• Sep 1 Anthony Allen, English rugby union player

• Sep 4 James Younghusband, Philippine footballer
• Sep 8 João Moutinho, Sporting Lisbon midfielder
• Sep 8 Matt Grothe, American football player
• Sep 9 Justice Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer
• Sep 9 Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, Cameroonian basketball player
• Sep 9 Michael Bowden, American baseball player
• Sep 11 Chiliboy Ralepelle, South African rugby player
• Sep 11 Dwayne Jarrett, American football player
• Sep 13 Kamui Kobayashi, Japanese racing driver
• Sep 13 Sean Williams, American basketball player
• Sep 14 Alan Sheehan, Irish footballer
• Sep 17 Landry Mulemo, Belgian footballer
• Sep 17 Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter
• Sep 19 Gerald Ciolek, German cyclist
• Sep 19 Ken Gushi, Japanese racing driver
• Sep 23 Martin Cranie, English footballer
• Sep 27 Ricardo Risatti, Argentine racing driver
• Sep 28 Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer
• Sep 29 Benoît Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
• Sep 29 Mark Fraser, Canadian ice hockey player
• Oct 1 Ricardo Vaz Té, Portuguese footballer
• Oct 6 Mohammad Shukri, Malaysian cricketer
• Oct 7 Lee Nguyen, American soccer player
• Oct 7 Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer
• Oct 9 Laure Manaudou, French swimmer, born in Villeurbanne, France
• Oct 10 Nathan Jawai, Australian basketball player
• Oct 12 Sergio Peter, German footballer
• Oct 14 Tom Craddock, English footballer
• Oct 16 Craig Pickering, British sprinter
• Oct 21 Chibuzor Chilaka, English footballer
• Oct 22 Kara Lang, Canadian soccer player
• Oct 23 Jake Robinson, English footballer
• Oct 24 John Ruddy, English footballer
• Oct 27 Matty Pattison, English footballer
• Oct 30 Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper
• Oct 31 Chris Alajajian, Australian racing driver, born in Sydney, Australia
• Nov 4 Adrian Zaugg, South African racing driver
• Nov 5 Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
• Nov 11 François Trinh-Duc, French rugby player
• Nov 15 Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player, born in Mumbai, India
• Nov 17 Nani, Portuguese football player
• Nov 22 Oscar Pistorius, South African paralympic athlete
• Nov 25 Craig Gardner, English footballer
• Nov 26 Konstadinos Filippidis, Greek pole vaulter
• Nov 27 Suresh Raina, Indian cricketer (Gujarat Lions, Chennai Super Kings), born in Muradnagar, India
• Nov 30 Jordan Farmar, National Basketball Association player
• Dec 2 Claudiu Keserü, Romanian football player (FC Nantes Atlantique)
• Dec 4 Martell Webster, American basketball player
• Dec 8 Amir Khan, English boxer
• Dec 10 Matthew Bates, English footballer
• Dec 12 Perparim Hetemaj, Finnish footballer
• Dec 19 Ryan Babel, Dutch Footballer
• Dec 25 Doug Loft, English footballer
• Dec 28 Tom Huddlestone, English footballer

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