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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY SEPTEMBER 10

2000  Randy Johnson gets his 3,000th strikeout and 300th of the season
1999  Pedro Martinez gets his 21st win and strikes out 17 NYY – most ever in NYY history in a game
1996  Montreal beats Chicago 10-3 – Expos tie MLB record by using 9 pitchers
1989  Deion Sanders plays his 1st game for Atlanta and returns a punt 68 yards for a TD
1980  Bill Gullickson of Expos sets a rookie record by striking out 18 batters
1977  Wilbur Woods hits 3 straight batters in the 1st inning
1974  Lou Brock breaks the stolen base record for a season with his 105th
1972  The US loses to Russia in Olympic basketball – highly disputed game 51-50
1969  KC uses a record 27 players in a game – lose 11-4
1965  Philadelphia’s Ferguson Jenkins makes his MLB debut – gets the win in relief – will win 284 in his career
1964  Brooks Robinson hits into a triple play – will end career with MLB record 4 times doing it
1960  Ethiopian Abebe Bikila wins the marathon at the Rome Olympics running barefoot

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