TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY SEPTEMBER 10

2000  Randy Johnson gets his 3,000^th strikeout and 300^th of the season

1999  Pedro Martinez gets his 21^st 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 1^st 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 1^st inning

1974  Lou Brock breaks the stolen base record for a season with his 105^th

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