1911 – Cy Young picks up career victory #511. It is the final win in his career.
1959 – The White Sox clinch the American League pennant.
1967 – It was close, but quarterback Jerry Perkins and the Wirt Troopers won their 17th straight game – a 7-6 nailbiter at Bulldog Turf in Crown Point.
1969 – San Francisco Giants great Willie Mays becomes the second player in baseball history to hit 600 career home runs.
1972 – Harry Szurlborski and his Golden Tornadoes of Emerson High School beat Gary Wallace 29-0 at Gilroy Stadium. The Tornado went 7-1 in ’72; the first winning season for the school since 1958 and the last one ever for the former football powerhouse. The school closed after the 1980 school year.
1974 – With new overtime rules in effect, the Steelers and Broncos play to the first tie in NFL history, with the game ending with the teams knotted up at 35-35.
1978 – Merrillville doubles up on the defending state champion Portage Indians 26-13. Les Kleins club were winners of 12 games in ’77, but only two in ’78.
1986 – Fernando Valenzuela, Dodgers pitcher, becomes the first Mexican-born player to win 20 games in a season.
1987 – NFL players go on strike for 24 days.
1990 – Andre Dawson picks up career steal #300. He’s the second player in MLB history, after Willie Mays, to have 300 career steals and 2,000 career hits.
1990 – University of Illinois running back Howard Griffith sets an NCAA record by scoring eight rushing touchdowns in a 56-21 rout of Southern Illinois.
1991 – Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula records his 300th career win.
1993 – At age 46, Nolan Ryan pitches in the final game of his career.
2000 – In a battle between two of the Region’s best, Griffith and Lowell punch it out in a week six showdown in front of 5,500 fans in the Town By The Tracks. Griffith’s Tyler Radtke score three times, but it wasn’t enough, as the Red Devils got the best of it at the Boneyard, and posted a 39-36 win Lake Athletic victory.
2004 – Giants slugger Barry Bonds is intentionally walked four times in one game, tying his own MLB record.
