Today In Sports History 8/21

Our past has shaped the present by many things in history including sports, here is how sports marked our history today.

Baseball

• In 1931 Babe Ruth hits his 600th home run, coming off the pitch of George Blaeholder of Browns.

Basketball

• In 2016 Kevin Durant scores 30 points as the US retains the Olympic men’s basketball title with a comfortable 96-66 win over Serbia at the Rio de Janeiro Games.

Golf

• In 1966 at the LPGA Western Open, Mickey Wright wins her 13th and final major title by 1 stroke from Margie Masters & Jo Ann Prentice.

Miscellaneous

• In 1947 at the first Little League World Series Maynard Midgets of Williamsport PA win.

Olympics 

• In 2004 Nicolás Massú & Fernando González win the men’s doubles tennis at the Athens Olympics beating German pair Nicolas Kiefer & Rainer Schüttler in five sets, it’s Chile’s first Olympic gold medal.