Aug. 8, 1998: The Ravens christen their new $220 million stadium with a 19-14 preseason victory over the Chicago Bears before an announced sellout of 65,938. Matt Stover scores the first points on a 46-yard field goal.

Aug. 8, 1989: “Unbelievable. ... A complete game in my hometown. ... I proved I could do it,” Orioles pitcher Dave Johnson says of his first major league win. An Overlea grad, Johnson, 29, defeats the Minnesota Twins, 6-1, at Memorial Stadium.

Aug. 8, 1988: Alan “The Horse” Ameche, the fullback who scored the winning touchdown in the Colts' 23-17 sudden-death overtime victory over the New York Giants in the 1958 NFL title game, dies of a heart attack at 55.

Aug. 8, 1974: Thrown from his mount in the fourth race at Timonium, apprentice Tommy Maguire returns the same day to win his next two races.

Aug. 10, 1963: First baseman John “Boog” Powell, 21, becomes the first Oriole to hit three home runs in a game in a 6-5 loss to the Senators in Washington.

Aug. 10, 1957: Yankees slugger Mickey Mantle becomes the first player to hit a home run over the center-field fence at Memorial Stadium — a 460-foot blast — in New York's 6-3 win over the Orioles. Next time up, Mantle beats out a drag bunt for a single.

Aug. 9, 1947: The Colts, Baltimore's new team in the All-America Football Conference, play to a 7-7 tie in their first intrasquad game in a driving rain before an announced 4,000 in Waynesboro (Pa.) High School Stadium. The Colts, dressed in green and silver, will finish 2-11-1.

Aug. 10, 1934: More than 12,000 people line the banks of the Patapsco River for the Maryland Yacht Club's Regatta. “From Ferry Bar to the Hanover Street bridge, a colorful mass of humanity sweltered beneath the hot sun as speedboats flashed by and planes roared overhead in mass formation,” The Sun reports.

Birthday

Aug. 8, 1940: Fred Miller, a longtime defensive tackle and three-time Pro Bowl player who helped the Colts win the Super Bowl in January 1971.

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