July 1, 1997: “I guess I'm the type who will look back on it later,” Orioles closer Randy Myers says upon picking up his 300th career save in a 4-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies before an announced 47,610 at Camden Yards.

July 1, 1969: Alex Hawkins retires after 10 years in pro football, nine with Baltimore. The first special teams captain in NFL history, Hawkins galvanized the “suicide squads” by day while carousing at night. NFL commissioner “Pete Rozelle frowns on unsavory characters, and I don't have a friend who's not one,” he says in his farewell.

June 26, 1968: Bruno Sammartino, World Wide Wrestling Federation champion, pins challenger Kentucky Butcher at the Civic Center. After 23 minutes of grunts and growls, Sammartino pulls a reversal and falls on the 305-pound Butcher to retain his title.

July 1, 1961:Colts general manager Don Kellett scores an ace on the 152-yard fourth hole at the Five Farms course at Baltimore Country Club.

July 2, 1948: Joe Black (Morgan State) allows four hits and strikes out nine as the Baltimore Elite Giants defeat the Philadelphia Stars, 9-1, in a Negro National League game at Bugle Field. Black goes on to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers and becomes the 1952 National League Rookie of the Year.

June 28, 1933: During a second-round match of the Maryland State tennis tournament, Mary Clare Cottman shocks the crowd at Baltimore Country Club by kicking off her shoes and playing in her stocking feet. She wins.

June 28, 1924:A 3-0 International League victory by the Orioles angers fans of the host Newark Bears, who attack umpire John McBride. A chair thrown at the arbiter hits Newark second baseman George Knothe, knocking him unconscious.

July 1, 1901: The Orioles win their 11th straight American League game, 7-5 over the Boston Americans. Outfielder Cy Seymour saves a three-run home run with a leaping, one-handed catch at the fence at Oriole Park. The crowd, The Sun reports, “rose and stood yelling and cheering and waving hats, handkerchiefs and umbrellas until [Seymour] had doffed his hat, again and again.”

Birthday

June 30, 1910: Jack Turnbull, a Poly graduate and a three-time All-America first-team lacrosse attackman who captained the Johns Hopkins team that participated in the 1932 Olympics. A pilot in World War II, he died of injuries suffered in an air crash in 1944.

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