​Aug. 22Today in sports historyToday is Aug. 22. On this date in:1885: Richard Sears captured the U.S. National Men’s Singles Championship for the fifth consecutive year.1891: Chicago Colts outfielder Walt Wilmot drew six walks in a 17-6 victory over the Cleveland Spiders, setting a major-league single-game record.1898: Malcolm Whitman won the U.S. National Men’s Singles Championship, the first of three consecutive titles.1917: The Brooklyn Robins defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-5 in 22 innings, the longest game by innings in National League history at the time. It was their third-straight extra-inning game.1927: Babe Ruth hit his 40th home run of the season for the New York Yankees against Cleveland on his way to a then-major league-record 60 homers.1948: The West defeated the East 3-0 in the first 1948 Negro Leagues East-West Game, at Comiskey Park.1950: Althea Gibson became the first Black player accepted into the U.S. national tennis championships, now known as the U.S. Open.1951: Jackie Robinson produced the winning hit in both games as the Brooklyn Dodgers swept the St. Louis Cardinals with two walk-off victories at Ebbets Field.1957: Heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson knocked out Pete Rademacher in the sixth round in Seattle after Rademacher became the first boxer to challenge for a world title in his professional debut.1959: Frank Robinson hit three consecutive home runs and drove in six runs to lead Cincinnati to an 11-4 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.1959: Team owners meeting in Dallas officially adopted the name “American Football League,” a key business milestone in pro football history.1961: Roger Maris hit his 50th home run of the season for the Yankees, remaining ahead of Babe Ruth’s record-setting 1927 pace.1964: The BBC debuted “Match of the Day” with highlights of Liverpool’s 3-2 victory over Arsenal, beginning one of soccer’s longest-running television programs.1965: San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marichal struck Los Angeles Dodgers catcher John Roseboro with a bat, triggering a 14-minute brawl in one of baseball’s most infamous on-field incidents.1984: American sprinter Evelyn Ashford ran the 100 meters in a world-record 10.76 seconds at a meet in Zurich.1984: New York Mets rookie Dwight Gooden recorded his 200th strikeout, becoming the 11th rookie pitcher in major league history to reach the mark.1989: Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan struck out Oakland’s Rickey Henderson to become the first major leaguer to record 5,000 career strikeouts.2004: Chile’s Nicolás Massú defeated American Mardy Fish in five sets to win the Athens Olympic men’s singles tennis gold medal after earlier winning doubles gold.2004: Justin Gatlin won the Athens Olympic 100 meters in 9.85 seconds to claim the gold medal.2004: Japan’s Mizuki Noguchi won the Olympic women’s marathon in 2 hours, 26 minutes, 20 seconds, with American Deena Kastor earning bronze.2007: The Texas Rangers routed the Baltimore Orioles 30