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This Day in Sports (August 17)

Can you answer these multiple choice questions about sports events that happened on August 17th?

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1. 1933: This MLB legend plays his 1,308th consecutive game, setting the record.

Ty Cobb ✓

Tris Speaker ✓

Lou Gehrig ✓

Eddie Collins ✓

2. 1950: Two MLB players do this on the same day.

Inside the park home runs ✓

Get banned for drug use ✓

Break bats ✓

Hit 4 home runs in a game ✓

3. 1957: This MLB player hits a fan twice in the same at bat, one ball breaks her nose, and the other hits her while she was on a stretcher.

Ted Williams ✓

Mickey Mantle ✓

Richie Ashburn ✓

Todd Goble ✓

4. 1969: This golfer wins the first of his four majors.

Arnold Palmer ✓

Ezra Woodson ✓

Tiger Woods ✓

Ray Floyd ✓

5. 1969: The Jets and Giants play their first game against each other in what city, where they share a stadium?

Atlanta ✓

New York City ✓

Toronto ✓

Los Angeles ✓

6. 1987: This boxer is elected to “Ring” magazine’s Boxing Hall of Fame.

Muhammad Ali ✓

Mike Tyson ✓

George Foreman ✓

Joe Frazier ✓

7. 2007: NBA player, Eddie Griffin, dies from what?

Murder ✓

Car crash ✓

Heart Attack ✓

Drug overdose ✓

8. 2008: Rafael Nadal wins the mens’ tennis singles gold medal. What country was he from?

France ✓

Malta ✓

Spain ✓

Mexico ✓

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