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July 28
1971 Sixteen time gold glove winner Brooks Robinson committed three errors in the sixth inning against the Oakland Athletics, but it did not cost them the game as Frank Robinson blasted a three-run homer to win the game for Baltimore.
1976 Chicago White Sox hurlers John Odom (five innings) and Francisco Barrios (four innings) combined on a no hitter as the Sox edged the Oakland Athletics, 2-1.
1983 American League president Lee McPhail ruled that George Brett's "Pine Tar" home run against the New York Yankees on July 24 should count. The home plate umpire had disallowed Brett's controversial home run when he found the pine tar on Brett's bat had exceeded the specified limit of 18 inches.
1987 Jockey Angel Cordero Jr. won his 6,000th victory in the Colleen Stakes at Monmouth Park aboard Lost Kitty. He was the fourth rider in racing history to accomplish that feat.
1990 Cal Ripken Jr. committed his first error in 95 games, the longest streak ever for a shortstop.
  Jake And Elwood won the Art Rooney Pace in 1:55 at Yonkers Raceway.
1991 Montreal's Dennis Martinez twirled a perfect game against Los Angeles, winning, 2-0.
1994 Texas southpaw Kenny Rogers pitched a perfect game against California, defeating the Angels, 4-0.
1996 New York Yankees Darryl Strawberry hit his 300th career home run in the bottom of the ninth inning of the Yankees 3-2 win over the Kansas City Royals.
1999 Lions running back Barry Sanders retired from football at the age of 31. He was only 1,458 yards away from breaking Walter Payton's all time rushing record.
2002 Lance Armstrong won his fourth consecutive Tour de France.
2003 The Cincinnati Reds fired Manager Bob Boone and GM Jim Bowden.
2004 NFL quarterback Steve Beuerline announced his retirement.
2005 The New York Knicks named Larry Brown their new head coach.
  University of Wisconsin head football coach Barry Alvarez announced he would step down at the end of the season, but remain with the school as its athletic director.
2009 Michael Phelps was beaten at the World Swim Championships losing to Germany's Paul Biedermann in the final of the men's 200-meter freestyle.
  The New Orleans Hornets acquired center Emeka Okafor from the Charlotte Bobcats in exchange for center Tyson Chandler.
  Coming off the 18th perfect game in major league history, Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle retired the first 17 batters to set a record with 45 outs, until it all unraveled, as Minnesota finally got to the White Sox southpaw and held on for a 5-3 victory at the Metrodome.
  Jim Johnson, a longtime defensive coordinator of the Philadelphia Eagles, passed away at the age of 68 after a battle with melanoma skin cancer.
Birthdays Bill Bradley (1943) - NBA player; Doug Collins (1951) - NBA player and coach; Vida Blue (1949) - MLB pitcher.

                                                          
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