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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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