Bashin' Bill Barilko's Tragic End, the First Game broadcast on television, and Olazabal smokes the field at Firestone - This DiSH for Aug. 26

In 1951, the plane carrying Toronto Maple Leaf Bill Barilko and his pilot friend Dr. Henry Hudson is presumed to have crashed on this day. The plane was not found for nearly 11 years.

In 1939, the first ever sports event was broadcast on television.

In 2001, Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk played 7 sudden death playoff holes before Tiger finally pulled out the win.

In 1990, José Maria Olazabal played his first PGA Tour event and won by 12 shots.

In 1961, Anna Quast-Decker smoked the field at the Women's US Amateur Championship winning her final match 14 & 13. Of the 112 holes she played, she lost only 6.

In 1973, the movie ‘Bang the Drum Slowly’ starring Robert DeNiro as a baseball player with a terminal illness debuted in theaters.

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