Brady Anderson takes a swing during the 1997 season. He had three hits on Sept. 5, 1997 during a win over the New York Yankees in Camden Yards that took 4 hours, 22 minutes to complete, making it the longest nine-inning game in major league history at the time. (Baltimore Sun photo, 1997)

By Mike Klingaman The Baltimore Sun

Sept. 5, 1997: The division-leading Orioles win the then-longest nine-inning game in major league history, 13-9, over the Yankees in New York. Brady Anderson and Geronimo Berroa each get three hits in the game, which lasts 4 hours, 22 minutes.

Sept. 1, 1986: In a nationally televised football game, visiting Maryland nips Pittsburgh, 10-7, on Dan Plocki's 29-yard field goal with 2:06 remaining. The kick is set up by a 15-yard reception by the Terps' Aziz Abdur-Ra'oof (Northeast), who has caught at least one pass in 25 consecutive games.

Sept. 3, 1971: “My 9-year-old daughter could catch a pass better than we did,” coach Don McCafferty says after the Colts' 27-14 preseason loss to the Dallas Cowboys at Memorial Stadium. Baltimore completes just 13 of 30 passes in the rematch of January's Super Bowl, won by the Colts, 16-13.

Sept. 4, 1965: Staging a furious comeback, the U.S. golf team rallies from a 10-5 deficit to tie Great Britain, 11-all, in the 20th biennial Walker Cup at Baltimore Country Club. Bethesda's Deane Beman (Maryland) and Dave Eichelberger lead the charge.

Sept. 1, 1961: The Orioles name Luman Harris as manager to replace Paul Richards, who resigned to become general manager of the new Houston Colt .45s of the National League. Baltimore had two winning seasons in seven years under Richards, who laid the groundwork for the team's successes to come. Harris, an Orioles coach since 1955, leads them to 17 victories in 27 games and a third-place finish before going to Houston as coach.

Aug. 31, 1954: A doubleheader loss to the Philadelphia Athletics (8-6 and 6-3) drops the Orioles into last place in the American League, 53 games back. Vern Stephens hits his eighth home run, tying the Orioles' season high set by Jimmy Williams in 1902.

Aug. 30, 1947: Maryland racetracks bar horses from New England as a precaution against the spread of swamp fever, or infectious anemia, a disease that has sickened more than 900 thoroughbreds in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Sept. 3, 1936: Navy officials say the academy will continue to broadcast its home football games without commercial breaks despite moves by other colleges to sell their radio rights.

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Super Bowl V:

Baltimore 16

Dallas 13