August 4, 2001: Red Sox outfielder Troy O'Leary celebrates his 32nd birthday with a second inning, two run homer and follows with a solo home run in the seventh to pace the Red Sox to a 10-4 win over Texas before 32,249 at Fenway Park; Nomar Garciaparra is the only other Sox player with multiple home runs on his birthday, hitting three on July 23, 2002. [...]

August 3, 1987: The Red Sox defeat the Yankees in 17 innings at Yankee Stadium by a score of 7-5 in a game that had been suspended after 14 innings the night before; in the regularly scheduled game, 53,000 home fans were disappointed as the Red Sox won 8-1 to increase their lead in the AL East to 6 games as Fred Lynn and Jim Rice homered for the Red Sox. [...]

August 2, 1947: A crowd of 32,794 at Fenway Park on "Bobby Doerr Night" watched the Red Sox defeat the Detroit Tigers 2-1 on a two-run Ted Williams home run; before the days of big player contracts it was common for fan favorites to be homered with a "Day" to add to their paychecks and Doerr received a sedan, a truck, a tractor for his Oregon farm, and a juk [...]

August 1, 1914: The Boston Braves defeat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-3 in ten innings in a game played at Fenway Park as they reach the .500 mark for the first time at 45-45; the "Miracle Braves," who played at Fenway Park for most of the 1914 season while they waited for Braves Field to be constructed, went from 15 games out of first on the 4th of July to win [...]

July 31, 2004: In a key deal made right at the trading deadline, the Red Sox trade fan-favorite Nomar Garciaparra for shortstop Orlando Cabrera and first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz; in the three-sided trade the Chicago Cubs first obtained Cabrera and then Mientkiewicz, and immediately traded them to the Red Sox in exchange for Garciaparra. [...]