24 April in Sports History

Sports history is made every day of the year. We will preserve at least a small sampling from some great athletes every day based on the uniform number they wore.

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April 24, 1917 - New York Yankees left-hander George Mogridge, tossed a no-hit win against the Boston Red Sox, for a narrow 2-1 victory at Fenway Park.

April 24, 1958 - Number 2, Lee Walls,  smacked 3 Home Runs in a single day, as he and the Chicago Cubs bludgeoned the Los Angeles Dodgers 15-2 at the LA Coliseum. Walls would go on to hit 24 base clearing shots onthe 1958 season.

April 24, 1962 - Four seasons later the tables would be turned in the match-up of these two NL teams. LA Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax, Number 32 tossed his 2nd career 18-strikeout game, in a 10-2 win over Cubs in Chicago

Here are some more great pieces of April 24 MLB history that occurred on April 24 from a couple of our favorite sites:

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This Day In Baseball This Day In Baseball April 24 April

The Thisdayinbaseball.com crew tells us all about the MLB items from April 24 including pieces of info concerning American League, Andy Cooper, George Mogridge, Dazzy Vance, Rogers Hornsby, Ted Lyons, Happy Chandler, Marv Grissom, Johnny Mize, Jesse Burkett, Frank Chance, Jack Chesbro, Johnny Evers, Clark Griffith, Tommy McCarthy, Joe McGinnity, Eddie Plank, Joe Tinker, Rube Waddell, Ed Walsh, Dee Fondy, Harry Chiti, Corky Valentine and more. MLB April 24

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April 24th in 1980s Baseball

J. Daniel tells us of the top stories in 1980s baseball for April 24, including items about John Franco, Frank Pastore, Jesse Barfield, Bo Diaz, Phil Niekro, and more. MLB April 24

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Here are a couple of items from the Vintage Hockey Jerseys website

April 24, 1993 - The airwaves were filled with "May Day! May Day!" Shouted by Buffalo Sabres announcer Rick Jeanneret when Number 27, Brad May beat all star defenseman Number 77, Ray Bourque and scored the overtime series winner against the Boston Bruins.

The website of NBA.com offers these nuggets of history for the day.

April 24, 1963 - Going out with a bang! Number 14, Bob Cousy ended his Boston career on a high note as he helped the Celtics defeat the Los Angeles Lakers 112-109 in Game 6 of the NBA Finals for the team’s fifth consecutive NBA championship. It was Cousy’s last game in a Celtics uniform, although he did appear in seven games as player-coach for the Cincinnati Royals during the 1969-70 season.

April 24, 1964 - Legendary Number 13, Wilt Chamberlain of the San Francisco Warriors grabbed 38 rebounds against the Boston Celtics and arch-rival Bill Russell (Number 6), in Game 4 of the NBA Finals, a 98-95 Boston win. During the regular season, however, Russell led the league in rebounding with a 24.7 rebounds/game mark to Chamberlain’s 22.3 rebounds/game.

A Very Special thanks to information obtained from the following brilliant internet sites: On This Day Sports, This Day in Baseball, NBA.com,the Vintage Hockey Jerseys website, 80sbaseball.com, the Sports Reference's family of website databases & Stathead.com.

Banner photo is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of 1962 Bell Brand Dodgers #32 Sandy Koufax, taken by an unknown.