25 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 25, 1901 - Erve Beck of the Cleveland Blues hit the American League's first home run.

April 25, 1933 - Philadelphia Phillies' short stop, Dick Bartell, Number 2 is 1st MLB player to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 innings

April 25, 1933 - Left handed New York Yankee ace pitcher, Russ Van Atta, Number 14 shut out Washington Senators 16-0 with some great pitching and timely hitting by teammates.

Here are some more great pieces of MLB history that occurred on April 25 from a couple of our favorite sites:

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Baseball OTD and MLB April 25

This Day in Baseball April 25

The gang at This Day in Baseball do not disappoint as they share items from April 25 that include historic gems about: Chicago White Stockings, Jack Chesbro, Babe Ruth, Ken Williams, Dick Bartell, Ben Chapman, Russ Van Atta, Cliff Melton, Larry Doby, Roberto Clemente, Harry Chiti, Gene Conley, Joe Morgan, Jim Lefebvre, Jack Hiatt, Willie Stargell, Andy Messersmith, Ken Boyer,Dwight Gooden, Billy Beane, Randy Johnson, and more. MLB April 25

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April 21st in 1980s Baseball

J. Daniel treats us to the moments in 80s baseball important to the date of April 25. George Foster, Claudell Washington, Steve Carlton, the Chicago White Sox, and more are in J's news of the day. MLB April 25

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

April 25, 1964 - The Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Detroit Red Wings 4-0 in Game 7 of the Finals to give Toronto their third-straight Stanley Cup Title. Goalie Johnny Bower, wearing the Number 1 sweater became the first goaltender to record a shutout in Game 7 of the Finals.

April 25, 1975 - The New York Islanders equaled the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs record by defeating the Pittsburgh Penguins 1-0 in game seven of the Quarterfinals to become the second team in the history of the Stanley Cup Playoffs to win a series after losing the first three games. Number 18, Ed Westfall had the game's only goal while rookie Glenn Resch, sporting the traditional keeper Number 1 Jersey stopped 30 shots for the Islanders first ever playoff shutout. Resch became the first rookie goaltender to ever shutout an playoff opponent in a seventh game. 

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

April 25, 1993 - Chicago’s Michael Jordan (Number 23) captured his seventh straight NBA scoring title (32.6 ppg), tying Number 13, Wilt Chamberlain’s NBA record. Jordan also led the league in steals (2.83 spg) for the third time in his career, becoming the fourth NBA player to collect 1,800 career thefts.

April 25, 1993 - Minnesota’s Number 24, Micheal Williams, in a 113-111 win over Utah in the season finale, went 10-for-10 from the free-throw line, allowing him to finish the 1992-93 season with an NBA record 84 consecutive free throws made. Williams, who stretched the streak to 97 consecutive free throws early in the 1993-94 season before missing, broke Calvin Murphy’s (who famously wore Number 23 with the San Diego and Houston Rockets) NBA record of 78 consecutive Free Throws, which had stood since the 1980-81 season.

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 the 1903 Stands along the third base line, Huntington Avenue Grounds, taken by an unknown.