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Daily Digits April 30

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.

4 - 17 - 6 - 22 - 33 - 1

April 30, 1922 - Chicago White Sox pitcher Charlie Robertson,  threw a perfect game as the White Sox beat Detroit Tigers, 2-0 at Navin Field.

April 30, 1939 - New York Yankees legend, Number 4, Lou Gehrig set an MLB record playing his 2,130th consecutive and final game for the Yankees.

April 30, 1944 - New York Giants great, Mel Ott, Number 4 scored 6 runs in 1 game drawing 5 walks for 4th time

Basketball Hall of Fame Moments for April 30

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

April 30, 1956 - The Boston Celtics traded Number 22,  “Easy” Ed Macauley and Number 17, Cliff Hagan to St. Louis for the Hawks’ No. 1 draft pick, which they used to select Bill Russell, who would eventually wear Number 6 with the Celts.

April 30, 1971 - The Milwaukee Bucks, led by young Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Number 33) and veteran Oscar Robertson (Number 1), beat the Baltimore Bullets 118-106 to complete a four-game sweep of the NBA Finals, capturing the franchise’s only NBA championship.

Baseball History of April 30

Here are some more events from the hardball diamonds that occured on this date from The Day in Baseball History website for April 30.

April 30th in 1980s Baseball

The 80s Baseball site of J. Daniel posts some great info of events tied to April 30 in the decade of the 1980s including bits about Joe Strain, Phil Garner, Tony Mack, Jesse Barfield, Ellis Burks. J.R. Richard, Larry Gura, Dale Murphy, Bruce Hurst, Sammy Stewart, Bob Stanley, and more. MLB April 30

This Day In Baseball April 30

The This Day In Baseball website brings some of the most iconic moments in baseball history for April 30, which includes items about The Pittsburgh Alleghenys, Charlie Robertson, Bob Feller, Tommy Bridges, Ted Williams, Willie Mays, and more. MLB April 30

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