10 August in Sports History

In this edition of the Sports Break we cover the top events in sports history along with the players and athletes that were a part of them for August 10. As a bonus we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete as well.

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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August 10, 1888 - New York Giants pitcher Tim Keefe registered a monumental feat when he scratched out a win and continued on a 19 game winning streak record

August 10, 1901 - Chicago White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners

August 10, 1904 - New York Highlanders pitcher Jack Chesbro ends string of 30 consecutive complete games in a 5-1 loss to Chicago White Sox at South Side Park, Chicago

August 10, 1934 - Number 3, Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player

August 10, 1944 - Boston Braves starting pitcher Red Barrett, Number 19 threw only 58 pitches to shut out his former team, the Cincinnati Reds in a 2-0 Braves victory

August 10, 1971 - 16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research

August 10, 1971 - Minnesota Twins' Harmon Killebrew, Number 3 became the tenth MLB hitter to reach the 500 home run plateau on a slow curve ball. Just for good measure he added his 501st as well off of Baltimore Orioles pitcher Mike Cuellar. The Twins dropped the game in extra innings 5-4 in 10.

August 10, 1977 - Phillies & Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM. The second game started just before midnight and was halted due to rain at 12:13AM before resuming. The Phils won both games of the day by identical 6-1 scores.

August 10, 1981 - Pete Rose, Number 14 had his 3,631 career hit, breaks Stan Musial's NL hit record

August 10, 1986 - Billy Martin Day, his uniform Number 1 retired by the Yankees.

August 10, 1986 - Pitcher Bob Forsch, Number 31 crushes a grand slam home run to lead the St LouisCardinals to a 5-4 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates, in St. Louis.

August 10, 1997 - Atlanta Braves signed Greg Maddux, Number 31 to then record 5 year, $57.5 million deal

A Very Special thanks to information obtained from the following brilliant internet sites: On This Day Sports, the Sports Reference's family of website databases & Stathead.com.

Banner photo is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of the 1906 World Series where Chicago White Sox Frank Isbell was safe at first on a pick-off attempt, taken by an unknown.