13 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 13. As a bonus, we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete.

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.

5 - 15 - 31 - 29 - 19 - 21 - 22 - 20 - 24 - 48 - 16 - 14 - 34 - 23

August 13, 1906 - Chicago Cub's pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 MLB games (187 complete, 15 relief) against Brooklyn Superbas in 3rd inning of an 11-3 win at Washington Park, NYC

August 13, 1908 - Future Baseball HOF pitcher Cy Young's career is celebrated with special day in his name in Boston; he pitches briefly for Red Sox against an All-Star team

August 13, 1917 - Milt Stock ( with 2), Fred Luderus ( with 2) and Possum Whitted of the Philadelphia Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning in 3-0 win against Boston at Braves Field

August 13, 1931 - Cincinnati Reds second baseman Tony Cuccinello, Number 5 goes 6 for 6 in 17-3 rout of Boston at Braves Field

August 13, 1932 - Yankees hurler Number 15, Red Ruffing becomes first MLB pitcher since 1906 to hit an extra-inning, game-winning home run in NY's 1-0 win over the Senators in Washington

August 13, 1948 - Satchel Paige (who wore both Number 31 and 29 that season) at age 42, pitched his first MLB complete game

August 13, 1962 - Bert Campaneris, then of the Daytona Beach squad of the FSL pitched ambidextrously. Bert ended up wearing Number 19 in 1964 with the Kansas City Athletics

August 13, 1963 - Warren Spahn, Number 21 of the Milwaukee Braves set a left-handed pitching strike out mark at 2,382

August 13, 1963 - Dave DeBusschere, Number 22 of the Chicago White Sox pitched a shutout against the Cleveland Indians. In DeBusschere's bio we see that despite 2 seasons in the MLB, he also won two NBA Championships with the New York Knicks (1970, 1973) and in 1996 was named as one of the Top 50 players in NBA history. Needless to say he also wore Number 22 on a handful of teams on the professional hardcourts.

August 13, 1969 - Baltimore Oriole Jim Palmer, Number 22 no-hit the Oakland A's in an 8-0 route.

August 13, 1979 - MLB St Louis Cardinals Lou Brock, Number 20 became the 14th MLB player in history to reach the 3,000 hits mark

August 13, 1993 - Toronto Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his Number 24 jersey so that Henderson could wear his recognizable digits in Canada. Henederson was first assigned the Number 14 with the Jays until he made this deal with Turner. As for Ward he went on to wear the Number 16 for the balance of the season after his cool payday

August 13, 2006 - Cleveland Indians first baseman Travis Hafner, Number 48 tied Don Mattingly's (Number 23 of the NY Yankees) MLB mark of six grand slams in a single season when he homered off Kansas City's Luke Hudson, Number 34

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 Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1903. SUMMARY Portrait of Jack (John) Taylor, pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, National League, warming up with other players at home plate at West Side Grounds located between West Polk Street (Cropped by D Hayes).