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 on August 19. As a bonus, we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete.
19 August in Sports History
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Daily Digits August 19
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 19, 1911 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times
August 19, 1917 - Sunday benefit baseball game at New York's Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws
August 19, 1921 - Detroit's Tiger Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits against Boston Red Sox, the youngest ever
August 19, 1945 - The Philadelphia Phillies Number 4, Jimmie Foxx, at age 37, pitched the 1st 7 innings versus the Cincinnati Reds and won. Remember for the majority of his career he played first base, Third base and catcher.
August 19, 1951 - He may have had the smalled MLB strike zone ever! In a publicity stunt of sorts, the St Louis Browns, Bill Veeck sent Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" little person, to pinch-hit. The season was all but lost for the Browns and Veeck had a reputation for stirring up interest for the team even in the worst of years. As for Gaedel's at bat, he walked on four pitches, became the smallest MLB player on record and had the most unique jerser Number of all, Number 1/8.
August 19, 1965 - Cincinnati Reds pitcher Jim Maloney, Number 46 threw his second no-hitter of the season in 1-0 win over the Chicago Cubs
August 19, 1990 - Los Angeles Dodgers' infielder Jose Offerman, Number 30 hit a home run in his first MLB at bat against the Montreal Expos.
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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 James Emory "Jimmy" Foxx from Sports Exchange All-Stars trade cards (W603) MET circa 1946., taken by an unknown.
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