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 25. As a bonus, we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete.
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Daily Digits August 25
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.
29 - 16 - 7 - 2 - 3 - 16 - 24 - 25 - 27
August 25, 1921 - Was he losing Control? New York Yankee pitcher Harry Harper nailed three different batters in an inning tying record
August 25, 1922 - The Chicago Cubs defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game
August 25, 1924 - MLB Washington Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn
August 25, 1968 - New York Yankee outfield player Rocky Colavito, Number 29 pitched 2/3 innings and beat the Detroit Tigers 6-5. It was a twinbill that day and Rocky played right field in second game and even homered. Not bad for a guy that started the season as an LA Dodger wearing Number 16.
August 25, 1977 - Canadian NHL player Tim Horton ( who wore Number 7 with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Number 2 with the Buffalo Sabres) was posthumously inducted into Hockey Hall of Fame. Note he did wear 16, 24 and 3 jerseys as well during his career
August 25, 1985 - New York Mets hurler Number 16, Dwight Gooden becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)
August 25, 1986 - Oakland A's Mark McGwire, wearing Number 25 hit his 1st major league home run
August 25, 2020 - Chicago White Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito, Number 27 no-hits the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-0 at Guaranteed Rate Field, Chicago
Credits
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 Harry Harper of NY in 1921 from the National Photo Corporation collection.
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