It is a pitchers' day 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 27. As a bonus we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete as.
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Daily Digits August 27
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.
11 - 16 - 32 - 18 - 11 - 1 - 8 - 29 - 35 - 20 - 22
August 27, 1909 - Future Baseball HOF pitcher Jack Chesbro's final game for NY Highlanders; 17-6 loss to the Tigers at Bennett Park, Detroit
August 27, 1911 - Chicago White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh no-hit the Boston Red Sox, 5-0 at White Sox Park
August 27, 1937 - Brooklyn Dodger Fred Frankhouse, wearing Number 11 no-hit the Cincinnati Reds for a 5-0 victory in 7-2/3 innings.
August 27, 1938 - New York Yankees pitcher Monte Pearson, Number 16 no-hit the Cleveland Indians to lead the defense of the Yanks in a 13-0 route. From the plate Joe DiMaggio hit 3 triples to spark the offense for New York.
August 27, 1955 - Sandy Koufax (Number 32) sat down 14 Reds batters on strikes. Both teams combined for record 23 strikeouts in a great game from the mound
August 27, 1974 - New York Met Benny Ayala, Number 18 hit a HR in his 1st at bat
August 27, 1977 - Toby Harrah (Number 11) and Bump Wills (Number 1) hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2
August 27, 1978 - Cincinnati Reds slugger Number 8, Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 HRs as well as having stolen 500 bases
August 27, 1978 - New York Yankee pitcher Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 record in Aug 1978 wearing that Number 29 pinstriped iniform.
August 27, 1982 - Number 35, Rickey Henderson stole his 119th base of season breaking the record set by Lou Brock, the former Number 20 of the St Louis Cardinals
August 27, 1996 - Dino Ciccarelli was traded by the Detroit Red Wings to the Tampa Bay Lightning. Dino donned the Number 22 sweater for both clubs.
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 Jack Chesbro of the New York Highlanders circa 1909 (cropped), taken by an unknown.
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