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 28. As a bonus, we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete.
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Daily Digits August 28
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.
2- 8 - 49 - 30 - 20 - 9 - 44 - 23 - 17
August 28, 1884 - MLB pitcher Mickey Welsh makes record for most consecutive batters struck out to begin a game, striking out the 1st 9 men he faces
August 28, 1918 - Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on umpire Tom Connolly
August 28, 1921 - New York Yankees legendary slugger, Babe Ruth started a streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games
August 28, 1958 - American baseball player Nellie Fox, wearing Number 2 for the Chicago White Sox set a record for consecutive games without striking out (98)
August 28, 1960 - Chicago White Sox Number 8, Ted Kluszewski's 3-run HR is disallowed as umpire called time
August 28, 1977 - New York Yankees pitcher Ron Guidry, Number 49 faced just 28 men as he and his Yankees teammates beat the Texas Rangers 1-0
August 28, 1977 - Nolan Ryan as a member of the California Angels and wearing the Number 30 uniform, strikes out 300 batters for 5th straight year
August 28, 1987 - Star Philadelphia Phillies third baseman, Mike Schmidt, Number 20 passed Ted Williams (Number 9) as well as (Number 44) Willie McCovey with 522 career home runs
August 28, 1990 - The Chicago Cub's Ryne Sandberg, Number 23 became the first 2nd baseman to hit 30 HRs, in consecutive seasons
August 28, 2021 - MLB Los Angeles Angels pitcher/designated hitter Shohei Ohtani, Number 17 becomes 1st player in team history to reach 20 stolen bases and hit 40 home runs in a season, in 10-2 win over San Diego Padres.
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 Bain News Service,, publisher of Tris Speaker, Boston, AL circa 1911.
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