We cover the top sports events in history that occurred on this date of July 27 and reflect upon the awesome people that performed them.
27 July in Sports History
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Daily Digits July 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.
4 - 3 - 17 - 5 - 18 - 7 - 36 - 14 - 25 - 24 - 16
July 27, 1927 - Mel Ott, who wore Number 4 for many years after, at the age of just 18, hit his 1st league home run which was of the inside the park variety.
July 27, 1946 - Boston Red Sox Number 3, Rudy York hit two grand slams in 1 game, and got 10 RBIs against the St. Louis Browns
July 27, 1953 - Dizzy Dean most famous for his Number 17 with the Cardinals, Al Simmons who wore Number 7 three times in his career, Chief Bender of the Philadelphia Athletics 1903 to 1914, Bobby Wallace famously of the St Louis Browns, Harry Wright a 19th century Boston Red Stockings pitcher, Ed Barrow an early MLB manager, Former Umpire Bill Klem and Tom Connolly were all inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
July 27, 1970 - Lou Boudreau Number 5 with the Indians, Earle Combs Number 1 on the Yankees, former executive Ford Frick, and pitcher Jesse Haines, Number 16 with the Cardinals all were enshrined into the Baseball Hall of Fame
July 27, 1978 - Indians Duane Kuiper, Number 18 became the third player to hit 2 bases-loaded triples as Cleveland played the Yankees.
July 27, 1983 - Gaylord Perry Number 36 joined Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton on the list of MLB pitchers to reach 3,500 career strikeouts, also winning his 1st game as a member of the Kansas City Royals
July 27, 1984 - Cincinnati Reds' Pete Rose, Number 14 collects record 3,503rd career single (vs Philadelphia)
July 27, 1988 - Baseball star Tommy John, Number 25 commits record 3 errors on just one play as Yanks rout Brewers 16-3
July 27, 1993 - Detroit Tiger Travis Fryman, Number 24 hit for cycle but loses 12-7 to Yankees
July 27, 1997 - The Detroit Tigers retired franchise pitching legend Hal Newhouser's Number 16 jersey
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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 1947 Professional baseball player Rudy York, taken by an unknown.
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