Sports history is made every day of the year. In this edition we look at the top events in numbered team sports for July 28.
28 July in Sports History
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Daily Digits July 28
We will preserve at least a small sampling from some great athletes every day based on the uniform number they wore.
9 - 1 - 13 - 46 - 11 - 3
July 28, 1940 - New York Yankees Number 9 Charlie Keller hit 3 HRs to beat White Sox 10-9
July 28, 1957 - Chicago White Sox' James Landis, Number 1 struck out 5 times in a game
July 28, 1976 - Chicago White Sox John Odom Number 13 combined his 5 innings on the mound with those of teammate Francisco Barrios Number 46 and his 4 innings no-hit the Oakland A's lineup
July 28, 1979 - Dave Kingman, Number 10 of the Chicago Cubs became the 6th player in MLB history to have a 2nd 3 HR game
July 28, 1985 - Lou Brock (Number 24), Enos Slaughter (Number 9) , Arky Vaughan (Number 21), & Hoyt Wilhelm (Number 31) were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
July 28, 1989 - Atlanta Braves Dale Murphy, Number 3 hit two 3-run HRs in an inning, 14th man to hit 2 HRs in an inning. Also tied record of 6 RBIs in an inning
July 28, 1989 - St Louis Cardinals' speedster Vince Coleman, Number 29 was fianally caught stealing as his record streak at of 50 attempts without an out ends
July 28, 1991 - Dennis Martínez, Number 32 of the Montreal Expos pitched the 13th perfect game in baseball history
July 28, 1993 - Seattle Mariner Number 24, Ken Griffey Jr. ibecame the 3rd player in MLB history to hit HRs in 8 straight games
July 28, 1994 - Texas Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers, Number 37 threw the only perfect game in franchise history, against the California Angels
July 28, 1996 - NY Yankee Darryl Strawberry, Number 39 hit his 300th career HR
July 28, 1997 - Former New York Ranger center Mark Messier, Number 11 signed with Vancouver for $20M for 3 yrs
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 1949 Bowman baseball card of Charlie Keller of the New York Yankees #209. PD-not-renewed.
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