Some early pitching moments by brave older athletes occurred in the MLB on July 29 in sports history. Hear these memories and more.
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Daily Digits July 29
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.
1 - 39 - 20 - 6 - 52 - 16 - 43 - 40 - 27 - 32 - 3 - 13 - 7 - 25
July 29, 1908 - St Louis Browns' future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Philadelphia A's in 5-4 win against his previous team at Sportsman's Park II, St. Louis
July 29, 1911 - Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0
July 29, 1915 - Pirate Honus Wagner at the ripe old age of 41, hit a grand slam home run.
July 29, 1921 - During the City of Cleveland's 125th anniversary celebration: Cy Young, at the age of 54, pitches 2 inn
July 29, 1928 - Cleveland Indians score 17 in 1st 2 inns to beat Yanks 24-6 at Dunn Field they also set a record with 24 singles in 1 game
July 29, 1950 - Pee Wee Reese, Number 1 hit the 3,000th Dodger franchise home run
July 29, 1968 - Cincinnati Red George Culver, Number 39 no hits Phillies, 6-1
July 29, 1974 - MLB St Louis Cardinals base running demon, Lou Brock, wearing Number 20 stole his 700th career base
July 29, 1983 - Steve Garvey, Number 6 ended his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
July 29, 1988 - The Baltimore Orioles traded Mike Boddicker, Number 52 to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson (Who wore Number 16 that season) and pitcher Curt Schilling, Number 43
July 29, 1988 - Rick Sutcliffe, wearing Number 40 stole home plate, 1st pitcher since Pascual Perez, Number 27 in 1984 to steal home
July 29, 1989 - MLB Philadelphia Phillies retired Steve Carlton's Number 32
July 29, 1989 - The Chicago White Sox traded Harold Baines (Number 13 & 3 with the Rangers that year) to the Texas Rangers for Scott Fletcher (Sox Number 7) and Sammy Sosa (Number 25)
July 29, 1990 - Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game
July 29, 1996 - MLB Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda retired, with a record of 1599-1439, 4 National League Pennants, and 2 World Series championships.
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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 Rube Waddell, St. Louis Browns, baseball card portrait chromolithograph with hand-color from the sponsor theAmerican Tobacco Company.
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