In this edition we cover some great moments in baseball history from July 6 including history about Roger Maris, Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle.
6 July in Sports History
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Daily Digits July 6
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.
3 - 8 - 7 - 9 - 31
July 6, 1933 - At the first ever MLB All Star Game it was a star studded affair. The American League won the contest 4-2 at Comiskey Park, Chicago, as Number 3 of the Yankees Babe Ruth hit the first All Star home run.
July 6, 1945 - Washington Senator, Number 8, Rick Ferrell caught an MLB record 1,722 games when he suited up on this day to face the St Louis Browns.
July 6, 1949 - Cincinnati Reds catcher Walker Cooper, wearing Number 7 went 6 for 7, with 3 HRs, 3 singles, 5 runs scored, 10 RBI in 23-4 win v Chicago Cubs
July 6, 1956 - Finally a fitting tribute award. MLB Commissioner Ford Frick inaugurates Cy Young Award, to honour baseball's outstanding pitcher of the season
July 6, 1956 - Cleveland outfielder Jim Busby, Number 31 had a second day in a row where he hit a grand slam during the Indians 4-2 win over the Kansas City A's.
July 6, 1962 - A pair of New York Yankees legends who were known as the 'M&M boys': Roger Maris wearing Number 9 and Number 7, Mickey Mantle each tagged 2 Home Runs in a 7-5 win over the Minnesota Twins. For Mantle it was his 4th consecutive homer. Baseball fans were looking for the very popular Mickey Mantle to break Babe Ruth’s old 60-homer record the previous season in 1961, but it was his teammate, roommate and friend Roger Maris who made history when he had 54 base clearing blasts until he suffered a flu infection in September that hampered him from getting to the Bambinos lofty mark but some how he did it finishing with 61 on the season. Mantle had 54 that same year.
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 1933 Goudey baseball card of Richard "Rick" Ferrell of the St. Louis Browns #197. PD-not-renewed.
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