10 June in Sports History

Hank Aaron hit yet another milestone as well as other great accomplishments by men playing hardball, grace our Sports Break for this day.

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.

43 - 14 - 44

June 10, 1944 - Get'em throwing young, was the cry of the day for the Reds. Cincinnati totted the youngest player in MLB history to the mound when relief pitcher Joe Nuxhall, Number 43 at 15 years, 316 days, debuted for the Cincinnati Reds. Unfortunately the Reds fell to the St Louis Cardinals in the game 18-0. Nuxhall gave up 5 earned runs in a small portion of the inning he was in the game. He retired and then resumed hos MLNB career in 1952 where he pitched a total of 15 additional years earning All-Star status twice.

June 10, 1952 - Chicago White Sox Number 14 outfielder Sam Mele is only the 6th player in MLB history to record 6 RBI's in an inning when he exploded in the 4th stanza during a 15-4 win over the A's in Philadelphia.

June 10, 1972 - When Hall of Fame slugger Hank Aaron hit a milestone he did it with foreworks! Number 44, Aaron's grandslam, the 14th of his career, tied him for NL lead with Gil Hodges and moved him ahead of Willie Mays as number 2 HR hitter for a career at 649.

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 Baseball legend Hank Aaron joined us as the Tom Johnson Lecture Series speaker at the LBJ Presidential Library on January 22, 2015. The program was introduced by LBJ Foundation Chairman Larry Temple and UT baseball coach Augie Garrido and moderated by LBJ Library Director Mark Updegrove. Contributed by Lauren Gerson.