A couple of Baseball pitchers and one of the best sluggers of the hard ball of all-time made news on this day in history. We also remember some very famous sports birthdays on this date of June 11.
11 June in Sports History
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Daily Digits June 11
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.
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June 11, 1904 - Chicago Cubs' ace Bob Wicker tossed a dandy of a no-hitter against the New York Giants baseball club. The Cubs hung on and won the game in after 12 full innings, 1-0. According to SABR.org, the 26-year-old right-handed Wicker, went 20-9 in 1903. Unhappily for Bob though, he was expendable for the Cubs as they had eight different 20-game winners in a span of 5 years during that era. He was traded, to Cincinnati early in the 1906 campaign, and ended up missing out on the four National League pennants and two World Series crowns that Chicago would win in the coming five-season span.
June 11, 1927 - Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger, Number 3, Babe Ruth hit his 19th and 20th homer runs of the MLB season. This is the year that Ruth would whallop a record 60 HRs. New York prevailed in this 6-4 contest over Cleveland Indians at Yankees Stadium.
June 11, 1938 - Cincinnati Reds hurler Johnny Vander Meer, Number 57 no-hits Boston Braves, 3-0. Vander Meer is most notable for being the only pitcher in Major League Baseball history to throw two consecutive no-hitters. In this gem, the first of the two no-hit games, it was at Crosley Field in Cincinnati. Vander Meer walked three while striking out four and allowing no hits against the Boston Bees. No Boston player even made it past first base. We shall recant his second no-no on June 15's edition of this series. Vander Meer would go on to be a four-time All-Star and win the 1940 World Series with these same Reds.
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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 1938 coin bank of William O. Fletcher, taken by an unknown.
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