An undefated team suffers its first loss in a long long time and a star hits a Home Run Milestone. These events and more occurred on June 14 in Sports history.
14 June in Sports History
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Daily Digits June 14
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 14, 1870 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings had their amazing win streak snapped! Cincinnati went undefeated in their first 81 games, including going 57-0 in their first season of 1869. The Red Stockings finally lost a game on this day, when they fell to the Brooklyn Atlantics, 8-7 in extra innings, in Brooklyn.
June 14, 1963 - The New York Mets Number 4, Duke Snider hit his 400th career Home Run. Snider played the majority of his MLB career (16 seasons) with the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers. He played one last season in 1964 with the San Francisco Giants and completed his 18 year career with a total of 407 over the wall blasts.
June 14, 1965 - The Cincinnati Reds pitcher Jim Maloney, Number 46, tossed a no-hit wonder against the New York Mets striking out 18 batters he faced, however he got no run support and the Reds and Maloney suffered a heartbreaking 1-0 loss in 11 innings.
June 14, 1969 - The Oakland As' future Hall of Fame slugger, Reggie Jackson, Number 9 recorded 10 RBIs to aid in the Athletic's win over the Boston Red Sox 21-7.
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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 1869 Cropped version of the Cincinnati Red Stockings Player names inscribed below photo in ink on cardboard mount: C.A. McVey, R.F., D. Allison, C., Harry Wright, Capt & C.F., G. Wright, S.S., F. Waterman, S. B., A. J. Leonard, L.F, D. Allison, C., A. Brainard, P., C. Sweasy, 2nd B. The photo was taken in Brady's Washington D. C. studio. Conservation treatment,, taken by an unknown.
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