The Sports History of June 16 includes a blockbuster Trade in the NBA, a batter that no one wanted to pitch to as well as many other great stories.
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Daily Digits June 16
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 - 36 - 28 - 33 - 21
June 16, 1909- The great Jim Thorpe made his pro baseball pitching debut for the Rocky Mount baseball team. Thorpe won the decision by the score of 4-2. However, the losses of his Olympic gold medals later on will be the negative side of this story. The Olympic Committee view back in that day was that anyone paid for playing any athletic endeavor is a professional and would lose their amateur status that the Olympics demands.
June 16, 1938 - Boston Red Sox first baseman Jimmie Foxx, wearing Number 3 was walked a record 6 consecutive times by the St Louis Browns pitching staff. The Red Sox would use this as part of a 12-8 victory.
June 16, 1953 - New York Yankees first baseman, Number 36, Johnny Mize, reached the milestone of his 2000th hit in a game against the St Louis Browns. The Browns won the game 3-1 snapping a fourteen game losing streak while at the same time ending the Yankee winning streak of 18.
June 16, 1957 - Chicago White Sox relief pitcher Number 28, Dixie Howell hit 2 Home Runs to help his own cause to defeat the Washington Senators 8-6. FOr his career he hit only 5 HRs with three of them, including these during the 1957 season.
June 16, 1975 - The Milwaukee Bucks made a barnbuster trade in the NBA. The Bucks traded star center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Number 33 and Number 21,Walt Wesley to L.A. Lakers for 4 players, including Elmore Smith, Brian Winters, Juniour Bridgeman, and Dave Meyers. The move catapulted the Lakers into the limelight and the Bucks sunk into obscurity.
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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 1913 photo of Jim Thorpe playing for the New York Giants baseball club, taken by an unknown.
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