Here is what happened in Sports Jersey History on June 2: Baseball legends makes the headlines. Listen in to learn more about these stories of sports history and more from the uniforms and jerseys the players wore.
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Daily Digits June 2
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 - 9 - 16
June 2, 1935 - After one last stint of a partial season in Boston with the the Braves, Future Baseball Hall of Famer, Number 3, Babe Ruth formally announced his retirement as a player at 40 years of age. Ruth had started out playing in the MLB with the Boston Red Sox before the famous trade that led to years with the New York Yankees.
June 2, 1942 - As many brave men and women did in a sense of patriotism, Boston Red Sox star Ted Williams, Number 9 enlisted into the US military for World War II service as a Navy aviator.
June 2, 1958 - New York Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford, Number 16 sat down 6 Chicago White Sox batters in a row to tie an AL record, and the Yanks went on to a 3-0 win.
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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 1901 cropped view of the Studio portrait of Boston American's catcher Ossie Schreckengost in Boston uniform showing batting stance., taken by an unknown.
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