The stories in team sports that made the headlines ofver the year on June 20 are here with some insight and backstory as well as the numbers the players may have worn to perform the great actions.
20 June in Sports History
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Daily Digits June 20
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 20, 1912 - Who doesn't like a game with last inning explosions of offense? Well maybe pitchers and their coaches, but for the rest of us the game between the New York Giants and the Boston Braves was one of those games where you didn't to be the guy that left early. At the top of the 9th inning, the Giants were up 14-2. It sounds like a time where people may want to make their departure home right? Well those that did missed out on a whopping 17 total runs scored as the NY Giants won 21-12!
June 20, 1913 - I am thinking there may have been some angry players in this game. The AL's New York franchise was in the first season of calling themselves the Yankees and they were facing their foes from Washington that went by the Senators moniker. We either had a Sen's hurler that was a bit wild or one that knew exactly what he was doing as 3 of the first 4 Yankees batters were hit-by-pitches en route to a record 6 batters hit in the game. That AL record would stand until 1989 when the KC Royals and the Texas Rangers nailed batters 7 times. The overall record in the MLB for beaned batters in a contest in 9 from the season of 1886 when Washington and Pittsburgh played.
June 20, 1950 - Joe DiMaggio, sporting his Number 5 jersey uniform smacked his 2,000th hit in the Majors as he and the Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians 8-2.
June 20, 1951 - Cleveland Indians slugger Bobby Avila wearing Number 1, hit 3 Home Runs, a double as well as a single against the Boston Red Sox.
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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 a cropped version of Boston Braves uniforms at a SunTrust Park museum by Thomson200
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