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5 June in Sports History
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Daily Digits June 5
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 5, 1911 - Boston Red Sox pitcher Joe Wood struck out 3 pinch hitters in 9th to preserve the 5-4 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
June 5, 1920 - Thomas Shibe, the Philadelphia Athletics's Vice President, denied charges that baseballs are livelier than before.
June 5, 1941 - Grappler Sandor Szabo defeated two sports star Bronko Nagurski in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ. Nagurski, who wore Number 3 in football was a back for the NFL's Chicago Bears and is in both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Wrestling Hall of Fame as he was a champions at both.
June 5, 1948 - Philadelphia Phillies slugger Richie Ashburn, Number 1 set a National League rookie consecutive hitting streak at 23.
Credits
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 a cropped version of Joe Wood, Boston AL (baseball) by publisher Bain News Service, circa 1913.
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