10 May in Sports History

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.

5 - 44 - 4 - 7 - 6 - 8 - 23 - 44 - 15 - 9

May 10, 1946 - Joe DiMaggio hit a Grand Slam to provide all of the offense for the New York Yankees but it wasn't quite enough as the streaking Boston Red Sox won their 15th straight game of the young season  and beat the Yanks 5-4.

11 May 1946, Sat Daily News (New York, New York) Newspapers.com

May 10, 1967 - We all probably remember Hammerin' Hank Aaron, Number 44 for his launching balls over the wall, and rightfully so. But on this day we can recant a feat of sports history where he used his wheels to make the game exciting.  Aaron hit his only inside the park Home Run of his illustrious career againt the Philadelphia Phillies and their man on the hill, Jim Bunning in Philadelphia. Yes out of the record 755 HRs of Hammerin Hank, this was the only one that didn't go over the wall.

May 10, 1970 - At the Stanley Cup Final played in the Boston Garden. Number 4, Bobby Orr scored the legendary Over Time winner to lift Boston over the St. Louis Blues for a 4-3 victory and 4-0 Bruins series sweep. Beantown went crazy as this was the first Bruins NHL title since 1941.

11 May 1970, Mon The Montreal Star (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) Newspapers.com

Here are a couple of items from the Vintage Hockey Jerseys website

May 10, 1973 - Black Hawks, Number 7, Pit Martin, scored a hat trick as the Chicago Blackhawks lost 6-4 to the Montreal Canadiens the sixth and deciding game of the Stanley Cup finals. The win made the Canadiens the 1973 Stanley Cup Champions.

Here is an item from Hockey Writers website

May 10, 1968 - Number 4, Bobby Orr was named winner of the Norris Trophy for being voted the NHL’s top defenseman. This was his first Norris win, and he went on to win every single one between this date and 1975. 

Here are some more great pieces of MLB history that occurred on May 10 from a couple of our favorite sites:

This Day In Baseball May 10

The This Day In Baseball website covers many events of the date throughout history taking place on May 10 including posts about Monte Pearson, Bill Klemm, Lou Gehrig, Joe Sullivan, Walter Johnson, Lefty Groves, Ewell Blackwell, Don Newcombe, Bob Lemon, Dave McNally, Roger Metzger, and more. MLB May 10

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May 10th in 1980s Baseball

The 1980s Baseball history for May 10th is shared by J. Daniel featuring stories on Hubie Brooks, Charlie Lea, Al Oliver, Pete Rose, and more. MLB May 10

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The website of NBA.com offers these nuggets of history for the day.

May 10, 1993 - Former NBA players Julius Erving (Number 6), Walt Bellamy (Nummber 8), Dan Issel (Number 44), Dick McGuire (Number 15), Calvin Murphy (Number 23), and Bill Walton (Number 32) were inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

May 10, 2012 - Led by Number 9, Andre Iguodala’s 20-point game, the Philadelphia 76ers defeat the Chicago Bulls in Game 6 of their first-round series to win the series. With the series win, the No. 8-seeded 76ers upset ousted the No. 1-seeded Bulls marking the first time in NBA history that happened in the first round in back-to-back years.

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 via the Provincial Archives of Alberta. From the Godby Family fonds, of an outdoor game in Alberts circa 1920 provided and preserved by Provincial Archives of Alberta, taken by an unknown.

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