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20 May in Sports History

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Daily Digits May 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.

6 - 5 - 32

May 20, 1941 - Chicago White Sox, Taft Wright, Number 6 set an AL record of RBIs in 13 consecutive games

May 20, 1948 - New York Yankees slugger Number 5, Joe DiMaggio hit for cycle this day with a single, a double, a triple, and a base clearing Home Run in a game.

May 20, 1983 - A truly historic and monumental event occurred here.  Philadelphia Phillies' pitcher Steve Carlton, Number 32 passed the legendary Walter Johnson record of having the honor of pitching the second  place holder of the most strike outs in the MLB's history. Carllton had 3511 at the end of that game and finished his career with 4136 over 24 seasons. The current record holder is Nolan Ryan who sat down 5,714 batters

21 May 1983, Sat The Miami News (Miami, Florida) Newspapers.com

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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 "Happy" Hogan Goes After Thomas' Wild Pitch in 1904, the Tacoma Times used cartoons to illustrate articles about local baseball games. This cartoon depicts an incident in a game between the Tacoma Tigers and the Seattle Siwashes.

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