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25 May in Sports History

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Daily Digits May 25

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 - 14

May 25, 1922 - New York  Yankees star, Number 3, Babe Ruth was handed down a suspension 1 day and fined $200 for throwing dirt on an umpire

May 25, 1935 - Babe Ruth was in the news again. The Bambino hit his last 3 home runs in Pittsburgh, but he and his Boston Braves teammates still lost the game 11–7 to the Pirates.

May 25, 1941 - Ted Williams, Number 9 for the Boston Red Sox raised his batting average over .400 for the first time in his career.

May 25, 1951 - New York Giants future Hall of Fame outfielder Willie Mays wearing Number 14 that season had his first start for the Giants. New York bettered the Philadelphia Phillies that day 8-5 despite the "Say-Hey kid" going 0-5 in his debut. Mays actually had some experience in the Big Leagues coming in as he played the 1948 season in the Negro American League.


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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 New York Giants centerfielder and Hall of Famer en:Willie Mays in a 1954 issue of Baseball Digest, taken by an unknown.


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