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Daily Digits May 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.

May 5, 1904 - Did you ever wonder how you get your name on an iconic award? This next story is a great step towards doing just that. The Legendary pitcher, Cy Young tossed the first perfect game in "modern" baseball history as he and the Boston Americans blanked the Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0.

May 5, 1917 - St Louis Browns pitcher Ernie Koob tossed a no-hitter against his opponent the Chicago White Sox, in a 1-0 whitewash at Sportsman's Park in Illinois.

May 5, 1925 - Detroit Tigers, Mr Everything and center fielder, Ty Cobb went an astounding 6 for 6  at the plate with 4 runs, 5 RBI and 16 TBs in Tigers' 14-8 win over the Browns at Sportsman's Park III, St. Louis

06 May 1925, Wed Tucson Citizen (Tucson, Arizona) Newspapers.com

Top May 5 Hockey Moments

Here is an item from Hockey Writers website

May 5, 1966 - The Montreal Canadiens beat the Detroit Red Wings in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final to win their second straight championship and 15th in franchise history.

May 5, 1977 - Bob Gainey scored twice to lead the Canadiens to a 2-1 win over the New York Islanders in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Semifinals. With the win, they advanced to the Final against the Boston Bruins, which they won in four games.

The site NHL.com website lets us in on these amazing moments ofthe day.

May 5, 1966 - Henri Richard's only playoff overtime goal of his career is a Stanley Cup winner.

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Basketball Hall of Fame Moments for May 5

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

May 5, 1969 - Hall of Famers Bill Russell and Sam Jones, two of Boston’s all-time greats, ended their Celtic careers with a 108-106 Game 7 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers, giving Boston its 11th NBA championship in 13 years.

May 5, 1986 - NBA legends Rick Barry, Walt Frazier and Pete Maravich were among five men inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

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Baseball History of April

Here are some more events from the hardball diamonds that occured on this date from The Day in Baseball History website

May 5th in 1980s Baseball

J. Daniel includes legends like Jeff Reynolds, Tom Dodd, Dave Revering, John Mayberry, Doyle Alexander, Cal Ripken Jr, Bruce Hurst, Marty Barrett, Dwight Evans, Todd Benzinger, Andre Dawson, and more in his 80's Baseball post for May 5. MLB May 5

This Day In Baseball May 5 - This Day In Baseball

The This Day in Baseball website gives us a brilliant look at many events from May 5 that include players like: John McGraw, Cy Young, Buck Weaver, Leon Day, Bob Turley, Tom Lasorda, Pete Rose, Reggie Jackson, Larry Walker, and more. MLB May 5

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 1917 action photo of Pitcher Ernie Koob, taken by an unknown.

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