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19 October in Sports History
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Daily Digits October 19
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 - 6 - 18 - 15 - 9 - 4 - 24 - 15
October 19, 1932 - Jimmie Foxx, Number 3 of the Philadelphia Athletics won the American League MVP and Philadelphia Phillies Number 3, Chuck Klein won the National League MVP
October 19, 1943 - New York Yankee 2nd baseman Joe Gordon, Number 6 announced his retirement. The future Hall of Famer would come out of that retirement and play off and on through the 1950 season with both the Yankees and the Cleveland Indians.
October 19, 1949 - The A's traded 2nd baseman Number 18, Nellie Fox to White Sox for Number 15, Joe Tipton
October 19, 1957 - Montreal Canadien Number 9, Maurice Richard, became the the first NHL player to score 500 goals, Known as the "Rocket" he enjoyed a very fruitful career.
October 19, 1966 - Bobby Orr, made his NHL regular-season debut for the Boston Bruins wearing Number 4 against the Detroit Red Wings
October 19, 1974 - Detroit Red Wing Number 24, Mickey Redmond scored the first hat trick against Wash Capitals franchise
October 19, 1975 - Cleveland Browns' Number 12, Don Cockroft kicked a club record 5 field goals in a single game
October 19, 1997 - It was th 700th recorded home run hit in the World Series when Cleveland Indians slugger Number 15, Sandy Alomar smashed a shot over the wall.
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