In this edition of the Sports Break, we cover the top events in sports history along with the players and athletes that were a part of them on October 23. As a bonus, we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete as well.
23 October in Sports History
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Daily Digits October 23
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.
42 - 9 - 26 - 8 - 40 - 19 - 11
October 23, 1923 - Legendary Yankees slugger Babe Ruth made a postseason exhibition appearance in a rival New York Giants uniform as the Big Apple squad dropped the Baltimore Orioles, 9-0 in a benefit game for former Giants owner John Day
October 23, 1945 - Trailblazing baseball player Jackie Robinson signs contract with Montreal Royals, minor league farm team of Brooklyn Dodgers. We know Mr Robinson wore Number 42 as a Dodger in the Majors but did you know that he wore Number 9 as a Montral Royal player? In fact the future Hall of Fame player would play 124 games for Montreal before the famous ground breaking signing with Brooklyn.
October 23, 1974 - Chicago Cubs trade 6-time MLB All Star outfielder Billy Williams, Number 26 to Oakland A's for second baseman Number 8, Manny Trillo and 2 pitchers
October 23, 1984 - Chicago Cubs Number 40, Rick Sutcliffe, selected as a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young
October 23, 1993 - World Series: Defending champion Toronto Blue Jays beat Philadelphia Phillies, 8-6 at the SkyDome, Toronto to clinch series, 4-2; The Most Valuabl Player for the Series was Blue Jays infielder Paul Molitor, Number 19
October 23, 2008 - Joe Sakic, Number 19 scored his final career goal (#625) against the Edmonton Oilers
October 23, 2019 - All Star point guard Number 11, Kyrie Irving lit up the scoreboard with 50 points against the Minnesota Timberwolves, setting a new NBA record for points on a debut with a new team the Brooklyn Nets. Irving and the Nets fell by the score 127-126 at home to the Minnesota.
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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 Cropped version of, The Babe in full swing at batting practice. This image was used for what is perhaps the rarest Ruth trading card in the hobby--the 1922, unattributed
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