24 October in Sports History

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 4. Todaty we feature stories about and early world Base Ball Championship, FIFA oldest franchise, Joe DiMaggio, Bill Russell of the MLB and many more. As a bonus, we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete as well.

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.

5 - 3 - 32 - 18 - 22 - 10 -12

October 24, 1857 - The Sheffield FC franchise is recognized by FIFA as oldest existing club still playing football (soccer) in the world. The club was founded originaly in Yorkshire, England on this date but now it is based in Dronfield, Derbyshire

October 24, 1885 - A game called the "World Championship" Baseball Series, was played at the Cincinnati Base Ball Grounds. In the contest the St. Louis Browns beat Chicago White Stockings, 13–4 in Game 7 however it goes down in history as disputed series as it was tied at 3-3-1.

October 24, 1939 - Joe DiMaggio, Number 5 of the Yankees won the American League's MVP as Number 3, Jimmie Foxx of the Red Sox was the runner-up in the voting

October 24, 1963 - Sandy Koufax, Number 32 pitcher of the LA Dodgers, was the unanimous winner of the season's Cy Young Award

October 24, 1986 - MLB Los Angeles Dodgers' infielder Number 18, Bill Russell at 38 years young announced his retirement

October 24, 1988 -  New York Islander's & NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy, Number 22 retired

October 24, 1992 - At the World Series the Toronto Blue Jays beat Atlanta Braves, 4-3 in Game 6 at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium to win their first-ever title; MVP: Toronto catcher Number 10, Pat Borders

October 24, 2021 - Number 12, Tom Brady became first quarterback in NFL history to record 600 touchdown passes when he hits Mike Evans in 1st quarter of the Buccaneers 38-3 rout of the Chicago Bears in Tampa Bay

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 Yankees slugger Joe DiMaggio during the 1950 World Series at Shibe Park. Screen capture from the film located at: https://archive.org/details/NewsMaga1950 This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives Producer: Warner Pathe News