10 September 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 September 10. 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.

1 - 5 - 49 - 8 - 7 - 11 - 55 - 16 - 47 - 32 - 6 - 9 - 13 - 20 - 27 - 5 - 21 - 29 - 3 - 25

September 10, 1919 - Cleveland Indians pitcher Ray Caldwell tossed a no-hit game against the New York Yankees, 3-0 at the Polo Grounds, NYC

September 10, 1924 - New York Giants rip Boston Braves, 22-1 at the Polo Grounds; future Baseball HOF infielder Frankie Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out

September 10, 1932 - Was he too good to put in the starting line-up? Brooklyn Dodgers' Johnny Frederick, Number 1 hit his record 6th pinch-hit HR of the season

September 10, 1950 - Joe DiMaggio, Number 5 becomes 1st to hit 3 HR in a game at Griffith Stadium

September 10, 1954 - Attempting to handle Number 49, Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball catcher, Ray Katt, Number 8 of the New York Giants sets a major league record with 4 passed balls

September 10, 1960 - It was a towering shot to say the least! New York Yankee superstar, Mickey Mantle, Number 7 hits 643' HR over right field roof in Detroit

September 10, 1960 - Future Hall of Famer Jerry Lucas wearing Number 11 ,scored 23 points as the US wins its 5th straight men's basketball Olympic gold medal with a 90-63 drubbing of Brazil at the Rome Games. At Ohio State earlier in the year Lucas wore Number 55. In the pros he donned the Number 16, Number 47 and Number 32 jerseys.

September 10, 1961 - Yankees Number 7 is in the hostoric news again for the day. Mickey Mantle became the seventh MLB player to hit 400 career home runs.

September 10, 1963 - As young and spry as ever! Legendary  player Stan Musial (Number 6) hit a HR in his 1st at bat as a grandfather

September 10, 1972 - Kazimierz Deyna, wearing the Number 9 in his country's Olympic gear scored twice as Poland beats Hungary 2-1 in the Olympic soccer gold medal game with 80,000 on lookers at the Munich Olympic Stadium

September 10, 1973 - The New York Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard, Number 13 to the St Louis Cardinals

September 10, 1974 - St Louis Cardinals Lou Brock, Number 20 tied the stolen base mark for a season with his 104th and then sets a new mark for baseball stolen base mark with 105

September 10, 1975 - Receiving one of the most storied honors in hockey tradition. Darryl Sittler, Number 27 was named captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs

September 10, 1978 - He only took what he needed! The single point American Lotus driver Mario Andretti earns for finishing 6th at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza is enough to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship in his Number 5 Lotus.

September 10, 1989 - Five days after hitting a HR for Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners, MLB and NFL player Deion Sanders, Number 21 returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown, his first

September 10, 1989 - Indianapolis Colts running back Eric Dickerson, Number 29 rushed for 106 yards against San Francisco to become the fastest player to top the 10,000 yard plateau; 91st career game

September 10, 1997 - Mark McGwire (Number 25) joined legend Babe Ruth (Number 3) as only the players to hit 50 HRs in 2 consecutive years

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 Frankie Frisch & Stanley Harris, 10/4/24 from the  National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress)-cropped