11 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 11. 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.

3 - 29 - 20 - 26 - 43 - 38 - 32 - 14

September 11, 1912 - Philadelphia second baseman Eddie Collins steals MLB record 6 bases in the Athletics' 9-7 win over Detroit Tigers at Navin Field

September 11, 1923 - After a single,Boston Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires next 27 New York Yankee batters

September 11, 1926 - New York Yankees' Bob Meusel tied a record with 3 sacrifice flies

September 11, 1927 - Yankees slugger (Eventual Number 3) Babe Ruth hit his 50th home run during his MLB record 60 HR season in New York's 6-2 loss to St. Louis Browns at Yankee Stadium

September 11, 1928 - In his last career at bat, legend Ty Cobb last hitting appearance, pops out against Yankees

September 11, 1936 - It was not a good outing on the mound for the A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee, Number 29 gave up 26 hits in a game

September 11, 1956 - Cincinnati Reds outfielder Frank Robinson, wearing Number 20 tied a rookie record with his 38th HR

September 11, 1956 - New York Yankees Yogi Berra, Number 8 tied a career record for home runs by a catcher when he bombed the 236th of his career against the Kansas City A's in a 9-5 Yanks victory.

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September 11, 1959 - Baltimore starter Jerry Walker, Number 38 pitched all 16 innings as the Orioles edge the Chicago White Sox, 1-0 at Memorial Stadium

September 11, 1966 - Johnny Miller, Number 26 became the first New York Yankee to hit a home run on his 1st MLB at bat only to have his second career home run come on his final MLB at bat in 1969 as a member of the LA Dodgers wearing Number 43

September 11, 1983 - Pittsburgh Steelers running back Franco Harris, Number 32 runs for 118 yards in Steelers 25-21 win at Green Bay to become the only the third player in NFL history to rush for 11,000 yards. The Steelers announced on September 7, 2022 that they were retiring Franco's Number 32 jersey.

September 11, 1985 - Pete Rose, Number 14 of Cincinnati Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record

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 1914 Eddie Collins, Philadelphia A's baseball published by the Bain News Service.