13 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 13. 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.

9 - 23 - 18 - 21 - 56 - 24 - 25 - 29 - 32 - 35 - 28 - 17 - 7 - 30

September 13, 1883 - Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City), tosses 1-0 no-hitter against Philadelphia

September 13, 1902 - Chicago Cubs infielders Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance appear together as teammates for 1st time, creating the famed double-play combination of "Tinker to Evers to Chance"

Photo is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of the trio of Baseball players Joe Tinker (left), Johnny Evers (center), and Frank Chance (right) circa 1906 to 1910, taken by an unknown

September 13, 1907 - Canadian Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU) forms with merge of Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts (ORFU) and Ottawa Rough Riders, Montreal FC (QRFU)

September 13, 1909 - Ty Cobb clinched the AL HR title with his 9th HR (all inside-the-park)

September 13, 1925 - Brooklyn Dodger Dazzy Vance no-hit the Philadelphi Phillies line-up, in 10-1 Dodgers win

September 13, 1927 - The New York Yankees clinched the AL pennant after 5-3 win over Cleveland Indians at Yankee Stadium; Babe Ruth hits HR #52 en route to MLB record 60

September 13, 1936 - 17 year old Cleveland Indians future Baseball HOF pitcher Number 9, Bob Feller strikes out then record 17 Philadelphia A's in 5-2 win at League Park, Cleveland

September 13, 1938 - Alexander Cartwright is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Cartwright is one of the men credited as the inventor of modern baseball

September 13, 1953 - Pitcher Bob Trice, Number 23 became the first black player for Philadelphia Athletics

September 13, 1954 - Cincinnati Redlegs first baseman Ted Kluszewski, Number 18 scored a run in his record 17th consecutive game as Reds lose 5-4 to Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field

September 13, 1958 - Milwaukee Braves Warren Spahn (Number 21) was the first left handed pitcher to win 20 or more games in nine different seasons

September 13, 1963 - Number 56, Jim Bouton's 20th win clinched the Yankees 28th pennant

September 13, 1965 - Willie Mays, Number 24 smacked his 500th career home run off of Don Nottebart, to aid the San Francisco Giants to an 11th straight win

September 13, 1969 - San Francisco Giant Bobby Bonds, Number 25 is baseballs 4th 30-HR, 30-steal player

September 13, 1982 - Joe Lefebvre, Number 18 earned 6 hits in one baseball game

September 13, 1982 - MLB Phillies Steve Carlton (Number 32) tossed a beautiful complete-game shutout and hits a home run for the 4th time in his career, in 2-0 win over St. Louis, at Veteran's Stadium, Philadelphia; he becomes only pitcher to do so in three different decades

September 13, 1983 - Dan Quisenberry, Number 29 record 39th season save

September 13, 1983 - Oakland's Rickey Henderson (Number 35) had a 3rd straight season where he stole at least 100 bases.

September 13, 1986 - Bert Blyleven, Number 28 gave up a record 44 HRs in a season

September 13, 1987 - Tampa Bay quarterback Steve DeBerg, Number 17 establishes a franchise record with 5 touchdown passes in the Buccaneers 48-10 win over the Atlanta Falcons

September 13, 1991 - Joe Carter, Number 29 1st baseball player with 3 consecutive 100 RBI seasons with 3 different teams (Indians, Padres, Blue Jays)

September 13, 1999 - John Elway's Number 7 jersey is retired by the Denver Broncos

September 13, 2020 - Chicago Cubs pitcher Alec Mills, Number 30 threw a no-hit performance the Milwaukee Brewers, 12-0 at Miller Park, Milwaukee

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 trio of Baseball players Joe Tinker (left), Johnny Evers (center), and Frank Chance (right) circa 1906 to 1910, taken by an unknown.