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 23. As a bonus, we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete as well.
23 September in Sports History
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Daily Digits September 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.
5 - 30 - 20 - 32 - 33 - 9 - 13
September 23, 1908 - New York Giant Fred Merkle failed to touch 2nd base. The result was that it caused the 3rd out in 9th and disallowed winning run thus the game would have ended in a tie. He eans the nickname Bonehead Merkle as the play allowed the Cubs win and the pennant.
September 23, 1925 - Washington shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh was named AL MVP
September 23, 1939 - Cookie Lavagetto, Number 5 went 6 for 6-Dodgers to help them reach 27 hits in the contest and beat Phillies 22-4
September 23, 1962 - LA Dodgers shortstop Number 30, Maury Wills broke Ty Cobb's 1915 MLB stolen base record, recording the 97th this day on his way to 104
September 23, 1979 - MLB St Louis Cardinals legend Lou Brock, Number 20 stole his 938th and final base of his career
September 23, 1983 - MLB Philadelphia Phillies Steve Carlton, Number 32 became the 16th MLB pitcher to win 300 games, beating Cardinals 6-2 in St. Louis
September 23, 1988 - Oakland A's Number 33 Jose Canseco became baseball's first player to steal 40 bases and hit 40 HRs
September 23, 1992 - 1st female to play in a NHL exhibition game, a young goalie named Manon Rheaume, wearing Number 33 for the Tampa Bay Lightning played between the pipes and gave up 2 goals on 9 attempts in 1 period of action.
September 23, 2018 - 39 year old New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, Number 9 threw a 17 yard pass to Number 13, Michael Thomas to become NFL career pass leader, breaking Brett Favre's record of 6,300 completions; Saints beat Falcons 43-37
Credits
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 Bain News Service published this photo in 1914 of Roger Peckinpaugh, New York Yankees in the AL and Larry Doyle, New York Giants of the NL
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