24 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 24. 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.

16 - 25 - 12 - 6 - 18 - 49 - 14 - 3 - 24 - 32 

September 24, 1903 - Bill Bradley became the first Cleveland baseball player (Cleveland Naps) to hit for cycle

September 24, 1906 - St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game

September 24, 1908 - Robert B Rhoads became the first Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to toss a no-hit game, Cleveland 2, Boston 1

September 24, 1919 - Boston Red Sox slugger Babe Ruth sets MLB season home run record at 28 off Yankee Bob Shawkey in a 2-1 loss at the Polo Grounds in NYC

September 24, 1920 - Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth became the first to hit 50 home runs in a MLB season with a 1st inning blast off Jose Acosta in a 2-1 loss to the Washington Senators

September 24, 1922 - St Louis Cardinals future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby sets National League HR mark at 42

September 24, 1929 - New York Yankee pitcher Number 16, Tom Zachary ends season 12-0, record for most pitching wins without a loss in one season

September 24, 1967 - NFL St. Loius Cardinals' Jim Bakken, Number 25 kicked 7 field goals at Pittsburgh Steelers, setting an NFL record at the time

September 24, 1972 - New York Jets QB Number 12, Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs Baltimore Colts (44-34)

September 24, 1974 - Al Kaline, Detroit Tiger Number 6, that season became just the 12th MLB player to reach the 3,000 hits plateau

September 24, 1977 - Ken Hinton, Number 18 of CFL's British Columbia Lions returned a punt 130 yards

September 24, 1978 - Ron Guidry, Number 49 of the Yankees earned a win over Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74

September 24, 1979 - Pete Rose, Number 14 reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time

September 24, 1983 - Braves Dale Murphy, Number 3 became the 6th to hit 30 HRs and steal 30 bases in season

September 24, 1985 - Montreal Expo Andre Dawson, Number 24 became the 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th), and joins Willey McCovey to hit 2 HRs in an inn twice

September 24, 1992 - John Jaha, Number 32 tied record of 11 stolen bases along with his Brewers teammates 

September 24, 1992 - Toronto's Dave Winfield, Number 32, at age  40, became the oldest player to reach 100-RBI

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 William Joseph Bradley (1887-1954) was born in Cleveland. Known as Bill Bradley, he played third base for the Cleveland Indians from 1901-1910. Conservation treatment, NEDCC, 2008. taken by an unknown.