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 27. As a bonus, we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete as well.
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Daily Digits September 27
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.
4 - 22 - 19 - 32 - 6 - 14 - 45 - 12 - 30
September 27, 1905 - Boston's Bill Dinneen no-hits Chicago White Sox, 2-0
September 27, 1914 - Cleveland 2nd baseman Nap Lajoie, playing most appropriately for the Naps, collected his 3,000th hit
September 27, 1919 - Pitcher Bob Shawkey sets then Yankee record with 15 strike-outs
September 27, 1919 - Boston Red Sox slugger Babe Ruth takes his MLB home run record to 29 with a 3rd inning blast in a 7-5 defeat at the Washington Senators' Griffith Stadium
September 27, 1923 - New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hit his 1st of his 493 home runs
September 27, 1930 - Chicago Cub's Hack Wilson's 2 home runs gave him a National League record of 56 bombs over the fence for the season
September 27, 1931 - MLB's Lou Gehrig, Number 4 completes his 6th straight season, playing in every game.
September 27, 1931 - The Closest National League batting race ends when St. Louis Cardinals Chick Hafey's .34889 beats out NY Giants Bill Terry .34861
September 27, 1940 - Detroit Tigers second pitcher, Number 22, Floyd Giebell's in just the 3rd victory of his career game, won an epic pitching battle for a 2-0 pennant clinching win defeating Bob Feller, Number 19 of the Cleveland Indians
September 27, 1961 - Sandy Koufax, Number 32 of the LA Dodgers set a National League strikeout season record at 269
September 27, 1964 - Despite 3 home runs by Johnny Callison, Number 6, the Phillies lost a game 14-8 to the Braves. Callison had 31 blasts out of the park that season for Philadelphia.
September 27, 1967 - Can you give the guy some offensive support please! Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Number 14, Jim Bunning ties a National League record of 5, 1-0 losses in a year
September 27, 1968 - St Louis Cardinals' ace pitcher Number 45, Bob Gibson threw his 13th shutout of year in a 1-0 score over the Houston Astros
September 27, 1970 - Ken Boswell, Number 12 set a record for 2nd basemen of having 85 games without an error
September 27, 1973 - Nolan Ryan, Number 30 of the California Angels struck out 16 Minnesota Twins batters in 11 innings of work, for record 383 of season, and a 5-4 Angels win.
September 27, 1983 - Tim Raines, Number 30 of the Montreal Expos became the 1st in the MLB since Ty Cobb to steal 70 & drive in 70 runs
September 27, 2008 - Greg Maddux, Number 30 won his final start of his career (#355), while pitching for the San Diego Padres
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 Dinneen, St. Louis Browns, baseball card portrait sponnsored by American Tobacco Company circa 1909.
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