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 6. As a bonus, we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete as well.
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Daily Digits September 6
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.
12 - 39 - 26 -10 - 48 - 8 - 36 - 4 - 33
September 6, 1905 - Chicago White Sox pitcher Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0
September 6, 1945 - A's catcher Greek George, Number 12 punches umpire Joe Rue gets suspended
September 6, 1953 - Roy Campanella, wearing Number 39 sets record for home runs by a catcher at 38
September 6, 1977 - Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash, 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977. His jersey Numbers worn in that season were Number 26 (Mets and Padres), Number 10 (Angels) and Number 48 (Yankees)
September 6, 1982 - The Pittsburgh Pirates retired Willie Stargell's Number 8
September 6, 1987 - Saskatchewan Rough Rider Dave Ridgway, Number 36 kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal
September 6, 1995 - Cal Ripken Jr (Number 8) broke Lou Gehrig's (Number 4) record, plays in 2,131 straight games
September 6, 1996 - Baltimore Orioles' (Number 33) Eddie Murray's 500th career home run
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 Professional baseball player Dave Kingman circa 1977, taken by an unknown.
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