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 7. As a bonus, we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete as well.
7 September in Sports History
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Daily Digits September 7
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.
36 - 39 - 16 - 3 - 17 - 13 - 10 - 35 - 22 - 14
September 7, 1897 - George Davis of the New York Giants crushed a home run off of Sport McAllister who played on the Cleveland Spiders in a double header
September 7, 1923 - Boston Red Sox Howard Ehmke no-hits Philadelphia A's, 4-0
September 7, 1952 - New York Yankees Number 36, Johnny Mize's pinch-hit grand slam gives Yanks a 5-1 win at Washington, giving him a home run in all 15 major league parks
September 7, 1953 - Roy Campanella, wearing Number 39 set a record for catchers with 125 runs batted in en route to a total of142 RBIs on the season
September 7, 1955 - New York Yankee Whitey Ford (Number 16) became just the fifth MLB pitcher to toss consecutive 1 hitters
September 7, 1969 - Scottish Matra-Ford Number 3 driver Jackie Stewart won the Italian Grand Prix at Monza to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; his 6th F1 win of the season
September 7, 1981 - Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe, Number 17 sets club record with 57 pass attempts
September 7, 1984 - New York Met Number 16 Dwight Gooden's 11 strikeouts gives him NL rookie record 236
September 7, 1986 - Dan Marino, Number 13 throws his 100th career touchdown pass, the fastest quarterback in NFL history to do so
September 7, 1988 - Skating legends Guy Lafleur (Number 10), Tony Esposito (Number 35) and Brad Park (Number 22) were inducted in NHL Hall of Fame
September 7, 1991 - Brigham Young University quarterback Number 14, Ty Detmer passes NCAA record 11,606 yards
September 7, 1993 - St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Mark Whiten, Number 22 hit four home runs and 12 RBIs in 15-2 win at Cincinnati Reds
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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 George Davis circa 1903, taken by an unknown.
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