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 9. As a bonus, we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete as well.
9 September in Sports History
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Daily Digits September 9
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 - 26 - 23 - 32 - 9 - 34 - 54 - 19 - 51 - 12
September 9, 1914 - Boston Brave George Davis no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 7-0
September 9, 1945 - Jimmie Foxx, Number 4 hit his 534th & final home run
September 9, 1948 - Brooklyn Dodger Rex Barney, Number 26 no-hit the New York Giants, 2-0
September 9, 1955 - Don Zimmer, Number 23 hit the 4,000th Dodger organization home run
September 9, 1965 - LA Dodgers future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax, Number 32 threw his 4th career no-hitter and first perfect game in a 1-0 win over the Chicago Cubs at Dodger Stadium
September 9, 1971 - NHL great Gordie Howe, Number 9 retired for the first time in his career (more to follow), after 25 seasons with the Detroit Red Wings
September 9, 1987 - MLB pitcher Nolan Ryan ( Number 34) strikes out his 4,500th batter
September 9, 1988 - Braves Bruce Sutter, wearing Number 42 joined Rollie Fingers (Number 34 mostly) and Goose Gossage (Number 54) on the list of pitchers who saved 300 MLB games or more
September 9, 1992 - MLB player Robin Yount, Number 19 is 17th to reach 3,000 hits
September 9, 2002 - Pitcher Randy Johnson, Number 51 reaches 300 strikeouts for the fifth consecutive season, extending his major league record
September 9, 2021 - Tom Brady, Number 12 becomes first player in NFL history to start 300 regular season games as he guides Tampa Bay Buccaneers to an opening day 31-29 win at home to Dallas Cowboys
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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 the Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Rex Barney. Circa 1948 by Bowman Gum.
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