Sports History on 3rd of May

Born May 3, 1905, in Granville, Illinois, was Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher Red Ruffing. Ruffing played for the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, and Chicago White Sox. Ruffing is most remembered for his time with the highly successful Yankees teams just before World War II. Red was a member of six World Series championship teams with the Yankees. He also appeared in six MLB All-Star Games and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967. The Yankees dedicated a plaque to Ruffing in Monument Park in 2004.

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. 9 - 5 - 12 - 21 - 44 - 6 - 8 - 16 - 23 May 3, 1936 - A big event in New York Yankee history occurred. Number 9, Joe DiMaggio ...

Born May 3, 1891, in Culpeper, was Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher Eppa Rixey. After graduating in 1912 with a degree in chemistry from the University of Virginia, Eppa found his way to the big leagues of baseball. The left-hander was brought up to the Philadelphia Phillies in 1912 without ever having spent any time in the minor leagues. Rixey  played 21 seasons for the Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds in Major League Baseball from 1912 to 1933. The southpaw won 20 or more games in a season three times, including a league-leading 25 in 1922, and posted eight consecutive winning seasons.