🏀Tim Hardaway wore the # 5 for only his rookie season after being selected by the Golden State Warriors with the 14th overall pick in the 1989 draft. Does anybody know who was wearing Tim's customary # 10 that year? Happy birthday Tim!!
Hideo Nomo has thrown the only No-Hitter at Coors Field in Denver, Colorado. Nomo and his winding ‘Tornado’ delivery mowed the Rockies down back on September 17th, 1996 in a 9-0 Dodgers victory. Happy Birthday Hideo!!
Will Perdue won 4 NBA championships during his 13 year career. They included three consecutive with the Chicago Bulls of the early 90’s & one more crown with the 1999-2000 San Antonio Spurs. Until I looked up some info on Will I never knew he was a native Floridian. Happy belated birthday to the former Merritt Island Mustang.
Our man Geno Petralli had quite the bad day back on August 30th, 1987, when he stepped in behind the plate to catch ole’ knuckleballer Charlie Hough. In the afternoon affair against the Detroit Tigers, Geno would allow a record 6 passed balls, allowing the Tigers to score 7 unearned runs, in their 7-0 win. Petralli had a record 35 passed balls in ‘87, with 32 of them coming while trying to wrangle in one of Charlie’s knucklers. He’s also the weirdo who bit Bo Jackson in 1993, during the infamous Nolan Ryan vs Robin Ventura dust up.
Big brother William ‘The Fridge’ Perry got all of the attention and limelight, but it was little bro, Michael Dean Perry, who had himself one hell of an NFL career. MDP was a 6x pro-bowler, 2x 1st Team All-Pro, 2x 2nd Team All-Pro, & the 1989 AFC Defensive Player of the Year. He even had his own burger at Cleveland area McDonalds called the ‘MDP’ It was basically a Big Mac with an extra patty & bacon. Happy Birthday Michael Dean !!
Happy Belated B-day to our dude & hops master Tony Dumas, the all-time leading scorer in University of Missouri Kansas City Kangaroos history. He became the first Roo selected in the NBA draft when he was picked 19th by the Dallas Mavericks in 1994. He does own the doobieous distinction of finishing in last place during the 1995 Slam Dunk contest when he failed to make even a single dunk in the first round.
Back on August 25th, 1993 Atlanta Brave teammates Fred McGriff & David Justice hit back to back homers, not once but twice during in a 9-1 victory against the San Francisco Giants. The Braves had acquired McGriff just a month earlier from the Padres, and he became a key player a Braves lineup who would finish the season on a 51-19 run to overtake the Giants, and win their third straight NL West crown. Crime Dog finished with a career high 37 homers that year.
Reggie Miller ranks second all-time in 30-point playoff games against the New York Knicks, with nine, trailing only Michael Jordan who had 15. Happy Belated B-day Reggie!
A happy belated Birthday to my man Oronde Gadsden, the WR who caught Dan Marino’s 420th & final touchdown pass. Happy Wednesday Dudes!
Mark Langston was traded from the Seattle Mariners to the Montreal Expos part way through the 1989 season. Can you dudes name the Hall of Fame pitcher the Mariners got in return??
Happy Birthday to a couple of Bayou Boys, who were both born on this date in 1960. One was a local QB raised just 60 or so miles from New Orleans while the other arrived on that same Friday nearly 5,000 miles away in Copenhagen, Denmark. Both played a major role in allowing 1987 to become the first season in New Orleans Saints history in which the team would post winning record &/or make the playoffs. It was the Saints 21st year in existence.
The ‘Cajun Cannon’ a.k.a. Bobby Hebert led the Saints to a 10-2 record over his 12 games played in the strike shortened season, passing for over 2,000 yards & 15 TD’s. Kicker Morten ‘Great Dane’ Andersen led the NFL in field goals made, while collecting his second straight First Team All-Pro honor.
A bit of Thursday Trivia for you guys to impress your buds. ** Joel was also the last player to wear # 18 for the New Yorks Mets before a dude named Darryl came to town in 1982.
Happy Birthday Mark Gubicza! Mark had his best season back in 1988 while pitching for the Kansas City Royals when he went 20-8 with a 2.70 e.r.a. and finished 3rd in the AL Cy Young vote. He also made one of his two career All-Star appearances; with the other being in 1989 when he led the league in games started with 36.
It was August 12th, 1994 when the MLB Players Strike began, allowing it to become only the second season in MLB history to have no World Series be played. 1904 was the other. Along with the cancellation of the series we saw a number of players, and teams lose out on their quest for statistical greatness. One of those was Tony Gwynn and his chance to be the first player to hit .400 since the great Ted Williams batted .406 in 1941. Gwynn was batting .394 for the season when the players walked, cancelling the final 45 games. R.I.P. Tony
I was never really a John Starks fan as a youngster, but I did always admire his grit & determination on the hardwood. Happy Birthday John!
The Cincinnati Reds break about 100 records in a crazy ass 1st inning against the Houston Astros on August 3rd, 1989. Here’s a few to wrap your head around :
16 hits in the inning
14 runs in the inning
12 singles in the inning
6 players scoring 2 or more runs in an inning
7 players with 2 hits in the inning
7 players with 3 or more hits for the game
