October 1953 in Sport

Events in Sport

Oct 4 Mickey Mantle hits a grand slam in World Series

Oct 5 50th World Series sees NY Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2, as NY Billy Martin's 12 hits set record; Yanks win record 5th consecutive WS

Oct 8 Birmingham, Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from playing there Robinson gives in & drops white players from his group

Oct 25 Cleveland Browns' QB Otto Graham sets club record with 4 fumbles

Oct 1 Greta Waitz, Norwegian marathon runner (1st female world marathon champion 1983), born in Oslo, Norway (d. 2011)
Oct 1 Pete Falcone, American baseball player
Oct 9 Hank Pfister, Bakersfield Cat, tennis star
Oct 10 Gus Williams, NBA guard (Golden State, Seattle, Washington)
Oct 13 Pat Day, American jockey
Oct 14 Roland Butcher, Barbados born English cricketer (1st cricketer of Caribbean descent to play for England 1981)
Oct 16 Susan Pedersen, American 4 X 100m medley swimmer (Olympic gold 1968)
Oct 16 Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer

Oct 20 Keith Hernandez, MLB 1st baseman (St Louis Cardinals, NY Mets), born in San Francisco, California

Oct 24 James di Donato, open water swimmer, one of the Tiger Twins (world record for swimming the butterfly in 40.6 miles)
Oct 24 Jonathan di Donato, open water swimmer, one of the Tiger Twins (world record for swimming the butterfly in 40.6 miles)
Oct 25 Mark Will McNulty, Bindwa Zimbabwe, PGA golfer (1982 Danny Thomas-4th)
Oct 25 Muffin Spencer-Devlin, Piqua OH, LPGA golfer (1985 MasterCard Pro-Am)