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Daily Digits April 3

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.

41 - 10 - 11 - 66

April 3, 1966 - Future Hall of Fame pitcher, Tom Seaver signed with the New York Mets with the incentive of a $50,000 signing bonus to top off a lucrative salary offer. The brilliant right hander would wear Number 41 with the Mets. 

Great Skaters Reach a Milestone on the 3rd day of April

April 3, 1977 - Boston Bruins star center Number 10, Jean Ratelle scored his 1,000th NHL career point.

April 3, 1982 - The outstanding center of the Buffalo Sabres Gilbert Perreault, wearing Number 11 scored his 1,000th point of his NHL career.

April 3, 1988 - Mario Lemieux, Number 66 won the NHL scoring title for the 1987-88 season, stopping Gretzky's 7 year streak, Super Mario ended up with 70 goals and 168 points to the the League that season.

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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 The arena where the first ice hockey games at the Olympics were held. Ice Palace Rink, Antwerp, Belgium, 1920. Contributed by Tom Howard, taken by an unknown.

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