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.
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February 21, 1948 - NASCAR is incorporated.
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1917 Chicago White Sox Eddie Murphy, John "Shano" Collins, Joe Jackson, Happy Felsch, and Nemo Leibold at the World Series, Courtesy Wikimedia Commons and the US Library of Congress
February 21, 1951 - South Carolina House of Representatives suggests that "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated by Major League Baseball, stating that the baseball great was innocent of the charges of the Black Sox scandal decades earlier.
February 21, 1953 - Longest collegiate basketball game of 6 Overtime sessions took place when Niagara outlasted Siena College 88-81.
February 21, 1985 - The National League's Montreal Expos baseball player Tim Raines, who wore Number 30, was awarded a $1.2 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator. This man earned it too as during the 1985 season he hit .320 and stole 70 bases.
February 21, 2016 - At the 58th running of the Daytona 500, Denny Hamlin in his black FedEx Number 11 Chevy wins closest finish in race history - by just 0.01s from Martin Truex Jr.
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