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25 February in Sports History

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Sports Jersey Dispatch February Daily Digits

The annalls of Sports history show these fantastic feats of athletic accomplishment for February 25. 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.

13 - 21 - 32 - 7 -10 - 13

February 25, 1924 -  Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3)

February 25, 1957 - The US Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport

February 25, 1962 - Philadelphia center Wilt Chamberlain, Number 13 scores 67 points against NY Knicks at Philadelphia Civic Center for the second successive year; Warriors lose 149-135

February 25, 1968 -  Number 21Cale Yarborough driving for Wood Brothers Racing wins the Daytona 500 by less than a second over LeeRoy Yarbrough.

February 25, 1972 - In a very one-sided trade the St. Louis Cardinals traded pitcher Steve Carlton, Number 32 as the Philadelphia Phillies handed them the rights to pitcher Rick Wise

February 25, 1977 - The New Orleans Jazz player Pete Maravich, Number 7 set an NBA record for the guard position when he scored 68 points

26 Feb 1977, Sat Sun Herald (Biloxi, Mississippi) Newspapers.com

February 25, 1994 - Former New York Yankees shortstop Phil Rizzuto, Number 10 was elected to enter into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Rizzuto had 13 awesome seasons with the Yanks from 1941 through 1956.

February 25, 2019 -  Number 13, James Harden's scoring streak of games with at least 30 points ends at 32 as he scores 28 in the Rockets' 119-111 win over Atlanta in Houston; 2nd longest mark in NBA history


Credits

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 Newspapers.com of the February 26, 1977 Sun Herald (Biloxi, Mississippi)


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