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.
23 - 10 - 36 -22
March 11, 1892 - James Naismith and Amos Alonzo Stagg are part of the first public basketball game in Springfield, Mass.
March 11, 1979 - This is hard to beleive but on this day, Randy Holt, wearing Number 23 with the Kings receives 67 min in penalties in a 60 min NHL hockey game. In fact in the first period alone there were (10) NHL single-game penalty records broken. There three fights in the game, and the one that Holt was tossed because of lasted for 12 minutes and Referee Wally Harris issued a total of 290 penalty minutes for that one altercation! The Philadelphia Flyers doubled up the goals of the LA Kings in this contest played in City of Brotherly Love. That is kind of ironic!
March 11, 1981 - Legendary players Johnny Mize (who wore Number 10 with the Cardinals and Number 36 with the Yankees) and Rube Foster who played before mandatory numbers on uniforms, were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
March 11, 1986 - New York Islander great, Mike Bossy, Number 22 became the first player to score at least 50 goals in 9 straight seasons
