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13 March in Sports History

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The jersey numbers making history on March 13

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.

34 - 5 - 44 - 22

March 13, 1954 - The Milwaukee Braves Number 34, Bobby Thomson breaks his leg and off the bench to replace the outfielder is a young ball player named Hank Aaron,  a rookie that wore Number 5 that season but in the following season switched to Number 44 and started making history

March 13, 1960 - The Chicago White Sox unveiled their new road uniforms that had the players' names above number

March 13, 1979 - Mike Bossy who wore Number 22 for the New York Islanders scord his fifth career hat trick.

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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 circa 1918 A group of Chicago White Sox players during batting practice. From left to right: Shoeless Joe Jackson, Swede Risberg, Eddie Collins, Eddie Murphy, Shano Collins, Ray Schalk, and Buck Weaver., taken by an unknown.

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