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.
14 - 12 - 19 - 1
March 15, 1869 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings became the first professional baseball team in history.
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, of the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings team
March 15, 1912 - Legendary Baseball Pitcher Cy Young retired from the game with an amazing with 511 wins to his credit.
March 15, 1958 - NBA star of the Cincinnati Royals, the great Oscar Robertson, Number 14 scored 56 points in a single playoff game to set a League record at the time. During that contest teammate Maurice Stokes, Number 12 collapsed due to encephalitis. He tragically went into a coma and became permanently disabled.
March 15, 1962 - Number 13, Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors became the first player in NBA history to score 4000 points in a single season.
March 15, 1979 - Bryan Trottier, Number 19 of the New York Islanders scored his fifth career hat trick.
March 15, 1989 - The New York Rangers retired the Number 1 of goalie Eddie Giacomin
