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12 November in Sports History

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Podcast of November 12 Sports Jersey History

In this edition of the Sports Break, we cover the top events in sports history along with the players and athletes that were a part of them on November 12. As a bonus, we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete as well.


Daily Digits November 12

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.

35 - 30 - 19 - 2 - 3 - 1 - 21 - 47 - 13 - 10 - 19 - 13 - 12

November 12, 1892 - Pudge Heffelfinger received $500 to become first professional football player in the Allegheny Athletic Association's 4-0 win over the Pittsburgh Athletic Club

Photo is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of William Heffelfinger in his Yale university football photograph, 1888-1891

November 12, 1950 - Number 35, Gene Roberts set aNew York Football Giants rushing record of 218 yds against the Chicago Cardinals

November 12, 1952 - Philadelphia A's pitcher Bobby Shantz, Number 30 won the American League MVP

November 12, 1958 - Pitcher Bob Turley, Number 19 of New York Yankees won the Cy Young Award

November 12, 1959 - White Sox 2B Number 2Nellie Fox won the American League's MVP

November 12, 1969 - Minnesota's Number 3Harmon Killebrew was voted American League MVP

November 12, 1975 - NY Mets Number 41Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award

November 12, 1979 - Tony Franklin, Number 1 of the Philadelphia Eagles kicke a 59-yard field goal

November 12, 1986 - Roger Clemens, Number 21 of the Boston Red Sox won the American League Cy Young Award in unanimous fashion

November 12, 1991 - Atlanta Brave Tom Glavine, Number 47 won NL Cy Young Award

November 12, 1995 - Number 13 of the Miami Dolphins, Quarterback Dan Marino broke famous Minnesota Viking's signal caller Number 10, Fran Tarkenton's NFL all-time passing yardage mark of 47,003

November 12, 2012 - Joe Sakic (Number 19 Nordiques and Avalanche), Mats Sundin (Number 13 Maple Leafs and Canucks), Pavel Bure (Number 10 Canucks and Panthersand Adam Oates (Number 12 Bruins & others) were all inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame


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 Wikimedia Commons of William Heffelfinger in his Yale university football photograph, 1888-1891, taken by an unknown.


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