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.
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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 2, Nellie Fox won the American League's MVP
November 12, 1969 - Minnesota's Number 3, Harmon Killebrew was voted American League MVP
November 12, 1975 - NY Mets Number 41, Tom 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 Panthers) and Adam Oates (Number 12 Bruins & others) were all inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame
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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 William Heffelfinger in his Yale university football photograph, 1888-1891, taken by an unknown.
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