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 17. As a bonus, we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete as well.
17 November in Sports History
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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.
44 - 25 - 45 - 11 - 60 - 66
November 17, 1956 - Syracuse fullback wearing the symbolic Orange Number 44, Jim Brown, scores NCAA record of 43 pts (vs Colgate)
November 17, 1959 - San Francisco Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Number 44, Willie McCovey won the National League Rookie of Year
November 17, 1981 - New York Knicks Number 25, Bill Cartwright, tied a record of 19 of 19 free throws
November 17, 1984 - Golden State Warrior Number 45, Purvis Short scored a career high 59 points though team loses to NJ Nets 124-110
November 17, 1987 - George Bell, Number 11 became the 1st Blue Jay ever to win the AL MVP
November 17, 1991 - Detroit Lion, Number 60, Mike Utley was paralized in a game vs LA Rams
November 17, 1997 - Mario Lemieux, Number 66 of the Pitsburgh Penguins entered NHL 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 NFL player Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns on a 1959 Topps football trading card