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 18. As a bonus, we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete as well.
18 November in Sports History
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Daily Digits November 18
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.
42 - 5 - 32 - 5 - 20 - 16 - 31 - 21 - 8 - 45 - 9
November 18, 1949 - National League batting leader (.342) Jackie Robinson, Number 42 of the Brooklyn Dodgers won the NL MVP
November 18, 1964 - Baltimore Orioles third baseman Number 5, Brooks Robinson won the American League MVP
November 18, 1966 - Pitcher Sandy Koufax, Number 32 of the Dodgers announced his retirement due to arthritic left elbow
November 18, 1970 - Johnny Bench, Number 5 of the Big Red Cincinnati Machine won the National League MVP
November 18, 1980 - Despite missing 45 games, Number 5, George Brett won the American League MVP
November 18, 1981 - Phillies 3rd baseman Number 20, Mike Schmidt wins his 2nd consecutive National League MVP
November 18, 1985 - Dwight Gooden, Mets Number 16 (National League) & Bret Saberhagen, Number 31 of the Royals (American League) won the Cy Young Awards
November 18, 1986 - Roger Clemens, Number 21 won the American League MVP
November 18, 1987 - Cubs Andre Dawson, Number 8 became the 1st player from a last-place club to win an MVP
November 18, 1997 - The Dallas Mavericks' Number 45, A C Green tied Number 9, Randy Smith's NBA record of 906 consecutive games
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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 ofProfessional baseball player Johnny Bench circa 1977, taken by an unknown.
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