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 6. As a bonus, we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete as well.
6 November in Sports History
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Daily Digits November 6
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 - 17 - 28 - 32 - 23
November 6, 1961 - US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith. The interesting thing is that Naismith was reported to actually be Canadian. This legend invented game of basketball and is often creditted with possibly being the first to wear head protection on the gridiron.
November 6, 1969 - Inaugural Cy Young Award is a tie between Mike Cuellar (Number 35 of the Baltimore Orioles) and Number 17 of the Detroit Tigers, Denny McLain
November 6, 1974 - LA Dodger Mike Marshall, Number 28 was the 1st relief pitcher to win Cy Young Award
November 6, 1983 - Tampa Bay Buccaneer Number 32, James Wilder rushed for 219 yards against the Minnesota Vikings defense
November 6, 1990 - Atlanta Braves' Number 23, David Justice won the NL Rookie of Year
November 6, 1995 - Art Modell officially announced that the original Cleveland Browns were moving to Baltimore, Maryland. The would later be known as the Ravens.
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 James Naismith (6 November 1861 – 28 November 1939), the inventor of basketball. Taken Probably after 1891 (when Naismith invented the sport), and before his death in 1939.
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