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 8. As a bonus, we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete as well.
8 November in Sports History
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Daily Digits November 8
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.
3 - 8 - 16 - 21 - 20 - 19 - 44 - 77
November 8, 1950 - Walt Dropo, Number 3 of Boston Red Sox selected AL Rookie of Year
November 8, 1951 - New York Yankees catcher Number 8, Yogi Berra won 1st of his 3 MVP awards
November 8, 1961 - Whitey Ford, Number 16 of the New York Yankees was voted Cy Young Award winner over Number 21, of the Milwaukee Braves, Warren Spahn
November 8, 1966 - Frank Robinson, Number 20 of the Baltimore Orioles outfielder, was selected as AL MVP. He was the first player to win the MVP award in both leagues.
November 8, 1970 - Tom Dempsey, Number 19 of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal
November 8, 1990 - Darryl Strawberry signs 5-year contract with LA Dodgers. He wore the Number 44 in Dodger Blue.
November 8, 1991 - Paul Coffey, Number 77 with the Pittsburgh Penguins, set an NHL defenseman scoring mark with 311th goal
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 Detroit Tigers first baseman Walt Dropo published by Bowman Gum in 1953.
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