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 9. As a bonus, we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete as well.
9 November in Sports History
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Daily Digits November 9
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.
4 - 24 - 28 - 19
November 9, 1950 - White Sox released Number 4, Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930
November 9, 1965 - Center fielder, Willie Mays, Number 24 of the Giants was named National League MVP
November 9, 1976 - Oakland A's released Number 28, Billy Williams, ending his Hall of Fame baseball career
November 9, 1982 - Brewers' Robin Yount, Number 19 won the American League MVP, unanimously
November 9, 1991 - Houston's Roman Anderson is 1st NCAA to kick 400 pts
November 9, 2021 - 105 year old Julia Hawkins sets world record as first woman and first American her age to run 100 meters Louisiana Senior Olympic Games
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 the 1934 Goudey baseball card of Luke Appling of the Chicago White Sox #27.n.
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