Wednesday, December 25, 2013

THIS DAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - DECEMBER 25TH

1862 - 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC
1878 - W Starling Burgess, yacht designer (America Cup's Enterprise) is born.
1878 - Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver (d. 1941) is born.
1888 - First indoor baseball game played at fairgrounds in Philadelphia
1927 - Nellie Fox, White Sox infielder (AL MVP 1959), (d. 1975) is born.
1945 - Ken "The Snake" Stabler, NFL quarterback
(Oakland Raiders, Super Bowl XI) is born.
1946 - Larry Csonka, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins, NY Giants) is born.
1950 - Cleveland Browns beat LA Rams 30-28 in NFL Championship game
1971 - Longest NFL game (82m40s) as Dolphins beat Chiefs 27-24
1989 - Billy Martin, NY Yankee manager, killed in a car accident at 61


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