Friday, February 14, 2014

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - FEBRUARY 14TH

1887 - Cubs sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record $10,000.
1913 - Woody Hayes, [Wayne], College Football coach 
(Ohio, 1968 coach of the year) is born.
1913 - Mel Allen, Birmingham Alabama, American 
sportscaster (voice of NY Yankees) is born.
1931 - Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, NHL right wing (Canadiens, Rangers) is born.
1944 - Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial & Sport Fishing.
1948 - Mordecai Brown, American baseball player (b. 1876) dies.
1951 - Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes Middleweight title.
1956 - Dave Dravecky, pitcher (SF Giants), had arm amputated is born.
1957 - Georgia Senate unanimously approves Sen Leon Butts' 
bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites.
1966 - Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points.
1988 - Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500.
1991 - NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration.
2010 - Dick Francis, British jockey-turned-novelist (b. 1920) dies.

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