TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - NOVEMBER 12TH

1892 - Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player.
1920 - Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner.
1931 - Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto - Chic Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1.
1933 - First game at NFL Pittsburgh Pirate's Forbes Field, lose to Bkln Dodgers 32-0.

1944 - Al Michaels, Brooklyn New York, American sportscaster

(Miracle on Ice, American Football) is born.

1952 - White Sox place Jim Rivera on 1 year probation after cleared of rape.
1953 - US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games.

1959 - White Sox 2B Nellie Fox wins AL's MVP.

1961 - Nadia Comaneci, [Gheorghe], Romania,

gymnist (1st 10/Olympic-gold-1976) is born.
1966 - Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record.

1968 - Sammy Sosa, San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic,

baseball outfielder (Chicago Cubs) is born.

1970 - Tonya Harding, Portland Or, figure skater

(Olympics-8th-1994/US Champ 1994) is born.

1975 - NY Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award.

1986 - Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously.

1992 - NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time.

1993 - Bill Dickey, HOF baseball catcher (NY Yankees, 1928-46), dies at 86.
1994 - Wilma Glodean Rudolph, US sprinter (Olympics-3 gold-60), dies at 54.

1995 - Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL all-time passing yardage mark of 47,003.