Saturday, December 13, 2014

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - DECEMBER 13TH

1913 - Archie Moore, Benoit, Mississippi,
light-Heavyweight boxing champ (1952-60), (d. 1998) is born.
1924 - Larry Doby, 1st African American in baseball's AL (Cleveland Indians) is born.
1930 - George Sisler's career ends when Boston Braves release him.
1936 - Final Boston Redskin NFL game, lose to Packers 21-6, move to Wash. DC.
1943 - Ferguson Jenkins, Hall of Fame baseball pitcher.
1956 - Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher
Dick Littlefield & $35,000 Robinson retires.
1967 - United Soccer Association & Natl Pro Soccer League merge into NASL.
1977 - 14 University of Evansville Basketball Players die in plane crash.
1983 - 9,655 see highest-scoring NBA game: Detroit 186, Denver 184 (3 OT).
1989 - Walter Davis (Denver) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games.
1991 - Ricky Pierce (Seattle) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games.
1996 - Free agent Roger Clemens signs with Toronto Blue Jays.
2006 - Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (b. 1932) dies.
2007 - The Mitchell Report is publicly released listing the names of 89
Major League Baseball Players that have presumably used anabolic
steroids and human growth hormones. Notable players to be named include
Roger Clemens and Miguel Tejada.

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