Wednesday, December 3, 2014

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - DECEMBER 3RD

1933 - Connie Mack sells Mickey Cochrane to Detroit Tigers for $100,000.
1933 - Joe Lilliard QBs Chicago Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946.
1937 - Bobby Allison, auto racer (3 time winner of Daytona 500) is born.
1950 - Cleveland Browns' Horace Gillom sets club record with 12 punts.
1951 - Rick Mears, Indy-car racer (over 25 wins) is born.
1953 - Franz Klammer, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1976) is born.
1956 - Wilt Chamberlain's 1st collegiate basketball game (scores 52).
1961 - Anton Geesink becomes 1st non-Japanese Judo world champion.
1965 - Katarina Witt, Staaken GDR, figure skater (Olympic-Gold-1984, 88) is born.
1990 - NL batting champ Willie McGee signs as a free agent with SF Giants.
1997 - Golden State Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, four-year, $32 million,
contract terminated for attacking his coach P J Carlesimo.
1997 - Steve Hamilton, pitcher (NY Yankees), dies of cancer at 63.

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