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.
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.
1960 - Jim Kelly, NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills) is born.
1966 - Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points.
1987 - 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit.
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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