TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - NOVEMBER 23RD

1892 - P de Coubertin launches plan for Modern Olympic Games.

1943 - Phillies owner William D Cox is permanently banned

from baseball for having bet on his own team.

1934 - Lewis Alan "Lew" Hoad, Australian tennis star

(Wimbledon 1953, 56), born in Sydney, New South Wales.

1947 - Washington Redskin Sammy Baugh passes

for 6 touchdowns vs Chicago Cards (45-21).

1948 - Hack Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1900) dies.
1960 - Dodgers outfielder Frank Howard is voted NL Rookie of Year.
1962 - Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills is named NL's MVP.

1966 - Chicago outfielder Tommie Agee is voted AL Rookie of Year.
1968 - Milwaukee Bucks make their 1st NBA trade, giving Bob Love

& Bob Weiss to Chicago Bulls for Flynn Robinson.

1988 - Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal.

1991 - Evander Holyfield TKOs Bert Cooper in 7 for heavyweight boxing title.
1991 - Sacramento Kings ends NBA's longest road losing streak at 43 games.

1991 - Brigham Young Ty Detmer finishes NCAA career with

record 4,031 yards passed in a season & 15,031 for career.

2013 - Filipino Manny Pacquiao defeats American Brandon Rios to win

the World Boxing Organization International Welterweight title.
2014 - A suicide bomber kills 40 people at a

volleyball tournament in eastern Afghanistan.

2014 - Dorothy May Bundy-Cheney, American tennis player, dies at 98.