Sports Fact of the Day 2/24/2007

2/24/1948:
Shrewd Yankee general manager George Weiss packages three players to the White Sox and obtains left-hander Steady Eddie Lopat. Over the next eight years, Lopat will win 113 games for the Yanks, serving as a perfect complement to fastballers Allie Reynolds and Vic Raschi. In 1951, his finest season, he'll go 21-9, pitch in the All-Star Game and register two complete-game victories in the World Series against the New York Giants.

Birthdays:
Honus Wagner b. 1874
Alain Prost b. 1955
Eddie Murray b. 1956
Simeon Rice b. 1974
Lleyton Hewitt b. 1981