Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 1/1/2012

1/1/1938:
Before a sellout crowd of 7,800 at the Cleveland Arena, Stanford's Hank Luisetti becomes the first college basketball player to score 50 points in a game during a 92-27 rout of Duquesne. Luisetti was among the first to shoot one-handed, and with his success, players around the country will soon copy his style of play, abandoning the two-handed set shots and hook shots which had been the norm.

Birthdays:
Hank Greenberg b. 1911
Rocky Graziano b. 1922
Doak Walker b. 1927
Marlin McKeever b. 1940
Derrick Thomas b. 1967


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