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- Apr 15 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st African-American to play in US major league baseball (Dodgers)
- Aug 31 NY Giants set season record for HRs by a club 183 (en route to 221)
- Oct 2 New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra hits the first pinch-hit home run in Baseball World Series history off Ralph Branca in the 7th inning of a 9-8 loss to the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 3
- Dec 14 The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded in Daytona Beach, Florida
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- May 17 NBA center George Mikan (22) weds college sweetheart Patricia Lu Daveny
Sports Stars Who Died in 1947
- Jan 14 Bill Hewitt, American Pro Football HOF end (4 × First-team All-Pro; Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles; one last players to not wear a helmet), dies in a car crash at 37
- Jan 23 Roy Park, Australian cricketer (prolific Victorian bat & official), dies at 54
- Jan 29 Fred Barratt, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests, 5 wickets; Nottinghamshire), dies at 52
- Feb 27 Francis MacKinnon, English cricket batsman (1 Test; Kent CCC) and 35th Chief of MacKinnon clan, dies at 98
- Mar 9 Stanley Jackson, English cricketer (20 Tests for England 1893-1905), dies at 76
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