The Sun Remembers This Week in Baltimore Sports: Dec. 7-13
Terps guard Juan Dixon dribbles up the court against Georgia Tech during a game in February 2000 (Baltimore Sun file photo).
Dec. 8, 1988: “We are going to do it the old-fashioned way. You build your farm system,” New York attorney Eli Jacobs tells the media after purchasing the last-place Orioles for $70 million from the widow of former owner Edward Bennett Williams. The following year, the team bounces back and nearly makes the playoffs.
Dec. 11, 1973: Citing skyrocketing player salaries, the Orioles raise ticket prices at Memorial Stadium for the first time in four years. Box seats climb from $4 to $5 and lower reserved seats, from $2.50 to $3.
Dec. 8, 1965: Dunbar opens its basketball season with its 23rd consecutive victory, 80-52 over Kenwood before a packed gym at home. Dickie Kelly scores 26 points and Charley Thomas has 13 rebounds for coach William “Sugar” Cain’s Poets, defending Maryland Scholastic Association champions.
Dec. 13, 1958: In tribute to the NFL’s new Western Division champs, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra plays the Colts’ fight song during a program of otherwise classical music led by guest conductor Skitch Henderson at the Lyric Theatre.
Dec. 13, 1952: Gene Shue (Towson Catholic) scores 18 points to lead Maryland (3-1) past previously undefeated West Virginia, 52-45. The Mountaineers had been averaging 85 points per game.
Dec. 12, 1941: Johns Hopkins’ basketball team holds Towson State Teachers to one point in the first half en route to a 47-14 win at Homewood. Charley Thomas leads the Blue Jays with 16 points.
Dec. 8, 1934: Bill Shepherd, a 5-foot-9 running back from Western Maryland (now McDaniel), is named The Sun’s Maryland College Player of the Year. Shepherd, whose 133 points led the nation in scoring, will go on to make first-team All-NFL for the Detroit Lions in 1938.
Birthday
Dec. 13, 1947: Sam Havrilak, who in five years with the Colts played six positions and helped Baltimore win the Super Bowl after the 1970 season. He’s now a dentist in Parkville.
