1960 Sports and Events – Primo Peddler

Key Sports and other Events during the year. Other events are mainly about the space race and other scientific milestones, no politics here. These are random reports mainly on games of the day with a home base of the New York-New Jersey-Philadelphia areas. I will also try to build a full NASCAR recap article history as well. I grew up in Northern New Jersey and wanted to give a retrospective of 1960’s sports. We will see how far this project goes.

Sports:

1960 Winter Olympics	Daytona 500 – February 14
Ramblers Hockey – February 16	C ollege Basketball Doubleheader – February 17
Southern States Fairgrounds NASCAR Race – Feb 28	College Basketball – March 3
College Basketball MSG – March 4	ACC Basketball Tournament starting March 3
NIT College Basketball Tournament – March 10	De Soto Open Bradenton Florida – March 24-27
NASCAR North Wilkesboro Speedway – March 27	MLB Team Previews
PGA Masters Tournament – April 7-10	NASCAR Virginia 500 – April 10
San Francisco Giants Home Opener – April 12

Other Events:

BATHYSCAPH DIVES 7 MILES IN RECOR D – January 24	U.S. Launches Space Probe – March 11
U.S. Scientists Bounce Radar Signal Off the Sun – February 4	U.S. Satellite Establishes Space Mark – March 13
U.S. Moon Sends Back 1st Weather Pictures – April 1

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