Preceding the Browns’ season closer, the Harlem Globetrotters defeat a team led by baseball clown Max Patkin. The basketball game is played on a wooden court set up behind third base. Then St. Louis ace Ned Garver cops his 20th game of the season, defeating the White Sox, 9 – 5. Garver becomes the only player to win 20 for a last-place team that loses 100 games, as the Browns win just 32 other times.

On September 30, 1951 — Preceding the Browns’ season closer, the Harlem Globetrotters defeat a team led by baseball clown Max Patkin. The basketball game is played on a wooden court set up behind third base. Then St. Louis ace Ned Garver cops his 20th game of the season, defeating the White Sox, 9 – 5. Garver becomes the only player to win 20 for a last-place team that loses 100 games, as the Browns win just 32 other times.

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