Election of Interest
Feb 11 NHL Players Association forms (NYC), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president
- Feb 14 Georgia Senate unanimously approves Sen Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
- Feb 21 Dodgers (Fort Worth) & Cubs (LA) "trade" minor league franchises
- Feb 22 Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win
- Feb 22 Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958
- Feb 25 US Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport
Sports History
Feb 28 Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory
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