1951 In Sports ,
Other Events Of 1952 ,
1953 In Sports and the
List Of 'years In Sports' .
- , with 203 votes, and Paul Waner with 195. Waner, a .333 career hitter, rapped out 3,152 hits and struck out just 376 times in 9,459 career at-bats. Heilmann was similarly skilled with the bat, winning four batting titles with the Tigers and finishing his career with a .342 average
- World Championships in Ice Dancing introduced as part of the World Figure Skating Championships
Men's Golf
Women's Golf
- January 3 — Viacheslav Lampeev , Soviet field hockey player
- January 11 — Ben Crenshaw , golfer
- January 12 — John Walker , New Zealand middle distance runner
- January 18 — Wim Rijsbergen , Dutch soccer player and manager
- January 22 — Karen Moe , American swimmer
- January 27 — Brian Gottfried , American tennis player
- February 2 — Jeff Archibald , New Zealand field hockey player
- February 10 — Pinklon Thomas , American boxer
- February 15 — Carla Beurskens , Dutch athlete
- February 15 — Arthur Parkin , New Zealand field hockey player
- February 19 — Freddy Maertens , Belgian cyclist
- February 28 — Pat Ryan , New Zealand boxer
- February 29 — Jaime Arbós , Spanish field hockey player
- March 6 — Ian Cooke , Australian field hockey player
- March 22 — Bob Costas , sports announcer
- March 27 — Jan Albers , Dutch field hockey player
- March 29 — Teofilo Stevenson , Cuban boxer
- April 4 — Julie Staver , American field hockey player
- April 5 — Sandy Mayer , American tennis player
- April 10 — Hugo Broos , Belgian soccer player and manager
- April 23 — Terry Moor , American tennis player
- April 25 — Jacques Santini , French soccer manager
- May 3 — Christine Prinsloo , Zimbabwean field hockey player
- May 20 — Roger Milla , Cameroonian soccer player
- June 11 — Trevor Laurence , New Zealand field hockey player
- June 13 — Jean-Marie Dedecker , Belgian judo coach
- June 18 — Ron Steens , Dutch field hockey player
- June 25 — Hans-Joachim Abel , German football (soccer) player
- June 28 — Pietro Mennea , Italian sprinter
- July 11 — Alan Hobkirk , Canadian field hockey player
- July 3 — Ruud Misdorp , Dutch water polo player
- August 3 — Osvaldo Ardiles , Argentinian football (soccer) player
- August 3 — Wojtek Fibak , Polish tennis player
- August 7 — Kees Kist , Dutch football (soccer) player
- August 9 — Rui Jordão , Angolan-born Portuguese football (soccer) player
- August 14 — Debbie Meyer , American swimmer
- August 17 — Nelson Piquet , Brazilian Formula 1-driver
- August 17 — Guillermo Vilas , Argentinian tennis player
- August 26 — John Kinsella , American swimmer
- August 27 — Barry Dancer , Australian field hockey player and coach
- September 2 — Jimmy Connors , American tennis player
- September 8 — Rod Frawley , Australian tennis player
- September 12 — Pierluigi Marzorati , Italian basketball player
- September 12 — Jeff Rackley , New Zealand boxer
- September 18 — Ton Buunk , Dutch water polo player
- September 25 — Ray Clarke , English football (soccer) player
- October 6 — Jerzy Engel , Polish football (soccer) player and coach
- October 14 — Nikolai Andrianov , Soviet/Russian gymnast
- November 8 — Jan Raas , Dutch professional cyclist
- November 12 — Juan Arbós , Spanish field hockey player
- November 17 — Ties Kruize , Dutch field hockey player
- November 17 — Roman Ogaza , Polish football (soccer) player (d. 2006 )
- November 21 — Eamonn Coghlan , Irish track and field athlete
- December 15 — Allan Simonsen , Danish football (soccer) player and coach
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