What is your New Jersey town's claim to fame in sports? We have the answer!
North Jersey has produced the baseball player who broke the color barrier in the American League in Larry Doby (Paterson), one of the greatest U.S. wrestlers of all-time in Bruce Baumgartner (Haledon) and a pioneering basketball Hall of Fame player inCarol Blazejowski (Cranford).
But did you know that this part of the state also gave New Jersey — and the world — an unbreakable high school football rushing record (Netcong), a legendary 159-game winning streak in high school basketball (Passaic) and a tiny town that in our humble opinion has the best sports name in the state (Victory Gardens)?
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Category: General Sports
