Historical clue formulations

• N.B.A. coach Jordan ___ — 2026-09-12
• Baseball Hall-of-Famer Mel — 2026-02-22
• Baseball's Mel — 2026-01-12
• Baseball great Mel — 2025-10-07
• Baseball's "Master Melvin" — 2025-06-07
• Mel in the Baseball Hall of Fame — 2024-11-18
• Giant Mel — 2024-02-11
• Canadian N.H.L. team, on scoreboards — 2023-12-08
• New York Giant known as "Master Melvin" — 2023-11-22
• Famed Giant slugger — 2023-06-18
• Mel in the Baseball Hall of Fame — 2023-05-08
• Baseball great Mel — 2023-01-10
• Baseball Hall-of-Famer Mel — 2022-12-19
• Baseball Hall-of-Famer Mel — 2022-11-20
• Baseball's "Master Melvin" — 2022-01-09
• Baseball's Mel — 2020-11-29
• Mel of baseball — 2020-09-20
• "Master Melvin" of baseball — 2020-06-20
• Mel who played at the Polo Grounds — 2020-03-16
• First National Leaguer to hit 500 home runs — 2020-01-19
• New York Giants giant Mel — 2020-01-08
• Six-time N.L. home run champ Mel — 2019-12-30
• Mel who hit 511 home runs — 2019-09-04
• First N.L. player to hit 500 home runs — 2019-03-24
• Six-time N.L. home run leader in the 1930s and '40s — 2018-11-21
• Mel in Cooperstown — 2018-09-07
• Mel who was the first N.L.'er to hit 500 home runs — 2018-02-06
• N.H.L. Eastern Conference team, on scoreboards — 2018-01-13
• Subject of Durocher's "Nice guys finish last" sentiment — 2017-12-30
• Mel honored in Cooperstown — 2017-12-25
• Sportsman whose #4 was retired — 2017-12-08
• To whom Durocher was referring when he said "Nice guys finish last" — 2017-03-11
• Polo Grounds great Mel — 2016-11-02
• Baseball Hall-of-Famer Mel — 2016-05-30
• Giant legend — 2015-12-11
• He hit 35 in '34 — 2015-08-08
• Canadian N.H.L. team, on scoreboards — 2015-07-26
• The "O" in Ogden Nash's alphabet of baseball players — 2015-07-19
• See 11-Down — 2015-06-17
• The Senators, on sports tickers — 2015-04-28
• First National Leaguer with 500 homers — 2015-04-08
• Baseball's Mel — 2015-02-10
• A Giants giant — 2015-02-08
• Mel with 511 homers — 2014-11-05
• Mel of the Giants — 2014-03-10
• Giant among baseball's Giants — 2013-10-28
• 1951 Cooperstown inductee — 2013-02-10
• Slugger Mel — 2013-01-15
• Super Giant — 2012-12-18
• Baseball's Mel — 2012-08-28