Alice Hoover (AAGPBL.ORG)

Alice Hoover

Alice Hoover played one season in the All-American Girls Professional…

Betsy Jochum

Betsy Jochum was one of the sixty original players, as well as…

Elizabeth Mahon

From 1943 through 1954, when the All-American Girls Base Ball…

Jim Britt

Jim Britt was the radio and television voice of both the Boston…

Pacer Smith

Violent crimes have been charged to professional athletes long…

Joe Simenic

If you spend much time at the Hall of Fame perusing the files…

Toni Stone

Even after the integration of minor- and major-league baseball…

Bob McConnell

In 1939, the ESSO Gas Company issued a fifty-page booklet to…

Jean Havlish

As a child growing up in the 1940s on Rice Street in St. Paul,…
Jim Campbell (Trading Card Database)

Jim Campbell

By the end of 1987 Jim Campbell had set the major league…
Dick O'Connell (SABR-Rucker Archive)

Dick O’Connell

It was nearing the end of September, 1914, and a 19-year-old…

Dan Loderick

In 1898, the town of Plymouth, Pennsylvania, lost one of its…

Patrick Purtell

Patrick W. Purtell died in his longtime hometown of Columbus,…

Ernie Lanigan

Note: This article was originally published by SABR in the 1973…

Andy Rudolph

Who was Andy Rudolph? Not much more than an especially rabid…

Merle Harmon

He was a sports broadcaster and former college football player…
Jim Tugerson

Jim Tugerson

While Jackie Robinson and some of the other pioneers who helped…
Ernie Harwell (National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)

Ernie Harwell

Ernie Harwell (National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)   For…
Ray Lane (Courtesy of Michigan Sports Hall of Fame)

Ray Lane

Born in Detroit in 1930, some of Ray Lane’s earliest memories…
Larry Osterman (Courtesy of the Detroit Tigers)

Larry Osterman

Larry Osterman’s career as a Detroit Tigers broadcaster spanned…

Mary Shane

Mary Driscoll was born in Milwaukee and was a member of the baby…

Corwin Johns

Circuit Judge William Corwin Johns was a staple of the Decatur,…

William Gray

William Gray was born in Tariffville, Connecticut, in December…

Jim Rantz

Although he went through the University of Minnesota on a hockey…
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