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Alexander Bannwart
The life of Alexander Bannwart unfolded like that of a junior-grade…
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Garland Buckeye
Imagine the right guard from your favorite NFL team pitching…
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Brother Matthias: Martin Leo Boutlier
Babe Ruth greets a Civil War veteran under the approving gaze…
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Red Badgro
Morris “Red” Badgro is best known as a Hall of Fame end on…
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Octavius Catto
While the North’s Civil War victory and the 13th Amendment…
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Sammy Byrd
"Sammy Byrd, the Yankee reserve outfielder, is a good golfer,…
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Ed Abbaticchio
For someone who participated in only 855 major-league games spread…
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Dick Armstrong
When considering the life of Dick Armstrong, most contemporaries…
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Joe Carr
Best known as the president of the National Football League from…
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Bert Convy
From the 1960s until his death in 1991, Bert Convy was a household…
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Lou Costello
If laughter is the best medicine, then Lou Costello should have…
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Johnny Berardino
“Berardino is one of those intense fellows who believe the…
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Gene Autry
Gene Autry was the kind of man who paid the bills for old friends…
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Charlie Berry
Charles Francis “Charlie” Berry had one of the most extraordinary…
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Happy Chandler
Few 20th-century politicians had a more impressive résumé than…
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Fred Brown
Generations ago it would have been difficult to determine which…
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Morgan Bulkeley
There’s a bridge that stretches across the Connecticut River,…
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Moe Berg
Casey Stengel, an eccentric man himself, called Moe Berg "the…
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Tom Butters
An auto accident curtailed this pitcher's modest major-league…
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Jim Bunning
“There are those who can, and there are those who will,”…
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Gene Conley
Gene Conley excelled at the major-league level of two sports…
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Chuck Connors
Chuck Connors was a career minor-league ballplayer who played…
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Jophery Brown
This righty pitcher’s big-league career consisted of just…
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Harry Agganis
More than five decades later, his legend has not faded. The…