Alexander Bannwart

The life of Alexander Bannwart unfolded like that of a junior-grade…

Garland Buckeye

Imagine the right guard from your favorite NFL team pitching…

Red Badgro

Morris “Red” Badgro is best known as a Hall of Fame end on…

Octavius Catto

While the North’s Civil War victory and the 13th Amendment…

Sammy Byrd

"Sammy Byrd, the Yankee reserve outfielder, is a good golfer,…

Ed Abbaticchio

For someone who participated in only 855 major-league games spread…

Dick Armstrong

When considering the life of Dick Armstrong, most contemporaries…

Joe Carr

Best known as the president of the National Football League from…

Mario Cuomo

With a passion for problem solving fueled by an unyielding streak…

Bert Convy

From the 1960s until his death in 1991, Bert Convy was a household…

Lou Costello

If laughter is the best medicine, then Lou Costello should have…

Johnny Berardino

“Berardino is one of those intense fellows who believe the…

Gene Autry

Gene Autry was the kind of man who paid the bills for old friends…

Charlie Berry

Charles Francis “Charlie” Berry had one of the most extraordinary…

Happy Chandler

Few 20th-century politicians had a more impressive résumé than…

Fred Brown

Generations ago it would have been difficult to determine which…

Morgan Bulkeley

There’s a bridge that stretches across the Connecticut River,…

Moe Berg

Casey Stengel, an eccentric man himself, called Moe Berg "the…

Tom Butters

An auto accident curtailed this pitcher's modest major-league…

Jim Bunning

“There are those who can, and there are those who will,”…

Gene Conley

Gene Conley excelled at the major-league level of two sports…

Chuck Connors

Chuck Connors was a career minor-league ballplayer who played…

Jophery Brown

This righty pitcher’s big-league career consisted of just…

Harry Agganis

More than five decades later, his legend has not faded. The…