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…
Brother Matthias: Martin Leo Boutlier
Babe Ruth greets a Civil War veteran under the approving gaze…
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…
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…