Brian Jordan (Trading Card DB)

Brian Jordan

Brian Jordan is one of seven men who have played major-league…
Doc Lavan (TRADING CARD DB)

Doc Lavan

In the long history of professional baseball, almost 100 major-league…
Bobby Marshall (1905 Gopher, University of Minnesota)

Bobby Marshall

Given his achievements, Robert “Bobby” Marshall is one of…
MLB Players Association leader Marvin Miller (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

Marvin Miller

When walking through the exhibits at the National Baseball Hall…
Al Michaels (NBC SPORTS)

Al Michaels

Popular broadcaster Al Michaels has informed and entertained…
Leonard Koppett (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

Leonard Koppett

A combination of accountant, impresario, and American success…
Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Some said that baseball owners found Judge Kenesaw Mountain…

Andy Lotshaw

From 1923 to 1952, the Chicago Cubs had 10 managers but only…

Jocko Maxwell

When radio came along in the 1920s, it brought sports, including…

Lucy Monroe

Approximately 200 diehard fans returned to a cold and cloudy…

Douglas MacArthur

A brilliant, if controversial, military commander, five-star…

Brad Lesley

Reliever Brad Lesley was big — 6-feet-6 and 230 pounds —…

Greasy Neale

Maybe you can visualize the scene from your own living room:…
Ray and Joan Kroc (COURTESY OF ANDY STRASBERG)

Ray and Joan Kroc

If it were not for the San Diego Padres, this biography on…

Cotton Minahan

In 1912 Jim Thorpe set the sports world atwitter with his performance…

John F. Kieran

John Kieran stands among the legends of baseball writing with…

Marty Karow

In the Roaring Twenties a new breed of coed sprouted on college…

W.W. McCredie

"History is the essence of innumerable biographies," wrote historian…

Vinegar Bend Mizell

The small community of Vinegar Bend, Alabama, provided an unusual…

Ted Lewis

Williams College is best known in baseball circles for two nonplaying…

A.G. Mills

Baseball pioneer Abraham Gilbert Mills is remembered-if at all-today…

Cotton Nash

A superb college basketball player, Charles Nash became the University…

Jackie Jensen

Jackie Jensen, the blond rugged Californian who attained great…

Tom Monaghan

Tom Monaghan has accomplished a great many things in his yet-unfinished…