
Rachel Robinson
It is easy to imagine that at the end of her final day of filming…

Dorothy Arnold
Sometime after World War II, Woody Guthrie wrote a song called…

Ethel Posey
Ownership in the Negro Leagues was a tough and sometimes precarious…

Eleanor Gehrig
No one chooses to become a professional widow, and Eleanor Gehrig…

Jean Yawkey
When Boston Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey died in 1976, he left…

The Brush Family Women
Beset by a chronic illness and often in pain, John T. Brush was…

Aldona Appleton
In one of his baseball abstracts, Bill James relates an amusing…

Pete Appleton
In September 1927, the Cincinnati Reds brought up a 23-year old…

Tom Yawkey
As the owner of the Boston Red Sox for 43 years, few if any people…

John T. Brush
A sufferer from locomotor ataxia, a painful disease of the nervous…

Lou Gehrig
On July 4, 1939, between games of a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium,…

Roy and Bessie Largent
There have been many famous husband-wife teams who shared a career,…