Meet Joe Garagiola

A major league player for nine seasons with the Cardinals, Pirates, Cubs and Giants, Garagiola played with St. Louis in the World Series in 1946 and retired in 1954. In retirement he became one of the game's best-loved broadcasters. Joe grew up in St. Louis with Yogi Berra, who has remained a lifelong friend. He won the Peabody Award in 1973 for his pre-game broadcast, "Joe Garagiola's World of Baseball," and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame's Broadcast wing in 1991.
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Meet Bob Motley

Bob Motley is the only living Negro League arbiter, and Ruling Over Monarchs, Giants & Stars is his revealing, humorous memoir. For over a decade beginning in the mid-1940s, umpire Bob Motley called balls and strikes for their games, earning the opportunity to work with such legends as Satchel Paige, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, and Willie Mays.
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Meet Art Spander

Sports writer for California’s ‘Oakland Tribune’, and regular sports contributor to numerous publications and sports transmissions across the world including the Telegraph and CBS News; A veteran journalist with over 40yrs in the field, he won the McCann Award in Pro Football’s Hall of Fame.
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Meet Willie Davis

Remembering Grambling Coach, Eddie Robinson:

Willie Davis played for the Green Bay Packers from 1960-69, where he became a defensive standout. . . Had speed, agility, size - was a great team leader, dedicated, intelligent - was All-NFL five seasons. . . In five Pro Bowls, six NFL title games, two Super Bowls. . . Didn't miss a game in 12-year, 162-game career
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Meet Bobby Plump

Milan immortalized forever in the 1954 Indiana State Championship. Bobby's story was told in the all-time favorite movie Hoosiers.
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Meet Conrad Dobler

Conrad Dobler, offensive lineman for the 70's St. Louis Cardinals where he earned a reputation as the dirtiest player in the game. His career included a Sports Illustrated cover calling him exactly that and three Pro-Bowl appearances (and a feature in my web page header along with Jim Hanifan!).
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Meet Carl Erskine

Carl Erskine, famed pitcher of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers, playing along side other revered players such as Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Preacher Row, Duke Snider and Carl Furillo. The Ghosts of Flatbush aired on HBO July 2007, a look at the championship 1955 game and what it too to get there in the days when literally nothing was more important than beating the Yankees.
7.12.2007 Part 1

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2.22.2007 Part I

2.22.2007 Part II