| Meet
Lenny Moore
Lenny Moore played at Penn State and with the Baltimore
Colts in the 50's and 60's alongside team mates
Johnny Unitas and Gino Marchetti,. He won numerous
awards including Rookie of the Year & MVP. He
was a seven-time All-Pro selection and member of
two League Champions (1958 and 1959), and was inducted
into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1975. He founded
the Leslie Moore Scholarship Foundation and devotes
time to the National Scleroderma Foundation.
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| 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 Elvin
Bethea
Elvin Bethea was drafted by the Houston Oilers of
the American Football League in 1968. For 16 years
he set team records for games played, seasons played,
and Pro Bowl appearances. Bethea led the team in
quarterback sacks six times, including a career-best
mark of 18 in 1976. After retirement from the NFL,
the Oilers retired his jersey number. Almost 20
years later to the day, Bethea was inducted into
the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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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 Rico Petrocell
iRico
Petrocelli starred for the Red Sox from 1965-76.
An All-Star in 1967, he set an American League
record for shortstops in 1969 by hitting 40
homers, a record that stood until 1998. He also
set a number of fielding records for the Red
Sox and played in two World Series (1967 and
1975). He was a major force on the famed ‘67
Red Sox Dream Team.
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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
Paul Hornung
Hornung,
the first pick of the 1957 NFL draft, won four world
championships and two league most valuable player
awards in his eleven year career with the Packers.
In 1986 he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall
of Fame. Hornung was an All-American at Notre Dame
where his charismatic personality earned him the
nickname "The Golden Boy" and his play
on the field earned him the Heisman Trophy.
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Meet
Kent Hrbek
He
treated Minnesota Twins fans to much excitement
from the day he donned a Twins uniform and homered
in the 12th inning at Yankee Stadium to give the
Twins a win in 1981, until the last game of his
career in 1994, when he came up with the bases loaded
three times against Boston as the fans were on their
feet every at-bat. This World Series Champ has a
new book and hosts his own outdoor sports TV show.
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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
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7.12.2007
Part 11
2.22.2007
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Meet
David Pearson
Nascar Legend -
Winner of the Daytona 500 and 105 Winston Cups,
among many other titles that ranged over a 20 year
racing career.
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Meet
Chris Burford
Member of two AFL
championship squads . . . Chris wore jersey #88,
led Texans/Chiefs in pass receptions in four of
his eight seasons and played in the very first Super
Bowl.
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