Jesse Owens
“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.”...
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Baseball star Thelma “Tiby” Eisen
Born in 1922 into an Orthodox Jewish family in Los Angeles, CA, Thelma “Tiby” Eisen became interested in sports when she was around twelve or thirte...
The Babe Ruth story – a snapshot biography
Biography He was a man beloved. Talkative, playful, full of energy, people said he was a big kid, the kind of person who never grew up. But, as a baseball playe...
A snapshot biography of Frank Hart
For about a decade, around 1880, the U.S. national pastime was a sport called pedestrianism. Pedestrians, the term for athletes who competed in the sport, would...
Josh Gibson, Negro League superstar
Josh Gibson was big and he was strong, “built like sheet metal. If you ran into him it was like you ran into a wall.” He was considered the best baseball hitter...
Babe Didrikson Zaharias quote about her childhood
Quote: “You never saw anybody more excited than I was that night at the railroad station in Beaumont, Texas, back in February 1930. Here I was, just a lit...
The short story of Satchel Paige
His birth name was Leroy, but people called him Satchel Paige. It was a nickname he earned at seven years old while working at a railroad depot in Mobile, Alaba...
Emma Sharp walks 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours
Emma Sharp was a pedestrian, which in 19th century life was the term for an athlete competing in pedestrianism, one of the most popular sports in the western wo...
Wilma Rudolph overcomes infantile paralysis to become track and field champion
“My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.” Her basketball coach in high school called her skeeter. Because ...
Jim Thorpe wins gold at 1912 Olympics
It’s the 1912 summer Olympics in Stockholm. Jim Thorpe, a Native American from Oklahoma, represents the U.S. in four track and field events, the most important ...