Brown Bomber: The Joe Louis Story
“Joe Louis is a credit to his race—the human race.” This was a sports journalist’s response to the subtly racist compliments Joe Louis often r...
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Jackie Robinson: a snapshot biography
Jackie Robinson could hit. He could run. He could field. And he was a winner. But maybe most important of all, he had courage. He had the courage to be the firs...
Four Gold Medals and a Heart of Gold: The Jesse Owens Story
“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.”...
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
Before the world would know him as Satchel Paige, Leroy Robert Paige was born in Alabama in 1906, in a time when the dust of the Civil War had barely settled, a...
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...