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Brown Bomber: The Joe Louis Story

Posted on June 7, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

“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

Posted on April 27, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

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...

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Four Gold Medals and a Heart of Gold: The Jesse Owens Story

Posted on March 9, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

“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

Posted on July 5, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

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...

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The Babe Ruth story – a snapshot biography

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

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...

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A snapshot biography of Frank Hart

Posted on April 16, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

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...

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Josh Gibson, Negro League superstar

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Historical Snapshots

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...

Quotes

Babe Didrikson Zaharias quote about her childhood

Posted on August 21, 2018 by Historical Snapshots

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...

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The short story of Satchel Paige

Posted on July 7, 2018 by Historical Snapshots

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...

History

Emma Sharp walks 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours

Posted on June 23, 2018 by Historical Snapshots

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...

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