SETTING A HIGH GOLD STANDARD
Ten-time Olympic gold medallist Ray Ewry (Sept. 18, 2000)

HARD TO BELIEVE HOW BAD THEY WERE
Baseball’s worst-ever team, the 1899 Cleveland Spiders (April 19, 1999)

DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN
The annual replay of the 1960 World Series (Oct. 19, 1998)

MODELED ON A MYTH
Olympic bobsledder and boxer Eddie Eagan (Dec. 29, 1997)

FOUR MINUTES OF FAME
Don Bowden, America’s first four-minute miler (Aug. 11, 1997)

THE KING OF K’S NOBODY KNOWS
21-strikeout man Tom Cheney (April 21, 1997)

THE DREAM TEAM OF 1936
The first-ever Olympic basketball champions (July 22, 1996)

A HOME RUN FOR THE AGES
Jackie Robinson’s first-ever minor league game in 1946 (April 1, 1996)

A DEAD RINGER FOR A BOWLER
Pro bowling and horseshoe pitching star Walter Ray Williams, Jr. (1996)

ON, BRIEF OLD ARMY TEAM!
Lightweight football and the annual Anthracite Bowl (Oct. 3, 1994)

BREAKING THE SILENCE
The Stan Mikita Hockey School for the Hearing Impaired (Aug. 24, 1992)