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) |