Jim Thorpe was arguable the greatest athelte in American history. He played professional football and major league baseball but is probably most famous for what he did in the 1912 Stockholm […]
The V Olympiad- the 1912 Stockholm Games were a key turning point in my mind for the survival of the Olmypics. The previous three games were poorly organized and the […]
Lasse Viren the long distance runner from Finland who won gold in the 5000 and 10,000 meters in both the 1972 Munich Olympic Games and the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games […]
Ron Santo finally goes into the Hall of Fame today. Ten Notes on Ron Santo 1-Typical of the Hall of Fame. This man hasn’t played baseball since 1974. He had […]
As Quinn covered in his post the other day about London’s first Olympic Games,Rome, Italy had been awarded teh games but for financial reasons [the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and […]
Ron Turcotte was born 71 years ago today in New Brunswick, Canada. He won 3032 races in his career but will always be known best for being the jockey who rode […]
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