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Kaleigh Fratkin (born 1992), professional ice hockey defenseman; Mark Friedman (born 1995), NHL defenseman; Danny Gallivan, play-by-play announcer; Bernie Geoffrion, "Boom-Boom", developed the booming slap shot, second player in NHL history to score 50 goals in a season; Doug Gilmour; Claude Giroux, Hearst, Ontario; Danielle Goyette
Richie Ashburn, inducted in 2004, longtime player and color commentator for the Philadelphia Phillies Wilt Chamberlain, an inaugural class inductee, born and raised in Philadelphia and played for the Warriors and Philadelphia 76ers Jimmie Foxx, inducted in 2004, played for the Philadelphia Athletics Connie Mack, longtime Manager and Owner of the Philadelphia Athletics was inducted in 2004 ...
Curley Byrd (inducted 1982) was a star athlete at Maryland and later served as the university's football coach, athletic director, and university president. Charles E. Keller (inducted 1982) played for the New York Yankees from 1939 to 1949.
Initially a history teacher and football coach, Eccleston eventually added the coaching duties of baseball and ice hockey to his responsibilities, winning state championships in all three sports. [3] For 23 years Eccleston declined all offers to coach at the collegiate level but finally accepted an offer from Providence in 1956 to alleviate ...
Tom Fitzgerald, 53, American soccer coach (University of Tampa), motorcycle accident. [23] Elena Souliotis, 61, Greek operatic soprano, heart failure. [24] Svend Wad, 76, Danish boxer and Olympic medalist. [25] Ron Williamson, 51, American minor league baseball player and murder convict, liver cirrhosis.
The men's Olympic field hockey final had a little bit of everything. Duco Telgenkamp scored the golden goal in the shootout to give the Dutch the title at the Paris Games with a 2-1 victory over ...
Ozzie Virgil Sr., the first Dominican-born baseball player in the major leagues, has died, MLB announced Sunday. He was 92. Virgil became the first nonwhite Detroit Tigers player when he joined ...
Jim McKay, [34] Curt Gowdy, [35] and Jim Simpson [36] were the only play-by-play announcers that were utilized by ABC throughout the 1964 Winter Olympics.. Beginning in 1962, Dick Button worked as a figure skating analyst for ABC Sports, which had acquired the rights to the United States Figure Skating Championships as well as the 1962 World Figure Skating Championships.