Harold Edward "Red" Grange was born on June 13, 1903 in Forksville, Pennsylvania. He was the child of Sadie and Lyle Grange and he was only five years old when his mother died. Grange was a star player during his high school days at Wheaton Community High School, where he became known as the "Wheaton Ice Man." Red Grange had an outstanding college career in football at the University of Illinois, where he earned the nickname “the Galloping Ghost” after running five touchdowns in a single game.
In 1925, he made debuts with Chicago Bears on Thanksgiving Day and one year later, he enters into American League venture with C.C. Pyle and moves to New York Yankees. In 1929, he returns to Chicago Bears and in 1934, he retires from professional
football all his life. In fifth grade he decided which position he wanted to play when he
moved to Chicago at the age of 5. Nobody liked him there, and he was in many
The history of the Lincoln Ice Hockey Association and how it was formed is an interesting story. A series of coincidences started the ball rolling. The Ice Hockey Association was ironically started in 1970 when two different people, on the same day, about two hours apart, went to the senior head of the university’s Recreation Department with the same idea of starting the Lincoln Ice Hockey Association. Funnily enough, even their first names were the same. The head of the department gave each man their contact information.
After his departure from the Army he joined the Kansas City Monarchs, an all African-American baseball team, of the Negro League. Due to low pay and constant traveling, he decided he did not want to make baseball a career although he was one of the top players. Until 1947 only white players were allowed in Major League Baseball but in 1945 Clyde Sukeforth, a scout for Branch Rickey who was the Brooklyn Dodgers club president, had been looking for an African-American player and was watching Jackie for a while.
His family moved to Chicago when he was young. He began theater as a call or stagehead at McVickers Theatre in Chicago. After 2 years, he went to work for John E. Owens at the Variety Theatre in New Orleans. The first stage role he got was in 1859 when he was at the age of 22, in The Little Treasurer. When he made his way back to the north, he was with the onset of the American Civil War. By the early 1860’s, he was appearing in billed roles
After college Lambeau started working at the Indian Packing Company. One day he ran into George Calhoun on a street corner. They started joking around about making a football, However they ended up coming up with a full blown idea to form their own football team. Calhoun ran an ad in his newspaper the Green Bay Press-Gazette. (Gulbrandsen 15). Lambeau asked the Indian Packing Company to help fund the team. The plant gave him $500 and the empty lot to practice on (“NFL History by the Decades”). Lambeau held a meeting on August 11, 1919 to o...
By 1940, he had moved up to the Canadians senior team in the Quebec league. Due to his fractures, he returned and played the whole 1941-42 season for the senior Canadia...
Chicago Cubs baseball goes all the way back to April 25th, 1876 when they played the first game in the history of the Chicago National League Ball Club. However; at the time, they were not known as the “Cubs.” In general, they were known as the “White Stockings.” But a select few referred to them as the “Colts,” or “Orphans.” The team played in only five different locations in the 1800s because of the lack of places to play baseball at the time. As years went by, the league became popular, becoming one of the sports first dynasties. Chicago won six of the first eleven inaugural National League Championships (Cubs Timeline). In 1902, Frank Selee began managing Chicago to debut his managerial career. Just like managers, the name changed as well. A local newspaper penned the nickname “Cubs” for the first time. The name grew on people over time and was officially adopted in 1907. The year after that, victory arose in the city of Chicago. The season was filled with some of the greatest old-time baseball players. The batting line-up consisted of many good hitters and not jus...
One game he fell hard on his left shoulder and he was never able to pitch another game. He began playing in the outfield and little did he know he would be one of the best athletes to ever play in the outfield, from his outstanding catches to his amazing speed. After he he got hurt with his shoulder injury, he feared he would never be able to play the game of baseball ever again. He then became an excellent hitter and his minor league career was going very well for his future. After playing about three and a half years in the minors, he then was called up to the Major Leagues to come and play for the St. Louis Cardinals at left field. He finished his Minor League career with a .379 batting average in 87 games, 26 home runs and 94 RBIs. Stan was taking off in the Majors and becoming a team leader and starting to get more and more well known. He finished his rookie year with only 47 at bats, 8 runs, 20 hits, one home run, seven RBIs and an amazing .426 batting average. He finished 1942 with with 467 at bats, 87 runs, 147 hits, 10 home runs, 72 RBIs and a .315 batting average. 1943 was his best season he ever had. He finished 43 with 617 at bats, 108 runs, 220 hits, 13 home runs, 81 RBIs and a .357 batting average. Stan led the Cardinals to the World Series in 1942, 43, 44 and 46 which they won in 42, 44, and 46. Stan played the Hall of Famer Ted Williams in the World Series of 1946 against the New York Yankees. That was the last World Series Stan would play in for the rest of his baseball career. In 1945 Stan was drafted into the military of the final months of World War II. He joined the United States Navy and remained there four fourteen months. In 1946 he continued his Major League career on discharge. This is when he earned his nickname “Stan The Man” from the Los Angeles Dodgers fans. 1947 is when Jackie Robinson became the first African American to ever play Major League
He was traded to the Boston Braves on February 26, 1935. He only played a partial year before he retired on June 2, 1935 because his fielding skills declined sharply. He ended his 22 year career with 714 homeruns, 2,873 hits, 506 doubles, 2,174 runs, 2,213 RBI, a .342 batting average, a .474 on-base percentage, and a .690 slugging percentage. Other achievements included leading the league in slugging percentage 13 times, home runs 12 times, bases on balls 11 times, on-base percentage 10 times, runs scored 8 times and runs batted in 6 times. He set lofty records that took years to surpass. He still sits in the top 10 of many of these statistics today. “It wasn’t that he hit more home runs than anybody else,” said 1976 Spink Award winner Red Smith, “he hit them better, higher, farther, with more theatrical timing and more flamboyant flourish.” In 1936 Babe Ruth was one of the first five people inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Robert Frost is often known as one of the greatest American poets of all time. Although he is sometimes remembered as hateful and mean spirited, his life was filled with highs and lows. These differentiating periods are represented throughout his poetry. Frost once said that “A poem begins in delight, and ends in wisdom.” As can be seen, this quote not only reflected his poetry, but his life. Though many years of his life were troubled by misfortune, Frost always seemed to persevere. Robert Frost was a talented, thoughtful poet whose life was filled with complexity and tragedy (brainyquote.com).
university and he decided to move to Kansas City. It was there where he got his
University of Iowa. Williams then went to Chicago in search of work, failing, he then
In 1947 Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers desperately wanted Robinson to play for him and his team. He would become the first black MLB player since 1889 when baseball became discriminated. In his first year he was the Rookie of the Year. He debuted in the International League with the Montreal Royals. This the led to Branch’s interest in Robinson since he was considered one of the best players in the International League and considering it was his first time playing with white men.
John W. Fowler was the first black professional baseball player. He was born a free man in 1854. Fowler played for a team in New Castle Pennsylvania. He was the first of more than thirty black players in the white leagues before 1900. He was recognized by the white media as one of the best second basemen of his day, but he never got the chance to play in the Major Leagues. The first black major league player was named Moses Fleetwood Walker. Walker was in Ohio in 1857. He played two years of baseball for Oberlin College, and two years playing with Michigan at Ann Arbor. In 1983, he joined the Toledo club of the North Western league. Toledo entered the American Association a year later and Walker become the first black Major Leaguer. Walker was actually well received in most of his games. He was even applauded in some places. However, in two southern cities, Richmond and Louisville he was harasse...