Sports' Forgotten Heroes

A star at Cal-Berkley, Joe Kapp led the Bears to a Rose Bowl victory and was drafted by the Washington Redskins in the 1... Read more

During the three-year stretch of 1944, 45 and 46, Hal Newhouser of the Detroit Tigers put together three of the most dom... Read more

Lyman Bostock was a Major League Baseball player on the rise. During the first 3 ½ years of his career with the Minnesot... Read more

In 1969, Major League Baseball expanded to four cities: San Diego, Montreal, Kansas City and Seattle. Montreal moved to ... Read more

The NHL expanded to two cities for the 1974-75 season: Kansas City and Washington. Washington, of course, has turned int... Read more

2017 is the 80th anniversary of the Rams joining the NFL. Most know the Rams are calling Los Angeles home for the second... Read more

For four years, 1946 through 1949, the NFL faced stiff competition from an upstart league, the All America Football Conf... Read more

Bob Allison was one of the best players for the Minnesota Twins during the 1960s. The Twins moved to Minnesota from Wash... Read more

When the World Football League launched its inaugural season in 1974, all of the leagues 12 teams had very high hopes. B... Read more

The Los Angeles Clippers are celebrating their 40th Anniversary on the west coast. But, long before they were the Clippe... Read more

Blanton Collier was the last coach to lead the Cleveland Browns to an NFL Championship; and he did so in 1964. Amazingly... Read more

Earl Morrall threw for over 20,000-yards during his 21-year NFL career. He was a part of three teams that won championsh... Read more

Duke Slater is not a common name amongst football fans, but it should be. While he played in the NFL prior to what we kn... Read more

The Kentucky Colonels were one of the original franchises of the American Basketball Association (ABA) and one of just t... Read more

The NBA has played witness to several teams packing up an moving to new cities. The Lakers went from Minneapolis to Los ... Read more

There are figures in sports who are larger than the game whom people know so little about. One of the biggest of those n... Read more

One of the NBA’s original teams was the Rochester Royals. In fact, the Royals won an NBA Championship in 1951. But, Roch... Read more

Roy Sievers was one of the most clutch hitters in baseball history. In fact, Sievers, who won the 1949 American League R... Read more

The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin were one of the most controversial in history. As World War II was about to explode, th... Read more

2019 an honor long overdue was finally righted, the retirement of the No. 4 by the Detroit Red Wings, the sweater worn b... Read more