Historic BiosThis blog is dedicated to famous people from history who have made an impact in the world of sports. From athletes to coaches to team owners, these men and women have helped shape the world of sports as we know it today.
We are going to cover every sport, but to start we have bios on famous baseball players, basketball, and track!
We have also covered the history of baseball ⚾
Baseball legend Ty Cobb was born in rural Georgia in 1886. He was a small, wiry kid who loved to play baseball and was immensely competitive. He started his professional career in the minor leagues in 1904, and by 1905 he was playing for the Detroit Tigers. He quickly established himself as one of the […]
Lou Gehrig was born in New York City in 1903. He was a natural athlete and excelled in baseball and football in high school. He was offered a football scholarship to Columbia University, but chose to pursue baseball instead. Gehrig began his professional career with the New York Yankees in 1923. He quickly established himself […]
Mickey Mantle was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma in 1931. He was a professional baseball player for the New York Yankees from 1951 to 1968. Mantle was one of the most popular players of his era and is considered one of the greatest players in baseball history. Mantle was a three-time MVP and a seven-time World […]
Baseball has been around for centuries, with the first recorded game taking place in England in 1749. However, the game truly began to take shape in the United States during the early 19th century. By the mid-1800s, baseball was being played by amateurs and professionals all across the country. The Civil War and the rise […]
Jesse Owens was an American track and field athlete who competed in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. Owens was born in Oakville, Alabama, on September 12, 1913, to Henry and Mary Owens. His family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, when he was nine years old, and it was there that Owens developed his love […]
Wilt Chamberlain was one of the most physically imposing and dominant players in the history of basketball. At 7’1” and 275 pounds, he towered over most of his opponents and was practically unstoppable on the court. He was a gifted athlete with a rare combination of size, strength, speed, and agility. Chamberlain was born and […]
Hank Aaron was born on February 5, 1934, in Mobile, Alabama. He was the third of eight children in an African-American family. His father worked as a sharecropper and his mother was a housewife. Hank Aaron’s childhood was spent in poverty. He attended a segregated school and played baseball in the sandlots. In 1951, Hank […]
Jackie Robinson was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. As the first black man to play in the major leagues […]
Muhammad Ali was born on January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. His birth name was Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. He began boxing when he was 12 years old and won six Kentucky Golden Gloves championships, two national Golden Gloves championships, an Amateur Athletic Union national title, and the Light Heavyweight gold medal in the 1960 […]
George Herman “Babe” Ruth Jr. (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948) was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed “The Bambino” and “The Sultan of Swat“, he began his MLB career as a stellar left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, […]