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59: Ray Collins-MLB
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - June 25, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsSo many baseball players have had their careers cut short by injury. Some of those careers might be considered marginal, and others might be considered a tragedy based on the fact that the career was on an upward trajectory and headed for greatness. Ray Collins, who pitched for the Boston Red So...
58: Park, Brown & Fleck-PGA
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - June 11, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsThree golf champions. Three remarkable championships. Three very unique stories about three guys who had never won before: Mungo Park, 1874 Open Championship; David Brown, 1886 Open Championship; Jack Fleck, 1955 U.S. Open. Each have very unique stories and joining Sports’ Forgotten Heroes to he...
57: Hank O'Day-MLB
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - May 28, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsHank O’Day is one of the most unique and important figures in the history of Major League Baseball. He broke into the game as a pitcher in the American Association for Toledo in 1884. He finished his career seven years later with the New York Giants. During his career, on occasion, O’Day stepped...
56: Roy Sievers-MLB
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - May 14, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsRoy Sievers was one of the most clutch hitters in baseball history. In fact, Sievers, who won the 1949 American League Rookie of the Year with the St. Louis Browns, hit nearly a quarter of his 318 career homeruns in the eighth inning or later. But, becoming a clutch hitter almost didn’t happen. ...
55: Seattle Pilots-MLB
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - April 30, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsIn 1969, Major League Baseball expanded to four cities: San Diego, Montreal, Kansas City and Seattle. Montreal moved to Washington and became the Nationals and Seattle moved as well. Yes, there was a team in Seattle before the Mariners – the Seattle Pilots. The Pilots played in Seattle for just ...
54: Dolf Luque-MLB
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - April 16, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsDolf Luque won 194 games over the course of his 20-year Major League career. In 1923, he put together one of the greatest seasons ever for the Cincinnati Reds going 27-8. Luque, however, never again won 20-games in a season, but remained extraordinarily consistent. In fact, in 1925 he went 16-18...
53-Jimmy Demaret-PGA
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - April 02, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsJimmy Demaret won 31 times on the PGA TOUR … was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame … and was the first golfer to win the Masters three times. Yet, when the discussion of the game’s greats rolls around, Demaret’s accomplishments are severely overlooked. He is rarely, if ever, mentioned in...
52-Kansas City Scouts-NHL
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - March 19, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsThe NHL expanded to two cities for the 1974-75 season: Kansas City and Washington. Washington, of course, has turned into one of the National Hockey League’s marquee teams having won the 2017-18 Stanley Cup Championship. Kansas City, however, is one of the least-known teams in the history of spo...
51: Ron McDole-NFL
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - March 05, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsRon McDole had the great fortune of playing for two of football’s greatest defensive minds: Lou Saban and George Allen. McDole, who graduated from Nebraska before the Cornhuskers became such an elite program, played 18 years of professional football. He started off with the St. Louis Cardinals i...
50: Kentucky Colonels-ABA
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - February 19, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsThe Kentucky Colonels were one of the original franchises of the American Basketball Association (ABA) and one of just three teams to play all nine years of the ABA’s existence. However, when the ABA folded, the Colonels were not one of the teams to merge with the NBA. Owner John Y. Brown did no...
49: Cincinnati Royals-NBA
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - February 05, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsOne of the NBA’s original teams was the Rochester Royals. In fact, the Royals won an NBA Championship in 1951. But, Rochester was not an ideal location as the NBA was trying to grow and establish itself in larger cities. So, after the 1956-57 season, the Royals packed up and left for Cincinnati....
48: Red Kelly-NHL
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - January 22, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratings2019 an honor long overdue was finally righted, the retirement of the No. 4 by the Detroit Red Wings, the sweater worn by Red Kelly, one the greatest to ever lace-up a pair of skates. Kelly, who joins me on this episode of Sports’ Forgotten Heroes, along with Waxy Gregoire, co-author of “The Red...
47: St. Louis Hawks-NBA
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - January 08, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsThe NBA has played witness to several teams packing up an moving to new cities. The Lakers went from Minneapolis to Los Angeles, the Warriors moved from Philadelphia to San Francisco to Oakland where they play right now (they’re moving back to San Francisco), The Jazz moved from New Orleans to U...
46: George Taliaferro-NFL
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - December 25, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsWhile Jackie Robinson is known to so many for being the first man to cross the color barrier in Major League Baseball, few, very few, know who the first African-American was to be drafted by an NFL Team. George Taliaferro, a record-breaking running back who played ball at Indiana University, was...
45: George H.W. Bush-Baseball
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - December 11, 2018 16:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsGeorge H.W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States, was not only a man who devoted his life to serving his country; but before he dedicated his life to such service, he studied at Yale University and while there, played firstbase for the Eli’s. While he wasn’t necessarily the greatest of ...
44: Lord Stanley-NHL
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - November 27, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsEvery April the National Hockey League enters its second season, the Stanley Cup Playoffs. It is one of the most exciting times in sports. But unlike Major League Baseball, the National Football League or the National Basketball Association, hockey’s playoff season is actually named after a pers...
43: Gus Dorais-CFB
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - November 13, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsGus Dorais is one of college football’s all-time greatest players and coaches. He was the first player in the history of Notre Dame to be named an All-American and was actually given the opportunity to coach the Fighting Irish. However, his best friend and college roommate needed the job and Dor...
42: Archie Moore-Boxing
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - October 30, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsArchie Moore is the only boxer in history to face Rocky Marciano, Floyd Patterson AND Muhammed Ali. An absolutely terrific boxer, Moore captured the light heavyweight championship by unanimous decision at the age of 39 over Joey Maxim. Moore held the title for 10-years before he was stripped of ...
41: Joe Perry-NFL
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - October 16, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsJoe “The Jet” Perry was once the NFL’s all-time leading rusher, and until 2011 was the all-time leading rusher in the history of the San Francisco 49’ers. But never winning a championship and playing the shadow of the great Jim Brown has certainly affected the legacy of Joe Perry. Perry said no ...
40: Joe Kapp-NFL
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - October 02, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsA star at Cal-Berkley, Joe Kapp led the Bears to a Rose Bowl victory and was drafted by the Washington Redskins in the 18th round of the 1959 NFL Draft. However, Washington and Kapp squabbled over terms, and Kapp decided to take his game north to the Canadian Football League and the Calgary Stam...
39: Duke Slater-NFL
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - September 18, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsDuke Slater is not a common name amongst football fans, but it should be. While he played in the NFL prior to what we know it as now, Slater was still one of the greatest to ever play the game, particularly as a lineman. In fact, when the great Red Grange was asked to name the greatest players o...
38: Tinker-Evers-Chance
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - September 04, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsOn July 12, 1910, New York Evening Mail reporter Franklin Pierce Adams filed his article after a game between the Chicago Cubs and New York Giants. Little did he or anyone know it would become one of the most famous pieces of work to ever be written about baseball, a little poem in which he proc...
37: Bob Allison-MLB
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - August 21, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsBob Allison was one of the best players for the Minnesota Twins during the 1960s. The Twins moved to Minnesota from Washington, D.C. for the 1961 season. However, before getting to Minnesota, Allison won the Rookie of the Year for Washington (known as the Senators) in 1959 by clubbing 30 Home Ru...
36: Lefty O'Doul-MLB
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - August 07, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsNot only is Lefty O’Doul one of baseball’s forgotten heroes, he is actually one of America’s forgotten heroes as well. In fact, General Douglas MacArthur said what O’Doul did after World War II to help ease tensions between the U.S. and Japan was one of the greatest acts of diplomacy in the hist...
35: Sal "The Barber" Maglie-MLB
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - July 24, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsSal “The Barber” Maglie enjoyed a terrific career going 119-62 over 10 years. But from 1950 through 1954 he was as dominant as anyone in the game. Given the nickname “The Barber” because of how he approached hitters and his game-day stubble, Maglie blossomed at the age of 33 after having spent t...
34: Kiki Cuyler-MLB
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - July 10, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsKiki Cuyler was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1968, but so few can recall his career – and what a career it was! Cuyler, whose birth name is Hazen Shirley Cuyler, made it to the big leagues for good in 1924 and hit .354 for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 1925, Cuyler upped his average to ....
33: Lyman Bostock-MLB
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - June 26, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsLyman Bostock was a Major League Baseball player on the rise. During the first 3 ½ years of his career with the Minnesota Twins and California Angels, Lyman hit .311 with a high of .336 in 1977. He had just signed a free agent contract with the Angels, a team that was on the rise and hoping to w...
32: Ralph Guldahl-PGA
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - June 12, 2018 15:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsRalph Guldahl joined the PGA TOUR in 1931, walked away from the game in 1934, rejoined the TOUR in 1935, and retired from the game for good in 1940. But in between, he was absolutely phenomenal. During his time on TOUR he won 16 tournaments including three Majors – the 1937 and 1938 U.S. Open an...
31: Giorgio Chinaglia-Soccer
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - May 29, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsOne of the most flamboyant soccer players to ever play here in the U.S. was Giorgio Chinaglia. He was a star on a team filled with some of the world’s best, the New York Cosmos. He played with Pele, Beckenbauer, Alberto and so many others. And while he might not have been as skilled as them, the...
30: Dolph Schayes-NBA
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - May 15, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsDolph Schayes played in the NBA for 15 years, and when he retired he was the league’s all-time leading scorer and all-time leading rebounder. Yet, many basketball fans don’t recall Schayes at all, or mistake him for his son, Danny, who spent 20-years in the NBA. Why do so many not recall Dolph? ...
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