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Al Negratti 1998 Deaths

Al NegrattiAge: 76 former men's basketball coach and athletic director at the University of Portland; played professionally for the Rochester Royals of the NBL; in 12 seasons at Portland his…

Earl Weaver Biography

Earl Weaver Born: Aug. 14, 1930Baseball managed the Baltimore Orioles to 6 Eastern Division titles, four AL pennants and a World Series victory in 1970; was ejected 91 times and suspended…

Marc Girardelli

Marc GirardelliBorn: July 18, 1963Luxembourg Alpine skier Austrian native who refused to join Austrian Ski Federation because he wanted to be coached by his father; won unprecedented 5th…

Gene Klein

Gene KleinBorn: Jan. 29, 1921Horseman won 3 Eclipse awards as top owner (1985-87); his filly Winning Colors won 1988 Kentucky Derby; also owned San Diego Chargers football team (1966-84).Died…

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Kenesaw Mountain LandisBorn: Nov. 20, 1866U.S. District Court judge who became first baseball commissioner (1920-44) banned eight Chicago Black Sox from baseball for life.Died: Nov. 25,…

Steve Largent

Steve LargentBorn: Sept. 28, 1954Football WR retired in 1989 after 14 years in Seattle with then NFL records in passes caught (819) and TD passes caught (100); elected to U.S. House of…

Mel Ott

Mel OttBorn: Mar. 2, 1909Baseball OF joined NY Giants at age 16; led NL in HRs 6 times; had 511 HRs and 1,860 RBI in 22 years.Died: Nov. 21, 1958Tom OsborneN - QKristin Otto

George Seifert

George SeifertBorn: Jan. 22, 1940Football coached San Francisco to a record 17 wins in his 1st season as head coach in 1989; 2-time Super Bowl-winning coach with 49ers (1989,94); returned to…

Owen Bradley 1998 Deaths

Owen Bradleymusic producer helped establish Nashville as a center for country music, producing hits like Patsy Cline's, “Crazy” and “I Fall to Pieces” and Loretta Lynn's Coal Miner's…

Robert Good 2003 Deaths

Robert GoodAge: 81 a founder of modern immunology who, in 1968, performed the world's first successful bone marrow transplant. Good's research identified the importance of the thymus in…