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Northeastern Oklahoma A&M: 5 football players were killed in a head-on highway crash (1966). Marshall: 37 members died in an airplane crash (1970). Wichita State: most of the starting players and coaches, 31 in total, died in an airplane crash (1970). Cal Poly Mustangs football team: 16 players and 6 others died in an airplane crash (1960).
Aristotle George "Harry" Agganis (April 20, 1929 – June 27, 1955), nicknamed "The Golden Greek", [1] was an American college football player and professional baseball player. After passing up a potential professional football career, he played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman from 1954 to 1955 for the Boston Red Sox .
Vincent Edward "Bo" Jackson (born November 30, 1962) is an American former professional baseball and football player. He is the only professional athlete in history to be named an All-Star in two major North American sports. [1]
Bob Uecker, whose self-deprecating wit helped him parlay a mediocre baseball career into stardom as a broadcaster, actor and pitchman for beer from his hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, died on ...
Tiant went 21-12 with a 3.06 ERA in 1976. Over eight seasons with the Red Sox, he went 122-81 with a 3.36 ERA and earning All-Star nods in 1974 and 1976.
Major League Baseball Hall of Famer and former Oakland Athletics star Rickey Henderson has died. He was 65. The 1990 American League MVP died of pneumonia on Friday, Dec. 20, in the Oakland, Calif ...
Gerry Demos Collis (June 3, 1930 – January 24, 2024), sometimes spelled Jerry Collis, was an American football and baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Bakersfield College in Bakersfield, California from 1967 to 1983, compiling a record of 121–49–2.
He played football at Carson-Newman from 1971 to 1973 and baseball in 1973, and was an NAIA All-American both sports. ... who spent 42 years as college football coach, dies at 72. Show comments.