Boxing match at Convalescent Depot, Trouville, France, 17th August 1918
Born 110 years ago today, Red Grange carries the ball in his professional debut for the Chicago Bears in front of 39,000 people on Thanksgiving Day 1925. (Average attendances were around 5,000 up to that point)
Sugar Ray Robinson vs Kid Gavilan – 1948
The first ever team photo in baseball history, 1858
1912 World Series
Gerald Ford (left jumper), future 38th US President, playing basketball in elevator well of light aircraft carrier USS Monterey, 1944
1903 World Series at Huntington Avenue Grounds in Boston. Visible in the far right is the South End Grounds
Mickey Mantle flings his batting helmet in disgust after a lousy at-bat, Yankee Stadium, 1965
Lew Alcindor blocking a shot during a high school basketball game. 1964
Testing football helmets in 1912
Rocky Marciano vs Jersey Joe Walcottt 1952
View from the stands at game 4 of the first World Series, October 6th, 1903 at Exposition Park in Pittsburgh
Members of the “Stealth Bomber” football squad at Gallaudet University, 1920. It was the first university for the deaf and they started the idea of the football huddle so other teams couldn’t see their signs
Georgia Tech vs Auburn Thanksgiving Football Game (1921)
A boxing match between Ray Campbell and Dick Hyland”, 3rd May 1913
“Football team.” Circa 1895-1910
USA men’s tug of war team, 1908 Olympics in London
Boxing Match At Yankee Stadium, 1923
Actress Jean Harlow poses with boxer Primo Carnera, 1933
Ty Cobb signing an autograph while on a baseball tour in England, 1929
Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) defeats Sonny Liston; 25th February 1964
1899 Michigan Wolverines football team
Joe Louis vs Max Schmeling – 1938
NY Yankee Babe Ruth with concussion after colliding with concrete wall, July 5th, 1924; Ruth hit a home run the following day
Jesse Owens crosses the finish line in Berlin to win the 100-meter sprint, one of four events in which Owens won gold medals at the 1936 Olympics, while Nazi propaganda was using the Games of that year to promote concepts of “Aryan racial superiority”. August 3 1936
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