Sports
- Irving Baxter, winner of two gold medals and three silver medals at the 1900 Paris Olympics
- Anita DeFrantz, 1976 women's eight-oared shell bronze medalist, the first woman and the first African-American to represent the United States on the International Olympic Committee, IOC's first female vice president, and chair of the Commission on Women and Sports.
- Marvin Goldklang, Minority owner of the New York Yankees
- John Heisman, American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball, for whom the Heisman Trophy is named.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)