2014 Black History Month Sports Thread

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Eddie Tolan

Thomas Edward "Eddie" Tolan (September 29, 1908 – January 30/31, 1967),[1][2] nicknamed the "Midnight Express", was an American track and field athlete who competed in sprints. He set world records in the 100 yard dash and 100 meters event and Olympic records in the 100 meters and 200 meters events. He was the first non Euro-American to receive the title of the "world's fastest human" after winning gold medals in the 100 and 200 meters events at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

 

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]Althea Gibson, Wilma Rudolph, Flo-Jo

 

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Willie O’Ree

Willie O’Ree broke the color barrier on the ice when he was hired by the Quebec Aces, a minor-league team affiliated with the Boston Bruins, in 1956.

 

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Larry Doby, 2nd black player in the majors(first in the American League), second manager behind Frank Robinson, Hofer

 

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1975 NBA Finals, coached by two black coaches, Al Attles and KC Jones, Warriors vs Bullets





Ernie Davis, first AA to win Heisman Trophy

 

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Oliver Lewis (1856–1924) was an African-American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. In 1875, Lewis rode in the very first Kentucky Derby on the winning horse, Aristides. Lewis and Aristides took second place in the Belmont Stakes, which is now the third race of the Triple Crown.

 

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Alice Coachman, a star track and field athlete at Tuskegee Institute, became the first black woman to win Olympic gold, setting records with her high jump at the 1948 Olympics in London. Coachman, who dominated her sport, would likely have won more medals if the 1940 and 1944 Olympics had not been canceled due to World War II.

 

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Andrew "Rube" Foster (September 17, 1879 – December 9, 1930) was an American baseball player, manager, and pioneer executive in the Negro leagues. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981.
Foster, considered by historians to have been perhaps the best African-American pitcher of the first decade of the 1900s, also founded and managed the Chicago American Giants, one of the most successful black baseball teams of the pre-integration era. Most notably, he organized the Negro National League, the first long-lasting professional league for African-American ballplayers, which operated from 1920 to 1931. He is known as the "father of Black Baseball."[4]

 

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Black Quarterbacks

Merlin 'the magician' Briscoe

'Jefferson Street' Joe Gilliam

 

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Joe Gilliam was a legend

 

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Well black history month is over.Thanks to all who dropped knowledge