The larger-than-life Wilt Chamberlain made two appearances at Brown County Arena in 1959, and squared off against some familiar names.

Jenkins was joined by his children and fellow ex-big league pitcher Bill Atkinson on the mound for a ceremony retiring his No ...

April 15, 1947, is the continental divide of baseball, I wrote in The Sporting News 10 years ago. All things that came before flow one direction, all that have come afterward flow another.

Pitcher Bob Gibson, whose dominance in the 1960s ... and track and field at Creighton University and played for the Harlem Globetrotters in 1957 before signing with the Cardinals and starting ...

Bob Gibson: The Hall of Fame hurler also played basketball while in college at Creighton, averaging more than 20 points per game in his career. When he graduated college, he got offers from both the ...

(WNDU) - Meadowlark Lemon and Curly Neal may be long gone, but the Harlem Globetrotters are forever ... Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitchers Bob Gibson and Ferguson Jenkins, just to name ...

Longtime Pirates broadcaster Bob Prince had a nickname for Bob Veale’s fastball ... Veale had an opportunity to play for the Harlem Globetrotters, though his father would not agree to it. Instead, he ...

The famous story about Bob Veale, one Steve Blass loves to ... who also coached the Harlem Globetrotters, Veale’s father would not allow his son to play for the traveling basketball team.

“I’ve been wrong,” Harlem Globetrotters founder and coach Abe Saperstein once ... He looks great. Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson was a Globetrotter for a season. Hank Aaron played for one of ...

Bob Gibson ranks as the greatest pitcher in Cardinals' history ... An outstanding athlete, Gibson played with the Harlem Globetrotters before arriving in St. Louis to stay in 1961. Three years later, ...

"Bob Gibson produced one of the most decorated pitching careers ... In 1957, even after signing with the Cardinals to play baseball, he suited up for the splashy, flashy Harlem Globetrotters, a ...