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American baseball player
Babe Ruth was chosen as one of the first five members of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936, a year after he finished his career. He transformed baseball through his home-run hitting, which produced an...
Dominican baseball player
José Ramírez is a Dominican professional baseball player who is among the most underappreciated superstars in Major League Baseball (MLB). Ramírez, the face of the Cleveland Guardians franchise, has played...
American baseball player
Darryl Strawberry is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) player who burst onto the scene in the 1980s with seemingly limitless potential. Despite being Rookie of the Year and named to eight All-Star teams,...
American baseball player
Bryce Harper is a superstar Major League Baseball (MLB) player who has won a pair of National League (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards. Touted as the next big thing in baseball since he was 16 years...
American football player
Tim Tebow is a former American football player who was a dominant dual-threat quarterback at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, where he won a Heisman Trophy and led the team to two national championships....
American sportscaster
Vin Scully was an American sports broadcaster recognized by the American Sportscasters Association as the top in his field of all time. Starting out in Brooklyn and following the team to Los Angeles in...
American baseball player
Shoeless Joe Jackson was considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time, especially known for his hitting. His career batting average of .356 ranks among the highest in Major League Baseball....
Dominican baseball player
Juan Soto is a superstar outfielder who is considered by many to be a generational baseball talent and whose hitting prowess has been compared to that of the great Ted Williams. In 2024 Soto signed a 15-year,...
American Canadian baseball player
Freddie Freeman is a professional baseball player and star first baseman whose successful career track makes him a likely future candidate for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. A sweet-swinging...
American baseball player
Aaron Judge is a professional baseball player for the New York Yankees (2016– ) who in 2022 set the American League record for the most home runs hit in a season. His 62 home runs broke the 61-year-old...
American athlete
Jackie Robinson was the first Black baseball player to play in the American major leagues during the 20th century. On April 15, 1947, Robinson broke the decades-old “color line” of Major League Baseball...
American baseball player
George Brett is an American baseball player for the Kansas City Royals known for hitting .390 in 1980, at the time the highest batting average since Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941. The youngest of four...
American baseball umpire
As a girl growing up on Long Island, New York, Jen Pawol wanted to play Little League, but that wasn’t what girls in the 1980s did, so she played softball instead. In the spring of 2024 Pawol umpired her...
American baseball player
Clayton Kershaw is an American former professional baseball player who is among the sport’s best pitchers, winning three Cy Young Awards (2011, 2013, and 2014). He helped the Los Angeles Dodgers win the...
American baseball player
Dave Winfield is the only person to have been drafted by teams in Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the American Basketball Association (ABA), and the National Football...
American baseball manager
Tommy Lasorda was an American professional baseball player (1954–56) and manager, notably with the Major League Baseball (MLB) team Los Angeles Dodgers from 1976 to 1996. He molded the Dodgers into one...
Japanese baseball player
Ichiro Suzuki is a Japanese baseball player who amassed the most total hits across all professional baseball leagues in the history of the sport. He was notably also the first non-pitcher to shift from...
American baseball player
Pete Alonso is a slugging first baseman for the New York Mets who holds the record for most home runs by a rookie (53) and who is also famous for his prodigious “moon shots.” He is called the “Polar Bear”...
Venezuelan baseball player
Omar Vizquel is considered one of the greatest fielding infielders in the history of baseball. The Venezuelan shortstop won 11 Gold Glove awards (1993–2001, 2005–06) during his 24 seasons in Major League...
American baseball player
Paul Skenes is a star baseball pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, with a fastball that exceeds 100 mph (160 km/hr) and a “splinker” pitch that befuddles hitters. In 2024 he became the fifth rookie pitcher...
American baseball executive
Billy Beane is a Major League Baseball (MLB) executive who helped revolutionize the sport by challenging longtime ways to measure players’ performance during his time as general manager of the Oakland...
American baseball player
Seattle Mariners star catcher Cal Raleigh’s 2025 season is one for the history books. In order to understand what the stocky slugger has done, it helps to understand those whose history he has rewritten....
Venezuelan baseball player
Ronald Acuña, Jr. is a superstar baseball outfielder for the Atlanta Braves who is the only player in Major League Baseball history to hit at least 40 homers and steal at least 70 bases in a single season....
American baseball player
Paul Goldschmidt is an American slugging first baseman who rose from being a relatively unknown professional baseball prospect to being named, at age 35, the 2022 Most Valuable Player of Major League Baseball’s...
American baseball player
Mookie Betts is an American professional baseball player known for his all-around play, winning multiple Silver Slugger and Gold Glove awards. He won four World Series titles, one with the Boston Red Sox...
American baseball player
Nolan Arenado is a professional baseball player considered to be one of the best all-around third basemen in Major League Baseball (MLB). An elite infielder, Arenado won the Gold Glove Award in each of...
American football and baseball player
Deion Sanders is an American gridiron football player, baseball player, and football coach who is the only person to have played in both a Super Bowl and a World Series. Known for his flashy personality...
American baseball player
Albert Pujols is a Dominican-born American professional baseball player who was one of the most prolific hitters of the early 21st century. Pujols was introduced to baseball early in life by his father,...
American baseball player and broadcaster
Ralph Kiner was one of the most prolific home-run hitters in the major leagues during the 1940s and ’50s. At the time of his retirement from baseball in 1955, he ranked sixth in career home runs with 369,...
American baseball player and manager
Tony La Russa is a former professional baseball manager who led his teams to three World Series titles (1989, 2006, and 2011) and is one of the winningest managers in major league history. La Russa’s managerial...
Dominican American baseball player
Manny Ramirez is a Dominican American professional baseball player who is considered one of the greatest right-handed hitters in the history of the game. Ramirez left the Dominican Republic in 1985 for...
American entrepreneur
Ted Turner is an American broadcasting entrepreneur, philanthropist, sportsman, and environmentalist who founded a media empire that included several television channels that he created, notably CNN. (Read...
American baseball player
Dwight Gooden was a phenomenal right-handed pitcher who helped rejuvenate the New York Mets in the 1980s and lead the team to the World Series championship in 1986. Fans and players alike marveled at Gooden’s...
American baseball player and manager
Ted Williams was an American professional baseball player who compiled a lifetime batting average of .344 as an outfielder with the American League Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960. He was the last player...
American baseball player
Alex Rodriguez is an American professional baseball player, a noted power hitter who was considered one of the greatest talents in the history of the sport but whose career was in many ways overshadowed...
American baseball player
Curt Schilling is an American professional baseball player who emerged as a leading pitcher in the 1990s and helped both the Arizona Diamondbacks (2001) and the Boston Red Sox (2004 and 2007) win the World...
Venezuelan baseball player
Miguel Cabrera is a Venezuelan professional baseball player who was one of the premier hitters of his era. As a teenager Cabrera was one of the most sought-after baseball prospects in South America. He...
American sports executive
Bud Selig is an American businessman who served as the de facto (1992–98) and official (1998–2015) commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB). After earning a bachelor’s degree in history and political...
American baseball player
Mike Trout is an American baseball centre fielder who was one of the sport’s best all-around players of the early 21st century. Trout was a baseball star at Millville (New Jersey) High School, and his...
American baseball player
Phil Niekro was arguably the greatest knuckleball pitcher in the history of Major League Baseball (MLB). He employed the pitch—which has become a rarity and is difficult to master but is less taxing on...
American athlete
Jim Thorpe was one of the most accomplished all-around athletes in history who in 1950 was selected by American sportswriters and broadcasters as the greatest American athlete and the greatest gridiron...
Japanese baseball player
Daisuke Matsuzaka is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher who became a star player in both Japan and the United States. In 2007, his first season of Major League Baseball (MLB), he helped the Boston...
American baseball player
Tim Lincecum is an American baseball player who was a star pitcher for the San Francisco Giants in the early 21st century. He earned the nickname “The Freak” for his unconventional pitching delivery that...
American baseball player
Roberto Clemente was a professional baseball player who was an idol in his native Puerto Rico and one of the first Latin American baseball stars in the United States (see also Sidebar: Latin Americans...
Japanese baseball player
Sadaharu Oh is a professional baseball player who played for the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants in the Japanese Central League for 22 seasons between 1959 and 1980 and who holds the record for the most home runs...
American lawyer and businessman
Jerry Reinsdorf is an American lawyer and businessman who was the majority owner of the Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox sports franchises. After graduating from George Washington University (B.A.,...
American baseball and football player
Bo Jackson is an American athlete who starred for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball and the Los Angeles Raiders of the National Football League (NFL) during his short but storied professional...
American baseball player, coach, and manager
Ozzie Guillen is a Venezuelan-born American professional baseball player, coach, and manager, known for being outspoken and unpredictable and, as manager of the American League (AL) Chicago White Sox,...
American baseball player
Mark McGwire is an American professional baseball player, considered one of the most powerful hitters in the history of the game. In 1998 he set a major league record for most home runs in a season (70),...
American baseball player
Derek Jeter is an American professional baseball player who, as a shortstop for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB), was selected to multiple American League (AL) All-Star teams and was...
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