Bigger Than the Game: Bo, Boz, The Punky QB and How the ’80s Created the Modern Athlete

September 17, 2010 by Brandon Williams · Leave a Comment

In a span of 366 days, four players changed the landscape of sports as we know it. Without the use of a hot tub time machine, author Michael Weinreb takes us back to 1986 in Bigger Than the Game: Bo, Boz, The Punky QB and How the ’80s Created the Modern Athlete, a remarkable study […]

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Elmer Gedeon – A True Hero of World War II

July 13, 2010 by Gary Bedingfield · 3 Comments

Elmer Gedeon, nephew of former American League infielder Joe Gedeon, was a three-sport star at the University of Michigan and a major league outfielder in the 1930s. He is one of only two players with major league experience to be killed while serving his country during World War II. Elmer J. Gedeon was born in […]

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