Sport Players From Your Home Town
MeteoriteGuy
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Thought it might be interested to list any sport player from your home town.
Here in Wichita, Kansas......Barry Sanders
Here in Wichita, Kansas......Barry Sanders
Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
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Also from my home town: David Wells, Don Larsen, Mark Prior, Bob Boone, Ray Boone, Gavvy Cravath, Reggie Bush, Brian Sipe, Damon & Marcus Allen, and Bill Walton.
Oh, and a fella by the name of Ted Williams
Steve
(football)
"Bullet" Bob Hayes
Leroy Butler
Edgar Bennett
Harold Carmichael
Boobie Clark
Shawn Jefferson
Kelvin Martin
Jabar Gaffney
Don Gaffney
Derrick Gaffney
david treadwell
(baseball)
chipper jones
jon papelbon
storm davis
glenn davis
vince coleman
desi relaford
rick wilkins
paul rigdon
(basketball)
dee brown
artis gilmore
otis smith
(boxing)
ray mercer
(golf)
david duval
mark mccumber
(auto racing)
LeeRoy Yarbrough
Baseball - Steve Finley
Basketball - HOF'er Joe Fulks
Football - George Wilson (Buffalo Bills)
I'm sure there's more.
Shane
Carl Lewis - went to school with him and his sister and his mother was my P.E. teacher.
Shawn Phillips of the Chargers - just learned this last week.
Greg Lusinski lived in town while he played for the Phillies.
Gorilla Monsoon (Bob Marella) - went to school with his cheerleader daughter. He bought her a brand new Trans Am for high school graduation in 1978.
<< <i>a few..
(football)
"Bullet" Bob Hayes
Leroy Butler
Edgar Bennett
Harold Carmichael
Boobie Clark
Shawn Jefferson
Kelvin Martin
Jabar Gaffney
Don Gaffney
Derrick Gaffney
david treadwell
(baseball)
chipper jones
jon papelbon
storm davis
glenn davis
vince coleman
desi relaford
rick wilkins
paul rigdon
(basketball)
dee brown
artis gilmore
otis smith
(boxing)
ray mercer
(golf)
david duval
mark mccumber
(auto racing)
LeeRoy Yarbrough >>
heh, heh...you said Boobie...heh, heh
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Chet Hoff is the longest lived ex-major leaguer and was last person alive to have played in the 1910s. At the time of his death, he was 107 years, 4 months
Steve
collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.
looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started
<< <i>Meteor- Gale Sayers was also from Wichita, most be something in the water. >>
Yeah, that's right. A few other lesser names athletics as well, but sorry for the missing your name Sayers.
Clear Skies,
Mark
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
Shaun Livingston
Jim Thome
Joe Girardi
Jack Brickhouse
Darryl Ashmore
Dick Jauron
Ralph Lawler
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Magic Johnson
John Smoltz
Magic's parents live about a mile from me in a beautiful home that Magic had built for them.
Smoltz is honored at a local Applebee's restaurant with a signed and framed jersey hanging on the wall.
It's hard to top this list in baseball:
Hank Aaron
Satchell Paige
Billy Williams
Ozzie Smith
Willie McCovey
Amos Otis
The Bolling brothers
Tommie Aaron
Juan Pierre
Jake Peavy
Football:
JaMarcus Russell #1 draft pick
Willie Anderson #1 draft pick
Robert Brazile
Chris Samuels #2 overall draft pick
Leon Lett
Keith McCants
Sherman Williams
Scott Hunter
Ken Stabler
Vince Dooley
And how can you not like a place where Jimmy Buffet was born.
Pete Rose, Barry Larkin, Ken Griffey Jr. to name a few
Tom Goodwin-- Peoria High --Played in the 70's for the Minnesota Twins.
Eddie Sutter -- Richwoods -- Thiink he graduated in 87. Punter for the Cleveland Browns.
Matt Savoie -- Olympic ice skater --- not a fan, but still an accomplishment.
Kirby Puckett played at least a year of college ball at Bradley
Hersey Hawkins -- played at Bradley then decent pro career
Marcus Pollard - Colt/Seahawks TE -- played basketball at Bradley
Dick Jauron was born in Peoria
Carla McGhee -- I believe played at Manual and was Olympic basketball player
I'm sure there's more, but can't think of any right now
I won't go into all the players that have played for the Peoria Chiefs. Cubs and Cardinals "A" team for the last 20 years. Many pros including Grace, Maddux, and Pujols to name a few. Prior to that it was the Angels and I can only think of Devon White as being the only one that made a name for himself.
<< <i>Don, I was born and raised in Peoria...just moved down to Springfield 3 years ago. I went to grade school and high school with Ashmore...what a great guy! You missed a couple of names though....although not as well known.
Tom Goodwin-- Peoria High --Played in the 70's for the Minnesota Twins.
Eddie Sutter -- Richwoods -- Thiink he graduated in 87. Punter for the Cleveland Browns.
Matt Savoie -- Olympic ice skater --- not a fan, but still an accomplishment.
Kirby Puckett played at least a year of college ball at Bradley
Hersey Hawkins -- played at Bradley then decent pro career
Marcus Pollard - Colt/Seahawks TE -- played basketball at Bradley
Dick Jauron was born in Peoria
Carla McGhee -- I believe played at Manual and was Olympic basketball player
I'm sure there's more, but can't think of any right now
I won't go into all the players that have played for the Peoria Chiefs. Cubs and Cardinals "A" team for the last 20 years. Many pros including Grace, Maddux, and Pujols to name a few. Prior to that it was the Angels and I can only think of Devon White as being the only one that made a name for himself. >>
Didn't Wally Joyner play for the Chiefs/Suns for a bit? And Jerome Walton? I didn't mention Hawkins, Pollard, and Puckett since they weren't raised in the area. Thanks for some of the additional names that I missed.
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Jim French - catcher Washington Senators, late 60s-early 70s
I used to put up hay for his father.
My actual hometown:
Kelly Slater- 8 time ASP world champion surfer.
Damien Hobgood- Consistently a top 10 surfer in the world.
CJ Hobgood- Damien's twin brother and the 2001 ASP world tour champion.
Ryan Ludwick- OF for the Cardinals
Leonard Weaver- Starting FB for the Seahawks
Matt Skrmetta- Journeyman pitcher that spent some time with the Expos in the majors but was an all star in Japan I believe.
Area:
Prince Fielder- Brewers. His senior year in high school, I was 11 and he coached me at the high school's summer camp. I also was at the game where he hit a 500 ft. homerun. It cleared the 4 lane highway behind the stadium and hit a convenience store I believe. I went to middle school with his younger sister and was able to visit their house once. Batting cage, tennis court, an indoor half basketball court, and a movie theater!
Tim Wakefield- Red Sox. Alumni from the same college as my dad, Florida Tech. I wasn't even alive when he played for FL Tech, but my dad went to quite a few games and he says that Wakefield was one of the nations top FIRST BASEMAN. The stadium is also named after him. Dad also used to work with his dad before he was able to retire about 5+ years ago.
Reggie Nelson- S Jaguars
Xavier Carter- Sprinter/ WR for LSU. He chose to forego his junior and senior years to compete on track 100%. In 2006 he was the first person since Jesse Owens to win 4 gold medals at the NCAA national championships in one year.
tra thomas=deland,eagles r.t.
vince carter=daytona bch
rascheen mathis=daytona bch. jags c.b.
safety or d.b. from the chargers,cant remember his name,starter to
wes chandler=n.s.bch.
all 20 minutes from port orange where i live.
Needs'
1972 Football-9's high#'s
1965 Football-8's
1958 Topps FB-7-8
chipper jones
pandrews you must be in my area as well???
central fl.?
Needs'
1972 Football-9's high#'s
1965 Football-8's
1958 Topps FB-7-8
bob sanders colts
mark stepnoski norml and cowboys
bruce baumgartner 4X olympic medalist wrestler
there's been a few others who made the "pros" but these are really the only ones most sports fans have heard of.
A guy I played against in high school turned out to be a pretty good player in the NBA until he was given a lifetime ban for repeated drug use. The #4 selection in the 1978 NBA draft [taken by the Knicks], Michael "Suger Ray" Richardson. Sugar Ray quickly became an All Star and would have been a Hall Of Fame player if drugs had not cut his NBA career short. After he got banned from the NBA he played overseas in Europe until he retired at age 44 in 2000. From what I understand, he got his life back on track in Europe, got married, had kids, and came back to the States. Do not know what he is doing now, though I think he wanted to do something for the Nuggets in some capacity.