Laura Baugh, at the age of 16, won the United States Women’s Amateur Golf
tournament. She was the youngest winner in the history of the tournament.

Laura Baugh earned 66 top 10 finishes as a professional golfer and was
Rookie of the Year in 1973. Today she operates the Laura Baugh Golf 
Workshops for women. She turned 57 in May.

 

Bill Hinds and Jeff Millar

Tank McNamara is a daily syndicated comic strip written by Jeff Millar and illustrated
by Bill Hinds. The title character is a local sports television reporter who used to be
a defensive lineman in the National Football League. The strip focuses primarily
on contemporary athletics and related subjects like politics and and social issues.

The Basketball Association of America (BAA) was founded in 1946, by owners
of the major ice hockey arenas in the Northeastern and Midwestern United
States and Canada. The league adopted the name National Basketball
Association (NBA) in 1949 after merging with the rival National Basketball
League (NBL). The NBA was born with ten teams from the BAA and seven
teams from the NBL.

1949

African American track star Jesse Owens participated in the 1936 Summer
Olympics in Berlin, Germany, where he achieved international fame by
winning four gold medals. The first medal was for the 100m sprint on
August 3rd, defeating Ralph Metcalfe.

               
                    James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (1913-1980)