Jack Hamlin of the Gresham, Oregon baseball team

Ty Cobb, nicknamed “The Georgia Peach”, spent 22 seasons with the
Detroit Tigers, the last six as the team’s player-manager and finished
his career with the Philadelphia Athletics. He received the most votes
of any player on the inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, 222 out
of a possible 226, in 1936. Cobb is widely credited with setting 90
Major League Baseball records during his career.

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.