Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi  

                   (June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970)

Vince Lombardi was a football coach best remembered as the head
coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s, where he led the
team to three straight league championships and five in seven years,
including winning the first two Super Bowls following the 1966 and
1967 NFL seasons. The National Football League‘s Super Bowl
trophy is named in his honor. He was enshrined in the NFL’s Pro
Football Hall of Fame in 1971.   
  

The Vince Lombardi Trophy

Philadelphia Warriors were the first NBA Champs when the league was
known as BAA (Basketball Association of America).

The Basketball Association of America (BAA) was a professional basketball
league founded in New York City. Maurice Podoloff (below), who was already
serving as president of the American Hockey League, was appointed president
of the BAA, becoming the first person to simultaneously lead two professional
leagues. The league merged with the National Basketball League (NBL) in
1949, forming the National Basketball Association (NBA).

 

Maurice Podoloff

"Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888" is a
baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer. It was first published in
The San Francisco Examiner on June 3, 1888, it was later popularized
by DeWolf Hopper in many vaudeville performances.The poem was
originally published anonymously (under the pen name "Phin",
based on Thayer’s college nickname, "Phineas").

Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863-1940)

James Earl Jones

Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra is a former American Major League Baseball catcher,
outfielder, and manager. He played most his entire 19-year baseball career (1946- 
1965) for the New York Yankees. Berra was one of only four players to be named
the Most Valuable Player of the American League three times and is one of only
six managers to lead both American and National League teams to the World
Series. As a player, coach, or manager, Berra appeared in 21 World Series. He
was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.
 
 

   Frank James (Gary) Cooper (May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) 

Cooper’s career spanned from 1925 until shortly before his death in
1961, with more than one hundred films to his credit. He received five
 Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, winning twice for Sergeant
York and High Noon. He also received an Honorary Award in 1961 from
the Academy.

The American Film Institute’s 100 Years…100 Stars ranked cooper at 
#11 among males from the Classical Hollywood cinema period. In 2003,
his performances as Will Kane in High Noon (1952), Lou Gehrig in The
Pride of the Yankees (1942), and Alvin York in Sergeant York (1941) 
made the AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Heroes and Villains list, all of them
as heroes.

Gary Cooper in Sergeant York

Cooper in High Noon