Willie Howard Mays, Jr. is a former professional baseball player who played the
majority of his major league career with the New York and San Francisco Giants
before finishing with the New York Mets. Mays was elected to the Baseball Hall
of Fame in 1979, his first year of eligibility. He is considered by many to be the
greatest all-around player of all time. Mays won two MVP awards and tied Stan
Musial’s record with 24 appearances in the All-Star Game. He ended his career
with 660 home runs.

Kyle Thomas Busch is a NASCAR driver and team owner. He currently drives the No.
18 Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs racing in the Sprint Cup Series (shown below), and the 
the No.18 Toyota in the Nationwide Series. He also drives the No. 18 Toyota Tundra for his own team, Kyle Bush Motorsports, in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Kyle currently holds the record for most NASCAR wins in a season between the top three NASCAR series with 21, which he accomplished in 2008. He is also the only NASCAR driver to win races in two of its national touring series on the same day, winning the Truck Series and Nationwide Series races held on February 21, 2009. Kyle is the younger brother of driver Kurt Bush.

Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig (June 19, 1903 – June 2, 1941), was a Major League Baseball first baseman. He played his 17-year baseball career entirely with the New
York Yankees (1923-1939). His career was cut short by ALS, now commonly known
as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Gehrig holds the record for most career gland slams at
23 total. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939. In 1941 Lou Gehrig
died of the neuromuscular disease at the age of 37. He was voted the greatest first baseman of all time in 1969 by the Baseball Writer’s Association.

Dale Earnhardt, Sr. (April 29, 1951 – February 18, 2001). The stock car
racing legend died in a final-lap crash during the 2001 Daytona 500. He has 
been inducted in numerous halls of fame, including the inaugural class of the
NASCAR Hall of Fame. 

ABC’s Wide World of Sports is a sports anthology series that ran from April 29, 1961
to August 26, 1998 on the ABC television network and was originally hosted by Jim McKay (below). The title continued to be used for general sports programs until 2006.

Jim McKay

Howard Cosell with Muhammad Ali in 1972

Left to right: Al Michaels and Chris Economaki