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Joe Robbie

Joe RobbieBorn: July 7, 1916Football original owner of Miami Dolphins (1966-90); won 2 Super Bowls (1973-74); built $115-million Joe Robbie Stadium (now named Pro Player Stadium) with private…

Danny Graves

Danny GravesBorn: Aug. 7, 1973Baseball RHP saved at least 30 games for the Cincinnati Reds in 2000–2002; after spending 2003 as a starter with a 4–15 record, he returned to the bullpen and…

Maurice Gibb 2003 Deaths

Maurice GibbAge: 53 songwriter and singer of the influential disco band the Bee Gees. The band, which has sold more than 120 million albums, included Maurice's twin brother, Robin, and…

Mongo Santamaria 2003 Deaths

Mongo SantamariaAge: 85 Cuban-born percussionist whose music fused American jazz and funk with Cuban sounds. He wrote the song “Afro Blue,” recorded by John Coltrane, and his version of…

Cal Abrams Biography

Cal AbramsAge: 72 probably best remembered for being thrown out at home plate as a Brooklyn Dodger in the last of the ninth in the final game of the 1950 World Series; had he scored on Duke…

Walt Whitman: Starting from Paumanok, Part 16

Part 16On my way a moment I pause, Here for you! and here for America! Still the present I raise aloft, still the future of the States I harbinge glad and sublime, And for the past I…

Greg Moore Biography

Greg MooreAge: 24 open-wheel race car driver from Canada killed during the final CART Fed-Ex Series race of the 1999 season; won five career CART races, including the Grand Prix of Miami in…

Gil Kane 2000 Deaths

Gil KaneAge: 73 self-taught comic-book artist who, in the late 1950s and early '60s, reprised classic superheroes, such as Green Lantern and Atom, for DC Comics and Marvel. He later…

Warren Mehrtens 1998 Deaths

Warren MehrtensAge: 77 one of only 10 jockeys to ride a Triple Crown winner when he rode Assault to victories in the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and Belmont in 1946; retired from racing in…

Woody Stephens 1998 Deaths

Woody StephensAge: 84 legendary thoroughbred racing trainer who won the Eclipse Award in 1983 as the nation's No. 1 trainer; his horses won five straight Belmont Stakes races in the 1980s;…