Sports & Recreation
Eddie Flynn
Eddie Flynn was considered by many to be the finest amateur boxer in the history of New Orleans.
Eddie Flynn was considered by many to be the finest amateur boxer in the history of New Orleans.
A star athlete at Tulane University, Eddie Morgan played for the New Orleans Pelicans in 1927 before joining the Cleveland Indians.
Martin Emmett Toppino was a champion sprinter from New Orleans who won a gold medal at the 1932 Olympics as a member of the US 400-meter relay team.
The Evangeline League was a minor league baseball circuit in southern and central Louisiana in the first half of the twentieth century.
New Orleanian George Strickland spent twenty-one years as a major league baseball player.
Ham Richardson was one of the top-rated mens tennis players in the world in the 1950s.
Howie Pollet was one of three left-handed pitchers from the same New Orleans block to make it to baseball's major leagues.
Jockey J. D. Mooney was the son of a riverboat captain and horse breeder from New Orleans.
Jimmy Perrin made his professional boxing debut in 1933 against Tony Feraci at the Coliseum Arena in New Orleans.
Boxer Joe Brown made his professional debut at age seventeen at the Victory Arena in New Orleans.
Louisianan Joe Delaney played with the Kansas City Chiefs after a record-setting turn at Northwestern State in Nachitoches.
Despite growing up in a region where football was king, Shreveport native Joe Dumars enjoyed a successful career as a player and executive in the NBA.
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