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Eddie Flynn
Eddie Flynn was considered by many to be the finest amateur boxer in the history of New Orleans.
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Eddie G. Robinson
With over four hundred wins, Coach Eddie G. Robinson led the Grambling State University Tigers for more than fifty years and is one of the most successful coaches in college football history.
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Eddie Morgan
A star athlete at Tulane University, Eddie Morgan played for the New Orleans Pelicans in 1927 before joining the Cleveland Indians.
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Emmett Toppino
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.
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Evangeline Baseball League
The Evangeline League was a minor league baseball circuit in southern and central Louisiana in the first half of the twentieth century.
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George Strickland
New Orleanian George Strickland spent twenty-one years as a major league baseball player.
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Ham Richardson
Ham Richardson was one of the top-rated mens tennis players in the world in the 1950s.
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Howie Pollet
Howie Pollet was one of three left-handed pitchers from the same New Orleans block to make it to baseball's major leagues.
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J. D. Mooney
Jockey J. D. Mooney was the son of a riverboat captain and horse breeder from New Orleans.
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Jimmy Perrin
Jimmy Perrin made his professional boxing debut in 1933 against Tony Feraci at the Coliseum Arena in New Orleans.
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Joe Brown
Boxer Joe Brown made his professional debut at age seventeen at the Victory Arena in New Orleans.
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Joe Delaney
Louisianan Joe Delaney played with the Kansas City Chiefs after a record-setting turn at Northwestern State in Nachitoches.
