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On September 4, 1993, Jim Abbott stood on the mound at Yankee Stadium with something to prove — not to the 27,225 fans in the...
On April 19, 1967, twenty-year-old Kathrine Switzer pinned bib number 261 to her gray sweatshirt and lined up at the start of the Boston Marathon...
In the early 1950s, Blanche Rudolph drove ninety miles round trip each week from Clarksville, Tennessee, to Meharry Medical College in Nashville — one of...
On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister stepped onto the cinder track at Iffley Road in Oxford, England, attempting what no human had ever done —...
On October 16, 1969, fans at Shea Stadium in New York City rushed the field in delirious celebration. The New York Mets — a franchise...
The Georgia Dome roared with 32,000 voices on July 23, 1996, as eighteen-year-old Kerri Strug stood at the end of the vault runway in Atlanta....
On the morning of May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister nearly stayed home. Wind gusted across the Iffley Road Track in Oxford, England, and the twenty-five-year-old...
On October 20, 1968, seventy-five runners launched into the Olympic marathon through the thin air of Mexico City. The altitude — over 7,300 feet —...
On March 21, 1965, approximately 3,200 marchers set out from Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, walking toward the state capitol in Montgomery. They...
On September 4, 1993, Jim Abbott stood on the mound at Yankee Stadium and did something only a handful of pitchers in baseball history have...
On March 4, 1993, Jim Valvano shuffled to the podium at Madison Square Garden. The man who had sprinted across the court ten years earlier,...
On September 4, 1993, Jim Abbott stood on the mound at Yankee Stadium and did what only a handful of pitchers in baseball history have...
On October 16, 1969, fifty-seven thousand fans packed Shea Stadium in Queens, New York, to witness something the sports world had declared impossible. The New...
On September 2, 1960, in Rome's Stadio Olimpico, a young woman from Clarksville, Tennessee crouched in the starting blocks of the 100-meter final. Wilma Rudolph...
On the evening of September 30, 1962, James Meredith sat in a dormitory room at the University of Mississippi while a mob of over two...
On the blustery evening of May 6, 1954, a twenty-five-year-old medical student named Roger Bannister stood at the starting line of the Iffley Road Track...
On July 23, 1996, eighteen-year-old Kerri Strug stood at the end of the vault runway in Atlanta's Georgia Dome, barely able to stand. Moments earlier,...
On the night of June 12, 1963, Myrlie Evers heard the crack of a rifle outside her home in Jackson, Mississippi. She rushed out and...
On August 3, 1992, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semi-final at the Barcelona Olympics. He had waited years for this moment,...
On March 4, 1993, Jim Valvano could barely walk to the podium at Madison Square Garden. The former NC State basketball coach, diagnosed with metastatic...
On April 19, 1967, twenty-year-old Kathrine Switzer pinned bib number 261 to her sweatshirt and lined up at the start of the Boston Marathon. She...
On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers set out from Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, demanding voting rights. They made it only to...
In May 1952, in a basement laboratory at King's College London, Rosalind Franklin aimed a beam of X-rays at a strand of DNA and waited....