Pepper Martin

RAPID REDBIRDDuring baseball's off season this restless lad played pro football. But he was best known as a big league outfielder, third baseman and pitcher. In the 1931 World Series he stole five bases and batted...

Wrestler Jim Londos (here on bottom) defeated Strangler Lewis for world title before a record 60,000 Chicago crowd.

A brash Cardinal rookie upset the A's when he ran wild on the bases in the 1931 World Series

•John Bridgers, Baylor football coach, on his school's hopes for its first Southwest Conference football championship since 1924: "It took Moses 40 years to lead the children of Israel out of the wilderness. Our goal...

•Rip Collins, on his former teammate, the late Pepper Martin, with the St. Louis Cardinals Gashouse Gang: "After he was switched from the outfield to third base, he hated for fellows to bunt to him. He was the only...