Muhammad Ali once said “The dangerous job is sports is a ice hockey goal tender”. In early ice hockey history, goalies played without any facial protection, a practice known as “barefaced” goaltending. This reflected the sport’s culture of toughness, where protective equipment was seen as a sign of weakness and a potential hindrance to performance.… Continue reading The Man in the Mask
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The Iron Horse
Not a baseball fan as a youngest, I was more aware the the terrible condition than this person gave his name to rather than the man himself. Lou Gehrig was one of the greatest baseball players to have graced the professional diamonds. His career lastest from 1923 until 1939. He played 2,130 consecutive games with… Continue reading The Iron Horse
Origins
This is the second incarnation of this site. This time it is back with a revised format that I hope that readers will enjoy and I will enjoy posting. The idea for the site stems for a 1959 book called the ‘Encyclopedia of Sport‘* by Charles Harvey. Each sport was written by a specialist in… Continue reading Origins