THE 1960s: SPORTS: DEATHS

John Franklin ("Home Run") Baker, 77, from 1911 to 1914 led the American League in home runs, 28 June 1963.

Jack Barry, 73, former shortstop for the Philadelphia Athletics, 23 April 1961.

Tony Bettenhausen, 44, racing driver, killed while testing a car at the Indianapolis Speedway, 12 May 1961.

Maureen Connolly Brinker, 34, the first woman to win a tennis "grand slam" (the national championships of the U.S., Great Britain, France, and Australia), 21 June 1969.

Jimmy Bryan, 33, race car driver and former winner of the Indianapolis 500, of injuries suffered in racing accident, 19 June 1960.

Primo Camera, 60, Italian-born boxer who won the heavyweight title in 1933 from Jack Sharkey and then lost it in 1934 to Max Baer, 29 June 1967.

Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb, 74, played with the Detroit Tigers for 22 years; the first member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, 17 July 1961.

Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, 59, former catcher for the Philadelphia Athletics and manager from 1934 to 1939 of the Detroit Tigers, 28 June 1962.

Samuel Earl ("Wahoo Sam") Crawford, 88, at the time of his death the only baseball player to have led both leagues in home runs, 15 June 1968.

Ernest R. ("Ernie") Davis, 23, former halfback at Syracuse University and the first black player to win the Heisman Trophy, died of leukemia, 18 May 1963.

Charles ("Chuck") Walter Dressen, 67, major-league baseball manager, 10 August 1966.

James E. ("Sunny Jim") Fitzsimmons, 91, the "grand old man of horse racing," trained Gallant Fox and Omaha, winners of the 1930 and 1935 Triple Crown, 11 March 1966.

James ("Jimmy") Emory Foxx, 59, played for the Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies, the Boston Red Sox, and the Chicago Cubs and was ranked third in career home runs (534), 21 July 1967.

Walter Hagen, 76, the leading professional golfer of the 1920s, 5 October 1969.

Ray Harroun, 89, winner of the first Indianapolis 500 in 1911 and inventor of the "hot spot" carburetor and pressed-steel auto wheels, 19 January 1968.

Sonja Henie, 57, Olympic figure-skating champion who went on to star in motion pictures and Hollywood Ice Revues, 12 October 1969.

Maximilian Justice ("Max") Hirsch, 88, leading horse trainer, 3 April 1969.

Rogers Hornsby, 66, won the National League batting title seven times in 23 years and was considered by many to be baseball's greatest right-handed batter, 5 January 1963.

Edward Britt ("Ted") Husing, 60, noted radio sports announcer, 10 August 1962.

Fred Hutchinson, 45, major-league manager and former pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, 12 November 1964.

Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, 77, Olympic swimmer who introduced the flutter kick, the one-time holder of every freestyle record up to one-half mile, 22 January 1968.

John Joseph Keane, 55, baseball coach and manager who was responsible for the 1964 rise of the Saint Louis Cardinals, 7 January 1967.

Ernie Knox, 26, boxer, died in the ring in Baltimore, Maryland, 16 October 1963.

Curley ("Earl") Lambeau, 67, one of the founders of the National Football League and coach for 31 years of the Green Bay Packers, 1 June 1965.

Anthony ("Champagne Tony") Lema, 32, professional golfer who won most of the major U.S. tournaments and was ranked tenth in official money earnings, died in a plane crash, 24 July 1966.

Eugene Allen ("Big Daddy") Lipscomb, 31, well-known football player, died of an overdose of heroin, 10 May 1963.

Dave MacDonald, 26, race-car driver, 30 May 1964.

Jack Mara, 57, president for 29 years of the New York Giants, helped to develop football into a leading spectator sport, 29 June 1965.

Rocky Marciano (Rocco Marchegiano), 45, former undefeated world heavyweight boxing champion, died in a plane crash, 31 August 1969.

George Preston Marshall, 72, owner and retired president of the Washington Redskins, 9 August 1969.

Bobby Marshman, 28, race-car driver, 3 December 1964.

John Leonard ("Pepper") Martin, 61, former out-fielder and third baseman for the Saint Louis Cardinals, 5 March 1965.

Charles Mohr, 22, college boxer, died from injuries sustained in the ring at Madison, Wisconsin, 17 April 1960.

Davy Moore, 29, boxer, of injuries sustained in a featherweight championship boxing match, 23 March 1963.

Francis D. Ouimet, 74, the first amateur golfer to win the U.S. Open (1913), 2 September 1967.

Branch Wesley Rickey, 83, important major-league manager and executive who was instrumental in developing the Saint Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers, 9 December 1965.

Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, 37, stock car driver, of injuries suffered during a race, 2 July 1964.

Robert A. ("Red") Rolfe, 60, named the all-time best third baseman of the New York Yankees, 8 July 1969.

Barney Ross, 57, former lightweight and welterweight boxing champion, 18 January 1967.

Jimmy Ryan, 33, former Indianapolis 500 winner, died in a car crash in Langhorn, Pennsylvania, 19 June 1960.

Eddie Sachs, 37, race car driver, 30 May 1964.

Earl Sande, 69, leading jockey in the 1920s and 1930s who won 967 races, including the 1923, 1925, and 1930 Kentucky Derby, 20 August 1968.

Burton Edwin Shotton, 77, major-league manager who in 1947 and 1949 took the Brooklyn Dodgers to pennant victories, 24 July 1962.

Helen Sobel Smith, 59, considered by many to be the best female bridge player in the world, 11 September 1969.

Amos Alonzo Stagg, 102, known as "the grand old man of football," spent seventy years coaching college teams and pioneered the forward pass and T-formation, 17 March 1965.

Lou Stillman, 82, owner of the renowned Stillman's Gym in New York City, where Jack Dempsey and Primo Camera had worked out, 19 August 1969.

Harry A. Stuhldreher, 63, former football coach and the quarterback of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, 26 January 1965.

Reese ("Goose") Tatum, 45, former member of the Harlem Globetrotters, known as "the clown prince of basketball," 18 January 1967.

Dazzy Vance, 69, National League strikeout leader from 1922 to 1928 and member of the Hall of Fame, 16 February 1961.

Billy Wade, 34, race-car driver, 5 January 1965.

Paul Glee ("Big Poison") Waner, 62, a former out-fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates, was the third highest hitter in the National League and was elected in 1952 to the Hall of Fame, 29 August 1965.

Joe Weatherly, 44, race-car driver, 1 January 1964.

Armand ("Al") Weill, 75, manager of four world-championship boxers, including Rocky Marciano, 20 October 1969.

Wallace Werner, 28, Olympic skier, died in an avalanche at Saint Moritz, 12 April 1964.

Jess Willard, 86, world heavyweight boxing champion (1915-1919), 15 December 1968.

Craig Wood, 66, professional golfer, winner in 1941 of the U.S. Open and the Masters, 7 May 1968,