THE 1970s: SPORTS: DEATHS

Stanley Benham, 57, U.S. bobsled champion in the early 1950s, 22 April 1970.

Moe Berg, 70, major league baseball catcher from 1924 to 1939 and reputed spy, 29 May 1972.

Lyman Bostick, 28, professional baseball player for the Minnesota Twins and the California Angels, 23 September 1978.

Ezzard Charles, 53, heavyweight boxing champion (1949-1951), 28 May 1975.

Paul Christman, 61, professional football player in the 1950s and later television sports announcer, 2 March 1970.

Fred Corcoran, 72, helped found the Ladies Professional Golf Association in 1950, 23 June 1977.

Alvin Crowder, 73, major league baseball pitcher (1926-1936), 3 April 1972.

Arthur Daley, 69, Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist for The New York Times, 3 January 1974.

Dizzy Dean, 63, Saint Louis Cardinals pitcher in the 1930s; won thirty games in 1934, 17 July 1974.

E. A. Diddle, 74, Western Kentucky basketball coach for forty-three years, 2 January 1970.

Charles Evans, 89, first winner of the U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur golf championships in the same year in 1916, 6 November 1979.

Daniel Ferris, 87, official of the Amateur Athletic Union from 1907 until his death, 2 May 1977.

Nat Fleischer, 84, boxing expert and founder of Ring magazine, 25 June 1972.

Nelson Fox, 48, professional baseball player for the Chicago White Sox (1950-1965), 1 December 1975.

Ford Frick, 83, president of the National League in base-ball (1934-1951) and commissioner of major league baseball (1951-1965), 8 April 1978.

Frank Frisch, 75, professional baseball player in the 1920s and 1930s, manager of the Saint Louis Cardinals "Gashouse Gang," member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, 12 March 1973.

Warren Giles, 82, president of the National League in baseball (1951-1969), 7 February 1979.

Gabby Hartnett, 72, major league baseball catcher and manager, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, 20 December 1972.

Charles Hughes, 28, football player for the Detroit Lions who died during a game, 2 October 1971.

Tony Hulman, 76, owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where he became the voice who announced before the start of the Indianapolis 500, "Gentlemen, start your engines," 27 October 1977.

Jack Hurley, 74, boxing promoter, 16 November 1972.

Walter Kennedy, 64, commissioner of the National Basketball Association (1963-1975), 26 June 1977.

Elmer Layden, 70, one of the "Four Horsemen" of the 1924 University of Notre Dame football team, coach and athletic director at Notre Dame (1934-1940), first commissioner of the National Football League (1941-1946), 30 June 1973.

Frank Leahy, 65, University of Notre Dame football coach (1941-1954), during which period his team lost only eleven games; later Chicago Daily News columnist, 21 June 1973.

Charles ("Sonny") Liston, 38?, heavyweight boxing champion (1962-1964), 28 December 1972.

Eddie Machen, 40, heavyweight boxer of the 1950s and 1960s, 7 August 1972.

Chick Meehan, college football coach at Syracuse University and Manhattan College (1920-1937), 9 November 1972.

John J. Murphy, 62, pitcher for the New York Yankees in the 1930s, general manager of the New York Mets from 1967, 14 January 1970.

Ernest Nevers, 72, professional football player in the 1920s and 1930s and professional baseball pitcher (1926-1928), 3 May 1976.

Walter O'Malley, 75, owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, 1957-1979, 9 August 1979.

Joan Whitney Payson, 72, owner of Greentree Racing Stable and owner of the New York Mets, 4 October 1975.

Lou Perini, 68, owner of the Boston Braves baseball team, 16 April 1972.

Brian Piccolo, 26, Chicago Bears halfback, 16 June 1970.

Daniel F. Reeves, 58, owner of the Los Angeles Rams football team, 15 April 1971.

Clifford Roberts, 84, cofounder and chairman from 1934 to 1976 of the Masters golf tournament, 19 September 1977.

Jackie Robinson, 53, first black man to play major league baseball, 24 October 1972.

Carroll Rosenblum, 72, owner of the Baltimore Colts professional football team from 1953 to 1971, when he traded the team for the Los Angeles Rams, 2 April 1979.

Adolph Rupp, 76, head coach of the University of Kentucky basketball team (1930-1972) whose teams won a record 879 games during his tenure, 10 December 1977.

Elizabeth Ryan, 86, winner of 659 tennis tournaments during her career that extended from 1914 to 1934, 6 July 1979.

George Harold Sisler, 80, Saint Louis Browns batting champion in the 1920s, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, 26 March 1973.

Casey Stengel, 85, baseball manager who led the New York Yankees to ten American League pennants and seven World Series championships (1949-1960) and who was the first manager of the New York Mets in 1961, 29 September 1975.

Daniel Reid Topping, 61, part owner of the New York Yankees baseball team (1945-1964), 18 May 1974.

Paul Howard ("Dizzy") Trout, 56, Detroit Tigers pitcher (1939-1952), 16 March 1972.

Harold ("Pie") Traynor, 72, baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates during 1920s and 1930s, named the greatest third baseman in baseball history in 1966, 16 March 1972.

Gene Tunney, 80, heavyweight boxing champion (1926-1928), 7 November 1978.

Garfield Arthur Wood, 91, speedboat racer of the 1930s, 19 June 1971.