Bill Russell leads the Boston Celtics to victory over the St. Louis Hawks. The 1961 crown is the team's third straight NBA title.

Quarterback Bart Starr and the Green Bay Packers meet the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs in the first Super Bowl played in 1967. Among other scenes unfamiliar to today's sports fans, a large number of ...

The Yankee Clipper and other Major League ballplayers visit baseball-crazed Japan and it's 'a new high in Oriental enthusiasm.'

The St. Louis Hawks play the Boston Celtics in the final game of the 1958 NBA Finals. Future Hall of Fame forward Bob Pettit led his team to victory, personally scoring 50 points in the game.

Spring training gets underway for the New York Yankees in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Yankee stars Whitey Ford, Mickey Mantle, and Roger Maris are back following a season in which Maris claimed the ...

The baseball season is highlighted, from President Kennedy throwing the traditional first pitch, to the high powered pitching match-up of Whitey Ford and Sandy Koufax in the World Series, a four game ...

It's the 1951 Stanley Cup finals, with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadians going into overtime.

If you play baseball in October as often as the Yankees, you're bound to have your heart broken once in a while. In 1960, Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski inflicted a particularly painful blow.