For some high school football seniors, the frustrations of a season-ending knee injury can led to the usual frustrations: there is no way to make an impact and it’s the end of the road in athletics. Dr. Mark Adams has proven that it doesn’t have to be that way, that someone who loves sports can… Read more »
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Dr. John D. Bailey
Dr. John D. Bailey is a distinguished orthopedic surgeon, specializing in general orthopedics, sports medicine and spine surgery. John attended Northeast Missouri State University, graduating in 1986 and then moved on to Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, where he graduated with a D.O. degree in 1990. His connection with sports is well known in northeast… Read more »
Dr. James Baker
A football tackle at the University of Missouri in 1929-30, Baker later became its first team physician in 1938. During a 40-year career, Baker served football coaches Don Faurot (MSHOF 1953 (Coaches) and 2001 (Legends), Frank Broyles, Dan Devine (MSHOF 1973), and Al Onofrio (MSHOF 2012). He also worked with basketball coaches George Edwards (MSHOF… Read more »
Dr. Cris Barnthouse
The signed National Football League game-day footballs sit on display at his home, some inscribed with personal messages from Kansas City Chiefs coaches and players themselves. From afar, one might assume those are for throwing a go-ahead touchdown pass or key blocks that led to the win column. In reality, they are for work that,… Read more »
Bob “Doc” Bauman
Bauman came to St. Louis University in 1928 while only 19 years old. He served the university as its athletic trainer from 1928 until 1979. In addition, he became the trainer for the St. Louis Browns in 1938 until the team moved to become the Baltimore Orioles in 1953. He was invited to join the… Read more »
Randy Biggerstaff
Randy Biggerstaff began his athletic training career in 1973, when he became the District Athletic Trainer for the Granite City Community Unit School District after graduating from the University of Missouri. He has also served as trainer for the St. Louis Hummers women’s professional softball team, the University of Missouri football team at the Fiesta… Read more »
Richard Bowles
Richard Bowles attended William Jewell College from 1945-49, graduating in just three years as salutatorian after missing the 1946-47 year serving in the military. He was the son of legendary coach and athletic director R.E. Bowles and the youngest of four brothers who were all student-athletes for the William Jewell Cardinals. He was a 1945… Read more »
Dr. Jon Browne
For any successful sports franchise and its athletes, those who work behind the scenes in thankless roles may actually be the true MVPs. A case in point is Dr. Jon Browne, a Kansas City native who rose to the top in the sports medicine field as an Orthopaedic specialist. Primarily, he oversaw the care of… Read more »
Oliver DeVictor
Oliver DeVictor served as an athletic trainer at Pennsylvania State University, University of Pittsburgh, Washington University-St. Louis and University of Missouri. During his career, his teams made 10 bowl trips, including three to the Rose Bowl. He retired as head athletic trainer at the University of Missouri in 1958 after 23 years of service
Howard Ellfeldt
Howard J. Ellfeldt attended the University of Kansas before completing his M.D. in Orthopedic Surgery in 1968. He served in the US Army and founded Kansas City Bone and Joint Clinic. Ellfeldt also served as team physician for the Kansas City Kings and the Kansas City Chiefs. He was inducted in Missouri Sports Hall of… Read more »
Bud Epps
For teens who think they have no future in sports if they aren’t destined for the pros, don’t overlook roles just as valuable as the clean-up hitter or quarterback. Just ask Bud Epps. A 1972 graduate of St. Joseph Central High School, Epps once was pulled aside by John Henage (MSHOF 2015), at the time… Read more »
Bernard Garfinkel
Born in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, Dr. Bernard Garfinkel was a team doctor for the St. Louis Football Cardinals and the St. Louis Rams. Garfinkel was a World War II veteran and a physician at Barnes Hospital, where he specialized in cardiology and geriatrics.
Gene Gieselmann
Gene Gieselmann was raised in Lindsborg, KS and graduated from Wichita State University. He joined the St. Louis Cardinals organization in 1968 with the Cards’ Class A St. Petersburg club. He was promoted to assistant trainer for the Cardinals’ parent club in 1969 and named head trainer in 1971. During his 29 year tenure with… Read more »
Dr. David Glover
For most athletes, their final game is the end of a great era, but the game goes on. Fortunately, it has a way to welcoming some back with open arms. And so there Dr. Dave Glover was in the mid-1980s, a former All-State football lineman practicing medicine in Warrensburg, when the call came in. “My… Read more »
Dr. Bernard Griesemer
He grew up on a family farm near Billings in southwest Missouri, eventually headed off to St. Louis University to become a doctor and found his way back close to home, in Springfield. For Dr. Bernard Griesemer, the field of sports medicine grabbed him by the stethoscope in 1980. That’s when Dr. Lee Vensel left… Read more »