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 »
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Year: 2004
Great Southern Bank
Great Southern Bank, under the leadership of the Turner family, has played a significant role in the continued growth and advancement of the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame during its first ten years in Springfield, while supporting numerous sports and community endeavors across the region. As a long time corporate sponsor, Great Southern Bank has… Read more »
1957-1958 St. Louis Hawks
The 1957–58 NBA season was the St. Louis Hawks’ third in Missouri. Coming off their trip to the 1957 NBA Finals, the Hawks won the Western Division by eight games with a record of 41 wins and 31 losses. Bob Pettit ranked third in scoring and second in rebounding. In the Western Finals, the Hawks beat the Detroit… Read more »
Lamar Hunt
As the organizer of the American Football League over 30 years ago, Lamar Hunt’s activities helped positively change the game of football. Hunt is among those most responsible for the development, direction, and design of the modern-day National Football League. As the founder of the Chiefs franchise, Hunt helped provide Kansas City with a team… Read more »
Floyd Irons
Floyd Irons is a 1966 graduate of Vashon High School in St. Louis. During his prep years, he was an excellent student-athlete, Irons holds the prestigious honor of being the first scholar-athlete selected from Vashon High School by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as the scholar-athlete of the year. Upon graduation from Langston University in Oklahoma,… Read more »
Jim Kearney
Jim Kearney was a standout quarterback at Wharton High School in Texas and attended Prairie View A&M. Kearney’s successful collegiate career paved the way for him to be drafted by the Detroit Lions in 1965. He played in the Motor City for two seasons and then jumped north of the border to play with Montreal… Read more »
Tim McCarver
Regarded by many as baseball’s premier television analyst, Tim McCarver serves as MLB on FOX lead game analyst, teaming with play-by-play announcer Joe Buck. Familiar to all fans that watch baseball’s jewel events, McCarver won three straight Emmy Awards for “Outstanding Sports Event Analyst” and in total has received 12 Emmy nominations during his 15… Read more »
Hal McRae
Kansas City Royals Hall of Famer Hal McRae was born in 1945 and raised in Avon Park, FL. He was a standout baseball player at Florida A&M University and was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in 1966. An outfielder, McRae’s playing career spanned 23 years, including 19 major league seasons with the Reds and Royals.… Read more »
Derland Moore
Derland Moore was born in October 7, 1951 in Malden, MO. He attended Poplar Bluff High School and played varsity football for three years, 1966-1968. In addition to football, he competed in track, throwing the shot and discus. He was offered a track scholarship to the University of Oklahoma but he was a football player… Read more »
Dave Phillips
Dave Phillips was born and raised in Jennings, MO. He attended Jennings High School and then Southwest Missouri State University. In 1964, Phillips made the decision to enter umpiring school, where he excelled and finished third in his class after the final evaluation process was concluded. He was quickly offered a job in the Midwest… Read more »
John Rooney
The start of John Rooney’s storied broadcasting career dates back to 1971, when he launched his career as a play-by-play sports announcer in Lexington, Mo. With some experience under his belt, he later secured a position with KFRU in Columbia. He then headed to Okmulgee, OK to do play-by-play for local high schools, while also… Read more »
Bill Rowe
Story by Mark Stillwell If the truth be told, Bill Rowe wouldn’t have minded a few more years coaching the Missouri State baseball Bears. After 19 seasons, his program was enjoying its longest run of sustained success when he answered the University’s call in 1982 to step aside from his diamond duties and spearhead the… Read more »
Bill Seebold
Bill Seebold, Jr. was born on February 23, 1941 in Fenton, MO. At the tender age of 11, Bill Jr. won his first boat race, starting his career in stock-engined outboard boats that hit top speeds of about 26 miles per hour. Seebold, Jr. claimed his first American Power Boat Association national points title just… Read more »
Bob Shore
Bob Shore attended Cassville (MO) High School and was a standout football and basketball player. He graduated from Pittsburgh State University in 1967. He first started coaching at Seneca, MO, then took an assistant coaching position at Jasper, MO and after one year became the head coach in 1968. He posted a 20-16-1 record in… Read more »
Hank Stram
Hank Stram can easily be labeled one of the most successful coaches in the history of professional football. Stram served as the Head Coach and Vice President of the Kansas City Chiefs for 15 years, leading them into two Super Bowls. Stram has been honored numerous times for his successful coaching career including: the AFL,… Read more »
Rick Sutcliffe
Rick Sutcliffe was born in Independence, MO on July 21, 1956 and went on to star on the baseball diamond, as well as the football field and the basketball court at Van Horn High School in his home town. In 1974, at seventeen years of age, Sutcliffe was the number one draft pick by the… Read more »