American basketball player Wilt Chamberlain, formerly with the University of Kansas, hold a basketball in each hand, at Toots Shor's, New York, New...
Tennis ace Althea Gibson blows kisses to cheering crowd at Broadway parade in her honor, New York, New York, July 11, 1957. Born in South Carolina in...
American baseball player Jackie Robinson enters the Brooklyn Dodgers club house as the first black man admitted to the majors, Brooklyn, New York,...
African American baseball player and Hall of Famer Rube Foster of the Leland Giants baseball team, following through after throwing a baseball,...
Three-quarter length portrait of Jack Johnson, African American heavyweight champion boxer, in profile, sitting in a chair in front of a light...
Portrait of Henry Louis 'Hank' Aaron , the former record holder for baseball's home runs , Atlanta, 1974.
Satchel Paige, pitcher for the Negro League's Kansas City Monarchs, stands at the top of the dugout with baseball in hand. 1942.
Leroy "Satchel" Paige, relief pitcher for the Miami Marlins of the International League, gives baseball pointers to two young boys dressed in...
Michigan State's star guard Earvin ‘Magic' Johnson holds still for a picture after a recent practice in MSU's Jenison Field house, March 1979. The...
American baseball player Willie Mays of the New York Giants holds his bat, here in this three-quarters length photo, .
Alice Coachman of the Tuskegee Institute Club is seen as she wins the high jump event at the National Women's Track and Field meet.
New York: Syracuse University halfback Ernie Davis holds the 1961 Heisman Trophy which he was awarded here on 12th June. Some 840 qualified electors...
Forest Hills, NY- Althea Gibson of New York, first Negro to win the National Women's Singles, kisses the trophy after it was presented to her by...
New York, NY- Sugar Ray Robinson talks to members of the press in his dressing room after he won the 10-round welterweight bout with Steve Belloise...
Olympic heavyweight boxer Joe Frazier holds the gold medal he won after defeating Hans Huber of Germany in the Olympic Boxing Finals.
American shot putter Earlene Brown of Los Angeles, California, in action during a training session at Royal Park, 19th November 1956.
Alice Coachman, of the US, along with the winner DJ Tyler , of Great Britain, and MOM Ostermeyer, of France, stand on a podium at Wembley Stadium to...
Jim Brown, Cleveland Browns' fullback, holds up a UPI photo of himself in action against the Chicago Cardinals October 12. Brown has picked up 482...
Washington, DC- Gene Upshaw , head of the National Football League players union, announces the end of the strike at a press conference. Alongside...
Cleveland and the world's no. 1 speed machine is analyzed to find out what makes him so fast. Jesse Owens, champion broad jumper, sprinter and lower...
Legendary pitcher Leroy Paige, known as Satchel Paige, kisses a ball of the sport that made him famous.
Group portrait showing players from the Washington Homestead Grays baseball team, left to right, African American catcher Josh Gibson , African...
Portrait of Moses Fleetwood Walker as a member of the American Association baseball team the Toledo Blue Stockings in 1884 in Toledo Ohio.
The umpire signals safe as Pedro Ballester from Cuba and Shortstop and Second Baseman for the New York Cubans crosses home plate to score during the...
American tennis player Lorraine Williams between her guardians, Dorothy Ewell and Dr Willis Ewell, at the River Forest Tennis Club in River Forest,...
The Boston Celtics' Bill Russell holding his trophy after being named most valuable player for 1957-58 following an All-Star game in Detroit, January...
American football player Roland Sales, of Arkansas University, is hugged by his dad Fred and mum Mattie after leading his team to victory in the...
American basketball player Walt Frazier, of the Cleveland Cavaliers, pictured at a press conference in Cleveland, October 12th 1977.
American athlete Ted Cable, wearing a Harvard University singlet and white shorts, posing with a hammer throw 'hammer', United States, circa 1913....
American tennis player Althea Gibson plays a backhand during her women's singles final against Angela Mortimer at Wimbledon, All England Lawn Tennis...
Heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman holds a press conference in Kinshasa, Zaire, on September 18th, 1974. His trainer Sandy Saddler is seated...
American lightweight boxer James Carter after defeating American boxer Art Aragon at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, 14th November...
View of American baseball player Rickey Henderson, of the Oakland A's, in the locker room as he celebrates his team's victory in the American League...
American athlete Sol Butler , of the University of Dubuque, his arms raised in triumph at an university athletics meeting, circa 1917.
American 4x100 metres relay teammates American athlete Mozelle Ellerbe with his arm round the shoulder of his teammate, American athlete Ben Johnson...
American baseball player Hank Aaron in action for the Atlanta Braves during their Major League Baseball match against the New York Mets, at the...
Boston Celtic, Bill Russell grips his Most Valuable Player trophy while being congratulated by the president of the NBA, Maurice Podoloff.
American baseball player Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers, USA, 28th August 1949. The Dodgers played the Pittsburgh Pirates at Ebbets Field in...
American baseball player Jackie Robinson at home with his wife Rachel and their son Jackie Jr., USA, circa 1951.
American Olympic rower, Anita DeFranz, of the 1976 crew team, ponders testimony during the Senate Foreign Relations committee hearings on the 1980...
Kim Maybee, Hollywood, CA, hits Pat Pineda, of San Pedro, CA with a solid left and rears back to throw a right as referee Martin Danken steps in to...
Fourteen year-old African-American tennis player Lorraine Williams on a court in Philadelphia, USA, 1953.
Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins in action during game against the N.Y. Rangers. O'Ree is the first Black player in professional hockey.
Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics poses for a portrait in 1969 at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. NOTE TO USER: User expressly...
Informal three-quarter length portrait of Jack Johnson, an African American pugilist, looking at the camera, sitting in the driver's seat of an...
Closeup portrait of former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali at his home, Berrien Springs, MI 9/10/1996. CREDIT: Walter Iooss Jr.
Sloane Stephens of the United States poses with the championship trophy during the trophy presentation after the Women's Singles finals match on Day...
Track and field Olympian Edwin Moses is photographed for Sports Illustrated jumping a hurdle in 1991 in Irvine, California. PUBLISHED IMAGE. CREDIT...
Tennis: Wimbledon, Closeup of American tennis player Arthur Ashe, victorious with trophy after winning tournament at All England Club, London, GBR...
