Jane Ace, a radio actress whose birth name was Jane Epstein and who was known professionally as Jane Sherwood, was…
The Baby Tooth Survey was formed in 1958 by the Committee of Nuclear Information, a grassroots organization that…
Pitching immortal Satchel Paige, noted for his tall tales as much as his pitching, claimed that James “Cool Papa”…
The Ben Bolt Theatre was a spectacular building that stood for half a century as a notable…
Kenneth Brown Billups Sr. was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 14, 1918, the son of…
Jane Darwell, a pioneering film actress whose career spanned more than sixty years, was…
Curt Flood spent most of his baseball career with the St. Louis Cardinals, playing center field for them from 1958…
Kate Leila Gregg, a professor of English at Lindenwood College in St.…
Although William Christopher Handy spent relatively little of his long life in Missouri,…
Born on April 27, 1896, at Winters, Texas, Rogers Hornsby began his professional baseball…