Cosgrove, Francis

Operator of a weekly newspaper in Garden City, Cosgrove was one of the founders of the South Dakota Amateur Baseball Association (in 1933; he was secretary-treasurer) and the man regarded as most responsible for its glory days in the 1930s and ’40s. Except for service in World War II, Cosgrove worked in an executive capacity […]

Carberry, Bill

Coached in South Dakota from 1909 until his retirement in 1955. One of the famous Carberry brothers who made athletic history at the University of Iowa shortly after the turn of the century, he came to Yankton High School as coach of all sports in 1909. Carberry moved on to the college ranks, becoming coach […]

Mills, Billy

Born June 30, 1938 at Pine Ridge. Haskell (Kan.) Indian School. 1962 Kansas grad. Before Oct. 14, 1964, Mills was unknown to all but a few track afficionados. But on that day the unheralded Mills achieved what some sports historians called ‘the most sensational upset in Olympic history,’ sprinting past Mohammed Gammoudi of Tunisia and […]