Dorothy Hamill

She was born on July 26, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. She learned to skate as a young girl on her grandparent's pond, and immediately became dedicated to the sport, begging her parents to take her to formal lessons at 4:30am to learn how to skate backwards. Her big breakthrough came when she won silver medals in the 1974 and 1975 World Championships. At the age of 19, she won the gold medal at the 1976 Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria, and soon to be known as ‘America’s Sweetheart’ for her sweet face and bobbed hairstyle. Dorothy toured with the Ice Capades from 1977 to 1984.

Remember When

1960 World Series | MAZEROSKI HOMERS IN NINTH to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to the championship vs New York Yankees

October 13, 1960 • Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, PA Bill Mazeroski slammed a ninth-inning walk off home run high over the left-field wall of historic Forbes field to lead Pittsburgh to its first World Series championship in thirty five years. Danny Murtaugh’s astounding Bucs brought down Casey Stengel’s mighty Yankees, 10-9, in a titanic struggle that gave the National League champions the series, four games to three. Minutes later a crowd of 36,683 touched off a celebration that swept through the city.