Sometimes they even shook your hand: portraits of champions who walked among us

Chuck Bednarik

Walter Payton

Terry Bradshaw: A country boy can survive

Dan Hampton: A world of hurt

John Matuszak: me and the Tooz

John Matuszak: The other side of the story

John Riggins: Runaway

Dan marino: A kid among legends

Joe Montana: Easy to underestimate, hard to beat Gary Fencik: Boola! Boola!

Willie Mays: Out of the past

Stan Musial: The man, forever

Reggie Jackson: The ego is a lonely hunter

Pete Rose: Pete belongs in Cooperstown

Nolan Ryan: on second thuoght

Johnny Bench: Old too young

Earl Weaver: The Earl of Baltimore

Gene Mauch: The toughest loss of all

Dick Allen: More a ghost than a legend

Frank Robinson: Hard game, hard man

Brooks Robinson: Honored to be a hero

Ernie Banks: Mr.Cub remembers

Bill Veeck: "Bionic man I'm not" Carl Yastrzemski: Family tradition

Bill Lee: Spaceman

Mark Fidrych: Bird with a broken wing

Steve Bilko: The slugging seraph

George Brett: Lipstick on a .407 batting average

Willie Stargell: The pirates' Patriarch Fernado Valenzuela: and a rookie shall lead them

Jim Palmer: Good-bye doesn't come easy

Oscar Charleston: A one-way ticket to obscurity

Pete Maravich: The pistol's parting shot

Julius Erving: Sky King

Larry Bird: The ultimate celtic

Big house gaines: No way to treat a legend

Al McGuire: Sunday's jester

Ben Wilson: Only the good die young

Wayne Gretzky: Borderline case

Jimmy Connors: Blue collar at a tea dance

John Carlos: The olympic ideal

Johnny Kelley: The elder

Ron Turcotte: Rider down

Buddy Delp: The happy anarchist

Bill Shoemaker: A million for the shoe

Red Smith: The write stuff

W.S.Heinz: The professional

A.J. Liebling: Joe

Mark Kram: Poet and Provacateur

F.X.Toole: One tough baby

Marvelous Marvin Hagler: The proud Warrior

Sugar Ray Robinson: He gave style a name

Joe Louis: Larger than life or death

Tony Zale: Raise your glass to a teetotaler

Paddy Flood: One of a kind

Sugar Ray Leonard: The one-eyed man

Ray Arcel: A touch of class

Roberto Duran: A man of stone

Roberto Duran: He cramped his own style

Larry Holmes: His time and no one else's

Muhammad Ali: No garden party

Muhammad Ali: Marching off to slaughter

Muhammad Ali: Ali! Ali! Ali.