He was born in Alabama on December 13th, 1949. He grew up picking cotton and slopping hogs on the family farm. Randy was a ninth grade drop-out until a former teacher took an interest in him. After looking up his past grades and discovering how good a student he actually was, she encouraged him to return to high school. He credits her for the courage

He was one of eight born into a family of sugar cane farmers and talented cooks in rural St. James Parish, sixty miles outside of The Big Easy. It was 1946. From an early age, John learned to cook using what he refers to as the swamp floor pantry of South Louisiana's Bayou Country. It was clear to this budding chef that the bounty of

He was born April 7th, 1928 in Norman, Oklahoma and christened James Scott Baumgarner. He was four when his mother died. He and his two brothers were briefly sent to live with relatives. A couple years later, his father remarried and the kids were allowed to return home. It was far from an ideal reunion that deteriorated into domestic violence. James’ stepmother beat all the

He was born in Oklahoma in 1900. By the age of seven he'd discovered a love for drawing in general and cartoons in particular. He spent hours copying cartoons and adding his own words. During the next decade he won a couple cartoon contests and brought in spending money painting advertising jobs on barns and names on office doors, even using part of the hard

He was born May 8, 1958 and raised in the poor farming town of Big Sandy, Texas. His parents named him Lovie after his Aunt Lavana. This son of an alcoholic father, loading hay onto trucks for three cents a bale, could've been forgiving had he thought the future looked bleak, but his father also held an equally unflinching belief that his son could do

He was born on April 18th, 1973 in Pensacola, FL. Having won football championships at both the high school and college level, he came into the NFL in 1995 with clear goals and a work ethic necessary to see them realized. This native Floridian and first round draft pick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers wanted to establish himself as one of the league’s best linebackers.

He was born in western North Carolina in a place called Jugtown on October 18th, 1901. He grew up with a wide variety of educational opportunities from his early days at the Hog Hill schoolhouse to his college years at Catawba College, Wake Forest University, and the Moody Bible Institute. He also benefited from the overnight visits of circuit riding preachers who stayed at his

He was born July 10, 1920 in Wilmington, North Carolina, the son of a railroad employee. His father was a loving family man who died when he was only eight years old, scarring him emotionally and leaving him in the care of a hostile, troubled mother who met his physical needs but was incapable of giving him the emotional support he needed. She often spurned

J.C. was born into a poor sharecropper’s family in Alabama, a frail infant who became a sickly child. With no money for doctors or medicine, his parents spent many cold winters nursing him through deadly bouts of pneumonia. Six long years later, he was walking nine miles to school with his siblings. J.C.’s father moved the family to Ohio when he was eight. The first day

He was born in 1940 and raised in Wilmington, Delaware by parents who taught their kids to play hard, work harder, and serve others. His first love was baseball. His skills earned him a baseball scholarship to Wake Forest University where he lettered three years and earned a spot in the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame. At age twenty-two he signed with the Philadelphia