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Football
1934 Golden Bears
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SEMI-PRO football team, The Golden Bears, Pinch Run, Bellaire, in 1934

Team record, 7 wins, 1 tie, 1 loss.

 Front row, from left, Wm. "Gagee" Appoloni, Albert DeGerolomi, Deno "Bleed" Buti, Otto Buti, Nick Trolley, Victor Accrocco, Edward Trolley, Charles "Ducki" Munjas.

Second row, kneeling, Adam Lagowsky, Louis Gorshe, Tony Accrocco, Pete "Tickler" Munjas, Carl Skorich, Clyde Schramm.

Back row, standing, George Yonyon, Albert Greenwood, George "Jocko" Munjas, Louis Siriani, coach; Louis "Snipes" Gmeindl, Lawrence Campbell, Nick Zatezalo, Mike "Muxie" Stora. 

 

1935 Golden Bears
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Coach Joe Salvaterra
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Coach Joe Salvaterra, former Bellaire High football coach
1935 Golden Bears semi-pro football team of Pinch Run, Bellaire

Front row, from left, Bud Merryman, Al "Yellow" Boiarski, Alfonse Rejonis, Al DeGegerolomi, Bennie Mangiopane, O'Brien, Pete "Tickler" Munjas, Nick Zatezalo, Nick Trolley, Deno "Bleed" Buti, Frank "Lum" Lombardi.  

Back row, Louis "Snipes" Gmeindl, George Yonyon, George "Jocko" Munjas, Beanzie Parker, Albert Greenwood, Adam Lagowski, Clyde Schramm, "Bang" Caruth, Arthur "Tudo" Ansinelli, Victor Kruger.  

Standing, far left, not in uniform, player ? Marinacci.  
Standing, extreme right, business manager, Victor "Pickle Nose" Appoloni.
    


photo provided by Roger Basrak, son of Mike Basrak
    
Mike Basrak - Bellaire High School graduate, first Duquesne University All-American player, member of the Pittsburgh Pirates (now the Steelers) pro football team

 

Read more about Mike's life and football career

Robert M. "Mike" Ingram - 1957 Bellaire High School graduate who played for The Ohio State University from 1959 through 1961, then was drafted by the Washington Redskins.
(information courtesy of Margaret Messick and The Official Ohio State Football Encyclopedia)

(photo from official team site)
Ben Taylor - Bellaire High grad who played for the Green Bay Packers and Cleveland Browns Joey Galloway
(photo from official team site)
Joey Galloway - Bellaire High grad who played for the New England Patriots, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Dallas Cowboys, and Seattle Seahawks, and is currently signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers
Nate Davis
(photo from official team site)
Nate Davis - Bellaire High School grad and former Ball State quarterback currently signed in the NFL with the San Francisco 49ers.

Read more about Nate's football career

Bellaire's Jose Davis
(photo from official team site)
    
    
Jose Davis - Bellaire High School and Kent State grad currently serving as head coach of the Bellaire Big Reds varsity football team.  Jose has also played for Arena Football League teams Grand Rapids Rampage, Colorado Crush, Kansas City Brigade, and Indiana Firebirds, and he was quarterback for the 2002 Champion Ohio Valley Greyhounds of the National Indoor Football League.

Read more about Jose's football career

Baseball
T. C. Nicholson
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T. C. "Parson" Nicholson
Wm. "Brickyard" Kennedy
photo from his official baseball card (found online)
Wm. "Brickyard" Kennedy
Sol White - A Bellaire-born Negro League Baseball great who helped form the 1902 Philadelphia Giants, and authored the book Sol White's History of Colored Base Ball.
Auto Racing
Tony Liberati
(photo from his official website)
    
Gio "Tony" Liberati - originally from Bellaire, now on the NASCAR circuit as crew chief for the #66 in the NASCAR Busch Series