There have been Super Bowls and Rose Bowls on the field and World Series on the diamond. World championships have been won on the basketball court and national titles on the ice. Athletes like Henry Aaron, Bart Starr and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar weren’t born here, but they helped deliver trophies to our state.
“The state of Wisconsin was a part of their journeys to the hall of fame,” said Ashley Brown, the Allan H. Selig Chair in the History of Sport and Society at UW-Madison.