W.L. Carquest was a British World Champion Weight-Lifter at the turn of the 20th Century. He first gained the 8 stone 7 pounds championship at the German Gymnasium on the 20th of April, 1907 (this was the same day that the match between Inch and Caswell for the World’s Middle-weight Championship took place). He set...
Alan Calvert was an American weightlifter, businessman, magazine publisher, and the author of several books. He was the founder of one of the first barbell companies in the world, the Milo Bar-bell Company, in Philadelphia in 1902. Calvert was also the founding publisher of Strength, one of the first strength-training magazines in the United States,...
Professor Anthony Barker was a great Oldtime Strongman in the New York Area in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Barker practiced early all around strength and was famous not only for having strong muscles, but being strong all over. In addition to regular strongman training of the period, he trained his jaws with teeth...
Chuck Sipes was born in 1932 and started weightlifting to make a high school football team and ended up being an incredibly successful bodybuilder. Chuck won numerous titles, such as Mr. America in 1959, Mr. Universe in 1960, NABBA World Championship in 1967 and Mr. World in 1968. Aside from his impressive bodybuilding career, Chuck...
A booklet of boxers, wrestlers, strongmen, weight-lifters, bodybuilders…hundreds of photos, each with name of bodybuilder underneath, but no other text. Roughly 100 pages (not numbered), authored by Earle Lieberman.
Walt Baptiste was a renowned and much loved San Francisco leader and legend, a patriotic American, a leader and a pioneer who inspired hundreds of thousands to embrace the world of Body Mind & Spirit. Walt was one of the foremost authorities and teachers of Yoga in the world, who taught countless students over the...
From March 26 to March 29, 2025, the Mike A. Myers Stadium hosted the 97th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays, a multi-day track and field meet that brings in athletes from all around the country to compete. The meet is the second largest in the United States and features athletes at the high school, college, and...
Last summer, I made the decision to expand my academic and professional horizons by pursuing a master’s degree in Sports Management at the University of Texas. The opportunity to learn from leading scholars in the field was too exciting to pass up—even if I do skew the average age of my cohort a bit higher....
