Stella Walsh
Polish-American runner named the greatest woman athlete of the first half of the 20th century by the Helm Athletic Foundation (1951)
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Marge Wood
Renowned softball pitcher who was inducted into the first class of the Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame in 1976.
Florence Bundy Fairfax
A long-time employee of Cleveland’s Recreation Department who worked “to help children to form good social patterns of behavior through recreation.”
Adele von Ohl Parker
American equestrienne, daredevil rider, vaudeville performer, and from 1929 to 1966 the owner and operator of Parker’s Ranch in Ohio
Betty Cuthbert
In 1956, Betty Cuthbert won three Olympic gold medals, the first Australian to do so.
Margaret Lechowick
American basketball champion, child welfare advocate and lawyer
Grace Finley Price
Trailblazing African American entrepreneur in Ohio
Genevieve Sanchez
American softball player
Sherlie Hereford Rainey
Sherlie Hereford Rainey (3 Feb. 1939-7 Aug. 1992), mayor of Woodmere (1985-89), was the first African-American woman to hold a mayoral position in Cuyahoga County. Also an athlete, Rainey set an American record for the standing long jump (1958) and was National Amateur Athletic Union champion of that event for 3 years. She was elected to the Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame in 1991.
Jackie Mitchell
17-year-old pitcher who struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig