Gordie Howe's Childhood

Elbert Frank Cox was born on December 5, 1895 in Evansville, Indiana. Cox was an African American, Lived in an racially mixed neighborhood but went to a segregated school. Cox was the oldest out of three kids, His father was an elementary school principal who graduated from Evansville College and did graduate work at Indiana University. The Cox family learned that education was important and was inspire by it. Cox developed a talent skillset in math which lead him towards Indiana University where he studied mathematics, physics, and chemistry. In 1917 Elbert Frank Cox graduated from Indiana University with his A.B. degree. Later that year Cox entered the army to serve in World War I. After that Cox returned to pursue a career in teaching a high school math instructor in Henderson, Kentucky.

1983, 89, and 99 NHL All Star games, giving him a grand total of 35

On May 9th 1965 a leader was born, and that leader was Steve Yzerman. Yzerman was born in Cranbrook, British Columbia. He began skating when he was a mere 3 years old, but was still a little too young to play organized hockey with his older brother Mike, who was two years older. At age 5 Yzerman started playing organized ice hockey, but really couldn’t skate all that well. In fact, his first gino (goal) was scored because he had slipped up in front of the adversaries net and an opposing defenseman bounced the puck off a teammate. Since Yzerman was the closest to the puck, he was given credit for the goal. This was certainly not a foundation suitable for a legendary career.

Another one of the most influential hockey players of all time is Bobby Orr. Orr was born in 1948 in Parry Sound, Canada (Orr). Bucko McDonald, a former NHL defenseman in the 30's and 40's, coached the young Bobby. He believed he could be a great defenseman with lots of speed and high stick skills as well. This turned out to be one of the beet moves for Bobby's career, as Orr played ten seasons in the NHL. He played nine years with the Bruins, and his final year in Chicago. He wished to play longer if it wasn't for his knees giving out on him, as he injured them both early in his NHL career. Nevertheless, Orr was arguably called the greatest defenseman of all time for what he did in both sides of the ice.

Both Gordie Howe and Wayne Gretzky have been very influential to the NHL and to the world. But which is more influential than the other. Gordie Howe grew up in a hard working family with little money. Growing up had had to battle through adversity on numerous occasions, including being cut from the first travel hockey team he tried out for. He went from not being good enough to make a kids team to arguably being the best player ever. Wayne Gretzky throughout his whole life was a talented hockey player. During his youth he would play with kids that were 4 years older than him because his own age was not enough competition. From when he was 4 to when he was 38, Wayne Gretzky was always the best hockey player on the ice. Although both are a large influence in the world, Gordie Howe was more influential than Wayne Gretzky.

A rookie NHL All-Star, the number one overall pick, an 18 year old from Arizona, and the future of the NHL, number 34 of the Toronto Maple Leafs Auston Matthews is fifth overall in total goals this season. Auston Matthews was born in San Ramon, California on September 17, 1997 and at two months old, moved to Scottsdale, Arizona. To start, his Uncle had season tickets to then, Phoenix Coyotes games, now Arizona Coyotes, where Auston went to his first hockey game when he was three years old and fell in love with the sport. He first started hockey at age five and was once better at baseball than he was at hockey. He was good baseball because he had good eye-hand coordination and hitting was his strength. Anyhow, there weren't

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Jackie’s early life before baseball had some rough spots. He was the youngest of five children in his family and Jackie was raised in poverty by his single mother. Jackie was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. Jackie when to John Muir High School and Pasadena Junior College, which is where he was a great athlete. Jackie played lots of sports in his day, he played track, football, basketball, baseball which were pretty

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Joe DiMaggio Jr. was born on November 25, 1914 in Martinez, California (Caso). He had Italian Immigrant parents and grew up in San Francisco, California (Joe Bio). He lived in a small house, but with a big family (Joe Bio). His first baseball experience was at the age of ten (MCSF). He used baseball as an excuse to not help his father with fishing (MCSF). He started playing Minor league baseball at the age of 17 for the San Francisco Seals (Joe Bio). On 1930 he dropped out of high school, so he can play baseball at the diary-wagon parking lot (MCSF).

Gouverneur Morris was born January 31, 1752, in Morrisania, New York. He was blessed to be born into a very wealthy family. He also enjoyed volunteering his time for public service. Morris had one brother named Lewis Morris who also signed the Constitution of Independence.

George Herman Ruth Jr also known as Babe Ruth was born February 6, 1895. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. When he was a teenageer, he had a drinking problem and he chewed tobacco. According to Biography.com, his mother and father’s name was Katherine Schamberger and George Herman Ruth Sr. He was one of 8 children. Out of those 8 only him and his sister Mamie survived the others died young.

o Julian started playing street hockey when he was six, ten years ago. Since then he has won at least 5 championships

He was born in 1915 in Harlem, New York and raised in a very wealthy household by his parents, Isidore and Augusta Miller. After high school Miller worked lots of jobs to save up enough money to attend the University of Michigan, where he wrote his first paper that turned into his first play, called “No

Spielberg was born in Cincinnati on December 18th, 1946. His father was an electrical engineer, and his mother a concert pianist. Steven seemed to get the best elements from both of them. Spielberg had an early fascination with cinema and began making amateur films at a very young age. At 13, he won a local contest for his 40-minute film, Escape to Nowhere. Ironically, Steven was unable to get into a film school, so he