(May 13, 1924 – Jun 10, 2020) Among the Oregonians who’ve been involved with the promotion and development of professional events and teams in Oregon, Harry Glickman stands alone for his work in founding, developing and then maintaining the state’s most successful events and teams, including the Portland Trail Blazers. He is regarded as “The..Read More
It takes a tough mother to run a thriving business these days. Fortunately, Columbia Sportswear has one of those, with a son who is a pretty good wing man himself. Gert (March 6, 1924 – November 3, 2019) and Tim Boyle (born 1949) have made civic engagement and giving a huge part of the Columbia..Read More
(Jun 20, 1931 – Jul. 13, 2012) Margaret Dobson earned a spot in Oregon’s sports heritage as an elite-level softball player, an administrator at Portland State and even played a role in the development of the Special Olympics. Dobson joined the Erv Lind Florists team as a teenager and, at age 18, finished the 1950..Read More
(Oct. 9, 1925 – Jul. 9, 1979) Betty Evans Grayson reached the highest level of competitive softball while still in high school and had a Hall of Fame career that included pitching for a national champion team and even spending time in a professional league. Although Evans, who took the name Grayson after marriage to..Read More
(Oct. 10, 1935 – May 3, 2014) Carolyn Fitzwater played her way into the state’s sports landscape as an infield with the Erv Lind Florists, and continued to a memorable teaching and coaching career. Born in 1935, Fitzwater graduated from Portland’s Washington High School in 1953, but had already reached the top of the softball..Read More
(1906 – 1964) Born in Chicago, in 1906, Erv Lind made a name for himself in the sports world as a sponsor and coach of one of the state’s great amateur teams: softball’s Erv Lind Florists. A rec-league baseball player into middle age, Lind moved into sponsorship of a softball team in 1937 and quickly..Read More
Teri Mariani (b. Aug. 16, 1952) has spent more than half her lifetime at Portland State University, as a student, an athlete, an administrator, and as coach. Now in her 31st year on the PSU campus, 27 of those years as softball coach during which time her teams have won 608 games, she is one..Read More
Jackie Rice pitched for elite-level softball teams for two decades, including the 1964 Erv Lind Florists national champions, before beginning a long career as coach and administrator at Western Oregon University. As a player, Rice is best known as the star pitcher for the Erv Lind Florists in 1963 and ’64. She took over the..Read More
(Nov. 21, 1943 – May 7, 2023) No one in Rodeo won ever won six would all around championships before Larry Mahan did it. Nor had anyone won five consecutive world all-around titles. The fact is Salem’s Mahan pulled off firsts all the way through a career that included more than 1,200 rodeos , rides..Read More
Tom “Shakey” Levak (b. Nov 8, 1938), a native Oregonian, began studying karate in 1964 at the Oregon Karate Association at the age of 25 and began to compete in sparring in 1972, at which time the only adult age division was 18-and-over. From 1972 through 1974, he was undefeated in major tournament Pacific Northwest..Read More