Red Grange, the great Illinois halfback, who scored six touchdowns against Michigan on Oct. 18, 1924, lived out his life in a place called Indian Lake Estates in Central Florida, about a hundred miles south of Orlando.
On a trip to Knoxville in the early eighties, I looked up Lindsey Nelson, the highly regarded broadcaster and asked him if he knew the whereabouts of the famous Galloping Ghost. He and Grange were network television partners for many years.
Not only did Lindsey know where Grange lived, he handed over his telephone number. At the time, I had begun making annual trips to the major league baseball training camps.