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The Fort Wayne Sports Corporation's Sports Heritage project is a DVD of 32 vignettes reflecting upon Fort Wayne's sports history. The project began in 2000 and grew from the idea of a Fort Wayne Sports Hall of Fame.

The vignettes include such topics as Rod Woodson, Johnny Bright, Eric Wedge, Eugene Parker, Everett Scott and past Olympians; the Fort Wayne Komets, Pistons, Daisies, Wizards and Kekiongas; organizations such as Wildcat Baseball, the Mad Anthonys, Lifetime Sports Academy and run, jane, run; and key individual events such as the first night baseball game, the start of the LPGA Tournament and the 1927 New York Yankees exhibition game.

The subjects were produced using video from WANE and WPTA, private footage and pictures from books, Web sites and The News-Sentinel's archives.

These following videos are examples of FWSC's Sports Heritage project. They include the history of Fort Wayne's Olympians and NFL star Rod Woodson.

See a video on Fort Wayne Olympians
See a video on NFL star Rod Woodson
See more on this project
See a poster illustrating all 32 subjects of the project


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