Over the past couple of months I’ve researched the history of Louisville sports. Mostly from a personal curiosity I went in simply wanting to know what sports landscape led us collectively to where we are. Around the world sport tells so much about the people of an area at a time.

I looked into the individuals, the landmarks, the games and events- the times.

When I was a kid I remembered how the city was a buzz about the return of the Louisville Slugger, but more than that the building of not just a state of the art factory but of the museum as well.

Now, the bat never went far from its hometown just across the river to Jeffersonville, Indiana in fact, but still the general feeling was there was a since of history to the bat being right there in the heart of the Derby City.

Tonight marks game one of the World Series, I know this for several reasons. First of all, I try to keep up on sports and I’m a lifelong baseball fan and second the airing for that same commercial which proclaims, “legends are made in October” airs roughly 10,000 times a day on every cable channel on TV and has been for the past three months.

In 1982 a young man from Jeffersonville, Indiana made his debut as a major league baseball starting pitcher.

Walt Terrell, quickly became a staple of that New York Met team where he played his early years. After being drafted as a standout at Morehead State College, the Mets had made a trade with the Texas Rangers for Terrell.