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Baseball Harry Agganis, The Golden Greek, See also the Section Football at the top of the page Eric Karros, Los Angeles Dodgers, 1990 Rookie of the Year Billy Loes (13.12.1929 Astoria NY) Gus Niarhos (6.12.1920 - 29.12. 2004) Erik Daniel Pappas (25.4.1966 Chicago/Illinois ) http://www.baseballgreece.com/europechamp.html Peter Angelos, Greek-American owner of the Baltimore Orioles (Info) Alexander Peter (Alex) Grammas (13.4.1926 Birmingham ) http://www.baseball-reference.com/g/grammal01.shtml Gus Triandos (30.7.1930 San Francisco) http://www.baseball-reference.com/t/triangu01.shtml Al Campanis (Alexander Sebastian Campanis) born Alessandro Campani (2.11.1916 Kos Greece, 21.6.1998 Fullerton CA) (Info) Milt Pappas “Gimpy” (Info) Alex Kampouris (Alexis William Kampouris) (13.11.1912 Sacramento CA - 29.5.1993 Sacramento CA) (Info) Charles Peter George or "Greek George'' (Christmas 1912 Waycross, Georgia -15.8. 1999) Info Statistics
More Information from Diamantis Zervos: Baseball's Golden Greeks, A book on Greek-American baseball players http://www.aegeanbooks.com/ (Info) http://www.qgazette.com/News/2001/0822/Feature_Stories.html , Greek-American Backs National Baseball Team Basketball
European Basketball Champion 1987
Nikos Galis (Georgalis) (23.7.1957 New Jersey), Basketball player (INFO) (A Greek Website) Panagiotis Giannakis, ( Παναγιώτης Γιαννάκης ) Basketball player, captain of Greek European Championship winning team (1987) Panagiotis Fasoulas, Basketball player Jake (Jakovos) Tsakalidis center NBA Memphis Grizzlies Rony Seikaly Lebanon-born, Greek Lou Tsiropoulos (born in Lynn/Massachusetts) an outstanding college basketball player and high school player and member of the Boston Celtics Kurt Rambis (Kyriakos Rambidis) http://www.kurtrambis.com/ Los Angeles Lakers
Beach Volleyball Vassiliki Arvanity and Vassiliki Karadassiou Images: Vassiliki Arvaniti, Vassiliki Karadassiou , Efthalia Koutroumanidou, Maria Tsiartsiani, Box Anton Christoforides (Info) in 13.1.1941 he was the first Greek world boxing champion in history, beating Melio Bettina by a fifteen round decision for the National Boxing Association's vacant world Light-Heavyweight title, in Cleveland. Mike Arnaoutis (1979-06-09 Athens) Light Welterweight 'Mighty' Mike Arnaoutis: The New Generation
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