Jim Todd was only allowed to throw one or two curveballs a game when he was 12. The right-hander was told to protect his arm.

By Ken Belson Virginia Halas McCaskey, the longtime owner of the Chicago Bears and the daughter of George Halas Sr., who created the team and was one of the founding fathers of the N.F.L., died on ...

McCaskey was 3 years old, a toddler beside her mother and infant brother, George Jr., as the family rode the rails in 1926 during the early stages of Red Grange’s renowned Barnstorming Tour.