Editor's note: In honor of hip-hop turning 50, ESPN tapped the culture's top voices to write about their favorite athlete name-drops in hip-hop history. In the early spring, I would walk 20 minutes to ...

As we have seen, when George Steinbrenner bought the New York Yankees in 1973, many people – athletes and others – who were employees of the organization were not happy with the ensuing chaos that ...

Before getting there though, a former MVP was putting up five and six win seasons for AL rivals, and in the winter of 1976, Reggie Jackson became a free agent. He would become the linchpin that would ...