A combat fighter pilot in World War II and the Korean War, Glenn was one of the seven original Mercury astronauts, and the last surviving member of the team that took America’s first steps off of Earth, at a time when the Soviet Union was making momentous advances into space. Tom Wolfe...
CBS Sports radio host Amy Lawrence said of his experience, “He was arrested. He was thrown in jail. He was shot at. [Still], after staring death in the face, baseball was a game to him. And he played it like a big kid.”Bill Nunn Universal Pictures Pittsburgh native Bill Nunn (...