Sports' Forgotten Heroes
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72: Leo Lyons-NFL
The name Leo Lyons might not be familiar to most football fans, but it should be. It should be as familiar as Abner Doubleday is to baseball and Dr. James Naismith is to basketball. Leo Lyons was one of the founding members of the NFL and his great-grandson who is just completing a book about Leo joins SFH to talk about Leo’s journey, passion and mission to create a professional football league … a mission accomplished on September 17, 1920.