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A biography of Walter French, a man who played for both a World Series winner and NFL Championship team. Before Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders, there were only nineteen men, throughout history, who played in the Major Leagues of baseball and in the National Football League, in the same season. Only one man from that group, Walter French, can lay claim to having played for a World Series winner and an NFL Championship team. In 1925, he starred for the Pottsville (PA) Maroons in their win over the Chicago Cardinals, in what was believed to be the NFL championship game, only to see the title stripped by a league office decision, a controversial move still being argued about today. Then in 1929, h...
Peter Egeler was born 17 August 1801 in Urweiler, Germany. His parents were Johann Egeler (b. 1762) and Anna Elisabeth Maldener. He married Eva Schrass in 1828 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. They had eight children. They emigrated in about 1835. Peter died in 1860 in Bucks Township, Tuscarawas, Ohio. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Ohio.