Bill Clark has seemingly done everything in the world of sports. He has spent time as a Major League Baseball scout, an umpire, founded the Heart of America Marathon, was one of the founders of U.S. Power-lifting Federation, served as Director of Parks and Recreation in Columbia and since 1961, has been a sports columnist… Read more »
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Sport: Conservation
Drury Outdoors
The year was 1989. The Berlin Wall had just fallen. Cheers played on televisions in homes across America and, in Missouri, brothers Mark and Terry Drury were laying the foundation of what would become one of the biggest names in the hunting industry – Drury Outdoors. And it’s why the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame… Read more »
Gerald “Shag” Grossnickle
Shag, a passionate conservationist, was influential in restoring wild turkeys to northern Missouri even though the thought was that turkeys could not survive in the thinly timbered counties north of the Missouri River. In 1961, The Missouri Department of Conservation sent fourteen wild turkeys to Adair County. In 1962, an additional six birds were released.… Read more »
Martin Mac Donald
There is an old saying that, if you are living your dream, you’ll never really work a day in your life. That’s true for Martin Mac Donald, who since his college days has championed the outdoors and, even better, found a tremendous platform 24 years ago to showcase his passion. That’s when he accepted an… Read more »
Chip McGeehan
There’s a saying that everybody has to grow up sometime. For Chip McGeehan, sometime has always been beyond the next deer stand. “I never had kids,” McGeehan said with a laugh, “so I’m the kid in my own family.” In other words, he is among those who has loved to live life – especially in… Read more »
Francis Skalicky
Francis Skalicky still smiles about almost not applying for the position he now calls “the best job anyone could ever hope to have.” He recalls the fall of 1995 when he learned of a new position – media specialist – the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) would have at its Southwest Regional Office in Springfield.… Read more »
Larry Whiteley
Born on a frosty Christmas morning of 1946 on his grandpa’s and grandma’s farm south of Nixa, he learned to make do with anything: No electricity but kerosene lanterns. No faucets but water captured from a nearby spring. No nearby grocery store but armed with his grandpa’s old .22 rifle and a bamboo fishing pole.… Read more »