SportsCentury - Season 1

First aired: 1/21/1999 70 episodes
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Episodes

0. Casey Stengel

Aired: 10/3/2000

1. 1900-49

Aired: 1/21/1999

The SportsCentury begins with this two-hour reflection of the major sports events that endeared themselves to the American conscience in the first half of the 20th Century. Dave Anderson, Dick Schaap, and Curt Gowdy sit around newspaper offices as the ""hosts"" in this newsreel-type retrospective.

2. No. 50 -- Chris Evert

Aired: 1/22/1999

3. No. 49 -- O.J. Simpson

Aired: 1/29/1999

4. No. 48 -- Pete Sampras

Aired: 2/5/1999

5. No. 47 -- Edwin Moses

Aired: 2/12/1999

6. No. 46 -- Eric Heiden

Aired: 2/19/1999

7. No. 45 -- Bill Tilden

Aired: 2/26/1999

8. SportsCenter of the Decade: 1950s

Aired: 3/9/1999

9. No. 44 -- Bobby Jones

Aired: 3/12/1999

10. No. 43 -- Julius Erving

Aired: 3/19/1999

11. No. 42 -- Sandy Koufax

Aired: 4/2/1999

12. No. 41 -- Wilma Rudolph

Aired: 4/9/1999

13. No. 40 -- Lawrence Taylor

Aired: 4/16/1999

14. No. 39 -- Walter Payton

Aired: 4/23/1999

15. No. 38 -- Ben Hogan

Aired: 4/30/1999

16. No. 37 -- Mickey Mantle

Aired: 5/7/1999

17. SportsCenter of the Decade: 1960s

Aired: 5/21/1999

18. No. 36 -- Oscar Robertson

Aired: 5/14/1999

19. The Greatest Coaches of the Century

Aired: 5/22/1999

20. No. 35 -- Secretariat

Aired: 5/21/1999

21. Most Influential People in Sports

Aired: 5/23/1999

Counts down the ten non-athletes who left the greatest impact on the sports world in the 20th Century. Profiles include: Walter O'Malley, Branch Rickey, Pette Rozelle, David Stern, Roone Arledge, and Marvin Miller.

22. Greatest Dynasties

Aired: 5/30/1999

The teams that dominated their sport–the New York Yankees, Boston Celtics, Montréal Canadiens, UCLA Bruins, Notre Dame Fighting Irish–are profiled. So are the Dallas Cowboys, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Bulls, and San Francisco 49ers.

23. No. 34 -- Lou Gehrig

Aired: 5/28/1999

24. No. 33 -- Mark Spitz

Aired: 6/4/1999

25. Greatest Games

Aired: 6/5/1999

26. No. 32 -- Johnny Unitas

Aired: 6/11/1999

27. No. 31 -- Bobby Orr

Aired: 6/18/1999

28. No. 30 -- Larry Bird

Aired: 6/25/1999

29. SportsCenter of the Decade: 1970s

Aired: 7/9/1999

30. No. 29 -- Arnold Palmer

Aired: 7/2/1999

31. No. 28 -- Red Grange

Aired: 7/9/1999

32. No. 27 -- Jerry Rice

Aired: 7/16/1999

33. No. 26 -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Aired: 7/23/1999

34. No. 25 -- Joe Montana

Aired: 7/30/1999

35. No. 24 -- Sugar Ray Robinson

Aired: 7/30/1999

36. No. 23 -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Aired: 8/6/1999

37. No. 22 -- Joe DiMaggio

Aired: 8/20/1999

38. SportsCenter of the Decade: 1980s

Aired: 9/17/1999

39. No. 21 -- Gordie Howe

Aired: 9/3/1999

40. No. 20 -- Ty Cobb

Aired: 9/17/1999

41. No. 19 -- Martina Navratilova

Aired: 9/24/1999

42. No. 18 -- Bill Russell

Aired: 10/1/1999

43. No. 17 -- Magic Johnson

Aired: 10/8/1999

44. No. 16 -- Ted Williams

Aired: 10/8/1999

45. No. 15 -- Jackie Robinson

Aired: 10/15/1999

46. No. 14 -- Hank Aaron

Aired: 10/29/1999

47. No. 13 -- Wilt Chamberlain

Aired: 10/29/1999

48. No. 12 -- Carl Lewis

Aired: 11/5/1999

49. No. 11 -- Joe Louis

Aired: 11/19/1999

50. No. 10 -- Babe Didrikson

Aired: 12/3/1999

51. No. 9 -- Jack Nicklaus

Aired: 12/3/1999

52. No. 8 -- Willie Mays

Aired: 12/10/1999

53. No. 7 -- Jim Thorpe

Aired: 12/10/1999

54. No. 6 -- Jesse Owens

Aired: 12/17/1999

55. No. 5 -- Wayne Gretzky

Aired: 12/17/1999

56. No. 4 -- Jim Brown

Aired: 12/24/1999

57. No. 3 -- Muhammad Ali

Aired: 12/24/1999

58. No. 2 -- Babe Ruth

Aired: 12/26/1999

59. No. 1 -- Michael Jordan

Aired: 12/26/1999

60. SportsCenter of the Decade: 1990s

Aired: 3/26/2000

61. Yogi Berra

Aired: 10/13/2003

62. Derek Jeter

Aired: 10/17/2003

63. Brian Piccolo

Aired: 11/2/2001

A profile of the late Brian Piccolo, the 1964 ACC Player of the Year at Wake Forest and later a member of the Chicago Bears, where he formed a friendship with Gale Sayers that was depicted in the 1971 film “Brian's Song.” Piccolo died of cancer in 1970.

64. Brian Piccolo

Aired: 11/2/2001

102. No. 50 - Chris Evert

Aired: 1/22/1999

103. Joe DiMaggio

Aired: 7/10/2000

104. Willie Mays

Aired: 7/25/2000

105. Billy Martin

Aired: 8/7/2000

106. Don Larsen

Aired: 10/23/2000