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Northeast Indiana's Top 50 Athletes of the 20th Century

Some of the names you should recognize right away: Rod Woodson, Leslie Johnson, Colin Chin. If you have spent any time following local sports since 1990, the exploits of these hometown stars are probably as fresh in your memory as last night's highlight reel.

But there have been plenty of others, athletes such as Don Lash, Everett Scott and Herm Schaefer, whose accomplishments are just as noteworthy, but maybe not as well-known.

We have brought their stories to you in The News-Sentinel's Northeast Indiana's Top 50 Athletes of the 20th Century.

In order to be selected, an individual needed his or her athletic reputation to be tied to Fort Wayne and the surrounding area, either by growing up here or playing for one of the city's professional or collegiate teams.

Staff writer Blake Sebring spearheaded this project and, with help from columnist Reggie Hayes, spent a large portion of time researching and writing this series.

Our hope is that you get as much pleasure from reading these stories as our staff has gotten from putting it together.