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Article: Sports Hall of Fame welcomes 50th class: attracting fans to new museum is Tucker's task.(HALL OF FAME: Arkansas Sports)
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- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- January 28, 2008
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RAY TUCKER VISITED THE sports halls of fame in Alabama and Mississippi before he and other officials decided how they hoped Arkansas' long-awaited Hall of Fame Museum would be designed.
What stood out to Tucker, the executive director of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame, were the amazing names in the Alabama and Mississippi sports halls of fame, and how those states and Arkansas could boast major players in every sports in the past century.
Many sports greats are shared among these three Southern states. Arkansas and Alabama both honor Paul W. "Bear" Bryant, who grew up in Moro Bottom (Dallas County) and went to high school at Fordyce and then attended ...