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John Mackey was the kindest of souls in conversation, but he didn't mind a fight. As the first president of the NFL players' union, he battled for higher wages and better health care, and organized a strike that produced better pension benefits. Before a case of frontal temporal dementia infected his razor-sharp mind, he was a testament to the fact that football players were a lot more than brawny pieces of meat.
| Name | Position |  |
Name | Position | ||
| Alan Ameche | FB | Buzz Nutter | C-LB | |||
| Raymond Berry* | E | Jim Parker* | T-G | |||
| Ordell Braase | DE | Bill Pellington | LB | |||
| Ray Brown | DB-QB | Sherman Plunkett | T | |||
| Jack Call | HB | George Preas | T-G-LB | |||
| Milt Davis | DB | Billy Pricer | FB | |||
| Art DeCarlo | DB-E | Bert Rechichar | DB-LB-HB-E | |||
| Art Donovan* | DT-T | Johnny Sample | DB | |||
| L.G. Dupre | HB | Alex Sandusky | G | |||
| Dick Horn | QB | Leo Sanford | LB | |||
| Don Joyce | DE-DT | George Shaw | QB | |||
| Ray Krouse | DT-DE-T | Don Shinnick | LB | |||
| Gene Lipscomb | DT | Jackie M. Simpson | DB | |||
| Lenny Lyles | DB-HB | Art Spinney | G-DE | |||
| Gino Marchetti* | DE-T-DT | Avatus Stone | HB | |||
| Lenny Moore* | HB-FL | Dick Szymanski | C-LB | |||
| Jim Mutscheller | E-DE | Carl Taseff | DB-HB | |||
| Steve Myhra | G-LB-K | Fuzzy Thurston | G | |||
| Andy Nelson | DB | Johnny Unitas* | QB | |||
| *denotes Pro Football Hall of Fame members | ||||||
ESPN.com: Unitas Led Colts to Win in Title Game
ESPN.com's Page 2: Everything Changed After the Glory Game of 1958
SI.com: Everything on the Line
Baltimore Sun: When Pro Football was a Lark
Baltimore Sun: 'Greatest Game' Came From NFL’s Best
Baltimore Sun: Save the Date: 1958
USA Today: 'Greatest Game’s' First-Down Debate Rages, 50 Years Later
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The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL
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One Sunday in December: The 1958 NFL Championship Game and How It Changed Professional Football
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The Game of Their Lives, 50th Anniversary Edition: The 1958 NFL Championship
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The Greatest Game Ever Played
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Greatest Game Ever Played
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The Colts' Baltimore: A City and Its Love Affair in the 1950s
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