Sports in St. Louis yet can be played in a very small area because there is no base-running. Invented on the streets and alleys of St. Louis in the early 1900s, the game has leagues around the country, thanks to servicemen who introduced the game to their buddies during World War II and the Korean War. St. Louis was home to four prominent twentieth-century boxers: Sonny Liston, Henry Armstrong, and brothers Leon and Michael Spinks. The Spinkses are the only brothers to have captured the heavyweight boxing title. Leon's son Cory Spinks has also held a world title. The Gateway Cross Cup is an
Nicky Spinks Graham Round in 45 hours 30 minutes, beating the previous record set by Roger Baumeister in 1979 by more than an hour. In April 2017, she ran the Joss Naylor Lakeland Challenge in 11:02, a new women's record. Spinks has won the Fellsman four times and in 2013 she won the Borrowdale Fell Race. She is sponsored by RaceKit and Inov-8. In 2005, Spinks was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a mastectomy in 2012. She is a farmer in Yorkshire. Nicky Spinks Nicola "Nicky" Spinks (born 22 April 1967) is a British long distance runner, specialising in fell running,