Charles Kearney of Sacramento, Calif., submitted this 1926 photo of the Grandview basketball team, which was the Greater City champions for 1925-26. Charles’ uncle, Bob Kearney, is in the middle row, second from the right. According to a 2003 commentary, Bob Kearney was “One of the area’s stalwarts in the 1930s and 1940s. He was involved in baseball and basketball from the early 1920s to the late 1950s. He was a player, coach, manager and referee, and was considered one of the area’s best athletes in both sports when he was an active player.” Charles Kearney said, “Playing basketball, he often rode the train from Altoona to New York, Chicago and elsewhere to play ball on the weekends. Travel was free as he worked for the railroad. They would sleep on the train coming and going and when in the cities he said they would sleep on the floor of the YMCAs. Bob’s brother, Babe Kearney, also was a really good baseball player, given that when Babe Ruth was in town he insisted that Babe catch for him.” Bob Kearney died on March 11, 2005, at the age of 97.