California Angels -- it had a ring, if not the one Gene Autry spent a quarter century of his life pursuing. The "Singing Cowboy" didn't make it to the moment of the big party Sunday. He sold the ...

A pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies and Detroit Tigers who was drafted by two expansion teams — the Washington Senators ...

Like many country artists in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Gene Autry started out as an imitator of Jimmie Rodgers. As an artist, Gene Autry obviously idolized Jimmie Rodgers, as so many did.

On Sept. 21, 1934, the now non-existent tiny town of Sugar Hill, Texas, grew by one. Some folks say the ground might have even shook just a little. Gene Autry Brownlee was born on a Tuesday to ...