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Bryan Cooney talks to sport stars who will one day be remembered as legends.

Bryan Cooney meets top sportsmen and women who today are thought of as great, but who history will consider to be all-time legends of their game.

Stuff of Legends: Series 3

Mike Walker

Stuff of Legends: Series 3: Episode 2: Jim Baxter

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Episode 2: Jim Baxter

Series 3

Jim Baxter

BBC Radio Scotland - Stuff of Legends, Series 3, Jim Baxter

Bryan Cooney hears about the life of Scottish footballer Jim Baxter.

Sports journalist Jim Black, who was a close friend of footballer Jim Baxter, talks about the sportsman's life on and off the pitch.

2/4 Jim Baxter was one of Scotland's most talented footballers.

Starting work as an apprentice cabinet-maker he worked as a miner before beginning his professional career with Raith Rovers. 

Moving to Rangers Football Club he was soon helping them fill the trophy cabinet.

Known as Slim Jim he played 34 times for Scotland. 

Sports journalist Jim Black who was a close friend of Baxter's tells Bryan Cooney about the highs and lows of an extraordinary sportsman.

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