The registers by tie: born here, formed here, chose this ground

1941–2015 · the rolls gathered from the registers named in the audit

The method: The professional registers were searched by birthplace and hometown for this ground — Baseball-Reference and the baseball registers for ballplayers, Pro Football Reference for football, Penn High School and Notre Dame rosters and media guides for the formed-here line — and the yield checked against Notable People's fame test, which searched sport as a class. The rolls are short. They are printed whole, because a roll's true size is the finding.

Born here, and formed here — one name: Braxston Cave, born July 29, 1989, in Granger, Indiana — the birthplace stands in his biographical record and his hometown in the recruiting record alike. He was formed on this ground's own pipeline: Penn High School, then Notre Dame, where he played 48 games and started 35 at center across 2008–2012. Undrafted in 2013, he reached an active NFL roster when the Detroit Lions signed him on December 30, 2015 — the signing Notable People already carries. Cave is the only athlete in the registers who is both born here and formed here, and the only Granger-born player in a major professional register reached by this section. He stands on both rolls at once, and he is the whole of each.

Chose this ground — one name: Ken "Hawk" Harrelson was born September 4, 1941, in Woodruff, South Carolina, and raised in Savannah, Georgia, where he was schooled at Benedictine Military School; nothing in his formation touches Indiana. His playing record is major-league whole — 1963–71 with Kansas City, Washington, Boston and Cleveland, an All-Star in 1968 — and Notable People profiles it. His Granger chapter is residence only: the baseball record carries him as residing in Granger, Indiana, during the baseball season, a broadcaster's seasonal home kept within reach of Chicago. He belongs on the chose-this-ground roll and on no other, and the roll is printed at exactly that strength — one famous resident, not a son of the ground.

The rest of the rolls: No other name joins any roll. The registers return no second Granger-born professional in baseball or football, no Notre Dame or Penn player formed here beyond Cave whom the pro registers carry, and no athlete who chose this ground at record strength beyond Harrelson. The neighboring names a reader may expect — Penn's pipeline of college signees, Notre Dame's South Bend and Mishawaka men — belong to those grounds' files, as Sports's tested-negatives article already points them. Granger's player register, gathered whole, is two names deep: one born and formed, one arrived.

Sources:

1. Biographical and recruiting record of Braxston Cave — born July 29, 1989, Granger, Indiana; Penn High School; Notre Dame roster record, 48 games / 35 starts, 2008–2012; Pro Football Reference player page (CaveBr00).
2. Baseball-Reference Bullpen and the standard biographical record of Ken Harrelson — born September 4, 1941, Woodruff, South Carolina; raised Savannah, Georgia; clubs 1963–71; 1968 All-Star. Residence in Granger during the baseball season per the baseball biographical record.
3. Notable People (banked) — the Cave and Harrelson profiles at full size, and the fame test whose sport-as-a-class search bounds these rolls; cross-referenced, not retold.
4. Register searches run for this section: Baseball-Reference and Pro Football Reference hometown/birthplace registers for Granger, Indiana; Penn and Notre Dame rosters and media guides. Yield beyond the two names above: none.