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Phil Rizzuto. Philip Francis Rizzuto (September 25, 1917 – August 13, 2007), nicknamed " the Scooter ", was an American Major League Baseball shortstop. He spent his entire 13-year baseball career with the New York Yankees (1941–1956), and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994. A popular figure on a team dynasty that ...
A slang term for a baseball record that is disputed in popular opinion (i.e., unofficially) because of a perception that the record holder had an unfair advantage in attaining the record. It implies that the record requires a footnote explaining the purportedly unfair advantage, with the asterisk being a symbol commonly used in typography to ...
The 6-foot, 233-pound Monte, who was one of only three defensive players to start every game for the Crusaders in 2023, ranked second on the team in tackles last season and added 2 sacks, 2 pass ...
The key to wearing one to a baseball game is to dress it down. One way to do this is to tie the front into a crop (like the image above) and roll up the sleeves; the more lived-in, the better. Don ...
The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool.
Record-holders of the St. Louis Cardinals franchise. Stan Musial, with St. Louis Cardinals 1941 – 44 and 1946 – 63. Rogers Hornsby, with St. Louis Cardinals 1915 – 26 and 1933. Bob Gibson, with St. Louis Cardinals 1959 – 75. Charles 'Silver' King, with St. Louis Browns 1887 – 89.
Barry Bonds holds the Major League Baseball home run record with 762. [ a] He passed Hank Aaron, who hit 755, on August 7, 2007. The only other players to have hit 700 or more are Babe Ruth with 714, and Albert Pujols with 703. Alex Rodriguez (696), Willie Mays (660), Ken Griffey Jr. (630), Jim Thome (612), and Sammy Sosa (609) are the only ...
Marty Bergen (1900), American baseball player, cut throat with a razor after killing his family with an ax [136] David Berman (2019), American musician and poet, hanging [137] John Berryman (1972), American poet, jumped off the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota [138] Bruno Bettelheim (1990).