Don Mattingly | ... 1884, the Dodgers have used a total of 30 Managers, the most current being | , who was appointed at the conclusion of the 2010 season as the successor ... |
Blondy Wallace | ... McFarland, Clark Schrontz, Paul Steinberg, Pop Sweet, Eddie Wood, and coach | |
Minnie Miñoso | ... cago White Sox, Venezuelan-born Chico Carrasquel and Cuban-born (and black) | , became the first Hispanic All-Stars |
Babe Ruth | ... e career records and reached an additional major career milestone. He broke | 's record of 2,062 career walks, Ty Cobb's record of 2,246 career runs, an ... |
Hughie Jennings | ... he season, Sparky Anderson won his 1,132nd game as a Tiger manager, passing | for the most all-time wins in franchise history. Following the 1992 season ... |
Reggie Jackson | ... relationships between teammates, who included Catfish Hunter, Vida Blue and | , gave the lie to the need for "chemistry" between players. The National L ... |
Christy Mathewson | ... to be low scoring, dominated by such pitchers as Walter Johnson, Cy Young, | , and Grover Cleveland Alexander to the extent that the period 1900–1919 i ... |
Joe Torre | ... during a regular season game until Jolbert Cabrera wore it in 2003. Manager | wore it during his tenure with the Dodgers |
Harry Heilmann | ... y. (The Elias Book of Baseball Records, 2008, p. 88) That year, outfielders | and Ty Cobb finished #1 and #2 in the American League batting race with ba ... |
Babe Ruth | ... ear deal with the Boston Red Sox and took the uniform number 3, in honor of | |
Ozzie Virgil | ... eague team to integrate their roster with the addition of Pumpsie Green and | on July 21, 1959. While limited in numbers, the on-field performance of ea ... |
Otto Graham | ... and a roster full of future hall of famers like Lou Groza, Bill Willis, and | . Landry did not have a good debut as a starter, Mac Speedie, the receiver ... |
Wayne Gretzky | ... lar-season success continued into the playoffs, as the Flyers swept a young | and his Edmonton Oilers in the first round, then went on to get revenge ag ... |
Chico Carrasquel | ... y from the integration era. In 1951, two Chicago White Sox, Venezuelan-born | and Cuban-born (and black) Minnie Miñoso, became the first Hispanic All-St ... |
Paul Holmgren | ... me 5–4. It was because of this playoff collapse that "Iron Mike" was fired. | was named Keenan's replacement, the first time a former Flyer was named th ... |
Mickey Cochrane | ... ms of the 1930s were consistently among the league's best with "Black Mike" | behind the plate, slugger Hank Greenberg at first, and consistent Charlie ... |
Al Davis | ... er Pete Rozelle would present the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the team's owner | . Prior to the season, the league declined to approve the Raiders' proposa ... |
Willie Horton | ... ate-inning defensive replacement. This allowed Smith to play an outfield of | , Jim Northrup and Al Kaline in every Series game |
Joe Pepitone | ... e bases, McLain stood on the pitchers mound and applauded. The next batter, | , waved his bat over the plate, as if asking for an easy pitch of his own. ... |
Joe Sewell | ... pp, Bill Lindsay, Zeke Bonura, Gene Freese, and Hall of Famers Dazzy Vance, | , Bob Lemon, and Earl Weaver. In Jackson's only season with New Orleans (1 ... |
Tony Kemp | ... and choreographed by former Riverdance leads, Jean Butler and Colin Dunne, | portrayed Fionn in a modernised version of "The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gr ... |
Cy Young | ... mes tended to be low scoring, dominated by such pitchers as Walter Johnson, | , Christy Mathewson, and Grover Cleveland Alexander to the extent that the ... |
Bill Willis | ... d by Paul Brown, and a roster full of future hall of famers like Lou Groza, | , and Otto Graham. Landry did not have a good debut as a starter, Mac Spee ... |
Tony Shaw | The 1990 Premiership team, coached by Leigh Matthews and captained by | , had a one-sided grand final win against Essendon, the Magpies recording ... |
Don Nelson | ... lry took on a new meaning in 2005 when, near the end of the regular season, | would resign as head coach of the Mavericks, apparently satisfied with the ... |
Howard Johnson | ... s promoted Henderson from special instructor to first base coach, replacing | , who became the hitting coach. Henderson was not retained as a coach for ... |
Kevin Pritchard | ... ning the ABA championship under head coach and University of Kansas alumnus | |
Branch Rickey | ... "minor" – a term that did not come into vogue until St. Louis Cardinals GM | pioneered the farm system in the 1930s. Nevertheless, these financially tr ... |
Gene Tenace | ... e charged with an error on Gonzalo Marquez's game-tying single that allowed | to score the winning run. Blue Moon Odom shut down Detroit 5–0 in Game 2. ... |
Leigh Matthews | The 1990 Premiership team, coached by | and captained by Tony Shaw, had a one-sided grand final win against Essend ... |
Gennadi Sosonko | ... ng in originality and in the mental toughness required of a world champion. | thought Euwe's modesty was a handicap in top-class chess (although Euwe wa ... |
Lothar Matthäus | ... n football squad in 1958. The other four are Uwe Seeler, Franz Beckenbauer, | and |
Walter Johnson | ... this time the games tended to be low scoring, dominated by such pitchers as | , Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, and Grover Cleveland Alexander to the exten ... |
Chuck Noll | ... e the dominate teams of the decade. Steelers were led by Terry Bradshaw and | , and the Cowboys were led by Roger Staubach and Tom Landry |
Venkatesh Prasad | ... lude Javagal Srinath, Gundappa Vishwanath, Syed Kirmani, E. A. S. Prasanna, | , Sunil Joshi, Robin Uthappa, Vinay Kumar, Roger Binny and Abhimanyu Mithu ... |
Frank Robinson | ... rience long-delayed gains in managerial positions within baseball. In 1975, | (who had been the 1956 Rookie of the Year with the Cincinnati Reds) was na ... |
Bob Welch | ... rs have approached the 30-game milestone (Steve Carlton won 27 games in and | also with 27 victories in . With Major League Baseball moving from the fou ... |
Jim Thorpe | ... sity starter as running back and linebacker in 1912, tackling the legendary | of the Carlisle Indians that year. Eisenhower broke his leg in that, his l ... |
Jim McMahon | ... & '96, Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer '90, and two-time Super Bowl winner | . In golf, BYU alumni include two major championship winners: Johnny Mille ... |
Bob Gibson | ... n, a sore-armed McLain lost twice to National League Cy Young Award winner, | to help put the Tigers down three games to one. Trailing three games to tw ... |
Jesse Haines | Hoyt Wilhelm, Phil Niekro and | , three pitchers who primarily relied on the knuckleball, have been induct ... |
Branch Rickey | ... a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It happened mainly due to General Manager | 's efforts. The deeply religious Rickey's motivation appears to have been ... |
Gennadi Sosonko | ... to Chess, and Strategy and Tactics in Chess Play. Former Soviet grandmaster | used Euwe's Practical Chess Lessons (Practische Schaaklessen) as a textboo ... |
Wade Phillips | ... outs for the Cowboys and was put on the practice squad in 2005. Head coach | promoted Curtis after a strong pre-season to back up TE. He had 3 catches ... |
Mac Speedie | ... ill Willis, and Otto Graham. Landry did not have a good debut as a starter, | , the receiver he was assigned to cover, set an AAFC record for receiving ... |
Brian Sipe | ... g to improve the Generals' passing game that floundered with former NFL MVP | as their quarterback in 1984, signed Flutie to a 3-year, $3.1 million deal ... |
Sean Payton | ... g, the brief and former owner of the Texas Rangers. Other residents include | , Mark Teixeira, Vernon Wells, professional golfers Choi Kyung-Ju and Ben ... |
Babe Ruth | ... rks for base on balls with 177 (breaking the previous record of 170, set by | in 1923) and slugging percentage with .863 (breaking the mark of .847 set ... |
Walter Okeson | ... top players, such as: Ed Abbaticchio, Charles Barney, Alf Bull, Jack Gass, | , Harry Ryan, Doggie Trenchard, Eddie Wood and manager Dave Berry |
Quinn Buckner | ... e won the NBA Coach of the Year Award, having won it in the 2005–06 season. | and Jim Cleamons have spent their entire NBA coaching careers with the Mav ... |
Dick Williams | | – who played for the Dodgers from 1951–54 and again in 1956 – was inducted ... |
Lisle Blackbourn | ... rtheless, he received a recruiting feeler from Green Bay Packers head coach | , asking about his interest in playing professionally. Kennedy demurred, s ... |
Satchel Paige | ... the majors, including Roy Campanella (teammate to Robinson in Brooklyn) and | (teammate to Doby in Cleveland). Paige, who had pitched more than 2400 inn ... |
Charlie Hough | ... r prominent knuckleball pitchers have included Joe Niekro (Phil's brother), | , Dave Jolly, Ben Flowers, Wilbur Wood, Tom Candiotti, Bob Purkey, Steve S ... |
Terry Simpson | For 1993–94, | was hired as the new head coach in hopes that the Flyers would finally ret ... |
Albert Spalding | Flagler had | design a baseball park in St. Augustine, and the waiters at his hotels, un ... |
Tony Gwynn | ... ble off Rockies pitcher John Thomson. That final game was also Padre legend | 's last major league game, and Henderson had originally wanted to sit out ... |
Orel Hershiser | ... were affectionately dubbed "Fernandomania." In 1988, another pitching hero, | , again led them to a World Series victory, aided by one of the most memor ... |
Mickey Cochrane | With a lineup that featured four future Hall of Famers (Hank Greenberg, | , Goose Goslin and Charlie Gehringer), the Tigers eventually won the World ... |
Augie Garrido | ... practices and games. Costner is a close friend of Longhorns baseball coach | from Garrido's days coaching at Cal State Fullerton, the actor's alma mate ... |
Rube Foster | ... each other independently, without an official league to organize the sport. | , a former ballplayer, founded the Negro National League in 1920. A second ... |
Danny Murtaugh | ... 50s, the team was associated with the Pittsburgh Pirates and was managed by | . Other notable Pelican managers included Larry Gilbert and Abner Powell, ... |
Billy Martin | ... let go after a disappointing fourth-place finish in 1970, to be replaced by | . Following his playing career with the New York Yankees, Martin had worke ... |
Joe DiMaggio | ... .400 – the last time anyone has achieved that feat. During the same season | hit successfully in 56 consecutive games, an accomplishment both unprecede ... |
Honus Wagner | ... pite this, there were also several superstar hitters, the most famous being | , held to be one of the greatest shortstops to ever play the game, and Det ... |
Charlie Gehringer | ... Cochrane behind the plate, slugger Hank Greenberg at first, and consistent | , "The Mechanical Man", at second. All three players are in the Baseball H ... |
Phog Allen | ... tar high school athlete in Russell, and influential Kansas basketball coach | traveled to Russell to recruit him to play for the basketball team. While ... |
Larry Herndon | In Game 1, | hit a two-run home run that gave the Tigers a 3–2 lead. Morris pitched a c ... |
head coach | ... tructed General Manager Bud Poile to acquire bigger, tougher players. While | Keith Allen soon after replaced Poile as GM, this mandate eventually led t ... |
Al McGuire | ... gram, is known for its men's basketball team, which, under the direction of | , won the NCAA National Championship in 1977. The team returned to the Fin ... |
Warren Mitchell (basketball) | ... is is about the English actor. For the U.S. college basketball coach, go to | |
Bob Lemon | ... dsay, Zeke Bonura, Gene Freese, and Hall of Famers Dazzy Vance, Joe Sewell, | , and Earl Weaver. In Jackson's only season with New Orleans (1910), he hi ... |
Doggie Trenchard | ... bbaticchio, Charles Barney, Alf Bull, Jack Gass, Walter Okeson, Harry Ryan, | , Eddie Wood and manager Dave Berry |
Willie Mays | ... g his 660th career home run on April 12, 2004, tying him with his godfather | for third place on the all-time career home run list. He hit his 661st hom ... |
Magic Johnson | ... to 300. The honorees inducted in 2002 included the Harlem Globetrotters and | , a five-time NBA champion, three-time NBA finals MVP and Olympic gold med ... |
Sparky Anderson | ... ue, on the other hand, belonged to the Big Red Machine in Cincinnati, where | 's team, which included Pete Rose as well as Hall of Famers Tony Perez, Jo ... |
Earl Weaver | ... ra, Gene Freese, and Hall of Famers Dazzy Vance, Joe Sewell, Bob Lemon, and | . In Jackson's only season with New Orleans (1910), he hit .354 to win the ... |
Tim Raines | ... uccess rate on the basepaths is among the highest percentages in history. ( | ranks first among players with at least 300 career attempts, at 84%.) On J ... |
Charlie Waters | ... ondary led by future hall of famer Mel Renfro and safeties Cliff Harris and | |
Raymond Berry | ... ndry assistants: Mike Ditka, Dan Reeves, John Mackovic, Gene Stallings, and | |
Paul Brown | ... would come against the AAFC's powerhouse, the Cleveland Browns, coached by | , and a roster full of future hall of famers like Lou Groza, Bill Willis, ... |
Terry Murray | ... season and immediately began putting his stamp on the team. New head coach | replaced Kevin Dineen as team captain with Lindros prior to the start of t ... |
Roger Neilson | ... 7–69), general manager (1969–83) and executive vice-president (since 1980), | , head coach (1997–2000), mainly for his overall NHL coaching career, Bud ... |
Krešimir Ćosić | ... r and 4-time NBA All-Star Mel Hutchins '51, and three-time Olympic medalist | '73. BYU also claims notable professional football players including two-t ... |
Rick Carlisle | ... icks coaches have been elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach. | has been the head coach of the Mavericks since 2008, and led the team to t ... |
Joe Coleman | ... with Elliott Maddox, Norm McRae and Don Wert to the Washington Senators for | , Eddie Brinkman, Jim Hannan and Aurelio Rodríguez. Kuhn actually had to c ... |
Hans Kraay | ... ons Real Madrid on 8 September 1965 in the preliminaries. During the match, | had to leave the pitch injured after 31 minutes, without being substituted ... |
Kirk Gibson | ... the most memorable home runs of all time, by their injured star outfielder | coming off the bench to pinch hit with two outs in the bottom of the ninth ... |
Willie Horton | ... s, Jake Wood and Bill Bruton, and later in the 1960s, black players such as | , Earl Wilson, and Gates Brown would contribute to Detroit's rise in the s ... |
Jim Cleamons | ... h of the Year Award, having won it in the 2005–06 season. Quinn Buckner and | have spent their entire NBA coaching careers with the Mavericks. None of t ... |
Weeb Ewbank | ... o a World Championship over the NFL's Colts, 16–7. The Jets were coached by | , the coach of the Colts' first two NFL titles |
Joe Torre | ... who was appointed at the conclusion of the 2010 season as the successor to | |
Paul Molitor | ... He was involved in the final play of the World Series that year, as he and | scored on Joe Carter's Series-ending home run. After winning his second Wo ... |
Igor Bondarevsky | ... iners, from the volatile attacker Alexander Tolush to the calmer strategist | . This proved the key to his resurgence. He won his first of two USSR Cham ... |
Herman Edwards | ... age. Philadelphia also had a fine secondary, led by veteran defensive backs | (3 interceptions) and Brenard Wilson (6 interceptions), along with rookie ... |
Nadia Comăneci | ... sion channels such as E!. Young sports icons are considered teen idols like | , Mary Lou Retton, Shawn Johnson, Michael Phelps and Apolo Ohno as well as ... |
Branch Rickey | ... nership of the Dodgers in 1950, when he bought the shares of his co-owners, | and the John L. Smith. Before long he was working to buy new land in Brook ... |
Happy Chandler | ... dent of the PCL, took on baseball commissioners Kenesaw Mountain Landis and | at first to get better equity from the major leagues, then to form a third ... |
Wayne Gretzky | In addition, number 99 was retired league-wide for | on February 6, 2000, and number 31, last worn by goaltender Pelle Lindberg ... |
Joe Moeller | ... r and astronaut Christa McAuliffe, and former major league baseball pitcher | |
Mikhail Botvinnik | ... ar second place finish in the great tournament at Groningen in 1946, behind | . But Euwe consented to participate in a five-player tournament to select ... |
John L. Smith | ... in 1950, when he bought the shares of his co-owners, Branch Rickey and the | . Before long he was working to buy new land in Brooklyn to build a more a ... |
Raymond Berry | ... catalyst. Years later, after witnessing Bell openly crying after the game, | attributed it Bell's immediate understanding of the impact the game would ... |
Garry Kasparov | In 2003 Deep Junior played a six-game match against | that resulted in a 3-3 tie. It won a 2006 match with Teimour Radjabov |
Alexander Tolush | Spassky decided upon a switch in trainers, from the volatile attacker | to the calmer strategist Igor Bondarevsky. This proved the key to his resu ... |
Lovie Smith | ... hich team won, as the Bears were coached by another African-American coach, | ). With the win the Colts became the only team to date to win a Super Bowl ... |
Joe Coleman | ... in what would turn out to be a heist for Detroit. The club acquired pitcher | , shortstop Eddie Brinkman and third baseman Aurelio Rodríguez, all of who ... |
Vince Lombardi | ... ll season, Landry became the defensive coordinator for the Giants, opposite | , who was the offensive coordinator. Landry led one of the best defensive ... |
Wilbert Montgomery | ... with 93 yards and a touchdown off of just 2 receptions. Eagles running back | led Philadelphia in rushing and receiving with 44 rushing yards and 6 rece ... |
Pants Rowland | ... leagues, and rebelled continuously against their Eastern masters. Clarence | , the President of the PCL, took on baseball commissioners Kenesaw Mountai ... |
Ted Owens | ... as football coach Darrell Royal, University of Kansas Head basketball coach | , Major League Baseball players Wilcy Moore, Von and Lindy McDaniel, Unive ... |
Walter Camp | ... nd Harvard, the country's second-oldest college football rivalry. Yale alum | , deemed the "Father of American Football", helped develop modern football ... |
Weeb Ewbank | The 1958 team, led by coach | and quarterback Johnny Unitas defeated the New York Giants at Yankee Stadi ... |
Virgil Trucks | ... s from the military, the Tigers took the 1945 American League pennant. With | , Hal Newhouser and Dizzy Trout on the mound and Greenberg leading the Tig ... |
Herb Brooks | Notable residents of Dellwood include the late | , coach of the Miracle on Ice hockey team; the late F. Scott Fitzgerald; J ... |
Babe Ruth | ... ankees, his favorite team because of a lifelong interest in baseball legend | . He asked for uniform number 3, and was of course denied, as the Babe's n ... |
Jim Leyland | ... lity, the 2006 season showed signs of hope. After an early season tirade by | , the team exploded and quickly rose to the top of the AL Central. The tea ... |
Tony Gwynn | ... s about Henderson. A Padres teammate (variously reported as Steve Finley or | ) once offered him a seat anywhere on the bus, saying that Henderson had t ... |
Goose Goslin | ... that featured four future Hall of Famers (Hank Greenberg, Mickey Cochrane, | and Charlie Gehringer), the Tigers eventually won the World Series the fol ... |
Alan Mullery | ... a commanding 2–0 lead, with Peters scoring against the Germans again after | had put the defending champions ahead. Franz Beckenbauer then hit a low sh ... |
Peter Laviolette | ... n to unravel with mediocre play that cost John Stevens his job in December. | was hired as head coach in order to reinstitute accountability and restore ... |
Joe Coleman | As the series shifted to Detroit, the Tigers caught their stride. | held the A's scoreless on seven hits in Game 3, a 3–0 Tiger victory. In Ga ... |
Joe Torre | ... ng an authentic 1934 Babe Ruth hat, which Wells bought for $35,000. Manager | made Wells take it off after the first inning because it didn't conform to ... |
Billy Martin | ... teals (56). In so doing, he became the emblematic figure of Oakland manager | 's aggressive "Billyball" philosophy, which received much media attention. ... |
John Wooden | ... utors, one referee, and one team, will enter the Hall on September 7, 2012. | , Lenny Wilkens, and have each been inducted as both player and coach (Woo ... |
Jim Leyland | In October 2005, | , who managed Dombrowski's 1997 World Series–winning Marlins club, replace ... |
Charles Comiskey | ... if he won 30 games. Legend has it that as the season drew to a close, owner | ordered manager Kid Gleason to bench Cicotte, denying him a chance at a 30 ... |
Gregg Williams | ... owns. Following the 2000 season, Bills President Tom Donahoe and head coach | decided to keep Johnson as the starter and cut Flutie |
Pat Sullivan | ... r year (1984). Flutie became the first quarterback to win the Heisman since | in 1971. Flutie left school as the NCAA’s all-time passing yardage leader ... |
Jeremy Silman | The popular "Winning Chess" series (with co-author IM | ) |
Adrian "Cap" Anson | ... ew York, Philadelphia, and Chicago. The tour included future Hall of Famers | and John Montgomery Ward. While the players were on the tour, the National ... |
Ivor Preece | ... McSheffrey; cricketers Tom Cartwright and Ian Bell MBE; rugby union players | , Keith Fairbrother, David Duckham MBE, Neil Back, Danny Grewcock MBE, Geo ... |
Charlie Gehringer | ... ur future Hall of Famers (Hank Greenberg, Mickey Cochrane, Goose Goslin and | ), the Tigers eventually won the World Series the following year, defeatin ... |
Shigeru Egami | ... ght to Tokyo from Okinawa by Gichin Funakoshi in 1922. One of his students, | introduced modifications designed to incorporate the values of traditional ... |
Alexander Beliavsky | ... and Robert Hübner. He shared first at Baden, Vienna in 1980, on 10½/15 with | . He won his preliminary group at Hamburg 1982 with a powerful 5½/6, but l ... |
Marty Schottenheimer | McDonald also was the home of NFL coaches Marvin Lewis and | , Oscar-winning songwriter Jay Livingston and his brother Alan Livingston, ... |
Kid Gleason | ... that as the season drew to a close, owner Charles Comiskey ordered manager | to bench Cicotte, denying him a chance at a 30-win season and the bonus mo ... |
Pim Verbeek | ... t period in history Feyenoord was managed by two managers at once, Dutchman | and Swede Gunder Bengtsson. Bengtsson was the last foreign manager to lead ... |
Al Davis | ... grandstand contemptuously referred to as "Mount Davis" after Raiders' owner | . Because construction was not finished by the start of the 1996 season, t ... |
Marvin Lewis | McDonald also was the home of NFL coaches | and Marty Schottenheimer, Oscar-winning songwriter Jay Livingston and his ... |
Mayo Smith | ... 2 lead. McLain created more dissension when he clashed with Tigers' manager | over the latter's role in the firing of Johnny Sain as the team's pitching ... |
Avery Johnson | ... ivers by the Spurs in 2005. Nowitzki emerged as the team's leader, and with | coaching the team, the Mavericks would make their first NBA Finals appeara ... |
Ferdinand Daučík | Managers | and László Kubala led the team to five different trophies including La Lig ... |
Don McCafferty | ... NFL merger. The 1970 Colts immediately went on a rampage, as new head coach | led the Colts to an 11-2-1 regular season record, winning the AFC East tit ... |
Telê Santana | Atlético Mineiro's most famous coach is | |
Bob Hurley | ... has inducted new classes without honoring a player - 1965, 1968, and 2007. | , the coaching legend of St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, New Jerse ... |
Lou Boudreau | ... s future wife, Sharyn Boudreau, the daughter of former major league player, | . McLain was also musically talented, learning to play the organ from his ... |
Paul Holmgren | ... sistant coach John Stevens replaced Hitchcock and assistant general manager | took on Clarke's responsibilities on an interim basis |
Mike Keenan | | , a relative unknown at the time, was hired in 1984 to coach the team, and ... |
Garry Kasparov | ... . Former World Champions Vasily Smyslov, Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, and | analyzed the match for their own benefit and concluded that Euwe deserved ... |
Brad Davis | ... ly competitive Western Conference. Led by Mark Aguirre, original draft pick | , Rolando Blackman, Derek Harper, Sam Perkins and Detlef Schrempf, the Mav ... |
Noel Cantwell | ... re Jesse Carver, George Raynor, Harry Storer and Jimmy Hill. Others include | , Dave Sexton, John Sillett, Bobby Gould, Phil Neal, Ron Atkinson, Gordon ... |
Willie Mays | ... h not officially retired—had not been regularly worn by a Mets player since | ' retirement in 1973. Nonetheless, Henderson and the Mets were an uneasy f ... |
Joseph M. Papp | Noteworthy residents of Seven Hills have included professional cyclist | ,unjustly convicted World War II war criminal John Demjanjuk, former profe ... |
Dutch Leonard | ... Senators had a pitching rotation which included four knuckleball pitchers ( | , Johnny Niggeling, Mickey "Itsy Bitsy" Haefner and Roger Wolff) who combi ... |
Lenny Wilkens | ... feree, and one team, will enter the Hall on September 7, 2012. John Wooden, | , and have each been inducted as both player and coach (Wooden in 1961 and ... |
Travis Fryman | ... largely barren of talent, as well, producing only a few everyday players ( | , Bobby Higginson) during the 1990s. Adding insult to injury, the Tigers a ... |
Herman Edwards | | is formerly the head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Footb ... |
Charlie Hough | ... g four passed balls in one inning while trying to catch knuckleball pitcher | in 1987. Varitek holds the postseason record with three in Game 5 of the 2 ... |
László Kubala | Managers Ferdinand Daučík and | led the team to five different trophies including La Liga, the Copa del Ge ... |
Tony Dungy | ... tatistically worst rushing defense in the league during the regular season. | became only the third man to have won the Super Bowl as both a head coach ... |
Avery Johnson | ... fied with the state of the team, and hand the coaching reins to former Spur | , the point guard of the 1999 NBA champion Spurs team who hit the game-win ... |
Rayfield Wright | ... scored 5 touchdowns. The Cowboys' offensive line was led by All-Pro tackle | |
Mark McGwire | ... to be one of the game's greatest seasons. St. Louis Cardinals first baseman | and Chicago Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa that year engaged in a home run rac ... |
Bill Russell | ... resident Jack M. Wilson, and sports figures including Boston Celtics legend | and the top management of the Red Sox |
Wayne Fontes | ... e Roar" (a phrase first introduced in 1990 by then-Detroit Lions Head Coach | ) began to catch on, referring to the fact that the Tigers had not had a w ... |
Jim Lee Howell | ... t two years, 1954 through 1955, under the guidance of new Giants head coach | . Landry ended his playing career with 32 interceptions in only 80 games |
Larry Herndon | ... fewer games during the season. In Game 1, Alan Trammell, Lance Parrish and | went deep to crush the Royals 8–1 at Royals Stadium (now Kauffman Stadium) ... |
Johnny Evers | ... h at that time was a common, acceptable practice. The Cubs' second baseman, | , noticed this. In the confusion that followed, Evers claimed to have retr ... |
Tom Flores | (along with | {IV-player, XV and XVIII-coach} and Mike Ditka {VI-player, XX-coach}), as ... |
Syd Coventry | ... ord. Collingwood also had three Brownlow Medallists during the period, with | winning in 1927, Albert Collier in 1929 and Harry Collier in 193 |
Craig Ramsay | ... him to step aside in February 2000 to undergo treatment, so assistant coach | took over as interim coach for the rest of the season; Neilson later recov ... |
Sammy Baugh | | , the great quarterback for the Washington Redskins, had a ranch in Rotan. ... |
Jim Harbaugh | ... orders to his squad (played by NFL members Ken Norton, Jr., Carl Banks and | ) in a huddle using football diagrams |
Wade Phillips | ... a controversial decision, was replaced by Johnson for the playoffs by coach | , who later said he had been ordered by Bills owner Ralph Wilson to do so. ... |
Keith Allen | ... ly Sittler played a third season with the Flyers. Inducted as builders were | , who was head coach (1967–69), general manager (1969–83) and executive vi ... |
Jack Mansell | ... ined until 1969, when they returned to hoops under the orders of manager of | . Reading have remained in a variety of hooped shirts ever since, apart fr ... |
Tony Dungy | The firing led to the hiring of head coach | , the former head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who had led his forme ... |
Don Shula | ... the two clubs did have something in common, however, lay in new Miami coach | . Shula had coached the Colts the previous seven pre-merger seasons (1963- ... |
Lance Parrish | ... the Royals won 20 fewer games during the season. In Game 1, Alan Trammell, | and Larry Herndon went deep to crush the Royals 8–1 at Royals Stadium (now ... |
manager | ... ter expanded to 60,000. Jack Greenwell was recruited as the first full-time | , and the club's fortunes began to improve on the field. During the Gamper ... |
Leo Durocher | ... rnations is described as a small town outside of Los Angeles, California. ( | , who was then coaching with the Los Angeles Dodgers, guest-starred as him ... |
Aurelio Vidmar | ... sited Feyenoord because of suspected fraud, mainly based on the signings of | , Christian Gyan and Patrick Allotey. This became an ongoing scandal in th ... |
Fred Merkle | ... s played a game in the Polo Grounds. Nineteen-year-old rookie first baseman | , later to become one of the best players at his position in the league, w ... |
Yogi Berra | Verducci wrote, "Rickey is the modern-day | , only faster." Henderson himself is resigned to his persona: "A lot of st ... |
Bill Freehan | ... ail Lou Brock (who tried to score from second base standing up), as catcher | blocked the plate with his foot. The Tigers came back with three runs in t ... |
Bill Cowher | Several NC State students later became professional athletes. | coached 15 seasons with the Steelers including the Super Bowl XL champions ... |
Babe Ruth | ... e a center of activity in the area. Guests, such as Al Capone, Connie Mack, | , and singer Kate Smith were able to utilize the hotel's airfield for arri ... |
Gregg Popovich | ... inst the New York Knicks. Since Johnson was coached under Spurs' Head Coach | , he would be familiar with most, if not all, of Popovich's coaching style ... |
Mike Ditka | and | {VI-player, XX-coach}), as well as the first African-American Head Coach t ... |
Jim Gilliam | ... obinson, three-time MVP Roy Campanella, Cy Young Award winner Don Newcombe, | and Joe Black. Robinson would eventually go on to become the first African ... |
Rogers Hornsby | ... made home run hitting more practical. In addition to Ruth, hitters such as | also took advantage, with Hornsby compiling extraordinary figures for both ... |
Don Nelson | ... ichael Finley and Steve Nash. With a new owner in Mark Cuban and head coach | leading the crew, they returned to the playoffs in 2001, eventually return ... |
Jock McHale | ... tive premierships in 1935 and 1936. The club's coach during this period was | , who served as coach from 1912 to 1949, a VFL/AFL record. Collingwood als ... |
Chuck Dressen | ... . Early in his career, McLain’s interest in betting on horses was piqued by | , one of his first managers. McLain’s descent into his gambling obsession ... |
Larry Herndon | ... Tanana went all nine innings for the complete game shutout, and outfielder | gave the Tigers their lone run on a second-inning home run. Detroit finish ... |
Sparky Anderson | ... offseason. With the deaths of George Kell, Mark Fidrych, Ernie Harwell and | , the slogan has new appreciation, for players and personalities of the te ... |
Kevin McHale | Basketball Hall of Famer | was born and raised on the Mesabi Range in Hibbing; Robert Allen Zimmerman ... |
Bill Belichick | ... t week's title of AFC Special Teams Player of the Week. Patriots head coach | , known for his knowledge of the history of the game, made comments that s ... |
Jim E. Mora | ... nfante and hiring Bill Polian to run the organization. Polian in turn hired | to coach the team and drafted University of Tennessee Volunteers quarterba ... |
László Kubala | ... -to-back La Liga titles in 1948 and 1949 and the signing of in June 1950 of | , who would later go on to score 196 goals in 256 matches, drew larger cro ... |
Yuri Balashov | ... 1978 with 6½/9. At Munich 1979, he tied for 1st–4th places with 8½/13, with | , Ulf Andersson and Robert Hübner. He shared first at Baden, Vienna in 198 ... |
Nadia Comăneci | ... eam difficulty began to increase dramatically in the 1970s. Olga Korbut and | pioneered advanced tumbling combinations and aerial skills on beam; other ... |
Bob Folwell | ... he started the first game of the 1916 season on September 30 for new coach | . But again mixed results by Bell caused him to be platooned for the rest ... |
Mark McGwire | ... y for possibly using steroids. These include Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, and | . Other players, such as Canseco and Gary Sheffield, have admitted to have ... |
Mickey Cochrane | ... at the Tigers' previous home Tiger Stadium, was renamed Cochrane Avenue for | . Cherry Street, which runs behind the left-field stands at Tiger Stadium, ... |
Ruud Gullit | ... of the subsequent 1998–1999 season, and replaced by former Chelsea manager | . One commentator has since written, "His 20 months at Newcastle United ar ... |
Edward P. Hurt | From the 1930s through 1960s, led by coach and then athletic director | , Morgan's athletic teams were legendary. More than thirty of its football ... |
Leonard Wood | ... cked for several ballots between Illinois Governor Frank Lowden and General | , few delegates seriously considered Hoover as a compromise choice. Althou ... |
Grant Batty | All Blacks: Tries: | (2); Penalty: Joseph Karam |
Rodney Marsh | ... 2–3 defeat away to local rivals Tampa Bay Rowdies on 17 June 1978, in which | scored all three for the home team. Banks later began a business which dis ... |
Alexander Tolush | ... t, Romania, finishing tied 4th–5th with 12/19, an event won by his trainer, | , and where he defeated Vasily Smyslov who would challenge for the World C ... |
Babe Ruth | ... d with Rickey Henderson, and I imagine it will be like saying I played with | ." Padres general manager Kevin Towers said, "I get e-mails daily from fan ... |
Alan Trammell | ... ochrane's number 3; the number 3 has not been retired for Dick McAuliffe or | either, although number 3 has only been issued twice since Trammell retire ... |
Nikolai Krogius | ... of Korchnoi and Borislav Ivkov. He was fourth at Sochi 1964 with 9.5/15, as | won |
Rayfield Wright | ... s, he was busy stockpiling size for the next generation of linemen. Tackles | stood and Ralph Neely weighed . Center Dave Manders weighed . All went on ... |
Steve Owen | ... at the hands of the Cleveland Browns. This lost would ultimately cost Coach | his job, and would again have Landry pondering his future. In 1954 he was ... |
Mikhail Botvinnik | ... st drew wide attention in 1947 at age ten, when he defeated Soviet champion | in a simultaneous exhibition in Leningrad. His early coach was Vladimir Za ... |
Nick Saban | ... y of championship football teams. University of Alabama football head coach | is a graduate of Monongah High School |
Herman Edwards | ... ht the pass as it carried just over the outstretched arms of defensive back | and took off to the end zone for a Super Bowl record 80-yard touchdown rec ... |
Phil Esposito | ... re ineligible to play in a men's league. She also turned down an offer from | to play for the Cincinnati Cyclones of the ECHL. Finland's Hockey Federati ... |
Ozzie Virgil, Sr. | ... ican-American player. In the Tigers' case, it was an Afro-Caribbean player, | , who integrated the Tigers in 1958. Only the Boston Red Sox trailed the T ... |
Tony La Russa | ... ers come through San Diego. But there's an aura about him nobody else has." | , Henderson's manager in the late 1980s in Oakland, said, "He rises to the ... |
Gil Hodges | ... the home of the 1969 "Miracle Mets" -- a team led by former Brooklyn Dodger | that defied 100-1 odds and won the World Series, this after recording seve ... |
John Vanbiesbrouck | ... ut to enter his final season as a backup. They chose to sign former Panther | over former Oiler Curtis Joseph, who ended up signing with Toronto. The 19 ... |
Evgeny Vladimirov | ... Santo Roman won. At Salamanca 1991, he placed 2nd with 7½/11 behind winner | . Then in the 1991 French Championship, he scored 9½/15 for a tied 4th–5th ... |
John Mariucci | ... s born here in 1913. He was an NHL Hall of Fame goalie. Also born here were | (in 1916) and John Mayasich (in 1933). More recently, Eveleth produced Mar ... |
George H. Brooke | ... shman Penn Quakers. His play earned him a position on the varsity for coach | as starting quarterback in 1915, an unusual occurrence for a sophomore. He ... |
Darrell Royal | Hollis is the birthplace of University of Texas football coach | , University of Kansas Head basketball coach Ted Owens, Major League Baseb ... |
Wilbert Montgomery | ... next drive, with Jaworski completing passes to tight end John Spagnola and | for gains of 22 and 25 yards on a 61-yard drive that ended with a 30-yard ... |
Nate McMillan | ... , Julius Hodge, J.J. Hickson, Josh Powell, and Thurl Bailey. Former players | and Vinny Del Negro are current NBA head coaches |
Frank Skaff | ... e both forced to resign their posts because of health problems. Thereafter, | took over the managerial reins until the end of the season. Both Dressen a ... |
Kirk Gibson | ... picture The Upside of Anger was partly based on McLain (and also partly on | , another Tiger of World Series note) |
Ernie Stautner | ... Steelers no longer officially retire uniform numbers (with the exception of | 's #70), they have not reissued Bradshaw's #12 since he retired, and it is ... |
Jim Zorn | ... 08, he compared the relationship between new Washington Redskins head coach | and starting quarterback Jason Campbell to a good marriage. Jimmy Johnson ... |
Amos Alonzo Stagg | ... re the snap of the ball. This tactic was not new. It was developed by Coach | around the turn of the 19th to 20th century; Landry was the first coach to ... |
Graig Nettles | ... o the baseball and other eccentricities. During a game against the Yankees, | responded to Fidrych's antics by talking to his bat. After making an out, ... |
Eric Dickerson | ... me against the Los Angeles Rams featured an 85-yard touchdown run by rookie | , as well as a brawl between Rams offensive tackle Jackie Slater and Jets ... |
Elmer Layden | When | was hired as NFL commissioner in 1941, Ward was viewed as dictating the hi ... |
Bob Swift | ... ng a bizarre 1966 season, in which manager Chuck Dressen and acting manager | were both forced to resign their posts because of health problems. Thereaf ... |
Wilbert Montgomery | ... nly 12 interceptions. Another key player on the Eagles offense was halfback | , who was widely considered one of the top running backs in the NFL and ha ... |
Vince Lombardi | ... y the Dallas Cowboys, he became concerned with then-Green Bay Packers Coach | 's "Run to Daylight" idea, where the running back went to an open space, r ... |
Pop Warner | ... rmer Penn teammate Heinie Miller for the 1930 through the 1932 season. When | was hired to coach Temple for the 1933 season, he chose to hire his own as ... |
Jimmy Johnson | ... reputation of being the "ol' redneck," but, in co-host and former NFL coach | 's words, the act is a "schtick." According to Johnson, Bradshaw deflects ... |
Mickey Mantle | ... he 2000 census. The town is best known as the birthplace of baseball player | |
Dick Vermeil | ... s leaders speaking to midshipmen, including Henry Kissinger, football coach | , and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia |
Pat Riley | ... of the streak, Hearn was paired with several different color men, including | , Keith Erickson, and Stu Lantz |
Quinn Buckner | ... h eventually got him banned from the NBA, and the injuries and former coach | 's disciplinary approach. The mid-90s were considered the only positive pe ... |
Jackie Slater | ... by rookie Eric Dickerson, as well as a brawl between Rams offensive tackle | and Jets defensive end Mark Gastineau when Slater blindsided Gastineau aft ... |
Chuck Dressen | ... managed a third-place finish during a bizarre 1966 season, in which manager | and acting manager Bob Swift were both forced to resign their posts becaus ... |
Vinny Del Negro | ... J. Hickson, Josh Powell, and Thurl Bailey. Former players Nate McMillan and | are current NBA head coaches |
Garry Kasparov | ... ned the title under the auspices of FIDE, while Vladimir Kramnik had beaten | to take the Einstein title. It called for one match between Ponomariov and ... |
Happy Chandler | ... ation, and his death in 1944 (and subsequent replacement as Commissioner by | ) removed a major obstacle for black players in the major leagues |
Pat Quinn | ... the bench. After a slow start in 1978–79 the Flyers switched McCammon with | , Shero's previous assistant coach, who had replaced McCammon with the Mar ... |
Ruud Gullit | ... r history. Key players in the squad from this period included Johan Cruyff, | and Peter Houtman (who later became the Feyenoord stadium announcer). Crui ... |
John McGraw | ... s" or simply "the Elephants", in reference to then New York Giants' manager | 's calling the team a "white elephant". This was embraced by the team, who ... |
Charlie Metro | Longtime scout | remembered the havoc caused by Henderson: '"I did a lot of study and I fou ... |
Mike Riley | ... 1, as they dropped their last nine games to finish 5-11 and cost head coach | his job. (Buffalo, respectively, finished 3-13 with Johnson and, later, Al ... |
Tom Flores | The Raiders were led by Head Coach | , the first minority coach to win a Super Bowl |
Jim Bates | ... e Rayner (Michigan State University / Indianapolis Colts). 1964 Oxford grad | (University of Tennessee) has been a long time NFL defensive coach (Packer ... |
Forest Evashevski | ... ncluded segments with celebrity guests such as Chico Marx, Alfred Drake and | , among others |
Brooks Robinson | ... for 1976 at third base, snapping a 16-season streak in which Hall of Famer | had won every award at the position |
Colin Dixon | ... rs from Cardiff include Frank Whitcombe, Billy Boston, David Willicombe and | , and baseball internationals include George Whitcombe and Ted Peterso |
Van Chancellor | ... Rockets team) announced he was selling the Comets, and longtime Head Coach | resigned in January 2007 |
Mike Squires | ... tcher Scott Olsen and Chicago White Sox first baseman and gold glove winner | was born in Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo was also the hometown of longtime Detroit ... |
Dick Vermeil | Under Head Coach | , Philadelphia advanced to their first ever Super Bowl in team history, an ... |
Rick Carlisle | ... he 2007 NBA Playoffs. Kidd returned to the team in 2008, and with new coach | leading the crew |
Roger Neilson | ... sistently throughout the 1997–98 season. With 21 games to go in the season, | took over as coach while Cashman was retained as an assistant. John LeClai ... |
Branch Rickey | ... anager who would be eventually successful in breaking the color barrier was | of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Rickey himself had experienced the issue of segre ... |
Smoky Joe Wood | Famous baseball pitcher | was born in Kansas City but grew up in Ouray |
Bob Gibson | ... t pitcher to win 30 games in a season. St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher | achieved an equally remarkable feat by allowing an ERA of just 1.12 |
Connie Mack | ... e hotel became a center of activity in the area. Guests, such as Al Capone, | , Babe Ruth, and singer Kate Smith were able to utilize the hotel's airfie ... |
Artur Yusupov | ... r 6th–7th places, behind joint winners Andrei Sokolov, Rafael Vaganian, and | , but only four players advanced to matches. This was Spassky's last appea ... |
Wayne Cashman | The man picked to replace Murray as coach, | , was deemed ill-suited for the job as the Flyers played inconsistently th ... |
Jimmie Foxx | ... good teams had their home run hitting "sluggers": the Yankees' Lou Gehrig, | in Philadelphia, Hank Greenberg in Detroit and Chicago's Hack Wilson were ... |
Alex Van Pelt | ... ley his job. (Buffalo, respectively, finished 3-13 with Johnson and, later, | as starters.) Flutie was Drew Brees' backup in 2002 |
Bill Arnsparger | ... s being built. The Giants were 5-9 that year (2-5 at Shea). Their coach was | and their quarterback was Craig Morton |
Gates Brown | ... d later in the 1960s, black players such as Willie Horton, Earl Wilson, and | would contribute to Detroit's rise in the standings |
Dan Brouthers | ... we, Deacon White, Charlie Getzein and Hall of Famers "Big Sam" Thompson and | . Thompson won the 1887 NL batting championship, making him the only NL ba ... |
Les Moss | Houk's immediate successor as Tiger manager in 1979 was | , but Moss would only last until June of that year. From June 14, 1979 unt ... |
Dan Reeves | ... . In 1986, five NFL head coaches were former Landry assistants: Mike Ditka, | , John Mackovic, Gene Stallings, and Raymond Berry |
Dick Motta | ... isions for the 2004–05 season and the team moved to the Southwest Division. | , who had guided the Washington Bullets to the NBA Championship in 1977–78 ... |
Larry Doby | ... ever, it was not until the signing of Robinson (in the National League) and | (in the American League) that baseball began to remove its color bar |
Tony Gwynn | ... g a rare run in the top of the 8th inning, Willie Hernandez got the save as | flied out to Larry Herndon to end the game, sending Detroit into a wild vi ... |
Jimmie Foxx | ... and its Hall-of-Fame players included Chief Bender, Frank "Home Run" Baker, | and Lefty Grove. After two decades of decline, however, the team left Phil ... |
Ken Hitchcock | ... when they turned to former Dallas Stars and Stanley Cup–winning head coach | |
Ned Hanlon | ... y-fueled growth was still several years in the future. Hall of Fame manager | played all eight seasons in center field but there was high turnover other ... |
Reggie Jackson | ... Detroit an early lead in the deciding fifth and final game in Detroit, but | 's steal of home in the 2nd tied it up. Tenace's two-out single to left fi ... |
Menotti | ... fee of £5 million from Boca Juniors. In the following season, under manager | , Barcelona won the Copa del Rey, beating Real Madrid. Maradona's time wit ... |
Babe Ruth | ... ars of his porn career, Holmes was nicknamed "The Sultan of Smut", a pun on | 's nickname, The Sultan of Swat |
Shannon Higgins | ... James Worthy and Michael Jordan in men's basketball; and Mia Hamm (twice), | , Kristine Lilly, and Tisha Venturini in women's soccer |
Phil Garner | ... n 0–6, prompting Dombrowski to fire the unpopular Smith, as well as manager | . Dombrowski then took over as general manager and named bench coach Luis ... |
Louis Wright | ... as led by defensive backs Billy Thompson (who recorded 5 interceptions) and | (who had 3 interceptions) |
John Vanbiesbrouck | ... e-overtime in Game 5. An upstart Florida club with stellar goaltending from | ended the Flyers' season in Game 6. The Flyers said goodbye to the Spectru ... |
Johnny Giles | ... r from Ken Keyworth, Banks leapt high in the air to claim a high cross from | , only to drop the ball at Herd's feet. Herd scored his second to conclude ... |
Rod Dowhower | ... entire season (the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers went 0–14) when they dismissed | and replaced him with former Patriots head coach Ron Meyer. The Colts resp ... |
Rod Carew | ... ups in Panama. One known Panamanian of the Jewish faith was baseball player | |
Larry Herndon | ... of the 8th inning, Willie Hernandez got the save as Tony Gwynn flied out to | to end the game, sending Detroit into a wild victory celebration |
Art Shell | ... so had an outstanding offensive line led by 2 future Hall of Famers, tackle | and guard Gene Upshaw. Upshaw became the first player to play in three Sup ... |
George Hendrick | ... lead in the fourth inning. The run was controversial to many Tiger fans, as | was ruled safe at first base just prior to the Tenace hit. Hendrick appear ... |
Tony Dungy | In week 16, the Colts played without coach | following the suicide of his son James earlier in the week. With the team ... |
Botvinnik | Vladimir Kramnik also says Euwe anticipated | 's emphasis on technical preparation, and Euwe was usually in good shape p ... |
John Mackovic | ... ive NFL head coaches were former Landry assistants: Mike Ditka, Dan Reeves, | , Gene Stallings, and Raymond Berry |
Babe Ruth | ... tuted and five players elected: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, | and Honus Wagner. The Hall formally opened in 1939 |
Magic Johnson | ... y Guggenheim CEO Mark Walter and including former Los Angeles Lakers player | , baseball executive Stan Kasten and film mogul Peter Guber, was announced ... |
Willie Mays | ... ion of third place on the all-time home run list, behind only Babe Ruth and | . As Mantle ran around the bases, McLain stood on the pitchers mound and a ... |
Dizzy Dean | ... pitcher had won 30 or more games in a season since the St. Louis Cardinals' | accomplished the feat in 1934; no pitcher has accomplished it since. McLai ... |
Gene Stallings | ... aches were former Landry assistants: Mike Ditka, Dan Reeves, John Mackovic, | , and Raymond Berry |
Frank Filchock | ... Hapes of the Giants had admitted he was offered a bribe to fix the game and | of the Giants had denied being offered one. Hapes was suspended by Bell, b ... |
Danny Ainge | ... '76. Professional basketball players include three-time NBA Finals champion | '81, 1952 NBA Rookie of the Year and 4-time NBA All-Star Mel Hutchins '51, ... |
Larry Doby | ... ater, on July 5, 1947, the American League was integrated by the signing of | to the Cleveland Indians. Over the next few years a handful of black baseb ... |
Bill Barber | ... . The LCB line, featuring Reggie Leach at right-wing, Clarke at center, and | at left-wing, set an NHL record for goals by a single line with 141 (Leach ... |
Honus Wagner | ... players elected: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth and | . The Hall formally opened in 1939 |
Chief Bender | ... r its first 50 years was Connie Mack, and its Hall-of-Fame players included | , Frank "Home Run" Baker, Jimmie Foxx and Lefty Grove. After two decades o ... |
Luis Pujols | ... Garner. Dombrowski then took over as general manager and named bench coach | to finish the season as interim manager. The team finished 55–106. After t ... |
Jimmie Foxx | ... st since Ted Williams had 150 in 1950, and he became the first player since | in 1939 to amass more runs scored than games played. Henderson became the ... |
Cousy | ... s in Divisions I, II, and III. This award, given since 2004, is voted on by | and a selection of basketball writers, college basketball coaches, sports ... |
Joe Torre | ... cided where a batted ball was a home run or still in play. In 1978, Manager | helped move the fences in to in the corners with a wall now in front of th ... |
Ted Marchibroda | ... fensive lineman Will Wolford serves as color commentator. Former head coach | of both Baltimore and Indianapolis Colts franchises, who served as color c ... |
Avery Johnson | ... the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular-season game wins (339) | ;is the franchise's all-time leader for the most playoff games coached (47 ... |
Jimmie Foxx | ... w York Yankee center fielder, Mickey Mantle, who entered the game tied with | for third place in the major league career home runs list. When Mantle cam ... |
Jimmy Connors | ... d every summer by Kalamazoo College. The event has featured such players as | , John McEnroe, Jim Courier, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, Ja ... |
Pim Verbeek | ... Jansen was appointed as the interim manager to replace Günder Bengtsson and | after a 6–0 defeat against PSV, the outlook began to improve for the club. ... |
Babe Ruth | ... Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run, surpassing | 's all-time record. He would retire in 1976 with 755. There was great pitc ... |
Eduard Gufeld | ... Fribourg 1987. He finished equal first at Wellington 1988 with Chandler and | . Spassky maintained a top ten world ranking into the mid-1980s |
Eric Dickerson | ... h a 9–6 record bolstered by the mid-season arrival of Pro Bowl running back | . The next few seasons saw Indianapolis wallow in mediocrity before collap ... |
Lou Angotti | ... were Bernie Parent, Doug Favell, Bill Sutherland, Ed Van Impe, Joe Watson, | , Leon Rochefort and Gary Dornhoefer. Having purchased the minor-league Qu ... |
John McEnroe | ... by Kalamazoo College. The event has featured such players as Jimmy Connors, | , Jim Courier, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, James Blake and ... |
Dick Williams | ... ll for San Diego reliever Goose Gossage to pitch around him, Padres manager | was summoned to the mound. Anderson was seen and heard yelling to Gibson, ... |
George Steinbrenner | ... ich had never covered Henderson or his eccentricities kindly. Yankees owner | issued a press release claiming that manager Lou Piniella wanted to trade ... |
Vladimir Simagin | ... Sochi 1967 on 10/15 with Krogius, Alexander Zaitsev, Leonid Shamkovich, and | |
Jesse Haines | ... , it may be that his pitch was a form of knuckle curve. Two later pitchers, | and Freddie Fitzsimmons, were sometimes characterized as knuckleball pitch ... |
Steve Rixon | ... BA MVP winner Lauren Jackson, NRL Player Adrian Purtell, and Test cricketer | , among other champion sports people |
Jim Harbaugh | The Colts did not return to the playoffs until the 1995 season, with | at quarterback and Marshall Faulk at running back, clinching a wild card b ... |
Tony La Russa | ... th moved his Triple-A Tulsa Oilers to New Orleans to play in the Superdome. | was the starting shortstop for the team. After a single season, the team t ... |
Alan Trammell | Dombrowski hired popular former shortstop | to manage the team in 2003. With fellow '84 teammates Kirk Gibson and Lanc ... |
Ralph Houk | ... ch of the next decade in the middle or lower ranks of the AL East. In 1974, | , who managed the dominant Yankee teams of the early 1960s, was named mana ... |
Willie Stargell | ... shared the Sports Illustrated magazine's "Sportsmen of the Year" award with | that season |
Rick Tocchet | ... with the club. With Ron Sutter gone to St. Louis in the Brind'Amour trade, | was named team captain. As the Flyers continued to flounder, Paul Holmgren ... |
Mayo Smith | ... f a kidney infection, Swift in October due to cancer. Skaff was replaced by | in 1967, perhaps the last step before World Series contention |
Mike Tomlin | ... in the City's culture. Sporting stars such as Allen Iverson, Michael Vick, | , Scorpio Brown, Aaron Brooks and Antoine Bethea are from Newport News. Th ... |
Kirk Gibson | ... ortstop Alan Trammell to manage the team in 2003. With fellow '84 teammates | and Lance Parrish on the coaching staff, the rebuilding process began. In ... |
Keith Allen | ... eral Manager Bud Poile to acquire bigger, tougher players. While head coach | soon after replaced Poile as GM, this mandate eventually led to one of the ... |
Walter Johnson | ... the Baseball Hall of Fame was instituted and five players elected: Ty Cobb, | , Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth and Honus Wagner. The Hall formally opened ... |
Babe Ruth | ... n sole possession of third place on the all-time home run list, behind only | and Willie Mays. As Mantle ran around the bases, McLain stood on the pitch ... |
Kiki Vandeweghe | ... of being a stern disciplinarian, but was also a great teacher of the game. | of UCLA was drafted by the Mavs with the 11th pick of the 1980 NBA Draft, ... |
Vince Lombardi | ... mbardi, the widow of Pro Football Hall of Fame Green Bay Packers head coach | |
Phil Ford | ... letes of the year from North Carolina include Rachel Dawson in field hockey | ;, Tyler Hansbrough, Antawn Jamison, Vince Carter, James Worthy and Michae ... |
Christy Mathewson | ... l of Fame was instituted and five players elected: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, | , Babe Ruth and Honus Wagner. The Hall formally opened in 1939 |
Walter Camp | ... ng named a first-team All-American in both his junior and senior year, with | considering him the greatest defensive end ever. Academically, he was acce ... |
Ron Meyer | ... hey dismissed Rod Dowhower and replaced him with former Patriots head coach | . The Colts responded by winning the final three games under his watch |
Mike Ditka | ... oaching tree. In 1986, five NFL head coaches were former Landry assistants: | , Dan Reeves, John Mackovic, Gene Stallings, and Raymond Berry |
Steve Owen | ... y in a dispersal draft. It would be under the guidance of Giants head coach | that Landry would get his first taste of coaching. Instead of explaining t ... |
Garry Kasparov | ... te fields. At Belfort WC 1988, he scored 8/15 for a joint 4th–7th place, as | won. At Reykjavík WC 1988, he scored 7/17 for a joint 15th–16th place, wit ... |
Glenn S. Warner | ... es of [the] book because ... their alma mater was unable to provide them. - | " Walsh: 6, The Rutgers University list was presented to Walsh by Gordon A ... |
Pinball Clemons | ... cause of his relationship with Argonauts head coach and former running back | , and the desire to "say goodbye to the CFL". According to the report, Flu ... |
Kirk Gibson | ... ries by MLB Productions and played on TV a number of times since then. When | came to bat in the eighth inning with runners on second and third and the ... |
Lou Piniella | ... kees owner George Steinbrenner issued a press release claiming that manager | wanted to trade Henderson for "jaking it" (playing lackadaisically). Still ... |
Don Shula | The school's football team plays in | Stadium, named after one of the school's most famous alumni. The stadium o ... |
John Heisman | ... ty of the Black Sox Scandal. Bell became a backfield coach for Penn's coach | from 1920 to 1922. Under Heisman, he became well regarded as an assistant ... |
Joe Torre | ... aseball (Clemens ended up delaying his retirement). Regular Yankees manager | let Clemens manage the final game of the regular season, and Clemens pulle ... |
Nadia Comăneci | ... ise final and a silver on the beam — becoming the only female gymnast since | to win an individual event gold after winning the all-round title in the s ... |
Lance Parrish | ... mmell to manage the team in 2003. With fellow '84 teammates Kirk Gibson and | on the coaching staff, the rebuilding process began. In 2003, still playin ... |
Barry Alvarez | ... of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. The Wisconsin Badgers football former head coach | led the Badgers to three Rose Bowl championships, including back-to-back v ... |
Dizzy Dean | ... nd Athletics to become Major League Baseball’s first 30-game winner since . | , the last man to have won 30 games, was on hand to congratulate him |
Babe Ruth | ... ll Stadium. The stadium hosts games of Baseball Philippines; Lou Gehrig and | were the first players to score a home run at the stadium at their tour of ... |
Don Nelson | ... franchise's all-time leader for the most regular-season games coached (738) | ;, Donnie Nelson's father, is the franchise's all-time leader for the most ... |
Tom Landry | ... rry Bradshaw and Chuck Noll, and the Cowboys were led by Roger Staubach and | |
Rene Lachemann | ... s to the occasion—the big moment—better than anybody I've ever seen." Coach | said, "If you're one run down, there's nobody you'd ever rather have up at ... |
Don Shula | The | Sports Center includes the William H. Johnson Natatorium and the Ralph Vin ... |
Babe Ruth | ... dge was well known and many celebrities stayed there including Bobby Jones, | and William Jennings Bryan |
Cap Anson | ... White, Ross Barnes and Cal McVey, as well as Philadelphia Athletics players | and Bob Addy, to sign with Chicago. This was all done under complete secre ... |
Freddie Fitzsimmons | ... his pitch was a form of knuckle curve. Two later pitchers, Jesse Haines and | , were sometimes characterized as knuckleball pitchers even by their conte ... |
Bill Sutherland | ... occurred. Among the Flyers' 20 selections were Bernie Parent, Doug Favell, | , Ed Van Impe, Joe Watson, Lou Angotti, Leon Rochefort and Gary Dornhoefer ... |
Mickey Mantle | ... ber 19, 1968. McLain had grown up idolizing New York Yankee center fielder, | , who entered the game tied with Jimmie Foxx for third place in the major ... |
Rolando Blackman | ... exchange for two future first-round picks that eventually materialized into | in 1981 and Sam Perkins in 1984 |
Tris Speaker | ... ations into a promotion to manager. Even baseball stars such as Ty Cobb and | have been credibly alleged to have fixed game outcomes. When MLB's complac ... |
Tom Brookshier | ... ates by CBS with play-by-play announcer Pat Summerall and color commentator | . The game kicked off at 5:17 p.m. Central Standard Time |
Paul Brown | ... ow a profit. The primary obstacle in a merger was in making the requests of | , coach of the perennial AAFC champion Cleveland Browns requests amenable ... |
Sparky Anderson | ... 1 last worn by Lou Whitaker in , after which Whitaker retired as a player. | 's #11, which also was last issued in 1995 when he himself retired from ma ... |
Jim Courier | ... ollege. The event has featured such players as Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, | , Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, James Blake and Andy Roddick, ... |
Mark Aguirre | ... asted a very good team in the highly competitive Western Conference. Led by | , original draft pick Brad Davis, Rolando Blackman, Derek Harper, Sam Perk ... |
Rusty Kuntz | ... Petry in the fourth inning in the process, the Tigers retook the lead on a | sacrifice fly (actually a pop-out to retreating second baseman Alan Wiggin ... |
Gates Brown | ... thrup came through in the clutch again. His single off Dave Hamilton scored | and evened the series at 2 games apiece |
Dave Duncan | A's pitching coach | said of Henderson, "You have to be careful because he can knock one out. B ... |
Jim Boeheim | ... ry running, and one each in boxing and football. Under long-time head coach | , men's basketball team won seven Big East regular season championships, f ... |
Hughie Jennings | ... he addition of Cobb to an already talented team that included Sam Crawford, | , Bill Donovan and George Mullin quickly yielded results, as the Tigers wo ... |
Lindy Infante | ... e the Colts one year after assuming control from his father by firing Coach | and hiring Bill Polian to run the organization. Polian in turn hired Jim E ... |
Christy Mathewson | ... d Saturday in August every year is recognized as a holiday in Factoryville. | Day celebrates the baseball Hall-of-Famer who was born in Factoryville on ... |
Justin Fashanu | ... Andy Linighan, midfielder Mike Phelan, midfielder Tim Sherwood and striker | . The club's most successful managers have included Ken Brown, Ron Saunder ... |
Connie Mack | ... "Second Dynasty"). The team's owner and manager for its first 50 years was | , and its Hall-of-Fame players included Chief Bender, Frank "Home Run" Bak ... |
James Naismith | ... was first incorporated in 1959 at Springfield College—the institution where | invented the sport in 1891—and in that year, the hall inducted its first c ... |
Babe Ruth | ... e preserve for waterfowl and a place where presidents and others, including | , came to hunt ducks. The area eventually became known as a vacation spot, ... |
Charles Comiskey | For many years, the White Sox were owned and operated by | , who paid the lowest player salaries, on average, in the American League. ... |
Teresa Weatherspoon | ... light-film, last-second, court-to-court, game-winning shot by the Liberty's | in Game 2 of the finals to beat the Liberty in three games and win their t ... |
Sam Crawford | ... of all time. The addition of Cobb to an already talented team that included | , Hughie Jennings, Bill Donovan and George Mullin quickly yielded results, ... |
Bob Gibson | ... met the defending World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals, led by starter | (who had posted a record 1.12 ERA during the regular season) and speedy ou ... |
Bob McCammon | | , who had just coached the Flyers' first year AHL Maine Mariners farm club ... |
Mark McGwire | ... th Dynasty" won three consecutive pennants and the 1989 World Series behind | , Jose Canseco and Dennis Eckersley. In more recent years, the A's have of ... |
Gene Tenace | A first-inning run on a | passed ball gave Detroit an early lead in the deciding fifth and final gam ... |
Dick Motta | ... d coaches for the Mavericks franchise. The franchise's first head coach was | , who served for two non-consecutive stints, and coached for nine seasons ... |
Robert Eenhoorn | ... f Feyenoord include Craig Bellamy, Gerard Cox, Wouter Bos, Jan Marijnissen, | , Arjan Erkel, Dennis van der Geest, DJ Paul Elstak, , Vincent Le Blanc, a ... |
Johnny Sain | In 1967, the Tigers hired former major league pitcher, | , as their pitching coach. Sain helped develop McLain's pitching skills an ... |