Billy Crystal—known for films like “Analyze This” and “When Harry Met Sally” and a frequent host of “Saturday Night Live” and the Academy Awards—was once a rising baseball prospect. Crystal entered Marshall University in 1965 on a baseball scholarship, but never actually got to play a...
Madison in 2020 officially completed Toyota Field, the home stadium for a new minor league baseball team with arguably one of the most eccentric names in sports: the Trash Pandas. Madison also has top-ranked schools, borders the city of Huntsville, and offers several small business incentives. ...
We lost a few people this week. The first one was Willie Mays. He was by far the best baseball player of our time. His humbleness added to his greatness in a time when players weren’t equal in the eyes of some, but he left it ALL on the field. He was like no other. Consideri...
In 1922 White set off across America in the car of his dreams, a Model T, which had plenty of headroom and, as he later wrote, transformed his view of the land, a vision “shaped, more than by any other instrument, by a Model T Ford…a slow-motion roadster of miraculous design—st...
Unknown // Wikimedia Commons Steve Bartman interferes The Chicago Cubs were another cursed team. Heading into the 2003 baseball season, the team hadn't won a World Series in 95 years. The '03 team had the third-best record in the league and it seemed possible that they would finally break...
Wikimedia Commons Mickey Mantle Mickey Mantle was a Hall-of-Fame Major League Baseball Player from 1951-1968. Many say that Mickey Mantle was the greatest switch hitter of all time and one of the greatest players to ever play the game. Grave site: Sparkman Hillcrest Memorial Park Dallas, Dal...
We lost a few people this week. The first one was Willie Mays. He was by far the best baseball player of our time. His humbleness added to his greatness in a time when players weren’t equal in the eyes of some, but he left it ALL on the field. He was like no other. Consideri...
Unknown // Wikimedia Commons Steve Bartman interferes The Chicago Cubs were another cursed team. Heading into the 2003 baseball season, the team hadn't won a World Series in 95 years. The '03 team had the third-best record in the league and it seemed possible that they would finally break...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_the_Emancipation_of_the_Niger_Delta Kum Dollison 05/23/2014 at 12:54 pm A compendium of articles on the possibility of 100% Renewables http://cleantechnica.com/70-80-99-9-100-renewables-study-central/ nobodywillknow 05/25/2014 at 9:06 am ...
Hyatt brought up Tim Tadlock's baseball team, which prompted Dr. Schovanec to say that he'd texted Tadlock to say how much he appreciated him. Tadlock, the coach who had spurned the advances of the Longhorns before to instead stay at Texas Tech and continue winning at a high level. ...