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Blood stains obscure the top half of this photograph of my grandmother, because it was in the shirt-pocket of her sweetheart when his tank was bombed in battle during World War II. This is a true story from my family history:
~ The Sweethearts ~
He was a soldier, stationed at Fort Dix. She was a schoolteacher who boarded with a family in nearby Riverton, N.J.
Fort Dix was a soldier's "last stop" before heading overseas, so area community centers hosted dances, meals, and coffees for "the boys." Like many residents in the area, my grandmother volunteered to help out.
When New Jersey native Hilda Grob showed up for her first night as a volunteer at the Fort Dix community center one night in the Spring of 1942, she met a red-haired soldier from rural Idaho.
His name was Ben Bainbridge.
"He had a western twang and even danced different–more of a stomp than the smooth waltz" Hilda later told her children. She loved listening to Ben's stories about life in the west. Ben had endured a hardscrabble existence, moving from farm to logging camp to farm again as he worked to eke out a living with a single father who had lost a leg in a logging accident. Ben didn't have more than an eighth grade education, but he was a smart man; he had skipped entire grades in his childhood, and was now focusing his energies on the war; he even lied about his age in order to enlist early.
At the end of that first dance when Ben and Hilda met, Ben walked her to the bus. Every night afterwards, he hitchhiked to nearby Riverton to call on Hilda, with the approval of her landlords and chaperons, the Garwood family. On Ben's final visit to Hilda before deployment, he stayed out past curfew and had to sneak back into the barracks. After only knowing her for three weeks, Ben proposed marriage to Hilda, and she accepted. But there was one condition: no marriage until after the war. Although she did want to marry him right away, Hilda couldn't bear the thought of being widowed by the war.
Ben shipped out soon after their engagement.
~ The Attack ~
On D-Day in Anzio, Italy, Ben wasn't supposed to be driving tank. He had recently amassed enough time to leave on furlough, so the night before a planned attack on the Germans, Ben's captain had told him to take some time off–to go spend three days stateside. But Ben didn't want a fresh recruit driving his tank that day–the other three members of his tank crew were his close friends, so he volunteered to drive them into an attack on the Germans in Velletri.
That D-Day, Ben's tank was hit by a 88mm shell, killing both the assistant driver and gunner, Ben's close friends.
Though blinded by blood in his eyes from an injury somewhere to his head–he wasn't sure where at the time–Ben managed to pull himself from the wreckage. His tank commander escaped, too, and as they moved away from the tank, they came upon a nest of Germans in a foxhole.
The Germans threw a grenade that killed Ben's commander instantly. Ben, still too injured to stand, tried crawling away from them, but was blinded by blood and barely able to crawl. He felt a trench flanking his right side, which threatened to swallow him up each time he tried leaning onto his right arm. But had he been standing, Ben would have died with his commander when that grenade exploded.
The explosion that killed the commander knocked Ben's helmet off, but still he kept trying to crawl away from the Germans. No matter where he turned, however, the trench on his right side made it impossible to crawl faster. That was when he noticed–there was no trench after all. His arm had been severed, which was why he had been unable to make contact with the ground on his right side.
Blood poured from Ben's arm and he didn't have long to act before he bled to death, so he waved a white flag of surrender. The Germans took him into custody and placed him inside the basement of what used to be a house. They bandaged his arm and saved his life by slowing the flow of blood. Little more than an hour later, the American infantry arrived and surrounded the Germans, rescuing Ben in the process. Had those Germans not tended to his wound, Ben likely would not have survived that hour he spent in their captivity.
~ The "Cripple" ~
Sent back to the US for medical care and additional surgery, Ben was devastated by his injury. Surely Hilda wouldn't want to marry him now. Doubtless recalling his own crippled father, whose wife had divorced him after his injury, Ben just knew that Hilda would want nothing to do with him now.
At the Army hospital in Atlanta, Hilda did come to visit Ben, but he was sullen and anxious, bracing himself for the news she was surely there to bring him: that their engagement was over.
When Hilda met Ben outside his hospital, they embraced. She then placed her suitcase on the ground and waited, typical of young ladies at the time who expected their "fellas" to carry such burdens for them. This made Ben a little angry.
"Why did she just leave her suitcase in front of me like that," he wondered. "Can't she see I'm a cripple?"
Hilda's next action was even more shocking–
As Ben struggled to heft the suitcase with one arm on a recently unbalanced and sick-starved thin body, Hilda stopped at the entrance to the hospital and waited. Ladies often stopped at doors back then, expecting the gentlemen nearby to open the door for them. But how was Ben supposed to open that door for her while holding such a heavy suitcase with his only arm?
Frustrated but undaunted, Ben strained himself as he put down the suitcase, opened the door for Hilda, kept it open with his shoulder, then reached back for the suitcase again. He struggled to keep the door open, see Hilda safely though, and get himself through the door without dropping that suitcase. But it was then, in the sweat and frustration of that grueling moment, that Ben began to understand what was happening–
"She's not treating me like a cripple."
By dropping her suitcase and expecting Ben to open doors for her, Hilda was showing Ben that she still saw him as a capable, strong, chivalrous man. She wasn't breaking off their engagement; she was going to marry her war hero!
Hilda married Ben and followed him to Idaho–a foreign land to her, but a place that she would call home for the rest of her life, despite painful homesickness for her Native New Jersey. With time, she grew to love the forested, mountain views of this new home as much as she loved the soldier boy who had stolen her heart.
Ben and Hilda raised five children, and one of them later brought me into this world.
So this Valentine's day, I am remembering a valiant war hero, the faithful young woman who married him despite what some might call "disability," and the life they shared together until Grandma Hilda's death in 1988. Ben worked blue collar jobs full-time until retirement, and never acted "disabled," thanks to Hilda's refusal to see him as such. He soldered their wedding bands together after Hilda's death, then wore them around his neck every day. He joined Hilda "on the other side" in 2011.
I love you and miss you, Grandma and Grandpa!
Sweet Serendipities:
~ Ben's dad lost a limb then lost his wife; Ben lost a limb but gained a wife. His story is one of triumph in the same situation!
~ I was later called to serve a mission for my church to Italy, where my grandfather lost his arm.
~ I chose May 1st as my wedding date, before ever seeing the date on my grandfather's fateful dance ticket (posted above).
~ I had forgotten Grandpa's hospital was in Atlanta, yet my mom was just in Atlanta this week (visiting friends-so-close-we-call-them-relatives), so maybe her trip caused Grandpa and Grandma to relive some precious memories together. Could they be the ones who prompted me to write this blog post today?
P.S. below is a picture of some patients at Lawson General Hospital in Atlanta that year. How I wish I knew who they were–please share this post in cyberspace, and maybe we can pass it on to some of their descendants:


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Here are some of the reactions from those that have the most direct impact on what happens on Sundays throughout the season:
"I think it's great for these great fans, the loyal fans that they are. It's a win-win it looks like to me, for everybody." - Head coach Chan Gailey
"I think that's great news. That's awesome. I think this franchise and this team is right where it needs to be. Obviously I've been here a long time, I've got some time left, and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else." - Defensive tackle Kyle Williams
"The Bills are so huge to western New York. I know Roger Goodell has expressed that and many people have expressed that and we definitely feel that way as well. These fans have supported us through thick and a lot of thin times in the last 12 years or whatever. We always appreciate their support. Hopefully we can turn it back around soon, but it's great that we'll be staying here." - Center Eric Wood
"I'm just happy for the people. Players, we're gonna come and go out of this business. For this community, it's awesome for them to keep us here for at least seven years that we know for sure, and hopefully for the remaining ten. I was definitely excited to see that they were able to get it done, because I know that was a big question mark that was over our organization, so for both sides to come to an agreement, I'm glad to see they were able to get it done." - Running back C.J. Spiller
"This is a historic team as far as the NFL goes. One of the longest organizations that has been in the community the longest. I'm happy that they were able to get an agreement in place and that the fans of the Buffalo Bills, and here in western New York and close to Canada can enjoy some Buffalo Bills football for the next seven-to-ten years." - Safety George Wilson
"I think it's real big. You get people you run in to in the city or in the town or whatever, that really want the Bills to be around. They're real fans, and even though if we're winning or losing, they're still behind us. So I think it's real big that the Bills are going to be here for at least seven more years." - Cornerback Terrence McGee
"I think that there was a confidence and a faith in everyone working on it that there was something that was going to get done. That was kind of the feeling that we had and kind of what we had been told. I think it's great for the new agreement to have something set in stone to know that this franchise is going to stay here for years to come. I think it's a great relief for the fans as well." - Quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick
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Often I scribble on a piece of paper some notes which I photo and email to myself for processing. I find that the iPad is very good at this, perhaps because I can see the full resolution of the image as I am taking it using the retina display.
When I am not near the iPad my android phone is used instead in the same way.
I am wondering if there is a one touch photo app on android (or ipad too) which automatically emails the snap? Would be good to check the focus before sending too.


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Shut up, you wouldn't be saying that if you had the same level of experience I have, I bet you're one of those Ubuntu n00bs out there who wasn't around at the time we needed to have a XF86Config or xorg.conf just for X to start.
You're the only child.
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TH: Andy threw a dandy.
TH: Andy threw a dandy.
Defending World Series Champions
TH: Eugene
HM: Robinson
He's a clown. Guy says he's from the 209, what the ................ is that?
-CC Sabathia on Dallas Braden
TH: Pettitte
HM: Cano
HM: Rivera
TH: AP46. The greatest Yankee Pitcher I have ever seen.............
......Except for Mariano of course
"Owning the Yankees," Steinbrenner once said, "is like owning the Mona Lisa."
TH- Andy. Did he pitch after the rain delay or what?
How about the pick-off!
HM- Robinson. GWH. I sure hope he gets to .300 soon.
Old enough to have seen Guidry?Originally Posted by b_joseph
Anyway Andy's definitely my favorite starting pitcher among those I've seen. Huge fan of the guy.
TH: Andy
HM: Everyone who batted in that fourth inning (Jeter through Posada). Those were amazing at-bats, each one of them, against a pitcher who to that point looked completely unhittable.
Th - # 46
Hm - # 24
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TH: Andy Pettitte
HM: Mariano Rivera
HM: Kyle Farnsworth
HM: Robinson Cano
A lot of votes for Cano ... I realize his RBI was the difference, but to me the "heroics" on offense all happened in the fourth inning. Jeter worked a tough walk, A-Rod came through with two strikes, Giambi looked overmatched but found a way to muscle one up the middle, and Posada was set up 1-2 and fould off a couple of tough pitches before delivering the sac fly. It was a clinic on how to hang in against a dominant pitcher.
TH: Pettitte
HM: VerFarnMo
"We understand that John Henry must be embarrassed, frustrated and disappointed by his failure in this transaction. Unlike the Yankees, he chose not to go the extra distance for his fans in Boston."
Honorable Mention - Melky. If Melky doesn't get on his horse and catch Wright's shot in the second inning (?), it's a completely different game, IMO.
22 years old...Andy is where its at for me. The HGH thing annoyed me but I'll never lose that love I have for him.Originally Posted by sweet_lou_14
"Owning the Yankees," Steinbrenner once said, "is like owning the Mona Lisa."
Cool. Yeah, Andy's one of the special ones. Had he never left, I think there's a damn good chance we'd still be chanting 1918.Originally Posted by b_joseph
You're absolutely correct. If it wasn't for Melky's great catch, who knows what would have happened.Originally Posted by The Q Bomb
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TH: Dandy Andy
Obama 2012-Jeter 2016
TH: Andy Pettite, Yankee Bullpen, and Yankee Defense
HM: Robinson Cano
"Don't Give Up...Don't Ever Give Up." - Jimmy Valvano
One must know pain to be a hero.
TH: Andy Pettitte
HM: The 4th inning batters, bullpen and Mo.
TH : Pettitte
Pettitte, threw an awesome game. Cano with a big hit which turns out the be the game winner. Mo is just a machine, lights out, amazing.
TH: Andy Dandy
HM: The bullpen & Cano
Damn right!Originally Posted by sweet_lou_14
Carlos Beltran wanted to play CF for the Yankees, not the mets. The Yankees said no. Mark Teixeira wanted to play 1B for the Yankees, not the sux. The Yankees said yes!
Great job Pettitte! And, Mo is unreal. NOBODY will ever be close to what he is (and hopefully continues to do for a couple more years).Originally Posted by Brick Tamland
Speak softly but carry a big stick.
TH: Andy Pettitte
HM: Mariano Rivera
TH: Pickoff Machine Pettite
HM: verasfarnsymo
"You know what's coming," former Kansas City Royals first baseman Mike Sweeney once said, "but you know what's coming in horror movies too. It still gets you."
-"Mariano Saves," 10/5 S.I.
Exactly. Jeter, Abreu, Rodriguez, Giambi, Posada. That was the game.Originally Posted by sweet_lou_14
I third that! Melky deserves some credit for his great outfielding!Originally Posted by Casey37
Other than that:
TH: Petitte
HM: Mo, and Cano
"We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend." Barack Obama
Yeah. Wow. I can't believe I let that catch by Melky slip by. I've been so concerned with his lack of decent AB's lately that I forgot to remember how golden he is in CF.
TH: Andy
HM:Cano for a clutch RBI
I was at a graduation party this afternoon, so I only got to follow Gameday on my cell phone. But the above sounds about right.Originally Posted by YankeeSass
"I don't need any extra motivation. My motivation is to win." - Derek Jeter
TH: Andy is still the man!
HM: Cano/Bullpen
TH: Pettitte
Never left the Betances bandwagon.
Team Hero, once again: Andrew Eugene Pettitte!
No caps, but I'll award a second Team Hero collectively to everyone on the offensive side who worked a walk, advanced a runner, or got a run in with an out. (All three of the Yankee runs started out as Johan Santana walks; two of them scored on, respectively, a Giambi groundout and a Posada sac fly.)
And naturally also to Robbie Cano for a genuine RBI single!
Honorable Mention: Melky Cabrera ... for the catch!
Honorable Mention: José Veras ... Kyle Farnsworth ...
... and MO!
Nice pictures.
You gotta give the credit to Jorge for that pickoff of Jose. He's the one that nailed Jose on that by calling on Petitte to attempt the pickoff.
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Dwight Howard will be with the Los Angeles Lakers for the remainder of the season, and the team made no moves leading up to an uneventful passing of the NBA trade deadline. No trades for the Lakers, as confirmed by Mike Bresnahan of L.A. Times. Despite trade winds surrounding the center, just as Mitch Kupchak has said all along, Howard was not traded. On Wednesday Kupchak called Howard the "future" of the organization. Howard later responded by saying since day one the plan has always been that he is a part of the Lakers' future, and that he wanted to win a ring "here". While there were reports that the Atlanta Hawks could make a run at Howard, nothing surfaced, and Dwight will wear a Lakers jersey until he becomes an unrestricted free agent.
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President Obama in West Palm Beach, Fla. - Sunday (right-click to copy direct link)
Seminole, Fla. Saturday, September 8, 2012
President Obama is on a two-day bus trip across Florida. On Saturday, he made stops in St. Petersburg and Kissimmee. On Sunday, he visited West Palm Beach and Melbourne.
The Republicans finished up their convention in Tampa a little over a week ago, and Florida is expected to play a large role in the November election. President Obama is fresh off his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
Former Republican Governor of Florida Charlie Christ, who has since become an Independent, introduced the President in St. Petersburg.
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Hey, why not?
Hey, why not?
The greatest gift I ever received was wrapped in swaddling clothes.
Love it as there are many things you can do i'm always doing creative things it's fun.
not really something I would like on my tree but hey it's nice idea for someone
When it seems the magic slipped away...
We find it all again on Christmas Day.
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U.N. inspectors in Syria face a race against time to get to the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack to gather vital evidence, but the big question Friday was whether red tape would prevent that.
Since Friday was not a working day in Syria, government offices were closed and many government officials were off. Syria's heavy bureaucracy may also mire the progress of the international demands for access.
The U.N. team is in Syria to examine previous claims of chemical weapons use at three unrelated sites, so it needs special permission to go to the scene of the latest alleged attack in Ghouta, a rebel stronghold on the outskirts of the capital.
The area, which is contested, appeared to be the target of shelling again Thursday night.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that allegations the Syrian regime used chemical weapons should be investigated immediately, adding there was "no time to waste" in getting the team into Ghouta.
He said he had called on the Syrian government to allow the team access and was sending U.N. High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Angela Kane to Damascus to press the case for an urgent investigation.
"I can think of no good reason why any party -- either government or opposition forces -- would decline this opportunity to get to the truth of the matter," Ban said.
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague suggested the delay in granting access was suspicious. "It seems that the Assad regime has something to hide," he said.
"This is not something that a humane or civilized world can ignore. Our priority is to make sure the world knows the facts of what has happened, and that means the U.N. team that is in Damascus, only 20 minutes away, being able to get there and to investigate."
Time is of the essence, Hague added, since the evidence will deteriorate "over a matter of days."
The Syrian government has denied using chemical weapons.
Syrian rebels promise access
Russia's Foreign Ministry appeared Friday to accuse the Syrian opposition of blocking U.N. access to the site.
"Signals from the opposition, including those of its readiness to ensure the safety and effective work of U.N. experts on territory controlled by its militants, which is so needed today, are not being heard," it said in a statement. "This directly contradicts an objective investigation into allegations on possible cases of chemical weapons use in Syria, which is what many countries are calling for and what Russia is calling for."
The ministry earlier Friday said that Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had called for both the Syrian government and opposition to allow access, in a conversation with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
On Wednesday, the ministry had seemed to imply that the opposition was responsible for the use of chemical weapons, issuing a statement saying that an "improvised missile was launched from the positions occupied by militants" and that an "aggressive information attack" was designed to fool the world into believing that the Syrian regime was responsible.
On Friday, leaders of the Syrian National Coalition, an umbrella opposition group, told reporters in Istanbul that the opposition and leaders of the Free Syrian Army are "fully committed" to helping the U.N. inspectors reach all locations where chemical weapons were allegedly used.
"We hereby assure the U.N. inspectors, the U.N. secretary general and all members of the United Nations that we will ensure the safety of the U.N. inspectors' team," said spokesman Khaled al-Saleh.
"However, it is very critical to get that team into the area that was just hit in less than 48 hours. The clock is ticking, we want to see those inspectors and we believe that the evidence will show who used these chemical weapons against innocent civilians."
Al-Saleh said that medical teams in the area hit administered 25,000 shots of atropine -- a medication used to treat people exposed to the nerve gas sarin -- after the attack, and that the toll would have been much higher if that had not been done.


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I should forewarn you that the following video is absolutely not safe for a professional working environment and I assume no responsibility for any trouble you may get yourself into by viewing it in such a setting. If you do, you either work somewhere really cool or you're a total fucking retard.
So, with that said… I have recently become enamored by another YouTube sensation who goes by the name of Jenna Marbles. She publishes videos every Wednesday which I am now going to be compelled to post here for those of you who may not be aware of her talents. Aside from looking the part of fantastically attractive platinum blonde-ish model, which I'm pretty sure she is, her videos showcase a bitingly sarcastic wit and sardonic sense of humor I can't help but laugh my ass off at. Her videos are definitely something worth checking out.
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My sister an I stayed at the Shana for 2 nights. They were very friendly and helpful which was nice. Not a lot of other people staying there, which was... nice and relaxing. There was a beach close by that was breathtaking but we didn't go swimming because people kept coming out of the water it itching themselves and red marks. Someone sai jelly fish, but you couldn't see them, so we didn't swim there. The beach inside the park on the northwest side is probably the best beach we went too and we went to all 4. Anyway the hotel was great for getting away from the city area and we then moved to a beach closer to quepos for a couple nights for the "on the beach feel". I would recommend the shana. It was a good find. by Julie from Wyoming on 11/28/13


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But that said -- Is that January -- -- small caps often see happening a bit early January effect meaning they do really well but we're barely into -- January look what's happening my next guest loves small caps regardless of the time to gear.
Or anything that's happening in Washington he looks for several key drivers Don Hodges Hodges capital management founder chairman of the investment committee and portfolio manager.
Joining me now on a Fox Business exclusive from Dallas Texas and and -- it's so nice to see you happy new year.
Other people to know why they should listen to you.
You're Hodges small cap fund one year your performance up 21%.
Over three years up 19% annualized five years up 11% I like those returns howdy do it what's the macro picture here on your tricks -- A lot thank our sacred is just concentrating on.
The resolves all sorts of information in the marketplace about what the market's gonna do or what's going on in Europe -- what's happening in Washington.
But we don't give a whole lot of credence to those findings although there are always a backdrop to what's going on.
But we spend our time researching companies and it's.
It's an endeavor that we pursue every day where we're talking to small and mid cap companies constantly we have five.
Re search analyst senator Dodd-Frank are very good.
And over the period of the last twelve months -- had about.
Contacts with companies him.
And I am.
That involves about 660.
And different companies but it's a question every search and focusing.
Having a passion for what's going on in companies.
Well look let's talk about that because you know and I think it's important to point out here.
You look at the intrinsic value of the company and those fundamentals.
Vs a headline and not not that FaceBook is a small cap -- today he would have tuned out.
The headline of what they were announcing and looked more at what are the what are their ad sales numbers etc.
so so if you were to pick those apart you look at what cash position.
I know you're concerned about debt you don't like big debt levels right.
Absolutely and that will occasionally.
Venture into a company that has quite a bit of -- if the other factors are so overwhelming that the dead isn't you know the big issues that.
But we start out basically very fundamentally working that that he.
The asset value of a company.
Their cash position.
The amount of debt they have.
The quality of their management.
They're just many many thing is that going to have value Wieting a company.
And there's every kind of company that you can imagine out there for us to look it.
Well see some of your most widely held stocks -- for example Cracker Barrel you also like Trinity Industries Chico's is up their viewpoint financial but.
-- a couple of your picks it -- three of them are now based.
Sort of -- a in a derivative weigh on the auto industry and one does nothing to do with automobiles but you -- below.
Below of course is an advertising company -- -- right so tell me about why you like this one and where you got the idea through the auto industry.
Well they -- basically was an investment because the stock.
-- entirely -- It sold down to a level over a dollar a share.
They own.
-- when he television stations.
-- Eleven of their markets.
There is durden and number one or number two in ranking.
Bill is a very fine and well -- on televisions.
And it generates a lot of cash it has our earnings.
They played a special dividend of 25 cents a share.
On top of -- regularly quarterly dividend of -- cents -- share.
This past December.
And it's it's a very healthy company.
And -- automobile business is.
Doing more advertising I think friend I've ever seen.
You can let me just let me interrupt your 'cause we put up Lithia group Lithia Motors you like them -- as well as some other plays.
You like group automotive.
-- don't -- what I look at some your financials viewpoint financials is something else you'd like.
But let's get to -- -- is -- we've got a couple seconds left what is it about this company it was some.
Focused on Fox Business yesterday and sure enough -- warrant your picking at how long have you -- what do you like about it.
I'm sorry I didn't understand your question about which company of Shoe Carnival.
Old Shoe Carnival.
Shoe Carnival is.
Of rapidly growing.
Shoe retailer.
We -- that they're gonna continue to have good growth on their own their opening a number of new stores every year.
The -- business.
Particularly the ladies.
Shoe business is very very healthy.
And -- -- did it could be a candidate already taken out some time.
Good to see of John thank you for joining us will put all your picks up on the FaceBook page Don Hodges of Hodges capital -- lemon here will be right I value -- --
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Sega has posted an image on its official Twitter showing what looks like an Android-shaped Sonic, teasing the possibility of Sonic Dash finally dropping on supported devices.
Mon, Nov 25, 2013 | 09:29 GMT
Shining Force Online: unofficial beta release launching this week
Shining Force Online is entirely unofficial, but is launching this week as a free browser beta.
Mon, Nov 25, 2013 | 09:12 GMT
Deviliser trademarked by Atlus parent company
Deviliser is the new game trademark from Index, parent company of Atlus. Both companies are now owned by Sega.
Fri, Nov 22, 2013 | 10:46 GMT
Sega Mega Drive anniversary Kickstarter book unearths previously unseen game artwork
SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works is an 25th anniversary look-back at the history of Sega's 16-bit machine. it's now been funded on Kickstarter, and research for the tome has unearthed some previously-unseen concept art from such games as Toejam & Earl and Comix Zone.
Fri, Nov 22, 2013 | 09:14 GMT
Demon Tribe: Jet Set Radio director launches MOBA, out now on iOS
Demon Tribe is the MOBA that's also a card-battler, that's also an RPG from Jet Set Radio director Masayoshi Kikuchi. It's out on iOS now as a free-to-play title under publisher Sega.
Thu, Nov 21, 2013 | 15:47 GMT
Total War: Rome 2 patch 7 now available
Total War: Rome 2′s latest patch is live. The Creative Assembly states that this is "the most significant gameplay-enhancing patch yet," as includes framerate improvements to high-end systems, and substantial gameplay, AI and behavioral improvements, particularly in settlement and siege battles. The attacking siege AI is more active, and the patch also bring about the first targeted unit re-balances. For full details, check out the patch notes. Steam users will be automatically updated upon logging into the service.
Thu, Nov 14, 2013 | 14:04 GMT
Football Manager 2013 pirated over 10 million times
Over 10 million people illegally downloaded Football Manager 2013, and its developer knows the IP address of every single one of them.
Tue, Nov 12, 2013 | 22:01 GMT
Company of Heroes 2 Turning Point update out now along with new DLC
Sega has released a hefty update for Company of Heroes 2, adding a map editor and two free maps alongside the release of a slew of new DLC.
Mon, Nov 11, 2013 | 12:50 GMT
Mega Drive book takes to Kickstarter, hopes to cover history of Sega's 16-bit console
SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works is a new book by Darren Wall and Read-Only Memory that looks to celebrate and reveal the full story behind Sega's classic 16-bit console. It's funding on Kickstarter now.
Thu, Nov 07, 2013 | 17:25 GMT
Company of Heroes 2: Victory at Stalingrad mini-pack available for pre-order on Steam
Victory at Stalingrad, the premium content for Company of Heroes 2's Theater of War mode, is available for pre-order on Steam and is 10% off until Monday, November 11.
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Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA f will be releasing in early 2014 on PlayStation Vita
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA f will be available for digital download on PlayStation Vita in early 2014, SEGA has announced. The title will be made available for the handheld in both North America and in Europe through Playstation Network. The rhythm action game is already available in-stores for PS3 as well as through the PlayStation Store. It has 38 songs, over 90 costumes and 100 accessories in which to customize Hatsune.
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Total War: Rome 2 sells over 800,000 units as Sega turns six-month profit
Sega has announced that The Creative Assembly's strategy title Total War: Rome 2 has sold over 800,000 units since launch. The news was revealed as part of the firm's earnings report for the six-month period ending September 30.
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Bill France and NASCAR.
The National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) was founded by racing promoter Bill France in 1947 to showcase the talents of southern whiskey runners in their modified street cars, souped up so they could outrun country sheriffs. By 1960 NASCAR had developed a well-organized professional racing circuit confined, largely, to the South. NASCAR was southern: most of its driving stars and its core of fan support came from the South. The sport had national appeal, though, as the American automobile manufacturers recognized. Early in the decade they sponsored the NASCAR racing season by providing high-performance versions of current showroom models. It was an effective sales tool in a time when speed sold cars, and by the time manufacturers abandoned racing because it was too expensive and because of social pressures to refrain from endorsement of a dangerous sport, NASCAR was self-sufficient.
Whiskey-Running Tradition.
At the beginning of the 1960s NASCAR racing was dominated by former whiskey runners turned legitimate. They drank hard up to the night before a race and knew no limits on the track. Fans delighted in the frequency of pileups and in the uninhibited style of the drivers, who would hit and bump their competitors at high speeds and go all out to win regardless of the conditions. Midwesterner Fred...
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The founding of USAC.
In the major leagues of auto racing there are two types of cars: Indianapolis, or Indy-type racers, made expressly for the race course and undrivable on public roads are the sleekest; stock cars, radically modified versions of automobiles available in dealer showrooms, run at about the same speed as the Indy racers and seem closer to life to many race fans, especially in the South. The United States Auto Club (USAC), the governing body for Indy-type racers, was formed in September 1955 by the owner of the Indianapolis Speedway, Tony Hulman. The Indianapolis 500 has since 1911 been the most respected automobile race in America, and Hulman wanted to be sure it stayed that way. USAC ran a full season of racing and named a champion each year, but the crowning event of the season was the Indianapolis 500.
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During the 1960s Indianapolis was under assault from new kinds of cars with new kinds of engines. Colin Chapman, the respected British carmaker whose Lotus chassis had carried its drivers to Grand Prix championships in Europe, developed a revolutionary Indianapolis car; Ford brought its engineering expertise to the track and by the end of the decade had replaced the venerable Offenhauser engine; car owner Andy Granate Ili introduced the turbine engine that protesting drivers said should be...
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Baseball: The Game Face
A Two-Faced Game.
Baseball had two faces during the 1960s, one shown on the field, the other in the board room. On the field baseball was a glorious game played by enthusiastic athletes who seemed truly to enjoy their participation in the nation's game. Their performances were spectacular as they demonstrated skills that reshaped the game.
1960: Stengel Retires.
The 1960s began with a changing of the guard. Casey Stengel, arguably the greatest manager of modern times, was forced to retire at the age of seventy. He was down but not out. A year later he returned to baseball as the bemused manager of the expansion team New York Mets. Ted Williams, the great Boston Red Sox hitter, retired in his nineteenth season at the age of forty-two; he hit .316 his last season. The New York Yankees hit 193 home runs in 1960, the most ever in an American League season, but their hitting power was inadequate to secure a World Series victory against the Pittsburgh Pirates, who played in their first championship series since 1927, when Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig led the Yankees to a four-game sweep. In 1960 it took seven games and a bad bounce on a grounder to Yankee shortstop Tony Kubek in the eighth inning for the Pirates to win the Series.
A New Home-Run Record.
Roger Maris hit a record-breaking 61...
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Baseball: The Business Face
The Day of the $2 Ticket.
If the game of baseball flourished on the field, it seemed that the occupants of the front offices, where baseball was big business, had to scramble to save the game's vitality. Attendance declined steadily during the first half of the decade as television transformed spectators from bleacher bums into couch potatoes. At the beginning of the decade 25 percent of team revenues was from broadcast licenses; by the end of the decade the total was 30 percent. Although ticket prices averaged from two dollars to three dollars in the 1960s, fans increasingly found it more convenient to watch games on television than to go to the park. Still, the twenty teams in major-league baseball attracted 22.4 million paying fans to the ballpark in 1965, setting a per-club attendance record. The 150 or so minor-league teams drew less than half that number.
The Cost of Baseball.
As a result, team revenues declined while the owners figured out how to negotiate broadcast contracts to their best advantage. In 1960 each club in baseball averaged $200,000 in national broadcast revenues; in 1970 revenue had increased to $700,000; in 1993 it was $14 million. About three times as much was earned from local broadcast rights. Many teams during the 1960s reported losses, but in fact they were profitable to the owners because of available tax...
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Baseball: The Amazin' Mets
The Beginning.
In 1957 and 1958 New York lost two National League baseball teams to the West Coast. The Giants left for San Francisco in 1957 and the Dodgers for Los Angeles in 1958, That left the Yankees, who were on one of the grandest winning streaks in baseball history, but National League fans wanted a team of their own. In the National League expansion of 1962 they got their wish, the New York Mets. The majority owner was former Giants fan Joan Whitney Payson, one of the wealthiest women in the nation. Her pockets were deep, and a five-year, $6 million broadcast-rights deal with Rheingold brewery assured that the Mets were solvent.
The team cost a total of $2.3 million—$500,000 induction fee to the league and $1.8 million in draft fees from a league-created draft pool of shockingly bad players. The Mets managers got to pick twenty players, of which sixteen were chosen from a group of players released from their contracts by other teams...
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Basketball: The Pros
Professional Basketball Expansion.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) began the decade with eight teams. By the end of the decade the league had expanded to seventeen teams, had a fat television contract, and had seen attendance jump from under two million in 1965 to over five million. Throughout much of the 1950s professional basketball was being played in the shadow of the college game and was searching for an identity; toward the end of that decade the sport saw its future in Bill Russell—the big man with grace and speed. But professional basketball did not catch up with Russell until the 1960s, when men emerged who along with Russell defined the modern game. Most notable among the new breed of athletes was Wilt Chamberlain. Wilt the Stilt, as he was called, combined imposing size, intelligence, and legendary strength in challenging Russell for basketball supremacy. The rivalry between the two superstars gave professional basketball much-needed drama. Despite the influx of great basketball talent from the college ranks into the pros during the 1960s, there remained only one true super team, the Boston Celtics.
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Basketball: The College Teams
A Live-Action Game.
Neil D. Isaac, author of Ali the Moves (1975), a history of college basketball, argues that basketball is the most popular sport in the United States, but that it is more successful as a live-action spectator sport and as a participation sport than on television. While baseball fans might question that claim, there is an undeniable attraction to basketball, particularly at the college level. The continuous action and high scoring of the game make it exciting to watch, even if it does not televise well. The roughly one thousand college basket-ball teams in the United States attracted fifteen million fans in 1960.
A National Audience.
College basketball became a national game at the major-college level in the 1960s. Before that time college coaches recruited locally and promoted what might be called regional game styles. But television and the rise in fan interest affected basketball as it did other major sports. The game became faster and the players bigger as a system of high-school feeder teams was developed. Coaches traveled throughout the country searching for fast, big boys they could mold into team players. The game attracted the attention of gamblers too. In 1951 there was a cheating scandal, involving players from seven schools, that had shocked naive fans. In 1961 there was another, bigger scandal that...
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Boxing Decline.
The sport of professional boxing seemed to be in decline at the beginning of the 1960s. Boxing had been the most frequently televised sporting event during the 1950s because it was easy to produce: the action between two men in a small ring could be captured easily and cheaply by a single camera. By the end of the 1950s fights appeared routinely on television; Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer sponsored the Wednesday night fights on ABC, and Gillette sponsored the Friday night fights on NBC. Televised fights used up fighters and distorted an already-corrupt sport.
Television and Boxing.
Television imposed a level of commercialism on fighting that the sport had never confronted before. Television audiences, and thus television sponsors, demanded more glamour and more drama than the sport could deliver, There were not enough white hopes or inspiring role models in boxing to supply televised fights at least two nights every week and more nights most weeks. Moreover, there was increasing evidence that television boxing was corrupt. The International Boxing Club, controlled by mobster Frankie Carbo, monopolized the promotion of fights for television, and Carbo was under investigation at the beginning(The entire section is 2021 words.)
Football: The Pros
By the beginning of the decade professional football was surpassing baseball in popularity. The Baltimore Colts' stunning overtime victory over the New York Giants to win the National Football League (NFL) championship in 1958 had thrilled a nationwide television audience and helped attract a new generation of fans to professional football. The NFL championship game had as large a television viewing audience as the World Series. By the end of the decade professional football was the national pastime. NFL attendance had climbed above 90 percent of stadium capacity—figures that were the envy of the baseball owners, Sunday afternoons—traditionally reserved as time spent with family—were taken over by the sport, as fathers sat in their living rooms glued to their television sets. Even the football widows—the wives of armchair fans—came to recognize the names and the language of football. A new breed of superstar emerged from the media hype that surrounded the sport; slick, brash, and attractive players like Joe Namath had charisma, sex appeal, and, as endorsers of products, great selling power.
During the 1960s television money poured into professional football at an increasing rate, as Pete Rozelle, who became NFL commissioner in I960, successfully marketed the sport. Having convinced team owners that it...
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Football: The College Teams
Instant Replay.
An anecdote related by sports historians Randy Roberts and James S. Olson demonstrates the evolution of college football (and all televised sports, for that matter) during the 1960s, as television began to redefine the game for fans. In 1960 Roone Arledge asked ABC engineer Bob Trachinger if it would be possible to replay a piece of sports videotape in slow motion to show how a play developed and to verify a close call by a referee. Trachinger went to work on what became instant replay, which was tested during the Boston College-Syracuse University football game that year. Arledge re-called, "That was a terrific game, and at one point Jack Concannon, a sophomore quarterback, was trapped in the pocket but ended up running seventy yards for a touchdown. Six or eight people had a shot of him and we replayed the whole thing in slow motion with Paul Christman analyzing the entire play as it unfolded. Nobody had ever seen anything like that before and the impact was unbelievable. That moment changed television sports forever."
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The Greatest College Football Teams of the Decade
1. University of Texas Longhorns, 1969.
Darrell Royal, in his fifteenth year as coach of the Texas Longhorns, led his team to an undisputed national championship and a perfect season in 1969. The Longhorns scored 45 or more points in six different games en route to the Cotton Bowl in the postseason, where they overcame a strong Notre Dame team 21-17. Quarterback James Street passed for 699 yards, often to Cotton Speyer, his favorite receiver. Halfback Jim Bertelsen averaged 7.1 yards per rush, and Steve Worster, a talented blocking back, averaged 4.8 yards to lead the Longhorns to the nation's best offensive performance on the ground with an average of 363 yards per game. Placekicker Happy Feller scored 61 points during the season, second on the team only to Bertelsen, who had 78. At home the Longhorns were invincible, with an average winning point spread of 43 points.
2. Ohio State University Buckeyes, 1968.
Woody Hayes was coach of the year in 1968 as he led the Buck-eyes to an undefeated season and an undisputed national championship. During nine of the next ten seasons Ohio State won or shared the Big Ten conference title. Hayes coached a ground-based offense. His star fullback, Jim Otis, rushed 189 times during the season for an average of 4.7 yards, and Rex Kern rushed 119 times for 4.2 yards per carry. The rushers were supported...
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Palmer and Nicklaus.
The two most talented golfers of the 1960s made their marks as the decade opened. In 1960 Arnold Palmer won the Masters and the U.S. Open and earned $77,000 to lead all professional golfers. Second place in the U.S. Open went to a twenty-year-old amateur, an undergraduate at Ohio State named Jack Nicklaus. He shot a 269 over the seventy-two holes of the tournament. Nicklaus's last year as an amateur was 1961. He won the U.S. amateur title that year by eight and six strokes respectively in the final two rounds. He was prepared in 1962 to enter a head-to-head competition with Palmer to determine who was the greatest golfer of the decade and, arguably, of all time.
Palmer in 1962.
Palmer won his third Masters title and the British Open for the second year in a row in 1962, but Nicklaus beat him in a playoff at the U.S. Open. Promoters seized the opportunity to exploit their rivalry by arranging the World Series of Golf at the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. Devised for a television audience, this event pitted the three best golfers of the year against one another in a thirty-six-hole competition. Nicklaus won with a 135; Palmer and South African Gary Player tied for second, with 139s.
$100,000 Winners.
In 1963 Palmer and Nicklaus became the first professional...
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Olympics: The Contemporary Version
The Contemporary Olympic Era.
What were called the modern Olympic Games, the phrase that referred to the revival of the Olympics in 1896, gave way to the contemporary games in 1960. The ideal, championed by International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Avery Brundage, of international amateur competition held in an arena unaffected by worldly influences was in its death throes. The forces that undermined the ideal—politics, commercialization, and drugs—were introduced in the 1950s, and by the 1960 games their influence was inevitable.
President Brundage.
In 1952 Avery Brundage was elected president of the IOC. He was a controversial choice because members of the international committee feared the power that a president from a superpower nation would wield. The cold war affected most aspects of international relations, and observers feared that an American president would use the games to promote nationalism. Brundage managed to avoid serious charges that he used his position to promote American diplomatic goals, but during the Brundage years, due to the intrusion of forces he could not control, nationalism became the underlying theme of the Olympics, and politics was played as calculatingly in the IOC boardroom as in diplomatic gathering places.
Politics of Participation.
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Olympics: The 1960 Games
The Soviet Standard.
The XVII Olympiad was held in Rome in August and September and the Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California, in February. Over 7,000 athletes from 85 nations participated in the summer games, which were promoted as the most spectacular ever, staged at a cost of some $30 million. The Soviets won forty-three medals to thirty-four for the Americans, and in the point system, introduced by the media to measure performance, the Soviets won the games with 807.5 points to 564.5 for the United States, 319.25 points for the Germans, 270 points for the Italians, with Hungary, Australia, Japan, and Great Britain following, in that order.
Men's Performance.
The Americans were strongest in track and field, despite some disappointments. The men won eight of the twenty-four track and field events, but sprinters David Sime and Ray Norton, expected to win, lost in the 100- and 200-meter races, and world-record holder John Thomas finished third in the high jump. Rafer Johnson lost seven events in the decathlon but won the gold medal with a victory in the 10,000-meter race six seconds faster than his previous best time. Male swimmers won half the swimming events, and American male divers won gold and silver medals in both springboard and platform competition. The U.S. men won three gold medals in boxing, including a dominating...
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Olympics: The 1964 Games
The First Asian Olympics.
The XVIII Olympiad was held in Tokyo in October 1964; the winter games were in Innsbruck, Austria, in January and February 1964. It was the first Olympics held in Asia and marked the recovery of Japan from defeat in World War II. The Japanese were eager to stage a showcase for their culture, and toward that end they spent $2.7 billion to prepare. The preparations were largely lost on American audiences, though, due to the indifference of NBC, which had the broadcast rights. There was anticipation of live satellite coverage and cooperative efforts between Americans and Europeans to share video, but NBC balked at the expense and the practical difficulties of coping with a fourteen-hour time difference. They attempted one live transmission, of the opening ceremonies, and delayed telecast until after The Tonight Show in deference to Johnny Carson and his audience. The Japanese were infuriated, as was the State Department, which hoped to claim a show of American technological superiority if the United States was the first nation to broadcast these Olympics live.
The American Men.
The Tokyo Olympics attracted 5,500 athletes from 94 nations, who competed in 163 events in 20 sports. From a national perspective the games were more competitive than the 1960 games. The Soviets won 96 medals to the 90 of the United...
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Olympics: The 1968 Games
The Political Games.
The XIX Olympiad in Mexico City was as dedicated to political activism as to athletic excellence. The participation of South Africa was a controversy that grew in significance as the date of the games approached. At first the South Africans were invited. Then when threatened boycotts by black African nations and black athletes in the United States seemed likely to disrupt the games, the IOC voted to recommend that South Africa decline the invitation, effectively barring their participation. In the United States athlete-sociologist Harry Edwards organized the Olympic Project for Human Rights to coordinate protest movements by black American athletes, and when some members of his group agreed to participate in the games after the South African invitation was rescinded, Edwards promised a protest.
Street-Fighting Men.
Meanwhile in the host city there was open fighting in the streets. Mexican students
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Headline Makers
Fischer, Bobby 1943-
Bobby Fischer was thirteen in 1956 when he became the youngest national junior chess champion in history, fourteen I when he won the U.S. Open Chess tournament and the right to challenge Arthur B. Bisguier for the U.S. Championship, fifteen when he became the youngest International Grandmaster in the history of chess and won the U.S. Championship, and sixteen when he ended his formal education: "The stuff they teach in school, I can't use," he explained. Erasmus Hall High School, his alma mater, presented him with a gold medal for his accomplishments in chess the year he quit school.
Charges against FIDE.
Before he was twenty Fischer was the most outspoken critic of the world chess establishment. He boycotted the U. S. Championships in 1961 because he said the prize money of one thousand dollars to the winner was insulting. Three months later he won the world interzonal tournament in Stockholm, earning the right to play for the world championship. In June 1962, nine...
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Griffith, Emile 1938-
Two Championships.
Emile Griffith was the third man in history to hold both the welterweight and middleweight championships. The first two were Sugar Ray Robinson and Carmen Basilio. Griffith was born in Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands, and came to New York City when he was thirteen to join his mother, who worked in a hat factory. He eventually took a job working with his mother and came to the attention of the factory owner, who introduced Griffith to trainer Gil Clancy, one of the best in the business. Two years later Griffith was one of the top amateur fighters in the East.
Battle for the Welterweight Crown.
He turned professional in 1958 and won twenty-two of twenty-four fights before he earned the right to fight Benny ("Kid") Paret for the world welterweight championship. He won the fight with a knockout in the thirteenth round, but his championship was short-lived. After one title defense he met Paret again and lost. Six months later, on 24 March 1962, the two fighters met for the third time in a decisive battle fought in the Virgin Islands and televised nationally. In the twelfth round Griffith, angry because Paret had called him a homosexual, pounded his opponent relentlessly as the referee watched without stopping the action. When Griffith was finally called off...
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Hornung, Paul 1935-
The Golden Boy.
Paul Hornung was called "The Golden Boy" partly because of his blond good looks, but more so because he seemed to shine when the occasion warranted. He played on championship football teams from the time he was a senior at Flaget High School in Louisville, Kentucky. He went to Notre Dame, though Coach Frank Leahy did not offer encouragement that he would make the team. He practiced with the scrubs as a freshman, played third-string quarterback as a sophomore, made the All-American team and was named outstanding back in the nation by United Press International as a junior, and won the Heisman Trophy as a senior, despite playing on a team that lost eight often games. He graduated from Notre Dame with excellent grades, adding further luster to his athletic achievement.
Professional Career.
Hornung signed a three-year contract with the Green Bay Packers for sixteen thousand dollars a year when that was a lot of money for a professional football player. He soon earned a reputation as a playboy who lacked a professional's seriousness about the game. Vince Lombardi changed that perception. Under his tutelage Hornung became known as one of the best backs in the league. Sharing ball-carrying duties with fullback Jim Taylor and accepting full responsibility for kicking field goals and points...
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Koufax, Sandy 1935-
College Dropout.
Sandy Koufax was a hard-throwing pitcher who lacked control during his high-school years in Brooklyn. He was an outstanding baseball and basket-ball player and was recruited by the University of Cincinnati. In 1955, after his freshman year, he dropped out of college to play professional baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was not until the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles that Koufax began to show promise as a major leaguer. He won eleven of twenty-two games in 1958 and tied a major league strikeout record of eighteen against the Giants in 1959.
Cy Young Awards.
By 1961 Koufax was a star, and he continued to improve throughout the decade. Between 1963 and his retirement in 1965, his highest season's earned run average (ERA) was 2.04, and he won a total of seventy-seven games, including twenty-five in 1963, twenty-six in 1965, and twenty-seven in 1966, all years in which he won the Cy Young Award as the best pitcher in baseball.
Last Contract.
In 1966 Koufax, a lefthander, and Dodger star...
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Lombardi, Vince 1913-1970
Winning Is the Only Thing.
Vince Lombardi is regarded as professional football's greatest head coach. Lombardi guided the Green Bay Packers to league titles in 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, and 1967 and to Super Bowl victories in 1967 and 1968; the Packers never finished lower than second during the Lombardi era. In his nine seasons in the National Football League he compiled a record of 141 wins and 39 losses, with 4 ties. Sportswriters, fans, and students of the game consider Lombardi's winning numbers all the more impressive given the poor-quality football teams he inherited at Green Bay and later at Washington as coach of the Redskins. The success of these teams under Lombardi is due largely to his demand that his players share his drive and determination to win at all cost. He once insisted, "Winning isn't everything. It is the only thing."
Lombardi the Ram.
Reared in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Italian immigrants, Lombardi attended local Catholic schools and graduated with honors from Fordham University in 1937. In that year, Lombardi also had led the Fordham Rams to a 7-0-1 record, the tie coming in a scoreless game with heavily favored Pitt. The Rams enjoyed an immense following among fans in the New York area, and the team's front line, popularly known as the Seven Blocks of...
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Oerter, Al 1936-
Four World Records.
Al Oerter was the first man ever to throw the discus over 200 feet, the first of his four world records in a sport he excelled at throughout the 1960s. At the age of twenty, the 6 feet 4 inches, 290 pound sophomore at the University of Kansas was rated second in the world in the discus throw. He had set a national high-school record and had won two NCAA championships. At the 1956 Olympic games Oerter won the gold medal with a personal best throw of 184 feet 11 inches.
A Career-Threatening Accident.
He returned to college and to a career-threatening challenge. In 1957 Oerter was involved in a serious automobile accident that nearly took his life. He trained furiously to regain his strength, and he never again competed without pain. After graduating from the University of Kansas in 1958, he continued to compete as a discus thrower as a member of the New York Athletic Club.
The 1960 Olympics.
In 1960 Oerter lost in the Olympic trials to the...
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Russell, Bill 1934-
College and Olympics.
The University of San Francisco won NCAA championships in 1955 and 1956 during Bill Russell's junior and senior years; they were 29-0 during his last year, and Russell won most valuable player (MVP) awards in five of the last six college tournaments he played in. The out-standing college player of the time, he was chosen for the 1956 Olympic basketball team, which won an Olympic gold medal after an eight-game series in which the narrowest margin of victory was thirty points. Russell also qualified for the Olympic team as a high jumper, but he withdrew so that another athlete could have the honor of representing his country.
Contract with the Celtics.
When he turned professional Russell was the most-sought-after player of the year. The Harlem Globetrotters, who played at clowning basketball exhibitions for pure entertainment, offered him a one-year contract for $32,000. The Harlem Clowns, another exhibition team, offered Russell part ownership of their organization. He signed with the Boston Celtics for $24,000, joining the most formidable sports dynasty of modern times. The Celtics, under Coach Red Auerbach, won their first NBA championship during Russell's rookie year. In the next twelve years they won ten times more; then Russell retired. He was named league MVP...
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People in the News
Alphonse Bielevich catches a world record 98-pound 12-ounce Atlantic cod off the Isle of Shoals in New Hampshire on 8 June 1969.
Three professional football quarterbacks throw for seven touchdowns in a game during the 1960s. George Blanda of the Houston Oilers against the New York Titans (19 November 1961), Y. A, Tittle of the New York Giants againstthe Washington Redskins (28 October 1962), and Joe Kapp of the Minnesota Vikings against the Baltimore Colts (28 September 1969).
Philadelphia Warrior basketball player Wilt Chamberlain scores a record 4,029 season points in 1961-1962, including seven games played between 16 and 19 December 1961, in each of which he scores over 50 points.
Washington Senators pitcher Tom Cheney strikes out a record twenty-one batters in a sixteen-inning game on 12 September 1962.
Atlanta Braves pitcher Tony Cloninger hits two grand slams on 3 July 1966.
Michael Eufemia reportedly pockets a run of 625 balls at Logan's Billiard Academy in Brooklyn on 2 February 1960.
New York Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford pitches thirtytwo consecutive scoreless innings in 1961, breaking Babe Ruth's forty-three-year-old record.
In 1965 A. J. Foyt, Jr., wins a total often starting pole...
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Major League Baseball World Series—Pittsburgh Pirates (National League), 4 vs. New York Yankees (American League), 3
National Football League Championship—Philadelphia Eagles, 17 vs. Green Bay Packers, 13
Collegiate Football National Champions—University of Minnesota
Heisman Trophy, Collegiate Football—Joe Bellino (Navy)
National Basketball Association Championship—Boston Celtics, 4 vs. Saint Louis Hawks, 3
National Collegiate Athletic Association Basketball—Ohio State University, 75 vs. University of California, Berkeley, 55
National Hockey League Stanley Cup—Montreal Canadiens, 4 vs. Toronto Maple Leafs, 0
Kentucky Derby, Horse Racing—Venetian Way (jockey, Bill Hartack)
Preakness, Horse Racing—Bally Ache (jockey, Bob Ussery)
Belmont Stakes, Horse Racing—Celtic Ash (jockey, Bill Hartack)
Masters Golf Tournament—Arnold Palmer
United States Open Golf Championship—Arnold Palmer
Professional Golfers of America Championship— Jay Herbert
United States Women's Open...
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John Franklin ("Home Run") Baker, 77, from 1911 to 1914 led the American League in home runs, 28 June 1963.
Jack Barry, 73, former shortstop for the Philadelphia Athletics, 23 April 1961.
Tony Bettenhausen, 44, racing driver, killed while testing a car at the Indianapolis Speedway, 12 May 1961.
Maureen Connolly Brinker, 34, the first woman to win a tennis "grand slam" (the national championships of the U.S., Great Britain, France, and Australia), 21 June 1969.
Jimmy Bryan, 33, race car driver and former winner of the Indianapolis 500, of injuries suffered in racing accident, 19 June 1960.
Primo Camera, 60, Italian-born boxer who won the heavyweight title in 1933 from Jack Sharkey and then lost it in 1934 to Max Baer, 29 June 1967.
Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb, 74, played with the Detroit Tigers for 22 years; the first member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, 17 July 1961.
Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, 59, former catcher for the Philadelphia Athletics and manager from 1934 to 1939 of the Detroit Tigers, 28 June 1962.
Samuel Earl ("Wahoo Sam") Crawford, 88, at the time of his death the only baseball player to have led both leagues in home runs, 15 June 1968.
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Hank Aaron, Aaron, r.f. (Cleveland: World, 1968);
Furman Bisher, Miracle in Atlanta: The Atlanta Braves Story (Cleveland: World 1966);
Al Bloemker, 500 Miles To Go: The Story of the Indianapolis Speedway (New York: Coward-McCann, 1966);
Ty Cobb, My Life in Baseball, The True Record (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1961);
Bob Cousy, The Last Loud Roar (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1964);
Robert Curran, Pro Football's Rag Days (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969);
Robert Daley, Cars at Speed: The Grand Prix Circuit (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1961);
Daley, The Cruel Sport (New York: Bonanza Press, 1963);
Joseph Durso, The Days of Mr. McGraw (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969);
Harry Edwards, The Revolt of the Black Athlete (New York: Free Press, 1969);
Albert Hirshberg, Basketball's Greatest Stars (New York: Putnam, 1963);
Jack Johnson, Jack Johnson is a Dandy: An Autobiography (New York: Chelsea House, 1969);
Sanford Koufax, Koufax (New York: Viking, 1966);
Elmer Layden, It Was a Different Game...
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Important Events in Sports, 1960–1969
- National Association for Stock Car Racing (NASCAR) Grand National tracks open at Charlotte, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia.
- The New York Yankees hit a record 193 home runs during the season, winning their twenty-fifth American League pennant; they lose the series in seven games to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
- Approximately 6.5 million Americans participate in organized bowling; the top money winner among professional bowlers is Frank Clause from Old Forge, Pennsylvania, who earns over one hundred thousand dollars.
- Some $2 billion is wagered by an estimated 30 million people at American racetracks; Kelso is horse of the year, winning six consecutive stakes races and registering $293,310 in earnings.
- The second annual National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) soccer championship is won by Saint Louis University, 5-2, over the University of Connecticut.
- Professional boxing is the fifth-ranked spectator sport in the United States, attracting some four million people annually to live matches.
- For the first time since 1936, the United States fails to reach the challenge round of Davis Cup tennis competition.
- On January 26, Los Angeles Rams general manager Pete Rozelle, 33, is named commissioner of the National Football League...
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Source: American Decades: 1960-1969, ©1994 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.