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Batting: American League Leaders, 1999 Season

Batting Average BatGmABRHAvgTB2B3BHRRBIBBInt BB SOSBSlg Pct OBPNomar Garciaparra, BosR135532103190.357321422271045173914.603.418Derek Jeter, NYR158627134219.3493463792410291511619.552.…

Batting: National League Leaders, 1999 Season

Batting Average BatGmABRHAvgTB2B3BHRRBIBBInt BBSOSBSlg PctOBPLarry Walker, ColL127438108166.379311264371155785211.710.458Luis Gonzalez, AriL153614112206.33633745426111666639.549.403Bob Abreu…

Low, Juliette Gordon

(Encyclopedia) Low, Juliette Gordon, 1860–1927, American founder of the Girl Scouts, b. Savannah, Ga., as Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon. From a prominent Southern family, she met Robert Baden-Powell…

Lorenzo di Credi

(Encyclopedia) Lorenzo di CrediLorenzo di Credilōrĕnˈtsō dē krĕˈdē [key], 1459–1537, Florentine painter. He spent his early years in the workshop of Verrocchio, whom he assisted in the painting of an…

Fools, Feast of

(Encyclopedia) Fools, Feast of, burlesque religious festival of the Middle Ages. It occurred during the Christmas and New Year's revels, on or near New Year's Day. In many places a Lord of Misrule…

Wirral

(Encyclopedia) Wirral, metropolitan borough (1991 est. pop. 322,100), NW England, on the peninsula between the Mersey and Dee estuaries, in the Greater Manchester metropolitan area. Sometimes…

Seton, Ernest Thompson

(Encyclopedia) Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860–1946, American writer and artist, b. England. His name was originally Ernest Seton Thompson. His stories and paintings of wildlife, especially Wild Animals…

Netscher, Caspar

(Encyclopedia) Netscher, CasparNetscher, Casparkäsˈpär nĕchˈər [key], 1639–84, Dutch portrait and genre painter, b. Heidelberg. He moved to Holland, where he studied with Ter Borch. Netscher was…