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Ford Frick
Ford FrickBorn: Dec. 19, 1894Baseball sportswriter and radio announcer who served as NL president (1934-51) and commissioner (1951-65); convinced record-keepers to list Roger Maris' and Babe…Josh Gibson
Josh GibsonBorn: Dec. 21, 1911Baseball C the “Babe Ruth of the Negro Leagues”; Satchel Paige's battery mate with Pittsburgh Crawfords. The Negro Leagues did not keep accurate records but…Bette Davis Biography
Bette Davis(Ruth Elizabeth Davis)actressBorn: 5/5/1908Birthplace: Lowell, Massachusetts Academy Award -winning film and television actress known for her distinctive appearance and voice, as well as…William Shakespeare: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying meThine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty…Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Oh, yes! they love through all this world of ours!
Oh, yes! they love through all this world of ours!Oh, yes! they love through all this world of ours! I will not gainsay love, called love forsooth: I have heard love talked in my early youth…Alfred Lord Tennyson: Sonnet ("Though Night hath climbed her peak")
Sonnet Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon, And bitter blasts the screaming autumn whirl, All night through archways of the bridgèd pearl And portals of pure silver…Christina Rossetti: Autumn Violets
Autumn VioletsNovember 1868Keep love for youth, and violets for the spring: Of if these bloom when worn-out autumn grieves, Let them lie hid in double shade of leaves, Their own, and others…The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
Director:Aviva KempnerCowboy Booking International; NR; 95 minutesRelease:5/00With;Hank Greenberg, Hal Newhouser, Charlie Gehringer Hank Greenberg, for the many of us too young to remember,…2002 National Book Awards
The 53rd Annual National Book Awards were presented November 20, 2002, at New York City's Marriott Marquis Hotel.Fiction:Three Junes, Julia Glass (Pantheon Books)Nonfiction:Master of the…1997 Newbery Medal and Honor Books
The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the American Library Association for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.Newbery Medal for Best Book: The View…Trending
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