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Bob Cain Biography
Bob CainAge: 72 left-hander who pitched to dwarf Eddie Gaedel and walked him on four consecutive balls; Bill Veeck planned the gimmick of sending Gaedel to the plate as a pinch hitter to…Raymond Naimoli Biography
Raymond NaimoliAge: 56 Tampa Bay Devil Rays chief financial officer and senior vice president; younger brother of Devil Rays general partner Vincent Naimoli; before joining the team, he…Julius Barnathan 1997 Deaths
Julius BarnathanAge: 70 a television innovator who as an engineering executive at ABC is credited with developing the use of long-lens cameras to cover sporting events and closed-captioned…Larry Friend 1998 Deaths
Larry FriendAge: 62 former University of California basketball standout who captained Pete Newell's first conference championship team in 1957; second-round draft pick of the New York Knicks…Brian Pearson Biography
Brian PearsonAge: 27 a walk-on who earned four basketball letters at Iowa State; he set a school record with five three-point field goals in a game, a feat he accomplished four times; in…Fernand Sastre 1998 Deaths
Fernand SastreAge: 74 co-president of the French World Cup organizing committee which led France's drive to host the tournament beginning in 1989; Sastre was also a longtime official with…Todd Witsken 1998 Deaths
Todd WitskenAge: 34 Indianapolis Tennis Center director who was a three-time All-American at USC and first burst on the pro tennis scene by beating Jimmy Connors in the third round of the U.…Northrup Knox 1998 Deaths
Northrup KnoxAge: 69 with the help of his brother Seymour, brought the Sabres to Buffalo when the NHL expanded in 1969; served as Sabres chairman after his brother's death from cancer in…Raymond V. Damadian
Raymond V. Damadian Born: 1936Birthplace: Forest Hills, N.Y. Apparatus and method for detecting cancer in tissue—Damadian invented the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner that has…Robert S. Ledley
Robert S. LedleyBorn: 1926Birthplace: New York City Diagnostic x-ray systems—Ledley developed the ACTA diagnostic x-ray scanner, the first whole-body computerized tomography (CT) machine. He…Trending
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