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At the highest level of racing though, intact males have great economic value at stud, so they are often retired after only a few years of racing. [8] In part because they may have longer racing careers, some of the most winning racehorses of all time are females, including Kincsem, Black Caviar, Winx, and Zenyatta.
Three players in the major North American sports leagues have had their numbers retired by all teams in their respective leagues, those being Jackie Robinson, the first Black player in the modern era of Major League Baseball, Wayne Gretzky, arguably by many as the greatest hockey player in NHL history [20] [21], and Bill Russell, the most successful player in NBA history in terms of total ...
Jacques Kallis is the only All-rounder in the history of the game to score more than 10,000 runs and take over 250 wickets in both ODI and Test match cricket. Shakib Al Hasan is considered one of the best all-rounders in recent time. He is the only all-rounder in history of the game to score more than 14000 runs and take over 700 wickets.
Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff MBE (born 6 December 1977), is an English television and radio presenter and former international cricketer.Flintoff played all forms of the game and was one of the sport's leading all-rounders, a fast bowler, middle-order batsman and slip fielder.
He was ranked as the world's No. 1 all-rounder in Twenty20 Internationals (T20I) for 150 weeks, including an all-time record of 120 consecutive weeks from 13 October 2011 to 30 January 2014. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He began playing during the Australian team's golden era in the early 2000s, and was the last player from this era to retire.
Hadlee is widely regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders in cricket history, and amongst the very finest fast bowlers. [1] Hadlee was appointed an MBE in the 1980 Queen's Birthday Honours List and knighted in the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to cricket. He is a former chairman of the New Zealand board of selectors.
The History of Photography; A History of the Book in America; A History of the Civil War, 1861–1865; A History of the German Baptist Brethren in Europe and America; History of the Movement from 1854 to 1890; History of the Rockaways from the Year 1685 to 1917; A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
Bob Uecker – "50 Years in Baseball" along with Uecker's name is next to the Brewers retired numbers at American Family Field. Tom Cheek – Toronto Blue Jays; honored with a spot on the Rogers Centre's "Level of Excellence" bearing his name and, in place of a jersey number, 4,306 – his streak of consecutive regular-season broadcasts.