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Ball was born at Boundary Park General Hospital in Oldham, Lancashire, on 28 January 1944, [2] to May (née Savage) and Bob Harper. [3] [4] He attended Crompton House C of E school, Shaw, Oldham, and briefly studied Shipping Management at Wigan Mining & Technical College [2] before going to work in a factory as a welder, where he also met his future partner in comedy, Thomas Derbyshire (Tommy ...
For many years, one of the two championship races held at Phoenix International Raceway was a memorial race dedicated to Ball. The Bobby Ball Memorial was first run in the fall of 1954 and 1955 as a 100-mile race on dirt, sanctioned by AAA at the Arizona State Fairgrounds. [4] [5] Driver Jack McGrath was killed in an accident during the 1955 ...
Bobby Ball (USA) 1953-01-03 Midget Unknown Carrell Speedway Race Crashed into the car of Andy Linden and flipped [55] Lorenzo Bandini (ITA) 1967-05-07 Open wheel Ferrari 312/67: Formula One: Circuit de Monaco: Monaco Grand Prix: Race Car skidded, hit straw bales and an iron bollard, caught fire and rolled several times, landing upside down [56]
Thomas Derbyshire (born 27 June 1938), known professionally as Tommy Cannon, is an English comic, actor and singer.He is best known as the straight man of the comic double act Cannon and Ball, until Bobby Ball's death in 2020, in TV programmes such as The Cannon and Ball Show.
Cannon and Ball were an English double act comprising Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball, who met in the early 1960s while working as welders in Oldham, Lancashire. [1] They started as singers working the pubs and clubs of Greater Manchester and switched to comedy after being told comics earned an extra £3 a night. They continued to work as a comic ...
1954 Bobby Ball Memorial race [ edit ] On November 8, 1954, Reece crashed during the Bobby Ball Memorial , an AAA Champ Car event held at the Arizona State Fairgrounds , sustaining "a punctured lung, fractured right shoulder and possible internal injuries when his car flipped coming out of the south turn [...] and crashed into the east wall."
The "Splendid Splinter" himself was killed in the final AAA dirt-track race of the 1955 season, the Bobby Ball Memorial at the one-mile dirt oval at the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix, Arizona. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...