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William du Pont Jr. (February 11, 1896 – December 31, 1965) was an English-born American businessman and banker, and a prominent figure in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing. [1] He developed and designed more than 20 racing venues, including Fair Hill at his 5,000-acre estate in Maryland.
The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball (MLB) team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Phillies compete in MLB as a member club of the National League (NL) East division. In the franchise's history , the owners and ownership syndicates of the team have employed 11 general managers (GMs) and appointed 15 team presidents.
He'd played baseball at Yale, and still thought of himself as a star athlete. Believing the team needed to be better conditioned, he hired his high school track coach, Harold Bruce, as team trainer. Cox even suited up for workouts, and frequently showed up at the clubhouse before and after games.
William Spyros Stavropoulos (born 12 May 1939) is a Greek-American businessman and philanthropist. He is the past CEO and Chairman of The Dow Chemical Company , and the current CEO and Chairman of the Michigan Baseball Foundation .
He was born on August 31, 1915, in Wilmington, Delaware, to the elder Carpenter and Margaretta Lammot Du Pont. Aside from baseball and boxing Carpenter was wealthy from investments and family relations with the DuPont family of the DuPont Conglomerate. Bob Carpenter attended Duke University, where he starred in football. He married Mary Kaye ...
A complete list of inductees to the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame is as follows: [6] 1976: Jimmy Caras, William "Judy" Johnson, Marion Jessup MacLure, Ed Michaels, Creighton "Cotton" Miller, Edward "Porky" Oliver, Victor "Vic" Zwolak [7]
In 1997, the du Pont name was removed from the facility, with the family's tacit permission, after John was convicted of the murder of Olympic wrestling gold medalist Dave Schultz. From 1997 to 2017, it was simply The Pavilion before its current name was adopted as 1963 graduate William B. Finneran made a $22.6 million donation to the school in ...
His grandmother was Margaretta Lammot du Pont, the sister of company president Pierre S. du Pont. Carpenter attended Tower Hill School, [4] where he was a first-team All-State end. [5] He went on to study at Yale University, lettering in football and baseball there. [3]