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DeWolf Hopper gave the poem's first stage recitation on August 14, 1888, at New York's Wallack Theatre as part of the comic opera Prinz Methusalem in the presence of the Chicago White Stockings and New York Giants baseball teams; August 14, 1888 was also Thayer's 25th birthday. Hopper became known as an orator of the poem, and recited it more ...
The Red Sox won the next three games to become the first and only MLB team to win a seven-game postseason series after losing the first three games. [ 46 ] The Red Sox then faced the St. Louis Cardinals , the team to whom they had lost in 1946 and 1967 , and led throughout the series, winning in a four-game sweep. [ 47 ]
— Major League Baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti, on the baseball season; Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.
Kentucky baseball's season ended Wednesday at the hands of Florida, losing 15-4 in the College World Series matchup in Omaha, Nebraska.
The 1899 Cleveland Spiders own the worst single-season record of all time (minimum 120 games) and for all eras, finishing at 20–134 (.130 percentage) in the final year of the National League's 12-team era in the 1890s; for comparison, this projects to 21–141 under the current 162-game schedule, and Pythagorean expectation based on the Spiders' results and the current 162-game schedule ...
'It’s not his fault Phil Castellini is a jackass': Fans of Reds, Pirates, Orioles and A’s sound off about their teams’ losing ways Hannah Keyser April 26, 2023 at 8:20 PM
"The Losing Edge" is the fifth episode in the ninth season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 130th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on April 6, 2005.
The 1989 film Back to the Future Part II depicts the Cubs defeating the Miami Gators, a fictional baseball team, in the 2015 World Series, which ended the longest drought in all four of the North American professional sports leagues. [29] In reality, however, the Cubs were eliminated from the playoffs by the Mets on October 21, 2015. [30]