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Joseph Anthony Pepitone (October 9, 1940 – March 13, 2023) was an American professional baseball first baseman and outfielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Houston Astros, Chicago Cubs, and Atlanta Braves from 1962 to 1973 and for the Yakult Atoms of Nippon Professional Baseball in 1973.
Roomes was born in Kingston, Jamaica to Vincent and Enid Roomes. He has three brothers. Roomes played cricket as a child, then graduated to baseball after his family relocated to Bushwick, in Brooklyn, New York. He went to Beach Channel High School in Rockaway Park, where he was signed by the Chicago Cubs (on July 14, 1980) as an amateur free ...
The Chicago Cubs baseball club is an original member of the National League (1876 to date), established in 1874 or 1870. Here is a list of players who appeared in at least one regular season game beginning 1874. (Their 1870–1871 players are in Category:Chicago White Stockings players among many others to about 1890.)
Sean “Diddy” Combs spent the night locked up in a notorious Brooklyn federal jail that has long been plagued by tales of “barbaric” and “reprehensible” conditions for inmates ...
Citing a lack of evidence, a judge dismissed murder charges this week against a 25-year-old man in connection with a shooting outside a Brooklyn Park market more than two years ago that left a ...
MDC Brooklyn occupies land that was originally part of Bush Terminal (now Industry City), a historic intermodal shipping, warehousing, and manufacturing complex. [3] The Federal Bureau of Prisons initially proposed converting two buildings at Industry City into a federal jail in 1988, due to overcrowding at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York. [4]
The jail's agency team is trying to fix several problems, including by upping permanent correctional and medical staff, taking care of more than 700 backlogged maintenance requests and abiding by ...
The 1957 Chicago Cubs season was the 86th season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 82nd in the National League, and the 42nd at Wrigley Field. The Cubs tied with the Pittsburgh Pirates for seventh in the National League with a record of 62–92–2 (.403 winning percentage ).