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Utilizing his experience in the shot put, he set many field records in the Stone put. His career-best throw of 63 ft 2 in in the light stone, accomplished at Braemar, Scotland, in 1973, was a world record until 2013. [9] [10] Oldfield also starred in the 1989 film Savage Instinct, later renamed They Call Me Macho Woman! as Mongo, the crazed ...
First African-American Major League Baseball manager to reach (and win) the World Series: Cito Gaston (Toronto Blue Jays) 1992 World Series First African American to sail solo around the world following the Age of Sail route around the southern tips of South America ( Cape Horn ) and Africa ( Cape of Good Hope ), avoiding the Panama and Suez ...
The Giants' season ended, however, at the 1951 World Series; the Yankees swept the last three games to win the best-of-seven series, four games to two. Thomson batted .238 in the series with no home runs. The bat from the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" is in the collection of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York ...
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
The world's best professional golfers have descended upon Augusta, Georgia, to participate in the PGA Tour's first major of the year: The Masters.
Geoffrey Lewis Capes JP (23 August 1949 – 23 October 2024) was a British shot putter, strongman, and Highland Games competitor. He was famous in the UK in the 1980s for his sporting prowess and appearances on television in shows such as Superstars and the World's Strongest Man.
24. XXXI (31, 1996) Packers 35, Patriots 21. Thirty years after winning the first Super Bowl, the Pack returned to win their third as Gulf Coast native Favre passed for two TDs and rushed for ...
In doing so, Eilish, 22, has become the youngest person by far to have won two career Oscars. The sibling duo’s “Barbie” blockbuster ballad “What Was I Made For?” won the Academy Award ...