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Baseball players from Montana Name Lifetime Montana connection Comments Ref(s) Jeff Ballard: 1963–present Born and raised in Billings: Major League Baseball pitcher (1987–1994) [10] Ed Bouchee: 1933–2013 Born and raised in Livingston: Major League Baseball first baseman (1955–1962) [11] Scott Brow: 1969–present Born in Butte
Alvarez was the first baseball player to be selected as a flag bearer for the United States. [50] The baseball team went on to win silver, losing to hosts Japan in the gold-medal game. [51] Alvarez became the 135th athlete to compete in both the Winter and Summer Olympics and only the sixth to medal at both the Winter and Summer Olympics.
Repeated studies have shown that contemporary Major League Baseball players have a greater life expectancy than males in the general U.S. population — about five years more, on average, which is attributed to their superior fitness and healthy lifestyles. The longer the active career, the longer the player lives, on average.
At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, a judge in the ice dancing event tape-recorded another judge trying to pre-ordain the results. Dick Pound , a prominent IOC official, said soon afterward that ice dancing should be stripped of its status as an Olympic event unless it could clean up the perception that its judging is corrupt.
In 1992, the first official Olympic baseball tournament was won by the Cuban team. Cuba had boycotted the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, missing the previous exhibition baseball tournaments, but entered in 1992 as the favorite, having won the past 12 world championships and with a 62–1 record in international competitions since 1986. [5]
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Erwin Goldbloom still is reeling over the loss of his wife, Linda Goldbloom, who was killed after a foul ball hit her in the head at Dodger Stadium five years ago. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles ...
Among those killed were 37 players and 9 coaching staff members. 13 October 1972: Old Christians Club: Rugby union: Uruguayan Air Force: Fairchild FH-227: Argentina: 29: 12: Eleven players were killed. Survivors resorted to cannibalism until their rescue on December 23. 13 February 1975: Västra Frölunda IF: Ice hockey: Baron Air: Cessna 402 ...