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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.
Frank McCoy (March 31, 1906 – April 1982) was an American Negro league catcher in the 1930s and 1940s. A native of Williamsburg, Virginia, McCoy made his Negro leagues debut in 1929 with the Newark Browns Cuban Stars (East). He went on to play for the Newark Browns in 1932, the Newark Dodgers in 1934 and 1935, and the Harrisburg Stars in 1943.
Montie Morton Weaver (professionally known as Monte Weaver [1]) (June 15, 1906 – June 14, 1994) was a Major League Baseball player who played as a pitcher from 1931 to 1939. Weaver was born June 15, 1906, in Helton, North Carolina .
Sep. 7—Albuquerque police released photos of an SUV allegedly used in a road-rage shooting that targeted a family leaving the Isotopes baseball game Wednesday night, killing an 11-year-old boy ...
In the 1906 World Series (ultimately won in six games by the Chicago White Sox), Reulbach shone in Game 2 at South Side Park, giving up only one hit, a seventh-inning single to Jiggs Donahue. This rare World Series low-hit game was matched by fellow Cubs pitcher Claude Passeau in 1945 when he threw just the second one-hitter in Series history ...
Ozzie Virgil Sr., the first Dominican-born baseball player in the major leagues, has died, MLB announced Sunday. He was 92. Virgil became the first nonwhite Detroit Tigers player when he joined ...
The shooting took place on June 14, 2017, at Eugene Simpson Stadium Park in Alexandria, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. There were 24 Republican congressmen who had gathered at the park to practice for the next day's Congressional Baseball Game for Charity, an annual, bipartisan event first held in 1909.
The woman was struck in the arm during the road-rage shooting by Kenneth Miles Davis Jr. on May 19, 2021, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said in a statement. The woman's ...