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On June 25, 1962, the Tigers traded Maxwell to the Chicago White Sox. Maxwell had a late season revival with the White Sox in 1962. By the third week of August, Maxwell was batting .352 for Chicago, and had a 13-game hitting streak, the team's longest that year. Maxwell wound up hitting .296 for the White Sox in 1962 with nine home runs.
August 7 is the 219th day of the year ... 1962 – Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey is awarded the U.S ... American banjo player ...
Born: Patrick Ewing, Jamaican-born American basketball player, 1985 NCAA player of the year and 11-time NBA All-Star; in Kingston [22] August 6 , 1962 (Monday) [ edit ]
August 7 – Bill Pierce, 72, first baseman and catcher in Black baseball and the Negro leagues during the period of 1910 to 1924; player-manager of 1922 Baltimore Black Sox. August 11 – Jake Volz , 84, pitcher for the Boston Americans, Boston Beaneaters and Cincinnati Reds between 1901 and 1908.
August 5 – Patrick Ewing, Jamaican-born basketball player; August 6 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-born Hong Kong actress; August 7 – Bruno Pelletier, Canadian singer; August 8 – Yūji Machi, Japanese voice actor; August 10 – Suzanne Collins, American television writer and author ((The Hunger Games)) August 11 – Rob Minkoff, American ...
José Moreno Hernández (born August 7, 1962) is a Mexican-American engineer [3] and astronaut. He currently serves as a Regent of the University of California. Hernández was on the Space Shuttle mission STS-128 in August 2009. He also served as chief of the Materials and Processes branch of Johnson Space Center.
We've got 16 famous people and celebrities born on July 4. Tom Cruise may have starred in the Oscar-winning 1989 film Born on the Fourth of July , but he missed it being his actual birthday (July ...
Jewish players have played in Major League Baseball since the league came into existence, with Lip Pike being the first. With the surge of Jewish immigrants from Europe to the United States at the turn of the 20th century, baseball, then the most popular sport in the country and referred to as the "National Pastime", became a way for children of Jewish immigrants to assimilate into American ...