Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cheering Ebbets Field fans was "the Peepul's Cherce"; of cancer; in Birmingham. After stumbling around the majors for eight years, Walker caught fire with the Dodgers in 1939, helping "da bums" to win pennants in 1941 and 1947. He hit .357 to take the National League batting crown, in 1944, led the league with 124 RBl's a year later and had a lifetime .306 average over 18 seasons. His Dodger playing years ended on a bitter note in 1947, however, after he expressed his reluctance to play with his new teammate, Jackie Robinson, the first black...
...fictional hero. Stallone, however, imposed one charnels stipulation: if accepted, he insisted, the statue would have to stand near the entrance of the Philadelphia Art Museum, whose steps Stallone triumphantly climbs in Rocky. Unfortunately though, the city declined the offer, thus denying Philadelphia pigeons the opportunity to justly crown Rocky the Third...
...horses won $19 million and 2,115 victories during his 32-year career; of head injuries in a riding accident at Keeneland; in Lexington, Ky. His most famous Thoroughbred was Bee Bee Bee, who took the 1972 Preakness and broke up Riva Ridge's bid for the Triple Crown...
...with considerable surprise that I read G. Robert Strauss unfortunetly article in The Harvard Crimson explaining how I "exploited Harvard's technical mistake" and so cost Harvard's wrestling team the Ivy crown...
...year history of the heavyweight Eastern Sprint Championships, the crown jewel of Eastern crew. Harvard has won 16 titles. Yale, second on the list, has won just six times. Harvard's lightweights, in 39 years of competition, have 20 wins...