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- 701: Terry Fox
- ... would still be here even though I would be set free of mine, somewhere the hurting must stop
and I was determined to take myself to the limit for these causes." Terry got back into sports and joins a wheelchair basketball team. He took on his new challenge as he usually had. Terry made himself strong by pushing his wheel chair. He would push himself along the sea wall of Stanley ...
- 702: Shoeless Joe Jackson
- ... The Black Sox Scandal of 1919 started out as a few gamblers trying to get rich, and turned into one of the biggest, and easily the darkest, event in baseball history" (Everstine 4). This great sports scandal involved many, but the most memorable and most known for it was Joe Jackson. The aftermath of the great World Series Scandal left many people questioning the character of Joe Jackson and whether or ...
- 703: Rocky Marciano
- ... him." On Aug. 31, 1969, at age 46, Rocky was killed in a tragic plane crash. He is fondly remembered by all Brocktonians...His memory will always be the centerpiece of this city's great sports history.
- 704: Roberto Baggio
- ... his great play the next season, 1993-94, when he got his one hundredth serie A goal vs Genoa in October. Roberto was awarded the Golden Ball trophy as Europe's best player, and the sports writers voted Roberto Best Player in the World. His wife Andreina gave birth to their second child Mattia, in June 1994. Then it was off to USA '94, and Roberto lead the team that was ...
- 705: Ray Kroc
- ... town in Nebraska, fast-food restaurants have become a trademark of how Americans live today. Hurrying to make time for an afternoon appointment, a woman decides to make a short stop for lunch. Pulling her sports utility vehicle up to the window, she quickly grabs a delicious meal for a small price. But where did the idea come from? In the small town of San Bernadino, California, during the fifties, a ...
- 706: Pete Rose
- ... of letting him back into the sport. However, if Rose continues to deny all of the accusations, then Bud Selig should not even give him a chance. Kevin Cook and Mark Mravic are writers for Sports Illustrated, which is probably the biggest sport magazine in the country. They both think that Pete Rose is getting hustled by baseball. They start out by saying that right from the start baseball was against ...
- 707: Oliver Cromwell
- ... in his religious upbringing. Both his schoolmaster in Huntingdon and the Master of Sidney Sussex College were enthusiastic Calvinists and strongly anti-Catholic. In his youth Cromwell was not very studious, since he enjoyed outdoor sports, such as hunting; but he was an avid reader of the Bible, and he admired Sir Walter Raleigh's The History of the World. Cromwell learned that the sins of man could be punished on ...
- 708: Mickey Mantle
- ... Mickey's friends (Falkner 22).The people who taught him how to play the game were his father and grandfather. He practiced with them for at least 2 hours a day (Falkner 23). Mickey played sports and games whenever he could. He just could not stay away from the game of baseball. The one sport that Mickey did not want anything to do with was swimming. The reason why was because ...
- 709: Michael Jordan
- ... has been known to be the edge a lot of people have needed to make it over. Michael Jordans family helped him to fight and become one of the most influential, successful, and professional sports figures ever. Body Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born on February 17, 1963, in Brooklyn, NY, to a proud Deloris and James Jordan. (Nba.com; BioLife.com) Now this very first point may seem like no ...
- 710: John Rocker
- ... Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?" These were the words spoken from Atlanta Braves Pitcher John Rocker in a December issue of Sports Illustrated. Those powerful lines are what people are chatting over. "Should we forgive him, or should we throw him in jail"? Those are only a couple opinions that are swirling around on what Major League ...
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