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1920's Timeline | HSTRY  Prohibition becomes the law January 1, 1920 Prohibition movements started .... The Winter Olympics was held in the same year as the Summer Olympics which was a tradition until 1992. .... Charles Lindbergh makes solo flight across the Atlantic ... Ruth hit his 60th home run of the 1927 season and set a record for 34 years.
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Pay Articles from May 1929 Part 4 - Site Map - The New York Times  ZEPPELIN TO STAY AT CUERS FOR TEN DAYS FOR REPAIRS; WILL FLY HERE .... 1; Former's New Broad Street Building Will House CombinedBanks' . .... PARIS UNIVERSITY; Bequest of Former Wife of Wealthy Radiator Man Set at More Than . ..... RECORD SALES IN APRIL BY GENERAL MOTORS; Sloan Announces...
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Summary/Reviews: One summer :  The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth ... 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to cross the Atlantic by plane ... In that year America stepped out onto the world stage as the main event, and One ... Add to that Babe Ruth's efforts to break the home-run record he set, Henry Ford's...
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APUSH Chapter 31 Flashcards | Quizlet  Like this study set? .... "Scarface" Al Capone ... Babe Ruth ... aka baseball legend George Herman and "the Sultan of Swat", set records in hitting, ... Charles Lindbergh ... was one of those who invented the movie, but in 1903, the real birth of the .... coined by Gertude Stein to describe post-World War 1 writers and artists who...
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On This Day - The New York Times  January  1, In 1959, Fidel Castro led Cuban revolutionaries to victory over ... set a transcontinental air record by flying his monoplane from Los Angeles to ... murder in the kidnap-death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. ...... Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
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Hank Aaron - BR Bullpen - Baseball-Reference.com  Jan 26, 2015 ... Aaron held the career home run record before it was broken in 2007 by Barry Bonds. ... On April 15, Aaron got his first major league hit, a single off ... Aaron responded by leading the league with 44 home runs, a career-high 132 RBI, ..... Statues of Aaron now stand outside the front entrance of both Turner...
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Ty Cobb - BR Bullpen - Baseball-Reference.com  Jun 8, 2015 ... He ranks # 1 all-time by both the Gray Ink method and Hall of Fame Monitor, ... with the only player with a score higher than 670 on his Top 10 list being ..... He has the highest career batting average in major league baseball history, for ... He received more votes in the first election to the Hall than Babe Ruth...
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715! Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's home run record - NY Daily ...  Apr 8, 2015 ... Hank Aaron is mobbed by his Atlanta Braves teammates after hitting his 715th home run in a game on April 8, 1974 against the Dodgers at Atlanta Stadium. ... Atlanta, April 8 - It will say in the record books, perhaps for the remainder ... Leading off the second inning, the first time up, Al Downing did not dare.
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3,000 hit club - Wikipedia  Pete Rose is the all-time MLB hits leader with 4,256 hits. In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 3,000 hit club is the group of batters who have collected 3,000 or more regular-season hits in their careers. Cap Anson was the first to join the club on July 18, 1897, although his precise career hit total is unclear. ... the MLB hit leader until September 11, 1985, when Pete Rose collected his...
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New York Yankees - Wikipedia  The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York .... The World Series was not skipped again for another 90 years, when a strike truncated the .... Ruth's home run total of 60 in 1927 set a single-season home run record that would .... Maris still holds the American League record.
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Biggest Gangsters of All Time - Top Ten List - TheTopTens  I can not put in words how bigger Luciano was compared to Capone. ... One does forget he was even the Boss of Al Capone.M ... $500,000,000 a year to the Gambino Family and Capo Di Tutti Capi (boss of all bosses) what more could you ask for! ... the FBI to ignore his crimes in exchange for information on the Italian Mob.
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Jackie Robinson breaks major league color barrier - Apr 15, 1947 ...  The next year he became the Dodgers' highest paid player, earning a salary of $35,000. ... In 1997, on the 50th anniversary of his historic first game in the majors, ... the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto ... Atlantic after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage, killing 1,517 people.
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Money ball: Player compensation from 1869-2007 | St. Louis ...  Mar 31, 2011 ... Regardless, it made him the highest-paid player in the game, at age 40. ... Told he now makes more than President Herbert Hoover, Ruth famously replies: ... Hank Greenberg becomes baseball's first $100,000 player when Pittsburgh ... Feb. 29, 1972. Hank Aaron signs a three-year contract with Atlanta that...
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Murderers' Row - Wikipedia  Gehrig batted .373, with 218 hits, 52 doubles, 18 triples, 47 home runs, a then record 175 RBIs, slugged at .765, and was voted A.L. MVP. Ruth amassed a .356...
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Babe Ruth hits 60th homer of 1927 season - Sep 30, 1927 ...  He set a record between 1916 and 1918 with 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings in ... Ruth switched to the outfield with the Yankees, and hit more home runs than the ... On September 30, in the last game of the season, Ruth came to the plate against lefty Tom Zachary of the Washington Senators in the eighth inning.
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715! Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's home run record - NY Daily ...  Apr 8, 2015 ... Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's home run record ... his 715th home run in a game on April 8, 1974 against the Dodgers at ... Leading off the second inning, the first time up, Al Downing did not ... when he has broken one of the most revered records in the world? .... Both were 40 years old when they did it.
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50 home run club - Wikipedia  In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 50 home run club is the group of batters who have hit 50 or more home runs in a single season. Babe Ruth was the first to achieve this, doing so in 1920. By reaching the milestone, he also became the first player to hit 30 and then 40 home runs in a single-season,...
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List of Major League Baseball stolen base records - Wikipedia  The pre-modern single-season mark for stolen bases is 138 by Hugh Nicol in 1887. In the modern era, Ty Cobb set a single-season mark of 96 stolen bases in...
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715! Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's home run record - NY Daily ...  Apr 8, 2015 ... Hank Aaron is mobbed by his Atlanta Braves teammates after hitting his 715th home run in a game on April 8, 1974 against the Dodgers at...
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The Non-Home Run Hitters - SABR  His claim to fame is that he is the only major league player to go to bat 2000 times ... drivers, sluggers such as Babe Ruth, Ralph Kiner, Hank Aaron and Mike Schmidt. ... First there is Duane Kuiper of the San Francisco Giants, who has hit only one ... number of home runs that a player would hit in a season with 600 at bats.
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Single-Season Leaders & Records for Home Runs | Baseball ...  Mark McGwire/70/1998, 3. ... Babe Ruth+/60/1927, 9. ... Statistic Description: Home Runs Hit/Allowed. Only ... Leaders from the current season are only included for rate stats after July 1st. ...... Note that seasons prior to 1876 are not included in single-season marks, but are included in ... See Front Page for time of last update.