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Knicks Win NBA Championship in 1970 - With Bill Russell retiring after the 1969 season, the NBA Eastern Division was finally open to all contenders, and the New York Knickerbockers took full advantage and finished in first place with 60 wins. They were led by MVP Willis Reed, First team All-Star Guard Walt Frazier, Forwards Dave DeBusschere and Bill Bradley, and guard Dick Barnett. Coach Red... Continue reading
Singer, Film Star and Animal Lover… Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff was born on April 3rd, 1924. She would later come to be known as Doris Day, a singer and actress who won over the American public, and then the world. As a singer, Day released 29 albums, with many of the songs spending time in the Top 40 (a total for 460 weeks on the charts). Day’s singing career has earned her a Grammy Lifetime... Continue reading
WILLIE MAYS – THE SAY HEY KID
The legendary Willie Mays got his first career base hit when he homered off of future Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn. The year was 1951, and Mays, along with another phenom named Mickey Mantle debuted for the Giants and Yankees, respectively. Willie Mays won the 1951 Rookie of the Year Award. Known as the “Say Hey Kid”, he played 22 memorable major league seasons... Continue reading
DID YOU KNOW ? The New York Yankees signed Mickey Mantle to a minor-league contract in 1949, the day he graduated high school. He was paid $400 for the remainder of the season and a $1,100 signing bonus. A Yankee for his entire career, among Mantle's many accomplishments are all-time World Series records for home runs (18), runs scored (42), and runs batted in (40). He once hit a ball left-... Continue reading
October 13, 1960 • Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, PA
Bill Mazeroski slammed a ninth-inning walk off home run high over the left-field wall of
historic Forbes field to lead Pittsburgh to its first World Series championship in thirty five
years. Danny Murtaugh’s astounding Bucs brought down Casey Stengel’s mighty
Yankees, 10-9, in a titanic struggle that gave the National League champions the... Continue reading
Roberto Clemente played his entire 18-season major league career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, amassing exactly 3,000 base hits and a career batting average of .317. Clemente won four National League batting titles, was named as the NL MVP in 1966, and was a top defensive outfielder as well, winning 12 gold glove awards. Along with his reputation as an elite baseball player, Clemente was also... Continue reading
Top Ten Greatest Super Bowls - compiled by sports historian Ken Siegel - Well over 100 million people tune in each year to the Super Bowl, making it America’s biggest annual event. This game is so big that my wife turns off the QVC channel to watch it. While there have been some blowouts over the years, there have also been some very exciting Super Bowls as well. Here is my top ten list of... Continue reading
The Immaculate Reception
There are moments that defy explanation, and Pittsburgh Steelers star Franco Harris was the key player in professional football’s most famous play, ‘The Immaculate Reception.’
Trailing the Oakland Raiders 7-6, facing fourth-and-10 on their own 40-yard line with
22 seconds remaining in the game and no time-outs, it appeared that the Steelers had no chance to win this... Continue reading
The 1972 USA Olympic Men's basketball team lost their very first Olympic Game since Olympic play began in 1936. It was the most controversial moment in Olympic history. In the final game against the Soviet Union and the US trailing, Doug Collins was fouled driving to the basket with three seconds left to play. He sank the first free throw to tie the game and made the second as an inadvertent... Continue reading
Knicks Win NBA Championship in 1970 - With Bill Russell retiring after the 1969 season, the NBA Eastern Division was finally open to all contenders, and the New York Knickerbockers took full advantage and finished in first place with 60 wins. They were led by MVP Willis Reed, First team All-Star Guard Walt Frazier, Forwards Dave DeBusschere and Bill Bradley, and guard Dick Barnett. Coach Red... Continue reading
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