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DuBusGuy19 · @DuBusGuy19
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Today’s #baseballcard of the day is a 1960 #Topps Willie McCovey #allstar card. Spending most of his career with the #SanFranciscoGiants Big #Stretch slugged 521 #homeruns and 1,555 #rbis. He holds the #record for the most #homers hit in Candlestick Park. He provided a potent back-to-back punch with his co-#halloffame member Willie Mays. I saw Mays & McCovey play in the first #baseball game I ever saw in person. Stretch passed away in 1980. #mlb #SportsHistory #sanfrancisco #giants
#baseballcard #topps #allstar #sanfranciscogiants #stretch #homeruns #rbis #record #homers #halloffame #baseball #mlb #sportshistory #sanfrancisco #giants
DuBusGuy19 · @DuBusGuy19
62 followers · 684 posts · Server historians.socialOne more note on Roy Campanella. In 1959, the #nyyankees made a special trip to #losangeles to play an #exhibition game against their old rivals, the #dodgers. The proceeds of the game went to defray Campy’s #medicalexpenses. Over 93,000 #fans turned out, then a record crowd to attend a #mlb game. True to form, the #yankees won the game! #baseball #sportshistory #history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Campanella
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DuBusGuy19 · @DuBusGuy19
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Today, I’m sharing my 1954 #Bowman Roy Campanella. #Campy was already an established #negroleagues #allstar #catcher when the #brooklyn #dodgers signed him in 1948. He continued his stellar play, culminating in the Dodgers’ 1955 #worldchampionship. Sadly, his career was cut short in 1958 when his car flipped on an icy road, breaking his neck and leaving him paralyzed. The #baseballcard is badly miscut, diminishing its value. #baseball #history #SportsHistory
#bowman #campy #negroleagues #allstar #catcher #brooklyn #dodgers #worldchampionship #baseballcard #baseball #history #sportshistory
Paul Kwietniak · @DuBusGuy19
60 followers · 659 posts · Server historians.social#onthisday in 2020 #NYMets great Tom Seaver died at the age of 75. A 300 game winner, 12X #allstar and 3X #cyyoung award winner, he led the 1969 #Mets to a #worldchampionship that stunned the #baseball world. Cheap and venal #Mets management led to a trade to #Cincinnati where he continued his stellar career. He died of #lewybodydementia and #covid. #nyc #newyorkcity #queens #history #otd #SportsHistory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Seaver
#onthisday #nymets #allstar #cyyoung #mets #worldchampionship #baseball #cincinnati #lewybodydementia #covid #nyc #newyorkcity #queens #history #otd #sportshistory
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75 followers · 255 posts · Server nutmeg.socialToday in #Connecticut History, August 30: The 92 Million Dollar Kickoff
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Paul Kwietniak · @DuBusGuy19
49 followers · 524 posts · Server historians.social#onthisday in 1916 long-time #nygiants owner Wellington Mara was born in #RochesterNY. The team won 4 #nfl championships and 2 #Superbowl games during his tenure. A feud with his nephew (a co-owner) and not delegating management of #bigblue caused 2 lost decades for the #giants (mid 60s to mid 80s). He died in 2005. #football #SportsHistory #history #otd #NFCEast #nfc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington_Mara
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73 followers · 231 posts · Server nutmeg.socialToday in #Connecticut History, August 6: Dale Earnhardt Smokes the Competition in Stafford. Twice. On the Same Day.
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it's B! Cavello 🐝 · @b_cavello
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Wow! I learned so much #WomensFootball history from this. Interesting and inspiring, but also bittersweet…
https://przekroj.pl/en/society/when-women-had-the-field-piotr-zelazny
tag zone: #SportsHistory #WomensSufferage #Football #Soccer #WWI
#womensfootball #sportshistory #womenssufferage #football #soccer #wwi
Karin Wulf · @kawulf
2307 followers · 2725 posts · Server historians.social“The blazers who run the major championships have not yet commissioned sculptures of these two women, who so unbound their sport and gave the gift of professional aspiration to so many. Yet who exemplify, perhaps more than any champions in the annals of their sport, the deep internal mutual grace called sportsmanship.” Always always read Sally Jenkins. #sportshistory #tennis #history histodons https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/interactive/2023/chris-evert-martina-navratilova-cancer/
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67 followers · 173 posts · Server nutmeg.socialToday in #Connecticut History, June 11: UCONN’s 1st Black Basketball Player
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Anthony · @Anthony
184 followers · 214 posts · Server mast.mastodonsports.socialThis is some amazing soccer/football history! Two teams trying to scale an own goal because it was the best tournament strategy. Well worth a read and even a boost perhaps. #football #soccer #sports #sportshistory #sport
https://generalist.academy/2022/06/07/own-goal-football/
#football #soccer #sports #sportshistory #sport
Joseph M. Adelman · @jmadelman
1536 followers · 895 posts · Server historians.socialA piece of American culture that speaks to quite a moment at the intersection of sports, capitalism, and international relations: Michael Jordan’s 1992 Olympic jacket—still modified to hide the logo of Reebok, competitor to his sponsor, Nike—is up for auction at Sotheby’s. #SportsHistory #Basketball #Olympics #EverythingHasAHistory https://www.sothebys.com/en/digital-catalogues/the-dream-team-part-i
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62 followers · 138 posts · Server nutmeg.socialToday in #Connecticut History, May 6: The Whalers Leave Connecticut.
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61 followers · 132 posts · Server nutmeg.socialToday in #Connecticut History, April 30: Trick Play: The Patriots Passed Before the First Kickoff
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60 followers · 120 posts · Server nutmeg.socialToday in #Connecticut History, April 18: The Punch That Killed
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Kelly Therese · @FeministKelly
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Celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth by listening to stories of women who made history, like Babe Didrikson Zaharias, one of the greatest athletes of all time.
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CT History News · @CTHistoryNewsBot
54 followers · 91 posts · Server nutmeg.socialToday in #Connecticut History, March 20: The First U.S. Figure Skating Championship
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Mike Madaio · @lifeattable
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Another example from 15 February 1960, Spokane Daily Chronicle
The NCAA did not achieve full rights to the term until May 2011, when it reached a settlement with the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). So, by that logic, the first winner of NCAA March Madness was Kentucky (Anthony Davis era).
#histodons #hoopshistory #sportshistory #history
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