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Banks was born in Dallas, Texas, to Eddie and Essie Banks on January 31, 1931; [1] he was the second of twelve children. [2] His father, who had worked in construction and was a warehouse loader for a grocery chain, played baseball for black, semi-professional teams in Texas. [1]
CHICAGO - According to a statement by the family attorney for Ernie Banks, the agent for the Cubs legend had Banks sign a new will giving all his assets to her three months before his death. The ...
The news that baseball star Willie Mays, the "Say Hey Kid," died Tuesday at 93 after a short illness, brought to mind the time Mays, Junior Gilliam, Gene Baker, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Hank ...
A Halo For A Helmet: The Whole Story Of Ernie Davis by K. Coralee Burch; The Express: The Ernie Davis Story by Robert C. Gallagher, 2008 (ISBN 978-0-345-51086-0) Top 10 Heisman Trophy Winners by Jeff Savage, Enslow Publishers, Inc.,1999 (ISBN 0-7660-1072-4) Ernie Davis: A Historical Perspective by Bob Hill, 1997; Always Ernie by Laura Milazzo, 2003
Ozzie Smith has won 13 Gold Glove Awards at shortstop, tying him for the third-highest total among winners at all positions. The Rawlings Gold Glove Award, usually referred to as the Gold Glove, is the award given annually to the Major League Baseball players judged to have exhibited superior individual fielding performances at each fielding position in both the National League (NL) and the ...
“It’s such a tangible piece of history, especially at a time when racial segregation was very prevalent.”
He did this with Henry Aaron 75 times and with Joe Adcock 56 times. [10] Willie Mays is the other, with Willie McCovey (68) and Orlando Cepeda (50), to do it. Between 1954 and 1966, he and Braves teammate Hank Aaron hit 863 home runs (Aaron 442, Mathews 421), moving ahead of the Yankees duo of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig as the all-time leaders in ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...