Despite this turnover in the ownership, a powerhouse team composed of Feller, Doby, Minnie Miñoso, Luke Easter, Bobby Avila, Al Rosen, Early Wynn, Bob Lemon, and Mike Garcia continued to contend through the early 1950s.

* The Lemon Drop Kid ( 1934, Lee Tracy ) — remade in 1951 with Bob Hope ( and I Love Lucy co-star William Frawley as a racetrack tout ), it introduced the Christmas song " Silver Bells ".

In 1936, Robinson won the junior boys singles championship in the annual Pacific Coast Negro Tennis Tournament and earned a place on the Pomona annual baseball tournament all-star team, which included future Hall of Famers Ted Williams and Bob Lemon.

In 1971, the Royals had their first winning season, with manager Bob Lemon leading them to a second-place finish.

Some of Bob Hope's films originally released by Paramount ( including The Seven Little Foys and The Lemon Drop Kid ) were owned by Hope himself ; the copyrights were later transferred to Columbia Pictures Television.

Johnson died in and Lemon sold the team a year later to hotel and trucking executive Bob Short, who outbid a group headed by Bob Hope.

On the subject of pitchers, in Ted's autobiography written with John Underwood, Ted opines regarding Bob Lemon ( a sinker-ball specialist ) pitching for Cleveland Indians around 1951: " I have to rate Lemon as one of the very best pitchers I ever faced.

Martin resigned the next day ( some sources have said he was actually fired ), and was replaced by Bob Lemon, a Hall of Fame pitcher for the Cleveland Indians who had been recently fired as manager of the White Sox.

Jackson was medically cleared to play Game 3, but manager Bob Lemon refused to start him or even play him, allegedly acting under orders from Steinbrenner.

Notable Pelicans included Shoeless Joe Jackson, Jimmy Dygert, Henry " Cotton " Knaupp, Bill Lindsay ( baseball ), Zeke Bonura, Gene Freese, and Hall of Famers Dazzy Vance, Joe Sewell, Bob Lemon, and Earl Weaver.

*** The Cleveland Indians, for Hall of Famer Bob Lemon.

Notable roots musicians have included Jelly Roll Morton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson, Bob Dylan, Bessie Smith, Burl Ives, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Son House, Leadbelly, Hazel Dickens, Jimmie Rodgers ( The Singing Brakeman ), Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Roy Acuff, Hank Williams, Merle Travis, Townes Van Zandt, Johnny Cash, Maggie Simpson, Mahalia Jackson, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, B. B.

After firing the White Sox's manager and former Doby teammate Bob Lemon, Veeck replaced him with Doby on June 30,.

In, Bob Lemon managed the American League team after having been fired by New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.

Bob Lemon was named Yankees manager.

Soon afterward, at the annual Old-Timers ' Game at Yankee Stadium, in a grandstanding gesture and an overwhelming demand by the fans, the Yankees had public address announcer Bob Sheppard introduce an unemployed Martin as the Yankees ' next manager for the season ( with Lemon moving to the front office ).

On the TV show Bizarre, the turbulent Yankee manager situation was parodied by having press conferences every 10 minutes hiring or firing a fictitious Yankees manager named " Martin Billy Lemon " ( combining the names of Yankee managers Bob Lemon and Billy Martin ).

# Bob Lemon: 15 ( Cleveland Indians, 1953 )

T-Bone Walker, Lead Belly, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, and even Robert Johnson himself first recorded in this area, just as Bob Wills and the Light Crust Doughboys were leaving the studio.

He is one of only two pitchers since World War II with a career batting average of. 200 or higher, and with at least 20 home runs and 100 RBIs ( Bob Lemon, who had broken into the majors as a third baseman, is the other at. 232 ).

: 4 Bob Lemon ( 1948, 1950, 1952 – 1953 )

: 5 Bob Lemon ( 1948, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956 )

In 2003 he performed in Bob Balaban-directed Off-Broadway dramatic stage play The Exonerated in New York during its 18 – 23 March, week run.

Robert Anton Wilson ( born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007 ), known to friends as " Bob ", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic.

* March 18 – Bob Broeg, American sports writer ( d. 2005 )

* September 18 – Bob Hayes, American athlete ( b. 1942 )

In 1999, Simon embarked on a North American tour with Bob Dylan where each alternated as headline act with a " middle " section where they performed together, starting on the first of June and ending September 18.

Marbles was released in 2004 with a 2-CD version that is only available at Marillion's website – kind of a ' thank-you ' gesture to the over 18, 000 fans who pre-ordered it, and as even a further thanks to the fans, their names were credited in the sleeve notes ( this ' thank you ' to the fans also occurred with the previous album, Anoraknophobia ). Marillion in 2007, left to right: Steve Rothery, Steve Hogarth, Pete Trewavas ( front row ), Mark Kelly, Ian Mosley ( back row ) The band ’ s management organised the biggest promotional schedule since they had left EMI and Steve Hogarth secured interviews with prominent broadcasters on BBC Radio, including Matthew Wright, Bob Harris, Stuart Maconie, Simon Mayo and Mark Lawson.

* November 12, 1966: Mesa, Arizona Bob Smith, 18, took seven people hostage at Rose-Mar College of Beauty, a school for training beauticians.

Tamalpais Festival ( June 10 / 11 ) shortly before the scheduled Monterey Festival ( June 16 / 18 ), the band began to play " Electricity " and Van Vliet froze, straightened his tie, then walked off the ten – foot stage and landed on manager Bob Krasnow.

Robert Lee " Bullet Bob " Hayes ( December 20, 1942 – September 18, 2002 ) was an Olympic sprinter turned American football wide receiver in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys.

In the spring of 1999, Don King and Oscar De la Hoya's promoter, Bob Arum, agreed to co-promote a mega-fight for the Lineal, World Boxing Council and International Boxing Federation welterweight championships on September 18, 1999 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas.

Bob Arum at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, April 18, 2010

Anderson hosts Anderson Creek Golf Club an 18 hole course designed by James Bullard & Bob Ingrum and built in 1992.

Robert " Bob " Gaston Moch ( 20 June 1914 – 18 January 2005 ), born and raised in Montesano, was the coxswain of the University of Washington varsity eight-man shell won the gold medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin by defeating the favored teams from Germany and Italy in front of Adolf Hitler.

Late in 2006, Adams experimented with hip hop music, adding to his web site 18 albums worth of new recordings under various pseudonyms, featuring humorous and nonsensical lyrics, as well as covers of two Bob Dylan songs (" Isis " and " You're a Big Girl Now ").

I never really had friends who sat around and listened to the stereo and said ' hey, listen to this one ', so I'd never even heard of who Bob Dylan was until I was 18.

# " Dark Star " ( Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Robert Hunter, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Ron " Pigpen " McKernan, and Bob Weir ) – 23: 18

On June 18, 2007, Variety reported that Ziering had auditioned the previous week for the opportunity to succeed Bob Barker as host of The Price Is Right.

* 18 Bob Hayes, 59, National Football League Dallas Cowboys star, and Olympic games Hall of Fame member.

The three frequently play together both publicly and privately, for example in an annual benefit concert grouping known as Philharmonia, dating to 1997, most recently on December 18, 2011 at a Christmas gig including Bob Weir and Jackie Greene at the Tenderloin Middle School cafeteria attended by 250 people.

Robert Marion " Fighting Bob " La Follette, Sr. ( June 14, 1855June 18, 1925 ) was an American Republican ( and later a Progressive ) politician.

Bob Cowley Riley ( September 18, 1924 – February 16, 1994 ) was an American educator and politician who served as Acting Governor of Arkansas for 11 days in 1975.

On October 18, 2007, Vincent appeared with sportscaster Bob Costas at Williams College for " A Conversation About Sports ", moderated by Will Dudley, Associate Professor of Philosophy.

** Bob Florence for Serendipity 18

On July 18 in a game against the Cleveland Indians, Killebrew and Bob Allison became the first teammates since 1890 to hit grand slams in the same inning as the Twins scored 11 runs in the first.

On 18 July 2006, a statue of 1973 FA Cup Final winning manager Bob Stokoe was unveiled.