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.

Silver Creek's best-known resident is Howard " Bob " Ehmke, the pitching hero of the 1929 World Series.

St. Louis won the deciding contest 7-2 behind their best pitcher Bob Gibson ; Gibson defeated Boston ace Jim Lonborg, who was pitching on short rest and was ineffective.

Leading Major League Baseball with 24 wins, 268 strikeouts, and a 1. 53 ERA ( the second lowest in the Live Ball Era, trailing only Bob Gibson's 1. 12 in ) Gooden earned the major leagues ' pitching Triple Crown.

( The Forsch brothers would eventually become the first, and the only ones as of 2012, to have that distinction, Bob pitching two, in 1978 and 1983, and Ken in 1979.

* In his first of three major league pitching appearances for the Toronto Blue Jays, Bob Bailor, normally a position player, was moved from shortstop to pitcher in the 7th inning in a game on August 4, 1980, replacing Tom Buskey ( who had been ejected from the game for throwing at a batter ).

In that game, St. Louis pitcher Bob Forsch was pitching a no-hitter in the 8th inning against Philadelphia when a hard ground ball hit into the hole between shortstop and third was narrowly missed by third baseman Ken Reitz.

In the early 1950s, Cleveland had a starting pitching rotation which included Lemon, Bob Feller, Mike Garcia and Early Wynn.

By this time he had become part of a strong pitching staff, forming – with Bob Feller, Bob Lemon and Mike Garcia – one of the greatest pitching rotations in baseball history.

He was one of the Indians ' " Big Four " pitching staff from 1949 to 1954, along with Hall of Famers Bob Lemon, Early Wynn, and Bob Feller.

Fellow pitching mate Bob Feller said, " From the beginning, Mike was a sneaky quick pitcher.

" During the 1951 season, pitching staff teammate Bob Lemon said, " Mike throws the league's best fast ball.

Desperate for young starting pitching to pitch behind staff ace Whitey Ford and promising starter Bob Grim, Weiss managed to find a trade partner with the Orioles.

Along with Bob Emslie and Tim Hurst, he is one of only three umpires who umpired both before 1893, when the pitching distance was only 50 feet, and also after the NL and AL formally recognized one another as major leagues in 1903.

From 1949 into the 1950s, he guided what became known as the Indians ' " Big Four " pitching rotation, featuring Feller, Bob Lemon, Early Wynn and Mike Garcia ; Harder had successfully transformed Lemon from an infielder into a top pitcher while working with him in the mid-1940s, and he taught Wynn the breaking ball and changeup.

The A's got back in the series on the strength of strong pitching by former Dodger World Series hero Bob Welch and three relievers.

A 31-game winner during the regular season, he struggled for the second time in this World Series, as this one-sided pitching matchup with Bob Gibson showed.

Unfortunately, Narleski had a simple problem: he was overshadowed by one of the greatest pitching staffs in major league history, the Indians Big Four Bob Feller, Bob Lemon, Early Wynn and Mike Garcia.

After starting the 1979 season by pitching to a 1 – 5 win-loss record, the Rangers traded Ellis to the New York Mets on June 15, 1979 for minor league pitchers Mike Bruhert and Bob Myrick.

In 1975, filmmaker and clay animation experimenter, Will Vinton, joined with sculptor Bob Gardiner to create an experimental film called " Closed Mondays " which became the world's first stop motion film to win an Oscar.

In one scene, Hill's titular character shoots one of the villains ( Bob Todd ), who then proceeds to pirouette in extremely slow motion before collapsing.

Founded in 1979 by Bob and Harvey Weinstein and headquartered in New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Miramax was a leading independent film motion picture distribution and production company before it was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 1993.

* Billy Bob Thornton, a motion picture actor, writer, and director

Santa Paula also served as one of the locations for the motion picture Mr. Woodcock ( 2007 ) starring Billy Bob Thornton.

Others who have covered the song include Ann-Margret, who would later co-star with Presley in the 1964 motion picture Viva Las Vegas, The Cadets, Roger Miller, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, John Cale, Merle Haggard, Tom Jones, Dax Riggs, Roger McGuinn, Suzi Quatro, Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Diamond, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Guns N ' Roses.

The unpredictable motion of the knuckleball makes it one of the most difficult pitches for a catcher to handle, leading former catcher Bob Uecker, who caught for Phil Niekro, to remark that " The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and pick it up.

Time limitations prevented Harris from making many notable contributions in these portfolios, as the Miller government was soon defeated on a motion of no confidence by David Peterson's Liberals and Bob Rae's New Democratic Party.

In the original series Bob appears as a building contractor specializing in masonry in a stop motion animated programme with his colleague Wendy, various neighbours and friends, and their gang of anthropomorphised work-vehicles and equipment ( all made of clay ).

Topics vary wildly, from motion pictures, to various music and copyright issues and the CIA ; one episode each was devoted to Ken Nordine and to radio comedy team Bob and Ray.

Seven months after the 1979 election which ended 11 years of Trudeau Liberal government, the Tory government of Joe Clark was defeated in motion of no confidence in the government and its budget moved by Bob Rae of the NDP and supported by the Liberals.

He also worked with MP Bob Rae to introduce and help pass unanimously through the House of Commons the Black Ribbon Day motion establishing an annual Canadian Day of Remembrance for the victims of Nazi and Soviet Communist regimes on August 23, called “ Black Ribbon Day ”, to coincide with the anniversary of the signing of the infamous pact between the Nazi and Soviet Communist regimes.

Christgau found the duo's sampling as an improvement from their previous work's " Brownian motion " and complimented Rakim's " ever-increasing words-per-minute ratio — the man loves language like a young Bob D ".

* In the field of entertainment, Manhattan graduates include: Frank Campanella, TV and motion picture actor on Captain Video ; Joseph Campanella, TV, stage, and motion picture actor on Mannix ; Alexandra Chando, TV actress known for role as Maddie on As The World Turns ; Dennis Day, TV and radio personality on The Jack Benny Program ; Barnard Hughes, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor on Hugh Leonard's Da ; Mike Mazurki, professional wrestler and character actor who appeared in over 100 movies ; Hugo Montenegro, TV and movie soundtrack composer known for theme song for I Dream of Jeannie and The Outcasts ; and Glenn Hughes, founding member of The Village People, radio personality Bob Stei ; and Dan Mannarino, local TV News Reporter at WPIX in NYC.

* Bob Gale ( born 1951 ), motion picture screenwriter

The 2007 motion picture Resurrecting the Champ is based on an L. A. Times Magazine article about a reporter named Erik Kernan Jr. who finds a homeless man claiming to be Bob Satterfield and writes an article about him in the Denver Times Magazine.

Numerous motion pictures have either been filmed or set in the region, including the 1981 classic, On Golden Pond ( filmed on Squam Lake in the town of Holderness ) and the 1991 comedy What About Bob ?, which was filmed in Virginia but ( fictitiously ) took place in Wolfeboro.

This clearly solidifies the Walt Disney Company's position as the dominant leader in motion picture animation and we applaud and support Bob Iger's vision.

He was a guest on the Bob Hope Show and Hee Haw, and made minor appearances in several Hollywood motion pictures.

" Saltzman often joked that his first motion picture production was the only Bob Hope film that failed at the box office.

This song is featured in the 2007 major motion picture Surf's Up performed by Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.

The Essential Bob Dylan spans from 1963's " Blowin ' In The Wind " ( taken from The Freewheelin ' Bob Dylan ) to 1999's " Things Have Changed " ( Dylan's Oscar-winning song from the motion picture, Wonder Boys ).