He wrote, " Robert Henderson, Harold Seymour, and other scholars have since debunked the Doubleday-Cooperstown myth, which nonetheless remains powerful in the American imagination because of the efforts of Major League Baseball and the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

Allied leaders of the Sicilian campaign in North Africa ; ( front row, left to right ) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Andrew Cunningham, ( top row, left to right ) Harold Macmillan, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers ; 1943

The following year, Major watched his first debate in the House of Commons – Harold Macmillan's only budget – and has attributed his political ambitions to that event, and to a chance meeting with former Prime Minister Clement Attlee on the King's Road.

Polls also showed that Major was the most popular prime minister in Britain since Harold Macmillan some 30 years previously.

The media ( particularly The Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell ) used the allegation by Alastair Campbell that he had observed Major tucking his shirt into his underpants to caricature him wearing his pants outside his trousers, as a pale grey echo of both Superman and Supermac, a parody of Harold Macmillan.

* 1884 – Major Harold Geiger, U. S. Army aviation pioneer ( d. 1927 )

** Planes piloted by Major Harold Geiger and Horace Meek Hickam, students at the Air Corps Tactical School, collide in mid-air at Langley Field, Virginia.

* October 7 – Major Harold Geiger, U. S. Army aviation pioneer ( d. 1927 )

* May 17 – The U. S. Army aviation pioneer Major Harold Geiger dies in the crash of his Airco DH. 4 de Havilland plane, at Olmsted Field, Pennsylvania.

Gough wanted the Australian 1st Division to attack immediately but the division's British commander, Major General Harold Walker, refused to send his men in without adequate preparation.

Noted fans have included Sir Alec Guinness ( who never travelled without a Trollope novel ), former British Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Sir John Major, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, English judge Lord Denning, American novelists Sue Grafton and Dominick Dunne and soap opera writer Harding Lemay.

Amongst the hotel's more famous guests are King George V ; Jordan ’ s King Hussein ; U. S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush ( as well as then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama ); British Prime Ministers Winston Churchill, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, and Tony Blair ; the Prince of Wales ; Elizabeth Taylor ; Richard Dreyfus ; Richard Gere ; and Madonna.

On December 21, during the battle around Gleize, the men of Kampfgruppe Peiper captured an American officer, Major Harold D. McCown, who was leading one of the battalions of the 119th Infantry Regiment.

Major steps in skin transplantation occurred during the First World War, notably in the work of Harold Gillies at Aldershot.

He has also worked at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1988 as Assistant director on a number of productions including Major Barbara and directed in ' The Tent ', the second venue and later at the Royal National Theatre, directing Edward Bond's The Sea, Jim Cartwright's The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party, and Othello with Simon Russell Beale as Iago.

General Eisenhower meets in North Africa with ( foreground, left to right ): Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, and ( top row ): Mr. Harold Macmillan, Major General W. Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers.

Meriel married Major Harold Knowling in May 1925 and died on 6 February 1959.

Harold Patrick " Pete " Reiser ( March 17, 1919 – October 25, 1981 ), nicknamed " Pistol Pete ," was an outfielder in Major League Baseball during the 1940s and early 1950s.

Known as Sunset Field before 1941, it was purchased from the county by the War Department and renamed Geiger Field after Major Harold Geiger, an Army aviation pioneer who died in a crash in 1927.

Eisenhower confirmed through Major General Omar N. Bradley and others that Fredendall ′ s subordinates had no confidence in him as their commander ; British General Harold Alexander diplomatically told U. S. commanders, " I'm sure you must have better men than that ".

The Iowa Oaks hosted many future Major League Baseball stars such as sluggers Bill McNulty, Harold Baines, Pat Tabler, and 1971 Cy Young and MVP Award winning left-handed pitcher Vida Blue.

Major General Roy Geiger assumed command and led the Tenth Army until relieved by General Joseph Stilwell on 23 June.

* Hack Schumann ( 1884 – 1946 ), American Major League Baseball pitcher

With the growth associated with the railroad, Taylorsville was incorporated as a town in 1884 and was renamed Stuart in honor of Confederate Major General J. E. B.

Edward Victor Cicotte (; June 19, 1884 – May 5, 1969 ), nicknamed " Knuckles ", was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball best known for his time with the Chicago White Sox.

In 1884, Major William Bulpett, with the backing of winter sports pioneer and Kulm hotel owner Caspar Badrutt, constructed Cresta Run, the first sledding track of its kind in St. Moritz.

Johnson is also the AL leader in wins ( 36 ), but Charles Radbourn's NL total is over 20 wins higher ; his 59 wins in 1884 are a Major League Baseball single-season record.

** Major General Clifford Coffin, VC, CB, DSO & Bar ( attended Haileybury College, Lawrence House, 1884 – 1886 )

French took part in the Sudan expedition to relieve Major General Charles Gordon in 1884 and took part in the Battle of Abu Klea in January 1885, where he impressed Redvers Buller.

In the early years of Major League Baseball before 1900 it was common for an exceptional pitcher to win 30 or more games in one season with Old Hoss Radbourn of the defunct Providence Grays holding the record with an astounding 59 wins in 1884.

Unfortunately, Major Tucker's father-in-law was Illinois Senator John A. Logan, who would become a vice presidential candidate in 1884.

Lassoing on the prairie ( from the book Prairie Experiences in Handling Cattle and Sheep, by Major W. Shepherd, 1884 )

Other known foreign military consultants were the Italian Major Pompeo Grillo, who worked at the Osaka foundry from 1884 to 1888, followed by Major Quaratezi from 1889 to 1890, and the Dutch Captain Schermbeck, who worked on improving coastal defenses from 1883 to 1886.

* Jack Ryan ( pitcher ) ( 1884 – 1949 ), Major League Baseball pitcher

The Union Association was a league in Major League Baseball which lasted for only one season in 1884.

* John Morrissey ( baseball ) ( 1856 – 1884 ), American Major League Baseball player

William George Evans ( February 10, 1884 – January 23, 1956 ), nicknamed " The Boy Umpire ," was an American umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the American League from 1906 to 1927.

Jacob Ellsworth Daubert ( April 7, 1884 – October 9, 1924 ) was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Brooklyn Superbas and Cincinnati Reds.

He was the highest paid player in Major League Baseball from 1884 to 1889.

His. 412 batting average in 1884 was the highest ever recorded to that time in Major League Baseball and 56 points higher than any other player in the major leagues in 1884.

The Duke was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, as the only child of Major George Murray ( 1884 – 1940 ) and Joan, the daughter of William Edward Eastwood, of South Africa.

It was built in 1884 near the hamlet of Cresta in the municipality of Celerina / Schlarigna by Major Bulpett, eventual founder of the St. Moritz Tobogganing Club ( SMTC ), and the people of St. Moritz.

Major Francis Edward Foley CMG ( 24 November 1884, Highbridge, Somerset – 8 May 1958, Stourbridge ) was a British Secret Intelligence Service officer.