The big, 22-year-old shortstop, the 1960 American league `` rookie-of-the-year '', flew here late this afternoon from Baltimore, signed his contract for an estimated $15,000 and was a spectator at tonight's 5-to-3 loss to Kansas City -- the winless Birds' sixth setback in a row.

The city has traditionally been a pole of attraction, and was a major center for refugees from various ethnic backgrounds who immigrated to Anatolia from the Balkans during the loss of the Ottoman territories in Europe between the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Nevertheless, since the late 1980s and the beginning of economic transition, Croatian economy experienced difficulties due to deindustrialization, war destruction and the loss of Yugoslav and Comecon markets.

Several French colonial towns of the Illinois Country, such as Kaskaskia, Cahokia and St. Philippe, Illinois were flooded and abandoned in the late 19th century, with a loss to the cultural record of their archeology.

There was much devastation and population loss throughout the GDL in the mid and late 17th century, including the ethnic Lithuanian population in Vilnius voivodeship.

In addition to this, by late 1996, there was a great loss of confidence in the country's financial institutions.

It is possible that he was dismissed from his command by the emperor Valentinian I after the loss of two of Theodosius ' legions to the Sarmatians in late 374.

From 1935 to 1940, the Dow Jones average was down from around the 286 level during the late 1920s, to a stable level of 148, a loss of about 48 %.

The Egyptologist Herman te Velde argues that the tradition about the lost testicles is a late variation on Set's loss of semen to Horus, and that the moon-like disk that emerges from Set's head after his impregnation is the Eye of Horus.

In de Bary ’ s time, potato late blight had caused sweeping crop devastation and economic loss.

This diversity was achieved through influxes of puffins from the Pacific ; the later loss of species was due to major oceanographic changes in the late Pliocene due to closure of the Panamanian Seaway and the onset of severe glacial cycles in the North Atlantic.

Sometime in the late 1980s, a mutation occurred in Uganda that made the virus even more harmful, causing the complete loss of leaves.

This tradition has come under criticism of late, with secular businesses claiming a loss in earnings by way of a religious festival.

Other associates such as his longtime drummer and musical director John French and bassist Richard Snyder have stated that they had noticed symptoms consistent with the onset of multiple sclerosis, such as sensitivity to heat, loss of balance, and stiffness of gait, by the late 1970s.

Both of these were common, but have suffered from loss of habitat, from competition for nest sites with introduced House Sparrows ( Passer domesticus ), and nest-predation by European Starlings ( Sturnus vulgaris ) and Great Kiskadees ( Pitangus sulphuratus )-this last species was deliberately introduced as late as 1957, with the intent that it would control the previously introduced anoles.

However, this period also saw the team make numerous questionable personnel decisions, such as the loss of free agent Allan Houston to the New York Knicks, the signing of free agent wash-outs Christian Laettner, Loy Vaught, Cedric Ceballos, and the late Bison Dele ; and head coaching changes from Ron Rothstein to Don Chaney to Doug Collins to Alvin Gentry to George Irvine in an eight-year span.

The city suffered the loss of many jobs as manufacturing plants in the region closed during the late 1970s and 1980s.

Duval falls in love with Maya Toitovna and guides her through particularly challenging psychological episodes throughout most of the series, dying late in Blue Mars when Maya displays signs of very heavy temporary memory loss.

Its eventual downfall is believed to be due to the loss of its economic significance in late antiquity, following the rise of coastal Alexandria.

* Super Bowl XXVII: Leon Lett's loss of the ball on the way to an apparent touchdown late in the game has gone down in football history as one of the most preventable fumbles.

Dr Hix did have another member of staff, the late Professor Flead, but insorcized him into the Pink Pussycat Club at the end of Making Money ( the Professor haunts the club, and the club does not mind the loss of one chair out of the club's seating capacity ).

In the late 1950s, Mount Holly began experiencing economic difficulties stemming from the loss of its industrial base.

The village was greatly changed by the construction of the New York State Thruway in the late 1950s, which resulted in both the loss of the Ardsley station on the Putnam Division of the New York Central Railroad and the loss of much of the downtown business district.

After Emanuel Lasker's simplifying defense to the opening in a tournament in 1895, it was out of favour for much of the 20th century, although John Nunn and Jan Timman played some games with it in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and in the 1990s Garry Kasparov used it in a few of his games ( notably a famous 25-move win against Viswanathan Anand in Riga, 1995 ), which prompted a brief revival of interest in it.

In a Bangkok poll in late July, 1991, 61 percent of respondents felt that the Anand government was more honest than previous administrations.

In late 2006, Anand Tucker used certain parts of Cromford, including its historic bookshop, for his film And When Did You Last See Your Father ?, based on the autobiographical memoir by poet Blake Morrison.

Though she was pitted opposite her seniors like Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand, Kishore Kumar, Pradeep Kumar and when she acted opposite the emerging stars from late 1950s like Shammi Kapoor, Rajendra Kumar and Raaj Kumar, she made sure her role was as good as theirs.

Awwal Number, a Bollywood movie starring Aamir Khan and directed by Dev Anand, was shot at the ground in the late 1980s.

In late 1981 Osho, through his secretary Ma Anand Sheela ( Sheela Silverman ), announced the inception of the " religion of Rajneeshism ", the basis of which would be fragments taken from various discourses and interviews Osho that had given over the years.

Push personalities who emigrated to the United Kingdom included Clive James, Paddy McGuinness, Chester ( Phillip Graham ) and Ian Parker ( pictured above ) who returned to Sydney in the late 1970s and was knocked down and killed while drunk, in Dixon Street.

After that, he won four more by knockout, and, after a decision win over Red Applegate ( 11 – 14 – 2 ) late April 1951, he was showcased on national television for the first time, when he knocked out Rex Layne ( 34 – 1 – 2 ) in six rounds on July 12, 1951.

Hearns knocked out Juan Roldan in four rounds in late 1987 to win the vacant WBC Middleweight Championship, becoming the first boxer to win titles in four weight divisions.

Zhao Yun attempted to stop her but was too late, so he knocked down a nearby wall to conceal the well and prevent enemy soldiers from finding her body.

However in the interim between the formation of the new party and the selection of its new leader, investigations into the Canadian Sponsorship scandal and the investigation by the Gomery Commission had knocked some wind out of the Liberal Party's political sails, resulting in the election being backed up to late June as opposed to early April.

In between the Tests and the ODIs, Australia were knocked out of the 1999 Wills International Cup, starting in late October, when they were defeated by India in their opening match.

They had first experience smoking opium in Africa, and when their friend Constance knocked on their door late one evening, they jumped at her invitation to join her at Drosso's apartment.

Driving a very low Porsche 550 Spyder, Herrmann decided it was too late for a brake attempt anyway, knocked on the back of the helmet of his navigator Herbert Linge to make him duck, and they barely passed below the gates and before the train, to the surprise of the spectators.

Paul Bodin of Swindon Town stepped up but hit the woodwork and Romania went on to win 2 – 1, Răducioiu's late goal proving unnecessary as Czechoslovakia dropped a point in Belgium and were knocked out.

Parseghian defended his strategy by maintaining that several key starters had been knocked out of action early in the game and that he did not want to spoil a courageous comeback from a 10 – 0 deficit by risking a turnover deep in his own territory late in the game that could hand the game to the Spartans.

Gannon was hurt early in the game on an ill-timed snap, and Ravens tackle Tony Siragusa was later fined $ 10, 000 for a late hit on the play that caused the shoulder injury that knocked Gannon out of the game.

Despite Drogheda's late rally, they were knocked out by Dynamo Kiev.

Driving a very low Porsche 550 Spyder, Herrmann decided it was too late for a brake attempt anyway, knocked on the back of the helmet of his navigator Herbert Linge to make him duck, and they barely passed below the gates and before the train, to the surprise of the spectators.

In late October 2004, a fire damaged a transmission line at the transmitter that knocked CJMX off the air for 25 hours.

He was knocked out of the game late in the third quarter with a gruesome finger injury on his throwing hand.

Gomi knocked down Aurelio with a body shot late in the last round, and the bout ended with Gomi connecting with a hard kick to Aurelio's body just before the final bell.

He underwent left shoulder surgery late in the 2010 season and was knocked out for the entire 2011 season.

Alternatively, the Harrowing of Hell was a frequent subject in late medieval liturgical drama, and Hell could be depicted as a great gate knocked asunder by Jesus Christ, with accompanying pyrotechnics.

Palace began the 2011-12 season well under their new manager, occupying the playoff places at the end of October and also enjoying a good run in the Football League Cup, where they knocked out Manchester United 2-1 at Old Trafford with a Darren Ambrose bullet from 40 yards and a late injury time winner by Glen Murray.

She is also chronically unlucky, having grown two sets of wisdom teeth, found herself knocked out while behind stage at an Aerosmith concert, and is always late for work.

On November 26, 1986, late in a game between the Leafs and the Red Wings in Detroit, Salming was knocked down in front of the Leafs net and Gerard Gallant of the Red Wings accidentally cut Salming's face with his skate blade.

Knight took the throw from Mets catcher Gary Carter late, brought his glove to Davis ' face and knocked his helmet off.

In late 2009, Peterson's attorneys raised a new theory of Kathleen Peterson's death, that she had been attacked by an owl outside and had fallen after rushing inside and had been knocked unconscious after hitting her head on the first tread of the stairs.

On the 8th, late in the evening, tired, hungry and exhausted, Hazrat Muslim ( a. s .) knocked at the door of a house on the outskirts of the city.