Before the game, country music singer Tim McGraw, the son of the late Phillies closer Tug McGraw ( who had recorded the last out in the Phillies ' World Series victory in ), took a handful of his dad's ashes and spread them on the pitcher's mound just before handing the ball used in throwing out the ceremonial first pitch in the game to Steve Carlton.

Before the 1997 Arena season, he requested and got a tryout with the Chicago Bears, but an injury to his throwing elbow caused by a spider bite sustained during his honeymoon prevented him from attending.

Before further help could arrive however, the Delft suddenly foundered, Bullen and Heilberg throwing themselves clear as the ship sank.

Before this, the most recent pitcher to start back-to-back-to-back games was Red Faber in the 1917, who started both games of a September 3 doubleheader, throwing just six innings in total, followed by a complete game win the following day.

Before the executioner's sword lands, the Doctor unfurls his scarf and hooks it around the executioner's ankle, throwing him off balance.

`` Before God, Captain, I am innocent ''.

Before the first issue of Whiz Comics came out, the character's name was changed to Captain Marvel.

P-Orridge also credited 1960s rock such as The Doors, Pearls Before Swine, The Fugs, Captain Beefheart, and Frank Zappa in a 1979 interview.

Before leaving Fort Snelling, Custer spoke to General Terry's chief engineer, Captain Ludlow, saying he would " cut loose " from Terry the first chance he got.

Before Captain Scarlet, supporting character puppets had been specially sculpted in clay as and when episodes required them.

Before the handover in early April, Captain Superintendent of Police, Francis Henry May and some policemen erected a flagstaff and temporary headquarters at Tai Po and posted the Governor's proclamation of the takeover date.

Before the Revolutionary war, Rush was engaged to Sarah Eve, daughter of prominent Philadelphian, Captain Oswell Eve, Sr. Their wedding date was set for mid-December 1774.

Before letting the ship continue to Deneb IV, Q warns Captain Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) that he is destined to fail.

Before Tintin and the Captain clear the port, the two detectives Thomson and Thompson join the crew to protect their friends from the possible threat of the rival treasure hunters, the Bird brothers.

Before dying, he had used the scarab in an attempt to contact Captain Marvel, but was forced to leave it with Shazam in the Rock of Eternity when the wizard sent him back to Earth.

Before it could begin, Captain Thomas Hudson, who had commanded HMS Pendennis died.

Before the two could be killed, salvation arrived in the form of Captain America, Iron Man, Daredevil, Yellowjacket and the Fantastic Four, who struck back at the villains.

Before leaving, Captain Lachrymose warns Vernon to leave Darren alone.

* Parts of the fight between the Gorn captain and Captain Kirk were parodied in the Futurama episode " Where No Fan Has Gone Before ," pitting William Shatner against Leela ( Katey Sagal ).

Before his time on Captain Kangaroo, he hosted a local children's TV series called Uncle Lumpy's Cabin, seen weekday mornings on WABC-TV in New York City during the 1951 season.

Before dying, Daniels requests Captain Archer to stop Vosk and his band from building the conduit to take them back into their time, where they will become even more dangerous.

Before he entered the burning building he was shot by the Captain and placed in the truck and taken away.

Before his introduction as Flagg, Winter had also appeared on the series as Captain Halloran.

* Before the Doctor falls from the dish, the enemies that mock him are the Master ( as seen in The Deadly Assassin ), a Dalek ( Destiny of the Daleks ), the Pirate Captain ( The Pirate Planet ), the Cyberleader ( Revenge of the Cybermen ), Davros ( Genesis of the Daleks ), a Sontaran ( The Invasion of Time ), a Zygon ( Terror of the Zygons ) and the Black Guardian ( The Armageddon Factor ).

" Before Mr. Burns shuts off the power to the town in response to the strike, he says, " From Hell's heart I stab at thee " which is a reference to Captain Ahab's curse, from the novel Moby-Dick.

He was a Captain in the Royal Nepali Army ( Gorkhali Army ) and gained fame as the commander of the Gorkhali forces at the Battle of Nalapani, outside of Dheradun ( Before Nepal, present India ) in 1814 during the Anglo-Nepalese War.

*: Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before ( 2002 )

Before teaching, Mr Rees was an avid rugby union player in his native Wales and went on to Captain the Cambridge University team in a successful Varsity match against Oxford University.

Before leaving port, his ship was boarded by a Royal Navy ship under the command of Captain Henry Leeke, and Crowther was taken to Freetown, Sierra Leone and released.

Before leaving for America, he happened to see his old friend Jean Arp and confided to him his new resolutions.

Before leaving Whorf presented the paper " Stem series in Maya " at the Linguistic Society of America conference, in which he argued that in the Mayan languages syllables carry symbolic content.

Before civil rights laws were passed in the United States, Benjamin Mays noted that African Americans were the ‘ untouchables ’ of America.

The spokesperson for Agudath Israel of America, Rabbi Avi Shafran, attacked the film with an article " Dissembling Before G-d ", maintaining that gay people can be cured through therapy, and that the movie is meant to promote homosexuality:

In Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776, Jon Butler of Yale University argues against a Europeanized or predominantly British identity of colonial America, and underlines contributions by Igbo, Ashanti, Yoruba, Catawba, and Lenape.

Before long, the Americo-Liberian ruling elite was living rather prosperously, sending their children to America for ( often racially segregated ) high school and college education, and keeping the indigenous peoples excluded from all political and economic leadership.

Before the theory of continental drift, glacial deposits in Carboniferous strata in tropical continents areas such as India and South America led to speculation that the Karoo Ice Age glaciation reached into the tropics.

Before the All-Channel Receiver Act of 1962 required US television receivers to be able to tune the entire VHF and UHF range ( which in North America was NTSC-M channels 2 through 83 on 54 to 890 MHz ), a set-top box known as a UHF converter would be installed at the receiver to shift a portion of the UHF-TV spectrum onto low-VHF channels for viewing.

* Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis ; Line 244-7

Before independence, the thirteen were part of a larger set of colonies in British America.

Before the onset of World War II, CBS recruited Edmund A. Chester from his position as Bureau Chief for Latin America at Associated Press to serve as Director of Latin American Relations and Director of Short Wave Broadcasts for the CBS radio network ( 1940 ).

Before the end of 1885, it was estimated that, in Europe and America, at least 150 companies were producing the opera.

* Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines: 176B-25, 239-6

Before the arrival of Europeans, an estimated 30 million people lived in South America.

* Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 By Frederick Lewis Weis, Line 147-20

Before the Hutterites emigrated to North America, they relied on manufacturing to sustain their communities.

* Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis ; Line 244-7

Before 1946, he had headed the New York Board of Rabbis, the Jewish National Fund, and the Zionist Organization of America, and helped found the National Conference of Christians and Jews.

" The Issue Before the Court: Who Gets Ahead in America?

* Before the Needles, Executions ( and Lynchings ) in America Before Lethal Injection, Details of thousands of lynchings

Before the Spanish arrived in Latin America, gender ideas were not what they are today in Mesoamerica.

Before returning to America, however, he signed on February 6, 1778 the treaties of amity and commerce and of alliance with France, which he and the other commissioners had successfully negotiated.