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 )

On May 12, Clemens broke a long silence to denounce an heavily-researched expose by four investigative reporters from the New York Daily News, called American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America's Pastime Clemens went on ESPN's Mike and Mike show to call the book " garbage ", but a review by Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called the book " gripping " and compared it to the work of Bob Woodward.

Of 125 miners signing a union resolution in Central City, about fifty broke windows and doors at the Bob Tail mine, forcing other workers out.

When Bob Dylan broke a guitar string, Ronnie Wood took off his own guitar and gave it to Dylan.

On February 19, 1987, at the Palomino Club in Los Angeles, Fogerty broke his self-imposed 1972 ban on performing his Creedence Clearwater Revival hits, on an admonition from Bob Dylan and George Harrison ( who both joined him onstage ) that " if you don't, the whole world's gonna think ' Proud Mary ' is Tina Turner's song.

This Peugeot was sold to the American driver " Wild Bob " Burman who broke the engine in 1915.

Drudge first received national attention in 1996 when he broke the news that Jack Kemp would be Republican Bob Dole's running mate in the 1996 presidential election.

Ironically Bob Nash, who played for Massillon in 1919, broke up a Stan Cofall punt resulting in an Akron touchdown and a final score of 7-0.

In 1966, she broke the news in the Post that Bob Dylan had married Sara Lownds in a private ceremony three-and-a-half months before.

Dorsett broke the previous record of 97 yards, set by Andy Uram in 1939 and tied by Bob Gage, in 1949.

Freehan held the records for career putouts ( 9941 ) and total chances ( 10, 734 ) from 1975 until the late 1980s ; Bob Boone broke his major league mark for career total chances in 1987, and Gary Carter surpassed his putouts total in 1988 ; Carlton Fisk broke his American League records in 1989 ( total chances ) and 1990 ( putouts ).

On June 22, 1993 Fisk broke Bob Boone's record for career games caught with his 2, 226th game behind the plate.

In 1984, the Canadian section of the UAW, under the leadership of Bob White and his assistants Buzz Hargrove and Bob Nickerson, broke from the UAW, led by Owen Bieber, because the American union was seen as giving away too much in the way of concessions during collective bargaining.

Mike Ely, a founding member of the RCP as well as former editor of Revolution, recently broke with Avakian citing the RCP's position that Bob Avakian's personal status is a " cardinal question ".

* In the computer-generated television series ReBoot, the interocitor was a component which frequently broke on the car of the main protagonist, Bob.

Additionally, numerous former players with the Negro Leagues played in the Senior Intercounty Baseball League after the Negro Leagues gradually folded after Jackie Robinson broke the " colour barrier " in 1947, including pitcher Ted Alexander of the Kansas City Monarchs and the Homestead Grays ( 1950-51 London Majors ); Wilmer Fields ( Brantford Red Sox ); Jimmy Wilkes ( retired jersey # 5 for the Brantford Red Sox, later became a City league umpire after a decade with Brantford ); Gentry ( Geep ) Jessup ( Galt Terriers ); Larry Cunningham ( Galt Terriers, Hamilton Cardinals ); Ed Steele ( Galt ) and Shanty Clifford ( Galt and Brantford ); Luther Clifford ; Max Manning ; Lester Lockett ; Bob Thurman and Stanley Glenn ( St. Thomas Elgins ); all made numerous appearances at Labatt Park in the 1950s.

" When Bob Wills played the Los Angeles Country Barn Dance at the Venice Pier for three nights shortly before he broke up his band to join the U. S. Army during World War II, the attendance was above 15, 000.

With Bob Tullius behind the wheel, it mowed through the field, and was running second behind eventual winner Mark Donohue's factory-supported Penske Racing AMC Javelin when the engine broke.

At 0 – 0 late on in the match, Bolton defender, Eric Bell, handled the ball inside of the penalty area ( Bell later admitted the offence ), but the referee waved play-on and Bolton quickly broke away and England international Nat Lofthouse headed the ball past Gateshead goal-keeper Bob Gray to give Bolton a winning 1 – 0 lead.

In several episodes, Graeme Garden was given a song with a tune by Bob Dylan and not only impersonated him, but broke off into a harmonica solo.

Northrup led the 1968 Tigers in hits and RBIs, hit five grand slams, broke up three no-hitters, and had the game-winning triple off Bob Gibson in Game 7 of the 1968 World Series.

The event is best-remembered for the men's long jump competition, when Carl Lewis made the best six-jump series in history, only to be beaten by Mike Powell, whose 8. 95 m jump broke Bob Beamon's long-standing world record from the 1968 Summer Olympics.

This broke Bob Chatt's record, which was set 114 years earlier in the 1895 Final.

* Bob Woodward, Washington Post investigative reporter who broke the Watergate Scandal