In 1968, while Dean Rusk was testifying in a hearing concerning the Vietnam War, Boggs interrupted the session to announce the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the troops of the Soviet Union, after hearing a broadcast telling the Czech and Slovak people not to take any action.

In 1987, Boggs – who was up for a new contract following the season – hit 24 home runs, the most in any year of his career.

Before his retirement, Boggs was plagued by newspaper reports that the expansion Devil Rays gave him financial compensation in return for selecting a Devil Rays cap for his plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame, though he has denied that any such condition was part of his contract.

Reynolds could not produce any evidence that Rockwell was involved in any way and he was acquitted of all charges concerning Boggs, after prominent lawyer Alexander Doniphan agreed to defend him.

General David Atchison, a prominent non-Mormon legislator and militia general from western Missouri who had refused to take part in operations against the Mormons, demanded that the Legislature formally state its opinion of Boggs ' order, for " he would not live in any state, where such authority was given ".

They featured superb instrumental work from fiddlers Joe Holley and Louis Tierney, steel guitarists Noel Boggs and Herb Remington, guitarists Eldon Shamblin and Junior Barnard and electric mandolinist-fiddler Tiny Moore.

But from 1925 until 1941, football – with its flashy uniforms and players, and even more flamboyant managers and coaches including head coach Lloyd Russell and assistant coach Alvah " Hunky " Boggs – captured the imaginations of fans everywhere.

The county was one of the principal settings of the 1838 Missouri Mormon War, which led to the expulsion of all Latter-Day Saints from Missouri following the issuance of a so-called " extermination order " by then Governor Lilburn Boggs.

After the Missouri militia was routed in the Battle of Crooked Creek, Governor Lilburn Boggs issued Missouri Executive Order 44 to evict the Mormons from the state.

The Boggs Run area of Benwood contains the land extending from Marshall Street at the mouth of Boggs Run to Browns Run.

While the areas of Benwood Hill and a portion of Boggs Run beyond where Browns Run flows into Boggs Run are provided with some services from Benwood's public works, they fall outside the city limits and are not directly parts of the city.

Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. ( born February 15, 1914 ; presumed to have died on October 16, 1972 but not declared dead until January 3, 1973 ) was an American Democratic politician and a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from New Orleans, Louisiana.

A Democrat, Boggs was elected to the U. S. House for the Second District and served from 1941 to 1943.

Boggs won the gubernatorial endorsement of the Shreveport Times, which hailed the representative for having stopped the Truman administration from " altering oil-depletion allowances in federal taxation, thus blocking.

This led to a conversation on April 6, 1971, between then-President Richard M. Nixon and the Republican minority leader, Gerald R. Ford, Jr., in which Nixon said that he could no longer take counsel from Boggs as a senior member of Congress.

Boggs dissented from the Warren Commission's majority who supported the single bullet theory.

* Oral History Interviews with Hale Boggs, from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library

At this point Veneman took a break from political and administrative office to practice with the law firm and lobby group Patton, Boggs & Blow and also served on several boards of directors and advisory groups.

In the series ' fourth game, which saw the Yankees rally from six runs down to win, Boggs was called on to pinch hit in the tenth inning and using the batting eye he was known for throughout his career, he coaxed a bases-loaded walk out of Steve Avery which gave the Yankees the lead in a game they went on to win 8-6.

At a stormy session of the state Democratic committee, Long attacked Perez and Grace for making the charge against Boggs, but prevented Boggs from publicly defending himself, a ploy that some thought greatly contributed to Boggs ' defeat.

Lilburn Williams Boggs ( December 14, 1796March 14, 1860 ) was the sixth Governor of Missouri from 1836 to 1840.

On October 27, without investigating the charges and countercharges, Governor Boggs accused Church members of initiating hostilities and ordered the state militia to exterminate the Mormons or drive them from the state.

Boggs, who was from Independence, moved to a house within the City of Zion plot in Independence after the Mormons were evicted from Missouri and after he left office.

He hires nine Major League Baseball players-Roger Clemens, Wade Boggs, Ken Griffey, Jr., Steve Sax, Ozzie Smith, José Canseco, Don Mattingly, Darryl Strawberry and Mike Scioscia-and gives them token jobs at the plant so that they can play on the team, much to the dismay of the plant workers who got the team to the championship game in the first place.

While walking around the school, Dean picks out Laney Boggs ( Rachael Leigh Cook ), a " dorky ", solitudinous, unpopular art student, as his choice for Zack.

* Rachael Leigh Cook as Laney Boggs: A bohemianistic, bespectacled, redheaded art student and the stereotypical loner geek girl, who prefers to stay in her own home basement painting by herself.

He refused to enter the market for free agents, preferring to rely exclusively on player development, but the Boston farm system hit a dry spell resulting from poor drafts during Sullivan's tenure as GM ; whereas O ' Connell in 1976 alone had drafted Wade Boggs, John Tudor, and Bruce Hurst, the only starting player drafted and signed by the Red Sox between 1977 and 1979 was Marty Barrett.

Another artist who has run afoul of the technique is the artist JSG Boggs, whose life and work have been extensively explored by author and journalist Lawrence Weschler.

After James started reporting on cricket for the Manchester Guardian, Padmore wrote to American novelist Richard Wright, " That will take him out of his ivory tower and making his paper revolution ...."' Grace Lee Boggs, a colleague from the Detroit group, came to London in 1954 to work with him, but she, too, saw him " at loose ends, trying to find his way after fifteen years out of the country.

James invited Grace Lee Boggs, his colleague from Detroit, to join in the work, though in the end, James wrote Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution on his own.

Both Boggs and McCartan work in the public service, not political, side of the Ministry and retain their positions regardless of the government in power.

Boggs draws currency with exceptional care and accuracy, but he only ever draws one side.

In 1960, the Republican Elliot Ross Buckley, a cousin of William F. Buckley Jr., challenged Boggs but drew only 22, 818 votes ( 22 percent ) to the incumbent's 81, 034 ballots ( 78 percent ).

With 12 straight All-Star appearances, Boggs is third only to Brooks Robinson and George Brett in number of consecutive appearances as a third baseman.

From to, Boggs hit below. 349 only once, hitting. 325 in.

In, Boggs slumped to. 259 – one of only three times in his career that he failed to reach. 300 – and at the end of the season he left the Red Sox, with whom he had spent his entire career to that point.

Gwynn and Boggs each hit over. 350 in four straight seasons, the only players to do so since 1931.

" Referring to Boyd, who has admitted to frequently using cocaine and marijuana, Boggs noted, " You have a delusional drug addict who let not only his family down, but his team, the city of Boston, Red Sox Nation when it counted most.

Pitcher Boggs grounded out in his only at bat.

To everyone's great surprise, Boggs not only survived, but gradually improved.

Under the circumstances, Treen was able to raise only $ 11, 000 for his 1962 and polled 27, 791 votes ( 32. 8 percent ) to Boggs ' 57, 395 ( 67. 2 percent ).

Young's 201 hits were 4th in the AL, and marked the 5th consecutive 200-hit season, joining Ichiro Suzuki and Wade Boggs as the only players to do so since 1940 and just the second middle infielder, along with Charlie Gehringer, to have accomplished that feat.

Others include routines such as eating only chicken before a game like Wade Boggs, Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander eating three crunchy taco supremes ( no tomato ), a cheesy gordita crunch and and a Mexican pizza ( no tomato ) before every start from Taco Bell.

Boggs was elected to the U. S. Senate in 1960, defeating incumbent Democratic U. S. Senator J. Allen Frear, Jr. by 1. 4 %, and becoming the only Republican to defeat an incumbent Democratic U. S. Senator that year.

Boggs was a reluctant candidate that year, being persuaded to run only to help avoid a divisive primary election.

However, before the game, eight of the nine all-star players suffer unrelated misfortunes that prevent them from playing: Clemens is made to think he is a chicken due to a bad hypnotist, Boggs is knocked unconscious by Barney after an argument at Moe's Tavern, Griffey, Jr. takes an overdoses of nerve tonic, resulting in an extreme case of gigantism, Sax is arrested and put in prison for various unsolved murders he did not commit, Smith disappears in the " Springfield mystery spot ", Canseco is too busy rescuing a woman and her possessions from a fire, Mattingly is kicked off the team by Mr. Burns due to sideburns only he can see, and Scioscia is hospitalized due to radiation poisoning from the plant.