In an interview during the late 1990s with KARE 11, an NBC affiliate out of Minneapolis / Saint Paul, Gagne spoke of the devoted fan base in Minnesota and joked about how he may promote again some day, but nothing ever materialized.

** The Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh by Paul A. Gagne

That includes players like Ron Washington ( 1977 ), Bob Welch ( 1977 ), Ron Roenicke ( 1978 – 1979 ), Mike Scioscia ( 1978 ), Dave Stewart ( 1978 ), Orel Hershiser ( 1980 – 1981, 1991 ), Fernando Valenzuela ( 1980 ), Steve Sax ( 1981 ), Sid Bream ( 1982 ), Sid Fernandez ( 1983 ), Franklin Stubbs ( 1983 ), Ramon Martinez ( 1988, 1996 ), John Wetteland ( 1988 ), Eric Karros ( 1990 ), Pedro Martinez ( 1991 ), Raul Mondesi ( 1991 – 1992 ), Eric Young ( 1991 ), Mike Piazza ( 1992 ), Henry Blanco ( 1993 – 1996 ), Todd Hollandsworth ( 1993 ), Chan Ho Park ( 1994 ), Miguel Cairo ( 1995 ), Paul LoDuca ( 1995, 1997 ), Paul Konerko ( 1996 ), Alex Cora ( 1997 ), Dennys Reyes ( 1997 ), Adrian Beltre ( 1998 ) and Eric Gagne ( 1999 ).

Among the well-known players to have served with the Dukes are Mike Piazza, Paul Konerko, Pedro Martínez, Orel Hershiser, Kirk Gibson ( on major league rehab assignment ), John Wetteland, Darryl Strawberry ( on major league rehab assignment ), Eric Karros, Mike Maddux, Raúl Mondesí, Chan Ho Park, Mike Scioscia, Dave Stewart, Rick Sutcliffe, Fernando Valenzuela, Jose Vizcaino, Sid Bream, Rick Rhoden, Steve Sax, Greg Gagne, Eric Young, Mickey Hatcher, Tim Wallach ( on major league rehab assignment ), Davey Lopes, Steve Yeager, Tom Paciorek, Jose Offerman, Larry Hisle, Éric Gagné, Todd Hollandsworth, and Paul Lo Duca.

* Foreign talent: Bill Robinson, Verne Gagne, André the Giant, George Gordienko, Karl Gotch, Lou Thesz, Danny Hodge, Don Leo Jonathan, Bill Miller, Dick the Bruiser, Crusher Lisowski, Mad Dog Vachon, Nick Bockwinkel, Ray Stevens, Baron Von Raschke, Horst Hofmann, Édouard Carpentier, Peter Maivia, Ivan Koloff, Larry Hennig, Blackjack Lanza, Blackjack Mulligan, " Superstar " Billy Graham, Wahoo McDaniel, Red Bastien, Minnesota Wrecking Crew, Bill Watts, Dusty Rhodes, Dick Murdoch, Ox Baker, Wild Angus, Killer Tor Kamata, Gypsy Joe, Alexis Smirnoff, Mongolian Stomper, Killer Brooks, Jos LeDuc, Sailor White, Big John Quinn, Kurt Von Hess, Professor Tanaka, Dean Ho, Wild Samoans, Jake Roberts, Big Daddy Ritter, David Schultz, Dynamite Kid, Mike George, Bob Sweetan, Johnny Powers, Killer Karl Krupp, Ron Bass, Ray Candy, Paul Ellering, Steve Olsonoski

The Crew went on to defeat Greg Gagne and Paul Diamond to win the title tournament on October 1, 1989.

Slaughter & Baron Von Raschke in the first round and then beat Greg Gagne and Paul Diamond in the finals to win the titles.

Slaughter & Baron Von Raschke in the first round and then beat Greg Gagne and Paul Diamond in the finals to win the titles.

Paul Perschmann was trained by Verne Gagne and Billy Robinson in the early 1970s.

The players and languages featured were Ken Griffey Jr. ( English ), Alex Rodriguez ( Spanish ), Chan Ho Park ( Korean ), Kazuhiro Sasaki ( Japanese ), Graeme Lloyd ( English, with an Australian accent ), Eric Gagne ( French ), Andruw Jones ( Dutch ), John Franco ( Italian ), Ivan Rodriguez ( Spanish ), and Mark McGwire ( English ).

Numerous wrestling matches were held at Metropolitan Stadium, including contests featuring Hard Boiled Haggerty, Bob Geigel, Wilbur Snyder, Kay Noble, Lord Littlebrook, Verne Gagne, Gene Kiniski, Rene Goulet, Larry Hennig, Hans Schmidt, Mad Dog Vachon and Dick the Bruiser.

There were antitrust problems with the government and there were a number of competing factions who wanted to replace Thesz as champion with different wrestlers, such as Verne Gagne.

In 1981, in an experiment by P. Gagne, 48 males with long standing histories of sexually deviant behaviour were given medroxyprogesterone acetate for as long as 12 months.

The two were paired up by the AWA bookers, Greg Gagne ( son of the owner and one of the bookers ) suggested the name ” The Country Rockers ”, another idea for a name was the " U. S. Express " ( as told by Marty during an interview on AWA television that aired in 1986 ) not keen on the idea the two of them came up with the name The Midnight Rockers inspired by Judas Priest ’ s ” Living after Midnight ”.

The other six were Randy Bush, Greg Gagne, Kirby Puckett, Al Newman, Kent Hrbek and Dan Gladden.

The Crusher, Dick the Bruiser, Rhodes, Gagne, Race, and Thesz were the only former World Heavyweight Champions to have been inducted.

Many fans expected either Gagne or Slaughter to win the title that night and the crowd reacted with shock when both were eliminated late in the match.

When the NWA Minneapolis Wrestling and Boxing Club operated by Verne Gagne withdrew from the National Wrestling Alliance in May 1960, Daniel Grant and David Marsh were the recognized champions of the NWA World Tag Team Championship ( Minneapolis version ).

On July 7, 1977, Brunzell and Greg Gagne defeated ' Black Jack ' Lanza and ' Big Bad ' Bobby Duncum, who were managed by Bobby Heenan, to win their first AWA World Tag Team Championship.

Many of the players lost to injury were expected to produce heavily for the team including J. D. Drew, Milton Bradley, Eric Gagne, Jayson Werth, Cesar Izturis and Odalis Perez.

Gagne did promote two cards in Minnesota in May 1991, featuring the return of Greg Gagne and Wahoo McDaniel and other stars such as Baron Von Raschke, Buck Zumhofe, and The Destruction Crew ( Mike Enos & Wayne Bloom ), but he was unable to revive the promotion.

Gagne teamed with Wahoo McDaniel to face the Destruction Crew in the main event of the last AWA show promoted by Verne Gagne in May 1991.

As Vince McMahon and his northeastern-based World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) attempted to end pro wrestling's regional era in the mid-1980s ( by establishing the WWF as a national promotion ), Gagne made several decisions that caused his AWA to lose momentum in the emerging wrestling promotion war, including overemphasizing his son Greg Gagne in AWA storylines ( which led to speculation of nepotism by Verne within the company ) and failing to make Hulk Hogan the focus of his company when he had the chance.

The AAC recognized Killer Kowalski as world champion when he defeated Carpentier in Boston, and Nebraska recognized Verne Gagne as champion when he defeated Carpentier in Omaha ( after winning the belt, Gagne tried for two years to work things out with the NWA, but finally left the organization in 1960 forming the American Wrestling Association.

It started when Gagne threw a high fastball that sent Tucker tumbling to the ground.

Gagne turned even more violent when he learned of his ejection, attempting to charge the umpires gathered at the mound.

Adnan had to quit wrestling when he was injured, which is the real reason Patera was brought in to team with Blackwell, in 1982 at the AWA SuperSunday he teamed with blackwell in a tag team match against Vern Gagne and Mad Dog Vachon and they lost it, in 1986 at the AWA WrestleRock he lost to Vern Gagne in a steel cage, the sheik teamed with Boris Zuchov in tag team match against the The Midnight Rockers ( Marty Jannetty & Shawn Michaels ), he stayed in the AWA until the late 1990 as the top heel manager.

* The AWA World Heavyweight Championship was unified with the Omaha World Heavyweight Championship ( a belt created by promoters in Omaha, Nebraska ) twice when Omaha World Champion The Crusher defeated AWA World Champion Verne Gagne in Omaha, Nebraska on July 9, 1963 and then the titles was unified again on September 7, 1963 when AWA World Champion Verne Gagne defeated Omaha World Champion Fritz Von Erich in Omaha, Nebraska.

Wrestling greats like Lou Thesz and Verne Gagne have stated that Ed Lewis was the greatest wrestler ever and could only be beat when he allowed himself to be beat to further a worker angle.

Despite this talent raid, the AWA went on to have another successful year in 1984, mainly because of the arrival of the Road Warriors and an angle uniting longtime heel Jerry Blackwell with Greg Gagne and feuding with former manager Sheik Adnan El-Kaissey.

During Heenan's absence in 1983, caused by a back injury, Patera joined forces with manager Sheik Adnan El-Kaissie and formed a tag team with Jerry Blackwell known as The Sheiks ; both men wore Arabian-style garments and feuded with the High Flyers ( Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzell ) over the AWA World Tag Team Championship, winning the belts in June 1983.

From 1984 to 1986, Gagne was involved in a feud with Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie's army, which at the time included King Kong Brody.

In the later 1980s, Gagne feuded with Curt Hennig, Ron Garvin, and Larry Zbyszko and briefly resurrected his feud with Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie.

It was also around this time the Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie attacked Verne Gagne during an interview.

As a result, Gagne turned his attention to Adnan in a feud that eventually involved a young Kokina Maximus.

Kokina slammed Gagne on the cement floor outside the ring and then splashed his leg, apparently doing damage to Gagne's knee.

The Brewers came into 2008 with hopes of ending the team's 26 year playoff drought, adding several veterans to the team in outfielder Mike Cameron and catcher Jason Kendall, as well as relief pitchers Eric Gagne and Salomon Torres.

Despite winning Game 6 on the late-game heroics of Primeau and winger Simon Gagne, the Flyers came up short once again losing Game 7 in Tampa, 2 – 1.

Gagne pushed Hennig and the Midnight Rockers throughout 1987 and into 1988, but the WWF came calling and all three of his top stars would soon be gone.

In October 1967, Gagne was credited with " breaking " one of Hennig's legs, thus giving him some much needed time off from the ring.

An early instructional theorist is Robert M. Gagne, who in 1965 published Conditions of Learning for the Florida State University's Department of Educational Research.

Simon Gagné | Simon Gagne, placed on a line with Peter Forsberg and Mike Knuble, scored a career high 47 goals during the 2005 – 06 season.

The Deuces Wild line of Forsberg, Gagne and Mike Knuble recorded 75, 79 and 65 points respectively while Gagne, with Forsberg feeding him, scored a career high of 47 goals.

* Cole Gagne: " Glenn Branca ", Grove Music Online, ed.

* Gagne, Cole, and Caras, Tracey.

* In 1965, Robert Gagne ( see below for more information ) described five domains of learning outcomes and nine events of instruction in “ The conditions of Learning ”, which remain foundations of instructional design practices.

* Gagne ’ s work in learning hierarchies and hierarchical analysis led to an important notion in instruction – to ensure that learners acquire prerequisite skills before attempting superordinate ’ s ones.

This camp is generally responsible for the codification and clarification of the theory's principles, epitomized as the " New York " model by theorists such as Carl Schachter and recently Allen Cadwallader and David Gagne.

Halme was trained by Verne Gagne as a powerhouse professional wrestler.

The school is known locally for having two former baseball players play professionally, Greg Gagne and Jerry Remy.

It was owned and founded by Verne Gagne and Wally Karbo.

Verne Gagne, a former amateur wrestling champion, had become a well known and popular wrestler nationally in the 1950s as a result of his appearances on the DuMont Network.

In 1959, Dennis Stecher sold his majority stake in the Minneapolis Boxing and Wrestling Club to Karbo and Gagne.

In 1960, after unsuccessfully lobbying the NWA for a title match between Gagne and the NWA World Champion, Gagne and Karbo led certain territories out of the NWA forming the AWA.

The AWA unilaterally recognized NWA World Champion Pat O ' Connor as AWA World Champion and gave him 90 days to defend the AWA title against Gagne.

O ' Connor was stripped of the AWA title and it was awarded to Gagne on August 16, 1960.

Gagne was a former amateur-wrestling champion who had earned a spot on the U. S. team at the 1948 Summer Olympics ; he ran the AWA with a traditionalist sensibility, firmly believing that sound technical wrestling — not flashy " sports entertainment "— should be the basis of a pro-wrestling company.