So, noting that then-all-time home run leader Hank Aaron had just retired, Jackson asked for and received number 44, Aaron's number.

Leading up to spring training, Doby read books concerning outfield play and during, received instruction and encouragement from former Indian great and center fielder Tris Speaker and Hank Greenberg.

He received three Emmy nominations for his recurring role on the TV series Everybody Loves Raymond as Robert Barone's father-in-law, Hank MacDougall.

Hank Klibanoff, received the Pulitzer prize for history in 2007 for the book The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation.

" Some episodes were shown in August, 1998, but they were received poorly despite concessions such as replacing the lead character's voice with famous American voice actor Hank Azaria and changing the storyline to an American in London.

Hank had his 1970s-era hair cut at a salon ; had his long fingernails and toenails chiseled off during a manicure ; received an eye exam and new glasses ; got fitted for a tuxedo ; and was supposed to have his teeth cleaned at the dentist office, but was unable to do so because he was too intoxicated.

Wyatt reported later that he received word in Contention that Ike Clanton, Frank Stilwell, Hank Swilling, and another cowboy were watching the passenger trains in Tucson with the aim to kill Virgil.

Perhaps most influential of all was the street education Rosolino received after returning to Detroit following his period in the Army during which he sat in at the Mirror Ballroom or the Bluebird where other to-be-renowned musicians also congregated, the Jones brothers ( Hank, Thad, and Elvin ), Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers and later at the 3 Deuces on 52nd Street in New York City with Charlie Parker.

As had been true the previous year, a large number of players received votes, though few players were named who had not appeared in the 1948 vote apart from the newly eligible 1947 retirees ( prominently, Mel Ott and Hank Greenberg ); every still-eligible player who received more than 2 votes in 1948 was again named.

He also received BMI awards for composing " Burning Bridges " for Clint Eastwood's " Kelly's Heroes " and for composing " All for the Love of Sunshine " which was Hank Williams, Jr's.

* Hank Thompson set a World Series record for bases on balls received during a four-game series with seven and Bob Lemon set a World Series record for bases on balls given up during a four game Series with eight.

Since its broadcast, the episode received positive reviews from critics, and Hank Azaria won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for his performance as Comic Book Guy in the episode.

Leko also began recording with Nashville's Hilary Williams, pop singer and daughter of country music legend Hank Williams, Jr. Their debut collaboration, " Sign of Life ", written about Hilary's near-death auto accident with sister Holly, has received considerable national media attention and was coveted for airplay on Alan Freed's " BPM Project " show on XM-81 BPM.

In " The Further Adventures of Hank the Cowdog ", Hank's eyes go crossed after staring at a bloody nose he received by attacking a fried egg Pete obtained that was just behind Sally May's garden fence.

Allen Coage was a US Grand Champion for Judo and received a full scholarship to the Kodokan with the help of Hank Kraft.

Junk faxing came into widespread use in the late 1980s as a result of the development and proliferation of relatively inexpensive desktop fax machines which resulted in rapid growth in the number of fax machines in the U. S. The invention of the computer-based fax board in 1985 by Dr. Hank Magnuski, founder of GammaLink, provided an efficient platform for reaching those fax machines with minimal cost and effort.

Details of what had happened with the poll were picked up by various media ; as one writer explained, " Voting for Hank offered people a chance to violate People's expectations while still playing by its rules ”.

Some observers concluded that the reaction by the public to vote for Hank was a veiled commentary on how the media assumes that the masses are easily manipulated into liking what is marketed to them.

The New York Times quoted a participant in the poll as stating, " The ' media ' tells us what food to eat, what movies to see, what music to listen to, who to vote for politically and what kind of people are attractive enough to have relationships with !... Voting for ' Hank the Dwarf ' is a reflection of how the people really feel about media!

The blog's contest became very public after a memo to all of Skadden's U. S. attorneys from firm of counsel and employment advisor Hank Baer was leaked to the media.

The Hank Aaron Award is given annually to the Major League Baseball ( MLB ) players selected as the top hitter in each league, as voted on by baseball fans and members of the media.

Hank the Cowdog logo used on media.

Hank the Cowdog logo used on media.

Following the media revelations about Operation White Tiger, the Hank family, which has denied it is linked to or protecting top Mexican narcotraffickers, lobbied the U. S. Justice Department.

The player projected to be the top pick by many media outlets and draft analysts was Loyola Marymount's Hank Gathers.

Before his death in 1989, Hank Greenspun founded The Greenspun Corporation to manage his family's assets, and it remains a major influence in Las Vegas, with media holdings in print, television and the Internet ; substantial real estate holdings ; and ownership stakes in a number of casinos.

ET edition of SportsCenter on August 7, 2007, which was anchored by John Buccigross and Cindy Brunson, showed live coverage of Barry Bonds's 756th career home run, which broke the old MLB record set by Hank Aaron.

* Remembering Hank Gathers: Our coverage from that tragic day

* The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg ( 1998 ) ( documentary )

On March 4, 1998, Hank dressed in a pink rabbit suit, took a succession of phone calls from Stern listeners ; sang karaoke to Led Zeppelin songs ; and blew a. 375 on a breathalyzer test.

In June 1998, Hank was followed by the cameras of E!

In 1998, he reached the 100 RBI mark before the All-Star break ( 101 ), being the first player ( and still most recent ) to do so since Hank Greenberg 63 years earlier.

* Modern and Contemporary Poetics, Editor, with Hank Lazer, of a book series from the University of Alabama Press ( 1998 — )

Harwell appeared as an interview subject in the 1998 documentary film The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg and contributed to numerous other baseball-themed documentaries and retrospectives over the years.

* Hank Earl Carr ( died 1998 ) convicted criminal, on May 19, 1998 killed two Tampa detectives & a Florida State trooper

* Bobby Ogdin & The Shit Creek Boys – Bobby Ogdin, piano ; Danny Parks, guitar ; Stu Basore, steel guitar ; Matt Kohut, bass ; Hank Singer, fiddle — touring band 1996 / Live In Toronto Canada / Paintin ' the Town Brown: Ween Live 1990 – 1998

* The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg ( 1998, Fred Astaire )

# " Bull & Bear " ( December 12, 1998 ) Bill Brasky Buddies: Alec Baldwin, John Goodman ( as Ted ), Will Ferrell ( as Hank ).

In an interview with People Magazine in 1998, Mike Scully stated " Hank and Helen got along so well it's hard to believe they are a real couple.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

Under the circumstances, I had difficulty keeping up with the conversation on the phone, but when I hung up I was reasonably certain that Francesca had wanted to remind me of our town meeting the next evening, and how important it was that Hank and I be there.

`` Sounds like what you're after '', he said when Hank had finished.

Ruth's lifetime record of 714 home runs stood until 1974 when it was surpassed by Hank Aaron.

The jersey Hank Aaron wore when he broke Babe Ruth's record

Peter Schweizer points out several examples of insider trading by members of Congress, including action taken by Spencer Bachus following a private, behind-the-doors meeting on the evening of September 18, 2008 when Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke informed members of Congress about the imminent financial crisis, Bachus then shorted stocks the next morning and cashed in his profits within a week.

* Gene Ashwell ( Hank Garrett ), one of Network 23's board members, who frequently panics when the network faces a crisis.

She insists that Hank lives with them when her job is over.

The inspiration for the comic strip came from Dennis Ketcham, the real life son of Hank Ketcham, who was only four years old when he refused to take a nap and somehow messed up his whole room.

However, when cast member Hank Azaria ad-libbed a voice for Frink, he did an impression of Jerry Lewis's character Julius Kelp from the 1963 film The Nutty Professor, and the writing staff started making Frink more of a parody of that character.

The animators mistakenly believed that Hank Azaria was impersonating Csupó, when in fact he was doing a bad impression of Ricky Ricardo from the TV series I Love Lucy.

" However, he thought enough of genealogy to include in his autobiography that his father, Hank Chrysler, " Canadian born, had been brought from Chatham, Ontario, to Kansas City when he was only five or six.

A weekly CBC radio show brought him national recognition and, using the name, Hank, The Yodeling Ranger, and he began touring Canada until the late 1940s when American country music stations began playing his records.

In one episode, Hank says he invented the phrase when he accidentally said it to someone and liked it.

" Here's something new .... " pianist Hank Jones remembers thinking when he first heard Art Tatum on radio in 1935, " .... they have devised this trick to make people believe that one man is playing the piano, when I know at least three people are playing.

In Werner Herzog's series of films, On Death Row, Texas death row inmate Hank Skinner refers to this episode when discussing his feelings about his numerous stays of execution.

One characteristic when Hank lies is he turns his head or looks around the room.

Hank loves his job very much, but throughout the series always makes a big deal out of it when his closest friends and even family find his occupation boring and somewhat useless.

Hank is relieved when his Laotian-American neighbor Kahn tells him that he caught Bobby and Connie taking their clothes off since, up until that time, Hank was uncertain of Bobby's interest in girls.

His essentially non-existent buttocks fail to provide him enough cushioning when seated, causing stress on his spine and forcing him to wear an " orthogluteal " prosthesis in at least one of the episodes, and Peggy declares as running joke throughout the series they would have more kids if it wasn't for Hank's " narrow urethra " in a counseling meeting with her after Hank hits Bobby, to which Hank snaps: " He didn't ask you about my glands!

Despite the fact that his career in propane is later shown to have started with a chance meeting with Buck Strickland, in episode " Order of the Straight Arrow " a flashback to 1966 shows younger Hank, Dale, Bill and Boomhauer on a scouting trip, talking about what they're going to do when they grow up.

Everybody looks to Hank when they have any seemingly useless or dull work that needs to be done.