In the winter, the Red Sox traded right fielder Ben Chapman to the Cleveland Indians to make room for Williams on the roster, with Williams inheriting Chapman's number 9 on his uniform opposed to Williams ' number 5 in the previous spring training, even though Chapman had hit. 340 in the previous season, which led Boston Globe sports journalist Gerry Moore to quip, " Not since Joe DiMaggio broke in with the Yankees by " five for five " in St. Petersberg in 1936 has any baseball rookie received the nationwide publicity that has been accorded this spring to Theodore Francis Williams ".

Lacking the moral influence of Ben or the need to stay secret for his aunt, Peter broke out of the orphanage he was sent to and began to defeat criminals for the reward money, matters coming to a head when he nearly killed the Green Goblin in a fight.

In 1948 the abstract faction broke away to form the Penwith Society of Artists led by Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson.

Sometimes he would scat sing famous music to set up ambience for a joke: particular favorites were the gladiator's entrance theme from Ben Hur, the " And the Monkey Wrapped His Tail Around the Flagpole " section of the National Emblem march, and " Llegaron los Reyes ", a Puerto Rican Christmas song ( his version was titled " Friqui-tiqui-tiqui, Ay-ya-ya-ya-yayyy ", and performed to illustrate the bittersweet feeling of being broke after giving away too many gifts for Christmas ).

They included John A. Logan of Illinois, Edwin Stanton of Ohio, Ben Butler of Massachusetts, Ulysses S. Grant of Illinois, and Vice President Andrew Johnson ( Johnson broke with the Radicals after he became president.

When Abdel Nasser brought Ben Bella to speak for the first time to an Egyptian audience, he broke into tears because he could not speak standard Arabic.

By the time Valene discovered she was pregnant, she was in love with Ben, but he could not take the fact that she was pregnant with another man ’ s babies and they broke up.

After Ben Folds Five broke up, Robert Sledge performed for one summer with the short lived rock group Brother Seeker, a band composed of Robert and former Squirrel Nut Zippers members Tom Maxwell and Ken Mosher.

Grattan's next public appearance was as the writer of a tragedy, ‘ Ben Nazir, the Saracen .’ This was produced by Edmund Kean at Drury Lane Theatre on 21 May 1827, but the actor, through ill-health and domestic misfortunes, broke down, and the play failed with him ( Morning Post, 22 May 1827, p. 3 ).

Fingleton had moved out of his crease to pat out the pitch before the ball had gone dead and Victorian wicket-keeper Ben Barnett broke the stumps.

They broke away from Lifer in late 2001, in a surprising blind leap of faith to join their old high school friend Ben Burnley ( vocals / guitar ) and Jeremy Hummel ( former drummer ) in creating Breaking Benjamin.

Diablo sealed up the last of the Fantastic Four in the same capsules, but Ben quickly escaped when his broke down.

The state Dispensary, described as " Ben Tillman's Baby ", was never popular in the state, and violence broke out in Darlington over its enforcement.

At the time, Hogan and Nash had been onscreen enemies since April 1998, when Nash broke away from Hogan's nWo stable in order to form his own rival faction, nWo Wolfpac ; Nash became a fan favorite, and Hogan the villain while continuing to lead his own nWo faction, " nWo Hollywood ".

In the semi-final, Sri Lanka, heading towards a crushing victory over India at Eden Gardens ( Calcutta ) after their hosts lost eight wickets while scoring 120 runs in pursuit of 254, were awarded victory by default after crowd unrest broke out in protest against the Indian performance.

Later that season, Gretzky broke Esposito's record for most goals in a season ( 76 ) on February 24, 1982, scoring three goals to help beat the Buffalo Sabres 6 – 3.

The next season, Gretzky broke Gordie Howe's career goal-scoring record and won the scoring title, but the team began a long slide, and despite numerous player and coaching moves, they failed to qualify for the playoffs again until 1998.

Lecavalier also broke the franchise's goal scoring record, finishing with a league-leading 52 goals.

Lángara won the Pichichi Trophy three years in a row prior to the Spanish Civil War, as Oviedo broke all scoring records ( 174 goals in 62 league games ).

" Yaz " attended Notre Dame on a basketball scholarship ( his career Long Island high school scoring mark at Bridgehampton broke one previously held by Jim Brown ) briefly before embarking on his baseball career.

Waugh then broke through for his first first-class county century, scoring 109 at Ilford in late June against Hampshire, whose pace attack was led by Malcolm Marshall.

The band broke up in 1972 following the release of another political concept album, For Ladies Only, and Kay went on to an inconsistent solo career, scoring a minor solo hit in 1972 with " I'm Movin ' On " from his album Forgotten Songs and Unsung Heroes.

He broke the 1000 points barrier ( and is the NHL record holder for requiring the most games to do so by a forward, at 1308, as well having the most penalty minutes when reaching that scoring milestone ).

Mikan again was dominant, averaging 27. 4 points per game and 2. 9 assists per game and taking another scoring title ; only Alex Groza of Indianapolis also broke the 20-point-barrier that year.

He broke the record he shared with Mark Stein, Alan Shearer and Thierry Henry, by scoring in eight consecutive league games.

After scoring 44 runs against Canterbury he broke his arm, curtailing both his tour, in which he served as vice-captain, and first-class career.

More recently, David Healy broke the record for goals scored in one Euro campaign, previously held by Davor Suker of Croatia, by scoring 13 times in Northern Ireland's attempt to qualify for Euro 2008.

He broke the NCAA Division I-A career rushing touchdowns and career scoring records in 1998 with 73 and 452 respectively ( topped one year later by Miami University's Travis Prentice ), and rushed for 200 or more yards in twelve different games ( an NCAA record he shares with Dayne and USC's Marcus Allen ).

NHL teams finally took notice of Hull following his 1983 – 84 season in which he scored 105 goals in 56 games and broke the BCJHL scoring record with 188 points.

He broke the record, which previously belonged to Phil Housley, on November 7, 2007, by scoring two goals in the first five minutes, with the record-breaker being a short-handed goal on a breakaway, against the San Jose Sharks.

On October 15, 1991, he broke the PBA all-time record for the most three-point field goals made in a career with 594 three-point conversions after scoring 9 triples in Tivoli's 125-142 loss to Pepsi.

The record would stand until 26 November 1994 when the Huddersfield club broke their own World Record by defeating Blackpool Gladiators 142 – 4 in a Challenge Cup tie at the McAlpine Stadium – centre Greg Austin scoring 9 tries on his way to 52 tries that season, a world record for a centre.

He broke through for his maiden ODI century in his 12th match, scoring 123 from 138 balls against Sri Lanka at the MCG.

After scoring 4, 0 and 0 in his previous Test outings at Bellerive Oval, Ponting broke through with a man-of-the-match performance of 157 not out in the Second Test, before further rain resulted in another draw.

Harbhajan missed the Third Test and upon his return in the fourth Test, Ponting broke through for his first Test century against India in matches involving Harbhajan, scoring 140.

Luca Toni broke the Palermo Serie A scoring record by notching up 20 league goals.

In his final season at Millwall, Sheringham broke all of the club's goalscoring records, scoring a total of 111 goals in all competitions in his eight years at the club.

He was the top scorer of the 1994 – 95 season with 26 goals, and he broke Ezio Pascutti's 30-year-old record by scoring in all of the first 11 matches of the season.

The crowd at the twenty-first annual K. of C. Games, final indoor meet of the season, got a thrill a few minutes earlier when a slender, bespectacled woman broke the one-week-old world record in the half-mile run.

However, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, base-stealing was brought back to prominence primarily by Luis Aparicio and Maury Wills, who broke Cobb's modern single-season record by stealing 104 bases in 1962.

Charlton left Manchester United at the end of the 1972 – 73 season, having scored 249 goals and set a club record of 758 appearances, a record which Ryan Giggs broke in the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final.

Wills also broke an attendance record of 2, 100 previously held by Jan Garbner at the Armory in Klamath Falls, Oregon, by attracting 2, 514 dancers.

Newton promptly broke numerous passing records, most notably the Panthers ' single game passing record of 423 yards, set by Chris Weinke in 2006.

That was an NFL record until Emmitt Smith of the Dallas Cowboys broke it in.

In 2011, Hester broke the record for the most punt returns against the Carolina Panthers.

After Maris broke Babe Ruth's home run record, Lane defended himself by saying he still would have done the deal because Maris was unknown and he received good ballplayers in exchange.

The Indians broke the Opening Day attendance record for Progressive Field with 43, 190 against the Toronto Blue Jays on April 5, 2012.

The team broke its record of 22 games over. 500 in this victory also.

The Rockies also broke a franchise record with 13 hits in a single inning.

In 1921, Johnson broke Young's career record for strikeouts.

On 24 March 1995, the Japanese robotic deep-sea probe Kaikō broke the depth record for unmanned probes when it reached close to the surveyed bottom of the Challenger Deep.

Petrosino broke a Guinness World record in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

* 2006: JCB Dieselmax broke the FIA Diesel Land speed record from 1973, eventually setting the new record at over.

Donald Malcolm Campbell, CBE ( 23 March 1921 – 4 January 1967 ) was a British speed record breaker who broke eight world speed records in the 1950s and 1960s.

The TGV has set many world speed records, the most recent on 3 April 2007, when a new version of the TGV dubbed the V150 with larger wheels than the usual TGV, and a stronger engine, broke the world speed record for conventional rail trains, reaching 574. 8 km / h ( 357. 2 mph ).

Its fortunes have risen since the Red Sox ' 1967 " Impossible Dream " season, and on September 8, 2008 with a game versus the Tampa Bay Rays, Fenway Park broke the all-time Major League record with its 456th consecutive sellout, surpassing the previous record held by Jacobs Field ( now Progressive Field ) in Cleveland, Ohio.

These reforms not only increased investor confidence, but they were also supported by the IMF and the World Bank, however, they were not welcome widely by the Hungarians ; Bokros broke the negative record of popularity: 9 % of the population wanted to see him in an " important political position " and only 4 % were convinced that the reforms would " improve the country's finances in a big way "

As the year came to a close, Aaron broke Stan Musial's major league record for total bases ( 6, 134 ).

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

During the season Manning and Marvin Harrison broke the NFL record for touchdowns by a quarterback and receiver tandem.