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He won the Triple crown, was a member of two teams that won the World Series ( the 1966 and 1970 Baltimore Orioles ), and amassed the fourth-most career home runs at the time of his retirement ( he is currently ninth ).
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" For pitchers, wins, ERA, and strikeouts are the most often-cited statistics, and a pitcher leading his league in these statistics may be referred to as a " Triple Crown " winner ( but normally he has won the Cy Young Award ).
In addition to winning the 1966 MVP, Robinson also won the Triple Crown ( leading the American League in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in ), a feat also achieved the following season by Boston's Carl Yastrzemski but never since.
The Oriole Way began flourishing in 1966 after the Robinson-for-Pappas deal, as Robinson won the Triple Crown Award.
After Wales won the Triple Crown in the 1905 Home Nations Championship the match was dubbed the ' Game of the Century ' by the press.
Though Chuck Klein won the Most Valuable Player Award in 1932 and the National League Triple Crown in 1933, the team continued to flounder at the bottom of the standings for years.
* Pommern ( horse ), a racehorse which won the English Triple Crown in 1915
The Triple Crown has twice been won on four consecutive occasions, once by Wales in 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979 and once by England in 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998.
England hold the record for the number of Triple Crowns won with 23, followed by Wales with 20 and Scotland and Ireland with 10.
Williams was a two-time American League Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) winner, led the league in batting six times, and won the Triple Crown twice.
In the season, Williams won the Triple Crown, with a. 356 batting average, 36 home runs, and 137 RBIs.
Williams also won the Triple Crown in 1947, but lost the MVP award to Joe DiMaggio, with 201 votes compared to DiMaggio's 202 votes.
In Robinson's first year in Baltimore, he won the Triple Crown, leading the American League with a. 316 batting average ( the lowest ever by a Triple crown winner ), 49 home runs ( the most ever by a right-handed Triple crown winner ) and 122 runs batted in.
It has been 34 years since a horse won the US Triple Crown ( Affirmed in 1978 ).
Following Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War of 1895, the Triple Intervention of Russia and France forced Japan to return the territory won in Liaodong, leading to a de facto Sino-Russian alliance.
Should that horse have also won the Kentucky Derby, speculation and excitement immediately begin to mount as to whether that horse will go on to win the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing at the Belmont Stakes in June.
On average, fillies have won between 2 % and 3 % of the Triple Crown races, with similar numbers for geldings ; while about 95 % of these high-stakes races have been won by colts.
The 2004 Belmont Stakes drew a massive television audience of 21. 9 million viewers and had the highest household viewing rate since 1977 when Seattle Slew won the Triple Crown.
On June 9, 1973, Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes by thirty-one lengths, in a record time of 2: 24, becoming a Triple Crown champion that year.
On average, fillies have won between 2 % and 3 % of the Triple Crown races, with similar numbers for geldings ; while about 95 % of these high-stakes races have been won by uncastrated male horses, colts or stallions.
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In 1138, Ali ibn Yusuf was defeated by Alfonso VII of León, and in the Battle of Ourique ( 1139 ), by Afonso I of Portugal, who thereby won his crown.
The Browns, who lost the last game of the regular season to the Lions only a week before, won their second NFL crown 56 – 10.
Aaron nearly won the triple crown in 1963.
Hewitt later won his first Grand Slam title at the US Open when he along with Max Mirnyi claimed the men's doubles championship ; thus becoming the youngest male ( at 19 years, 6 months ) to win a Grand Slam doubles crown in the open era.
Ventidius won a series of victories against the Parthians, killing the crown prince Pacorus and expelling them from the Roman territories they had seized.
The Mets turnaround was complete in the 2006 season as they won 97 games and the NL East crown behind new acquisitions Carlos Beltran and Carlos Delgado, as well as young superstars Jose Reyes and David Wright.
In each of his two seasons with Toronto, Clemens won a Cy Young Award, as well as the pitching triple crown by leading the league in wins, ERA, and strikeouts.
Clemens signed a four-year, $ 40 million deal with the Toronto Blue Jays after the 1996 season, and won the pitching triple crown and the Cy Young Award in both his seasons in Toronto.
Pro Bowl running back Emmitt Smith won his fourth league rushing crown in his career with 1, 773 yards, and broke a league single-season record with 25 rushing touchdowns.
After Rupert had won some recognition in Southern Germany, Rupert made an expedition to the Italian kingdom, where he hoped to receive the Imperial crown and to crush the rule of Gian Galeazzo Visconti over the thriving Duchy of Milan.
Artabazanes claimed the crown as the eldest of all the children, because it was an established custom all over the world for the eldest to have the pre-eminence ; while Xerxes, on the other hand, urged that he was sprung from Atossa, the daughter of Cyrus, and that it was Cyrus who had won the Persians their freedom.
Edward had nevertheless won a significant victory, in clearly establishing the principle that all liberties essentially emanated from the crown.
In 2010 she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy making her the first actress to win the European " best actress triple crown ".
Still, Mantle was known as the " fastest man to first base " and won the American League triple crown after these injuries.
The battle, won by William, was a turning point in James ' unsuccessful attempt to regain the crown and ultimately helped ensure the continuation of Protestant ascendancy in Ireland.
After her son won the crown at the Battle of Bosworth Field, the Countess was now referred to in court as " My Lady the King's Mother ".
The Warriors won the 1963 – 64 Western Division crown, losing the NBA championship series to the Boston Celtics, four games to one.
Of Phrygian or Lydian birth, he departed his homeland for Greece, and won the crown of Pisa or Olympia from King Oenomaus.
In each of his Cy Young seasons, Koufax won the pitcher's triple crown by leading the NL in wins, strikeouts, and earned run average.
Torres won the crown in the Miss Universe pageant held in Mexico City on May 21, 1993.
The Broncs won 83-78 for the Class C boys basketball crown at MetraPark Arena in Billings, Montana.
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In the cow camps, Tom Horn was regarded as a hero, as the same kind of champion he was when he entered and invariably won the local rodeos.
In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.
To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.
A Junior who won two or more wins in the Open Class was eligible.
`` We were brought up that way '' was one statement which won general assent.
The September-October term jury had been charged by Fulton Superior Court Judge Durwood Pye to investigate reports of possible `` irregularities '' in the hard-fought primary which was won by Mayor-nominate Ivan Allen Jr..
Toying with her field in the early stages, Garden Fresh was asked for top speed only in the stretch by Jockey Philip Grimm and won by a length and a half in 1.24 3-5 for the 7 furlongs.
His statistical record that year, when Texas won only one game and lost nine, was far from impressive: he carried the ball three times for a net gain of 10 yards, punted once for 39 yards and caught one pass for 13 yards.
Turk Lown was tagged with the loss, his second against no victories, while Ray Moore won his second game against a single loss.
On that final Sunday at Pensacola neither Palmer nor Player was leading the tournament and, as it turned out, neither won it.
To Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson ( Time cover, Aug. 29 ), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960.
She was almost sick when Bobbie came home with the news that Poor John had won the job.
Instantaneously he would have won an immeasurable moral victory, for if she picked up, say, a pair of her panties, she might just as well lift his shorts lying alongside -- the expenditure of energy was almost the same.
Although Lincoln won only a plurality of the popular vote, his victory in the electoral college was decisive: Lincoln had 180 and his opponents added together had only 123.
In July 2009, it was revealed that Universal Studios had won the rights to adapt the game into a film.
The Republican Party was determined to prevent any spread of slavery, and many Southern leaders had threatened secession if the Republican candidate, Lincoln, won the 1860 election.
In some places, Camus makes the allegory explicit, as when he refers to the plague in terms that describe an enemy in war: " the epidemic was in retreat all along the line ; victory was won and the enemy was abandoning his positions.
It was won by Georges Bouton of the De Dion-Bouton Company, in a car he had constructed with Albert, the Comte de Dion, but as he was the only competitor to show up it is rather difficult to call it a race.
Australia won the 1977 Centenary Test which was not an Ashes contest, but then a storm broke as Kerry Packer announced his intention to form World Series Cricket.
It was the first time since 1894 – 95 that a team following on had won a Test match.
Australia went 2 – 0 up after three Tests, but England won the Fourth Test by 3 runs ( after a 70-run last wicket stand ) to set up the final decider, which was drawn.
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