Bobby Lowe of Boston was the first to hit four at home and Gil Hodges turned the trick in Brooklyn's Ebbetts Field.

At least, we were together and we had Mrs. Hodges, bless her, to look after us -- no mother could be fonder of Gladdy than Mrs. Hodges was.

Since the rule was reinstated in its present form, Gil Hodges of the Dodgers holds the record for most sacrifice flies in one season with 19, in 1954 ; Eddie Murray holds the record for most sacrifice flies in a career with 128.

Some meteorites have informal nicknames: the Sylacauga meteorite is sometimes called the " Hodges meteorite " after Ann Hodges, the woman who was struck by it ; the Canyon Diablo meteorite, which formed Meteor Crater has dozens of these aliases.

Coltrane was little known at the time, in spite of earlier collaborations with Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Bostic, and Johnny Hodges.

This video, released by the NTSB, was recorded by a Toll booth | toll-booth camera located on the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge.

In the view of the American commanders, Bradley, Hodges and Collins, the direct route to the dam was through the forest.

Born in Chelsea, London, to a family descended from Huguenots ( the name was an Anglicisation of " Perthuis "; his full surname being " de Perthuis de Laillevault "), he was the son of noted screenwriter and actor Roland Pertwee and distant cousin of actor Bill Pertwee, who played Chief Warden Hodges in the comedy Dad's Army ( coincidentally, Jon Pertwee was the writers ' first choice for the role of Captain George Mainwaring in Dad's Army ).

To the south, the U. S. 12th Army Group under Lieutenant General Omar Bradley was nearing the German border and had been ordered to orient on the Aachen gap with Lieutenant General Courtney Hodges ' U. S. First Army, in support of Montgomery's advance on the Ruhr.

One notable showcase was his album with the noted jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges.

Reforestation lagniappe was the creation of Hodges Gardens in the 1950s, which opened a brand new industry.

Mrs. Ann E. Hodges was on her sofa in her Oak Grove home when something crashed through her roof, striking her on the hip.

On November 30, 1954, a 4 kg piece of what became known as the Hodges Meteorite crashed through the roof of an Oak Grove house, bounced off a radio, and badly bruised Mrs. Ann Hodges, who was taking an afternoon nap.

Prineville was founded in 1877 when Monroe Hodges filed the original plat for the city.

* Ron Hodges, former New York Mets catcher, was born and grew up in Rocky Mount.

* George H. Hodges, 19th governor of the state of Kansas was born in Orion.

Edward Hodges Baily RA FRS ( 10 March 1788 – 22 May 1867 )-( sometimes misspelled Bailey ) was an English sculptor who was born in Downend in Bristol.

During the legal and public campaigns against the writs of assistance and Stamp Act 1765, Bonham's Case was given as a justification for nullifying the legislation, and in the income tax case of 1895, Joseph Hodges Choate used Coke's argument that a tax upon the income of property is a tax on the property itself to have the Supreme Court of the United States declare the Wilson – Gorman Tariff Act unconstitutional, leading to the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment.

His most prominent role was that of ARP Warden William Hodges in Dad's Army, which he played in both the original television series and the radio adaptations, as well as the radio sequel It Sticks Out Half a Mile, set after the war.

There has been controversy over the fact that Gil Hodges has not been elected to membership in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

In addition, his career batting average of. 273 was likely frowned on by many Hall of Fame voters in his early years of eligibility ; at the time of his death, only five players had ever been elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America with batting averages below. 300 – all of them catchers or shortstops, and only one ( Rabbit Maranville ) who had an average lower than Hodges ' or who had not won an MVP award.

Nonetheless, Hodges was the prototype of the modern slugging first baseman, and while the post-1961 expansion era has resulted in numerous players surpassing his home run and RBI totals, he remains the only one of the 21 players who had 300 or more home runs by the time of his retirement who has not yet been elected ( all but Chuck Klein and Johnny Mize were elected by the BBWAA ).

Because North Carolina had a one-term limit for governors at that time, Hodges had the longest continuous tenure in the office until the state constitution was changed and Jim Hunt was elected to a second term in 1980.

In 2002, he was elected the 115th Governor of South Carolina, defeating Democratic incumbent Jim Hodges, and was reelected in 2006.

He continued to serve in the House until 1940, when he was elected to the Florida Senate to fill an unexpired term of the late William Hodges.

In 2008, Hodges was elected into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame, joining his longtime broadcast partner Simmons, who was inducted in 2006.

As South Carolina's 114th governor, Hodges worked to add the Martin Luther King Holiday to the state's official calendars.

Now in private practice, Lake remained coy but continued to assist segregationist efforts, attacking the sitting governor, Luther Hodges for caving in to national pressure to adopt a moderate course and preparing a bill for the North Carolina General Assembly that would have amended the state's constitution to remove the requirement for a system of publicly-funded schools.

Critics in both parties suggested that Hodges ' debts to the state's gambling interests were keeping him from campaigning against legalized gambling.

State legislators shut down the state's video casinos soon after Hodges took office.

Hodges alienated moderate voters sufficiently so that in 2002, most of the state's major newspapers supported Republican Mark Sanford to replace him.

Hodges was held responsible for the state's mishandling of the Hurricane Floyd evacuation in 1999.

When Hodges ran for governor in 1998, it was as an underdog against his Republican opponent, incumbent governor David Beasley.

In fact, Hodges became the first challenger in over a century to defeat a sitting governor in South Carolina.

* In 2001 Governor Jim Hodges attended the university's annual memorial of the event, the first governor to do so.

Fans were very supportive even when Hodges suffered through one of the most famous slumps in baseball history, going hitless in the last nine games of 1952 ; during the 1952 World Series against the Yankees, he finished the Series 0-21 at the plate as Brooklyn lost in seven games.

Hodges was involved in a blown call in the 1952 World Series.

Richard Hodges OBE, FSA ( born 29 September 1952 ) is a British archaeologist and president of The American University of Rome.

* Richard Hodges ( archaeologist ) ( born 1952 ), British archaeologist

As the build-up continued in Normandy, the 3rd Army was formed under Patton, Bradley's former commander, while General Hodges succeeded Bradley in command of the 1st Army ; together, they made up Bradley's new command, the 12th Army Group.

Hodges immediately announced his retirement from playing in order to clearly focus on his new position.

As of July 1, 2012, Hodges has taken up the position of president of the American University of Rome.

The close season saw Mick Jones-manager of Plymouth lose his job, and Hodges and McCall took the position at their former club, in a reign that lasted a further two years.

On 1 May, Lockyer was named captain in the 17-man squad for the annual ANZAC Test Match in his usual position of five-eighth, he will be joined by four other Brisbane Broncos team-mates, Justin Hodges, Jharal Yow Yeh, Sam Thaiday and Ben Hannant, as well as 9 team-mates from his Queensland team ; Billy Slater, Greg Inglis, Johnathan Thurston, Petero Civoniceva, Cameron Smith, Matt Scott, Cooper Cronk and Dave Shillington.

On 19 October 2010, it was announced on the Fulham FC website that Lewington had been given the job of leading the club's Youth Development Program and that taking his position as first team coach would be Glyn Hodges.

First baseman Gil Hodges was playing close to the bag, but with a 3-run lead, the normal strategy would have been to position for a possible double play.