Hornsby's performance helped guide the Giants to a 92 – 62 win – loss record during the season, which was good enough for third place in the NL.

In the spring of 1974 Hornsby's older brother Bobby, who attended the University of Virginia, formed the band " Bobby Hi-Test and the Octane Kids " to play fraternity parties, featuring Bruce on Fender Rhodes and vocals.

From July 12 to August 16, he had a 30-game hitting streak, tied for the second-longest in Cardinals ' history with Musial and behind only Rogers Hornsby's 33-game streak.

Hornsby's tracked vehicles were given trials as artillery tractors by the British Army on several occasions between 1905 and 1910, but not adopted.

It was built by Richard Hornsby in 1865, lived in by Richard Hornsby's son, and is now a private house.

Hornsby's popularity at the time with celebrities who caught his act can be judged from this anecdote by Sharlotte Spencer ( in her book From CIA Wife to Sobriety ):

Partially due to Hornsby's complaints, Hendricks was fired after the season and replaced by Branch Rickey, then president of the Cardinals.

The Cardinals held a special day in Hornsby's honor on September 30 before a home game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, and they presented Hornsby with multiple awards before the game, including a baseball autographed by President of the United States Warren G. Harding.

Winning the NL batting title by a 43-point margin, with an on-base percentage lead of 27 points and a 138-point slugging margin — the latter being the largest gap since Rogers Hornsby's 1925 season — Musial became the first player to win the NL MVP award for a third time.

" Critics praised the album for its production, its political relevance, and Hornsby's gestures toward expanding out of a strictly pop sound by incorporating jazz and bluegrass.

His. 420 batting average is the third-highest of the 20th century, surpassed only by Rogers Hornsby's. 424 in 1924 and Nap Lajoie's. 426 in 1901.

The following season with the Braves, Johnson enjoyed the best statistical year of his career when his offense exploded and he tied Rogers Hornsby's record for most single-season home runs by a second baseman with 42 ( he actually hit 43 that year, but one came as a pinch hitter – The Sporting News Baseball Record Book, 2007 p. 23 ).

Hornsby's action theory is significantly influenced by the philosophy of Donald Davidson.

In September, the Cardinals purchased Hornsby's contract from Denison and added him to their major league roster, although his only professional baseball experience had been in Class D. Hornsby's first game came on September 10, when he relieved Art Butler at shortstop in a 7 – 1 loss to the Cincinnati Reds.

Hornsby was born in Winters, Texas, the last of Ed and Mary ( Rogers ) Hornsby's six children.

Hornsby lacked confidence in Hendricks's ability to run the Cardinals, and the two men developed animosity towards each other as a result of Hornsby's growing egotism and fondness for former manager Huggins.

Cincinnati voter Jack Ryder left Hornsby's name off his ballot altogether because he believed Hornsby was an MVP on the stat sheet, but was not a team player.

Hornsby's recordings have been recognised on a number of occasions with industry awards, including the Best New Artist Grammy in 1987 with Bruce Hornsby and the Range, the Best Bluegrass Recording Grammy in 1990, and the Best Pop Instrumental Grammy in 1993.

Although Hornsby's collaboration with Bobby Hornsby would be relatively short-lived, Bobby's son R. S.

With the success of the single worldwide, the album The Way It Is went multi-platinum and produced another top five hit with " Mandolin Rain " ( co-written, as many of Hornsby's early songs were, with his brother John Hornsby ).

Hornsby and the Range's sound was distinctive for its consistent use of syncopation in his piano solos, a bright piano sound and an extensive use of synthesizers as background for Hornsby's solos, most notable on the tracks " The Show Goes On " and " The Road Not Taken ".

During the late 1980s and early 1990s Hornsby worked extensively as a producer and sideman, notably producing a comeback album for Leon Russell, an idol of Hornsby's.

Ultimately, though, the core " rock band " sound of the Range limited Hornsby's aspirations, and after a final three-week tour in 1991, Hornsby disbanded the outfit to enter a new phase of his career.

Following Hornsby's and Molo's involvement with The Other Ones, Molo left Hornsby to become the primary drummer with Phil Lesh and Friends.

" Critics have also commented upon the " close musical connection " formed between Hornsby and Jerry Garcia, suggesting that Hornsby's particular style of jazz-fueled improvisation added to the band's repertoire, and helped to revitalize and refocus Jerry Garcia's guitar solos in the band's sound.

Since his first involvement with the Grateful Dead, Hornsby's live shows have drawn Deadheads and Hornsby has commented: " I've always liked the group of fans that we've drawn from the Grateful Dead time, because those fans are often adventurous music listeners.

* Artist Nikki Hornsby's grandfather " Cheerful " Dan Hornsby recorded this song for Columbia Records # 1268-D 1929

On October 16, 1920, Hornsby's charter was written and a new government was formed.

Along with Hornsby's two, Tip O ' Neill won in the now-defunct American Association in 1887 while the team was known as the St. Louis Browns, and Joe Medwick added the Cardinals ' fourth in 1937.

The Scouts went out of business a third of the way through the season, and Hornsby's contract was sold to the Denison Champions of the same league for $ 125 ($ today ).

The 1931 season was Hornsby's last as a full-time player.

William Veeck, Sr., who was running the team, was unhappy with Hornsby's management of the team.

was a recurring guest-guitarist with Hornsby's band and periodically toured with his uncle.

According to legend, Wilbarger was thought to have been killed, but later that night Hornsby's wife saw Wilbarger in a dream sitting under a tree.

By the time the squad reaches the Japanese post, Riddle, Connolly, and Currie are dead from a botched ambush — which, Tosh mutters to Lawson, was entirely due to Hornsby's incompetence: they were positioned on both sides of the trail, and the dead men seem to have been the victims of friendly fire.

Feller primarily played as a shortstop and outfielder and emulated Rogers Hornsby's batting stance.

Both services shared breakfast and evening programmes with daytime output and specialist programmes broadcasting uniquely on each service-for instance on Saturday evenings, an Isle of Wight programme with Jean-Paul Hansford would air on Ocean Sound ( West )' s FM frequency, while an alternative, Guy Hornsby's Saturday Soul Club would air on Ocean Sound ( East ) and the AM transmitter of Ocean Sound ( West ).

The two original stations shared daytime output with specialist programmes for each station, such as a Saturday evening Isle of Wight programme with Jean-Paul Hansford on the West station on 103. 2, while Guy Hornsby's Saturday Soul Club on East, with the North service having its own programmes initially for 6am-2pm and then 5-9pm also, but relayed West at other times.

Waitara is a railway station on the CityRail network in Sydney servicing the suburb of Waitara, a small suburb to the east of Hornsby's CBD.

Hornsby's work focuses primarily on the philosophies of mind, action, language, and feminist philosophy.

Hornsby's replacements, hosting different nights each week, were Amsterdam ( Monday and Wednesday ) and the raucous Jerry Lester ( Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays ), the brother of character actor Buddy Lester.

Hornsby's replacements, hosting different nights each week, were Morey Amsterdam ( Monday and Wednesday ) and the raucous Jerry Lester ( Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays ), the brother of character actor Buddy Lester.

Four years later, the surviving Hornsbys moved to Fort Worth, Texas, so Hornsby's brothers could get jobs in the meat packing industry to support the family.

In 1914, Hornsby's older brother Everett, a minor league baseball player for many years, arranged for Rogers to get a tryout with the Texas League's Dallas Steers.

Hornsby's average improved that season to. 277 in 119 games, but he made 58 errors.

Under Hendricks, Hornsby's batting average dipped to. 281.

Hyland had Hornsby's knee placed in a cast for two weeks, after which he returned to the Cardinals.