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Hornsby was born in Winters, Texas, the last of Ed and Mary ( Rogers ) Hornsby's six children.
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Cubs broadcaster Jack Brickhouse called it the hardest ball he had ever seen hit without benefit of the wind, while " Cubs ' batting coach batting coach Rogers Hornsby ," reported Les Biederman of The Sporting News, " said it was the longest he ever witnessed and manager Bob Scheffing agreed it was No. 1 in his book.
In January 2007, a tribute album, entitled Endless Highway: The Music of The Band, was released which included contributions by My Morning Jacket, Death Cab for Cutie, Gomez, Guster, Bruce Hornsby, Jack Johnson and ALO, Lee Ann Womack, The Allman Brothers Band, Blues Traveler, Jakob Dylan, and Rosanne Cash, amongst others.
While in the training camp of the Millers camp for the springtime, Williams met Rogers Hornsby, who had hit over. 400 three times, including a. 424 average in 1924, who was a coach for the Millers for the spring.
Once during one of their yearly debate sessions on the greatest hitters of all-time Williams asserted that Hornsby was one of the greatest of all-time.
Pop music was the focus of June 7, with Paul Shaffer hosting performances by Art Garfunkel, Bruce Hornsby, k. d.
In his stead, the band used session musicians such as Irving ( who was no longer an official band member ), Snow, Steve Nieve, Bruce Hornsby and Carol Isaacs for the 1991 release Play, which came out on the Reprise label.
In 1986 Mansfield was an initial member of Bruce Hornsby and the Range, including playing the title instrument on the hit " Mandolin Rain ".
It was replaced by a Lister diesel engine, and then a Ruston and Hornsby engine.
At about the same time a British agricultural company, Hornsby in Grantham, developed a continuous track which was patented in 1905.
Crainville would become a railroad town in the early 1900s and a new train depot was built by the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad on a farm owned by Kimborough Hornsby.
Hornsby was historically known for its artesian well which was historically located at the former Whitehurst Motor Company.
* Rogers Hornsby, Major League Baseball great, was born in Winters on April 27, 1896.
A post office was reestablished in the Manor home in 1859 under the name of Grassdale with James Manor again serving as Post Master but it was discontinued during the Civil War when the stage line route shifted its route through Hornsby Bend.
He was elected President of the Royal Astronomical Society ( 1882 – 1884 ), and he was the first to recognize the importance of the old observations accumulated at the Radcliffe Observatory by Hornsby, Robertson and Rigaud.
It was built by Richard Hornsby in 1865, lived in by Richard Hornsby's son, and is now a private house.
The Other Ones was an American rock band formed in 1998 by former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, and Mickey Hart, along with part-time Grateful Dead collaborator Bruce Hornsby.
Following the initial order from Vulcan Foundry, a second order was placed shortly after with Ruston & Hornsby.
The show was originally to be hosted by comic Don " Creesh " Hornsby ( so named because he yelled " Creesh " often ), but he died of polio two weeks before the premiere broadcast.
Rogers Hornsby was the first to accomplish it, winning his first in 1922 and then leading all major leagues in 1925 en route to his second Triple Crown, both with the St. Louis Cardinals.
The show was originally to be hosted by comic Don " Creesh " Hornsby ( so named because he yelled " Creesh " often ), but he died of polio two weeks before the premiere broadcast.
: I knew Don Hornsby, from my days in Long Beach and Belmont Shore when Bob Hope was helping Don get his start.
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Bruce Randall Hornsby ( born November 23, 1954 ) is an American singer, pianist, accordion player, and songwriter.
Bruce Randall Hornsby was born in Williamsburg, Virginia, a son of Robert Stanley Hornsby ( 1920 – 1998 ), a real-estate developer and former musician, and his wife, née Lois Saunier.
* Brian Hornsby ( born 1954 ), English footballer
* Bruce Hornsby ( born 1954 ), American musician
* Ernest C. Hornsby ( born 1936 ), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama
* Jennifer Hornsby ( born 1951 ), British philosopher
Gleeson was born in the Sydney district of Hornsby and he attended East Sydney Technical College.
Daniel Arthur Parks ( born 26 May 1978 in Hornsby, New South Wales ) is a Scottish former international rugby union player who plays for RaboDirect Pro12 side Connacht Rugby as fly-half.
Jim Lees was born in 1919 at Hornsby and went on to attend the Hurlstone Agricultural High School.
Jennifer Hornsby ( born 1951 ) is a British philosopher with interests in the philosophies of mind, action, language, as well as feminist philosophy.
Paul Jonathan Blake was born in the Sydney suburb of Hornsby in 1958, an only child of parents who were classical musicians.
Hornsby and Texas
Born and raised in Texas, Hornsby played for several semi-professional and minor league teams.
That year, Hornsby began operating a baseball school in Hot Springs, Texas, which he ran on and off between 1933 and 1951 with various associates.
Hornsby did not become a manager or coach again until 1950, when he was hired to manage the Texas League's Beaumont Roughnecks.
He was buried in the Hornsby family cemetery in Hornsby Bend, Texas.
* Rogers Hornsby – Austin, Texas
Texas fans enjoyed watching such major leaguers as Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Rogers Hornsby play in their home town.
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Hornsby missed several games late in the year with injuries that the Cardinals ( and Hyland ) did not believe to be serious ; as a result he was fined $ 500 ($ today ) and suspended for the last five games of the year.
Hornsby played right field from May 29 to June 10, appeared in two games as a pinch hitter, played third base from July 14 through July 18, and played one last game as a Cub when he pinch-hit on July 31.
Hornsby was claimed by the last place St. Louis Browns of the American League ( AL ) on July 26 as player-manager.
A day later, Hornsby was fired as manager and released as a player by the Browns, who were in last place at the time of his release.
However, Hornsby was often hard to get along with, a major reason he changed teams so frequently in the last decade of his career.
It was not known at the time, but the stadium's last event was The Grateful Dead's concert on July 7, 1989, with Bruce Hornsby & The Range as their opening act.
A fixed train stop that is the last one on a running line in the reverse direction may, despite its name, be suppressed, as is the case with the associated " Fixed Signals " on the CityRail ( Sydney ) network at Macarthur, Turella, East Hills, Emu Plains, Chatswood, Hornsby, Glenfield, Homebush, etc.
Asquith was the last railway station to open between Hornsby railway station and the Hawkesbury River.
The neighbourhood is, however, located on the North Shore Railway Line, and is the last stop before it meets the Northern Line at Hornsby.
The last descendant, Bruce Fagan, specified in his will that the land be granted to Hornsby Shire Council and be developed into parkland.
As of May 8, 2012, he is the last living person to play on the same major league baseball field as Baseball Hall of Fame member Rogers Hornsby.
On May 7, 1937, Parker appeared for the Philadelphia Athletics while Hornsby played one of his last games for the St. Louis Browns.
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