Lou Gehrig was given the nickname Buster, and he ran Ruth a close race in home runs.

Despite making the race very close, in the 161st game of the season, the Dodgers snapped their five-game losing streak – and the Rockies ' five-game winning streak – to clinch the West title.

Whichever figure is right, the fact remains that the human race seemingly came close to extinction about 75, 000 years ago.

Apart from brake wear in the Porsche and the decision not to change pads so close to the race end, the winning combination was relaxed driving by both GT40 drivers and heroic efforts at the right time by ( at that time Le Mans ' rookie ) Ickx, who won Le Mans five times more in later years.

Finding no top drivers available despite coming close to bringing Rindt back to the team, Brabham decided to race for one more year.

In 1988 the team had another strong season, finishing only two games out of first ( albeit with a lesser record than the previous year ) in a close playoff race with four other clubs.

And, as the race courses are close to shore, tight and fast, it ’ s a great sight to watch. It ’ s also a serious challenge for the teams.

Sesardic argues that when several traits are analyzed at the same time, forensic anthropologists can classify a person's race with an accuracy of close to 100 % based on only skeletal remains.

Segregation, however, often allowed close contact in hierarchical situations, such as allowing a person of one race to work as a servant for a member of another race.

Shirley Dean was first elected Mayor of Berkeley in 1994 after a close run-off race.

This significant result led to expectations of a close race in the presidential elections scheduled for November 2001.

The promoter of the event at Madison Square Garden, reluctant to close his stadium for half the day, realised that giving each rider a partner with whom he could share the racing meant the race could still go on 24 hours a day but that no one rider would exceed the 12-hour limit.

In a letter, published after the election, Grant sought to unequivocally distance himself from General Orders No. 11: " Grant's self-serving explanation ", notes Jonathan Sarna, " did not actually bear close scrutiny ," but Jews nonetheless generously accepted his attempt at self-extrication: " I have no prejudice against sect or race, but want each individual to be judged by his own merit.

* November 8 – United States presidential election, 1960: In a close race, John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard Nixon, to become ( at 43 ) the second youngest man to serve at the President of the United States, and the youngest man elected to this position.

In addition, it reveals, Daley withheld many votes from certain wards when the race seemed close.

Although some political pundits predicted a close race, Roosevelt went on to win the greatest electoral landslide since the beginning of the current two-party system in the 1850s, carrying all but 8 electoral votes.

Biographers Robert Caro and W. Marvin Watson offer a different perspective ; they write that the Kennedy campaign was desperate to win what was forecast to be a very close race against Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr .. Johnson was needed on the ticket to help carry Texas and the Southern states.

None of the race cars are permitted to pass the pace car ( or the race cars in front of them ), but each of the race cars wants to stay as close to the pace car as it can.

By the following March, the race between Kelly and Garland for the Oscar was very close.

In 1970, he won the presidency in a close three-way race, formally elected by Congress as no candidate had gained a majority.

Regulations are usually designed to limit costs by banning some of the more exotic technologies available ( for instance, many series insist on a " control tyre " that all competitors must use ) and keep the racing close ( sometimes by ballast weight where winning a race requires the winner's car to be heavier for subsequent races ).

Metzenbaum would go on to seek a rematch against Taft in 1976, winning a close race on Jimmy Carter's coattails.

At the close of the war, Lt. Burnside served two years on the western frontier, serving under Captain Braxton Bragg in the 3rd U. S. Artillery, a light artillery unit that had been converted to cavalry duty, protecting the Western mail routes through Nevada to California.

Walter Plankinton opened the Nevada Chicken Ranch in 1976, as close to Las Vegas as legally possible.

The 51s take their name from Area 51 which is located close to Rachel, Nevada, about 80 miles north of Las Vegas, although the route that must be taken by car to get there takes about three hours of travel.

Ray had a close relationship with journalist and television game show panelist Dorothy Kilgallen who gave a boost to his sagging American career during his engagement at the Tropicana Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1965.

The political action committee affiliated with Amonix Solar, a Nevada solar energy firm that received $ 5. 9 million in federal economic stimulus funds only to close in 2012, gave almost half of the money it spent to Berkley.

In what marked the debut of the Compubox system, he defeated Mancini by an extremely close but unanimous fifteen round decision to retain his world title at Reno, Nevada, in front of an HBO Boxing audience, on February 16, 1985.

Throughout the 1990s, they continued to perform various concert dates at venues around the world, frequently at Harrah's Lake Tahoe which was close to their home near Carson City, Nevada.

It is located in far western Utah, close to the Nevada border, and it extends both north and south of Interstate Highway 80, with several miles of separation on each side of the Interstate Highway.

In North America, the species is most common east of the Rocky Mountains, and is absent from much of the western United States, including Nevada, Utah, California, Hawaii, and Alaska ( though its close relatives, the black-tailed or mule deer Odocoileus hemionus, can be found there ).

Howard Dean attracts nearly twice as many voters in each race as John Edwards taking second place in Nevada ( 17 % vs 10 %) and third in Washington, D. C. ( 18 % vs 10 %) close behind Al Sharpton with 20 %.

Due to state budget cuts, there have been proposals to close down Nevada State College.

Due to budget cuts, there have been proposals to close down Nevada State College along with other NHSE programs and schools.

In the meantime, Hendrickson, angry at Sterling for giving his dismissal, gets one of the board members Terrence Wheeler ( who happens to be a close friend of Hendrickson ) of Sterling Labs to authorize an airstrike with the Nevada State Military with the usage of tranquilized cartridges.

Shortly after returning to Las Vegas, Nevada, Steckler, who had been fighting heart disease for close to ten years, died of cardiac arrest on January 7, 2009, aged 70.

It was the first train to visit all 48 contiguous states ( the 1936 Rexall Train had come close, but missed Nevada ).

* November 2005: The ShopKo stores in Reno, Nevada close because of a poor economic climate.

" Golla ( 2007: 77 ) suggests that a " pre-proto-Yokuts " homeland was in the Great Basin, citing a rich plant and animal vocabulary for a dry environment and a close connection between Yokuts basketry styles and those of prehistoric central Nevada.

In the Nevada example, crossovers were constructed where the lines ran in close proximity to allow reverse movements.

After the 1980s, Harding did little more climbing, retiring to the northern hills of the Sierra Nevada, going hot-air ballooning with his close friends Mary-Lou Long and Roger Derryberry, and continuing his love of cheap red wine.

The Lonquimay is fed by some glaciers of Sierra Nevada and passes close to the town of the same name.

There is some talk of the Flyers moving to Reno, Nevada, and of the D-League placing another team in Fort Worth, citing their close proximity to the Dallas Mavericks.

A noted campaign manager, House minority leader Richard Gephardt once asked Monserratt to help with several close congressional races in California and Nevada.