They then won back to back World Series titles in 1907 – 08 In 1902, Spalding, who by this time had revamped the roster to boast what would soon be one of the best teams of the early century, sold the club to Jim Hart, and the franchise became known as the Chicago Cubs.

Jim Leyland, a two-time NL Manager of the Year who had won the World Series with the Florida Marlins two years earlier, was expected to bring the Rockies back into contention in 1999.

A retrospective of the director's films was hosted at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during February 1994, and another, " The Sad and Beautiful World of Jim Jarmusch ", by the American Film Institute in August 2005.

He followed that film with the hugely successful World War II epic The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ) in which top-billed Marvin again portrayed an intrepid commander of a colorful group ( future stars John Cassavetes, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jim Brown, and Donald Sutherland ) performing an almost impossible mission.

In a scene from It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, a pilot ( Jim Backus ) asks for an Old Fashioned while flying an airplane.

Though Ashburn and Roberts were gone, younger pitchers Art Mahaffey, Chris Short, and rookie Ray Culp ; veterans Jim Bunning and screwballer Jack Baldschun ; and fan favorites Cookie Rojas, Johnny Callison, and NL Rookie of the Year Richie Allen brought the team within a hairsbreadth of the World Series in 1964 after strong showings in 1962 and 1963.

At the beginning of the 2010 Major League Baseball season only one ( Jim Caple of ESPN. com, although he later recanted his pick before the NLCS, saying the Philadelphia Phillies would beat the Giants and advance to the World Series ) out of literally dozens of baseball writers and pundits picked the Giants to even reach the World Series, with most not expecting the Giants to even make the playoffs.

The Dolphins lost three of their most productive players Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick and Paul Warfield to the startup World Football League.

In 1988, Turner purchased Jim Crockett Promotions which he renamed World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) which became the main competitor to Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ).

Australian whiskies have won global whisky awards and medals, including the World Whiskies Awards and Jim Murray's Whisky Bible " Liquid Gold Awards ".

** Jim McKay, American sportscaster ( ABC's Wide World of Sports ) ( died 2008 )

, Jim Yong Kim serves as the President of the World Bank Group.

President of the World Bank Group Jim Yong Kim appointed Jin-Yong Cai to serve as the new Executive Vice President and CEO of the IFC.

, Jim Yong Kim serves as the President of the World Bank Group.

Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included Lucy Parsons ; Helen Keller ; Joe Hill ; Ralph Chaplin ; Ricardo Flores Magon ; James P. Cannon ; James Connolly ; Jim Larkin ; Paul Mattick ; Big Bill Haywood ; Eugene Debs ; David Dellinger ; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sam Dolgoff, Monty Miller ; Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal ; Frank Little ; ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin ; Harry Bridges, briefly, later helped form ILWU ; Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson ; Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder ; Fredy Perlman ; Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford ; graphic artist Carlos Cortez ; artist Kevin McCoy ; counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth ; Surrealist Franklin Rosemont ; Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament ; labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari ; folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics ; crime writer Jim Thompson ; Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa ; Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.

Other notable guest stars included: Cesar Romero as Chico's absentee father ; Tony Orlando as Chico's look-alike, the ex-fiance of a hostile woman he wants to date ; José Feliciano, who wrote the theme song, as Chico's womanizing famous-singer cousin Pepe Fernando ; Sammy Davis Jr. as himself ; Herbie Faye appeared as Bernie in the 1975 episode " Louie's Retirement "; Shelley Winters ( reuniting with Albertson, with whom she'd costarred in The Poseidon Adventure ) as the owner of the local bakery, Shirley Schrift ( her real name ); Jim Backus as Ed's friend who uses him as a " beard "— pretending to be playing cards with him when cheating on his wife ( Audra Lindley ); silent-film actress Carmel Myers as a former star who has fallen on hard times, brings in her car for repairs, and stays in the garage while looking for work ; George Takei as Ed's supposed long-lost son from his time in Japan during World War II ; Cesare Danova as Aunt Connie's Spanish aristocrat boyfriend, the Count de Catalan, in the second episode in which she appeared ; comedian Joey Bishop as an inept robber ; Bernie Kopell as a plastic surgeon ; Rose Marie as a CB radio enthusiast with whom a lonely Ed connects on New Year's Eve ; Penny Marshall, as a waitress ; football star Rosey Grier as himself, Della's date for a charity benefit dance ; Larry Hovis as a customer in the second episode of the first season ; and Jim Jordan ( of radio's Fibber McGee and Molly ) as a mechanic who used to be a big businessman, until he was victimized by his own company's retirement-age mandate ).

Then America enters World War I. Jim informs his worried mother that he has no intention of enlisting, but when he runs into his patriotic friends, he is persuaded to do just that, making his father very proud.

Keywords: World War II's returning veterans and the home / family culture of the 1950s, " transition from the traditional, visiting couple type of dancing into all-four-couple-working kind of dancing in the 1950s " ( Herb Egender ), the amplifier, phonograph, square dance records, Square Dancing Magazine ( formerly Sets in Order ), Step By Step Through Modern Square Dancing ( Jim Mayo )

In 1984, they attempted to kill the northern editor of the Sunday World, Jim Campbell after he had exposed the paramilitary activities of Mid-Ulster brigadier Robin Jackson.

Several sources indicate that Mid-Ulster UVF's brigadier, Robin " The Jackal " Jackson from Donaghcloney ( now deceased ) contacted members of the gang in the Shankill, " Mr A " in particular, and had them make an attempt on the life of journalist Jim Campbell, northern editor of the Sunday World newspaper, in May 1984.

* Jim Henson's Fantastic World: May 23-August 16, 2009

Elements of the Ohio Army National Guard were ordered to Kent State University by Ohio's governor Jim Rhodes to quell anti-Vietnam War protests, culminating in their shooting into a crowd of students on May 4, 1970, killing four and injuring nine.

* War Between the States: Autographs and Biographical Sketches by Jim Hayes, Palmetto Pub., 1989, 464 pages.

Camp Ford was the largest Confederate Prisoner of War Camp west of the Mississippi River during the American Civil War and was where Sheriff Jim Reed of Collin County and Judge McReynolds, former chief justice of the district were seized and lynched by " Regulators ".

After the Civil War, Galesburg was the birthplace of poet, author, and historian Carl Sandburg, poet and artist Dorothea Tanning, and former Major League Baseball star Jim Sundberg.

Part of the old hall had a Jim Crow-era monument to the local men and women from Natchez and Adams County who served in World War I.

* Jim Barnes-Oklahoma Poet Laureate for 2009 and 2010 and author of nine books of poetry, including On a Wing of the Sun, The Sawdust War, Paris, The American Book of the Dead, and Visiting Picasso.

Jim Crow was indirectly challenged as two million blacks served in the military during World War II, receiving equal pay in segregated units, and equally entitled to veterans ' benefits.

) Kaye ( best known in much of the U. S. as the voice of NFL Films ) did another equally well-received remake of " War of the Worlds " in 1971 using a revised script and some new cast members from among the staffers on hand at the time, including Jackson Armstrong and newsmen Jim McLaughlin and Joe Downey.

* 1954: Jim G. Lucas, Scripps-Howard Newspapers, " for his notable front-line human interest reporting of the Korean War, the cease-fire and the prisoner-of-war exchanges, climaxing 26 months of distinguished service as a war correspondent.

* 1991: Jim Hoagland, Washington Post, " for searching and prescient columns on events leading up to the Gulf War and on the political problems of Mikhail Gorbachev.

Jim Brooks, a spokesman for the Defense Intelligence Agency, such playing cards have been used as far back as the Civil War and again in World War II — Army Air Corps decks printed with the silhouettes of German and Japanese fighter aircraft fetch hundreds of dollars today — and in the Korean War.

Jim Jones was born in a rural area of Randolph County near the Ohio border, to James Thurman Jones ( May 31, 1887 – May 29, 1951 ), a World War I veteran, and Lynetta Putnam ( April 16, 1902 – December 11, 1977 ).

Jim ( Sutherland ) when he was overseas in the Great War ( 1914 – 18 ) and at the time, President of the Ontario Hockey Association ( 1915 – 17 ).

* Jim Dunnigan ’ s Hundred Years ’ War

* Origins of World War I, a historical pencil-and-paper game by Jim Dunnigan which teaches players history

Among other relatives of Fred include: Giggles Flintstone, a rich, eccentric practical joker whose jokes drive Fred into a mad rage ; Uncle Tex, Fred's rich Texan uncle ; Tumbleweed ( who, strangely enough, resembles Uncle Tex ) and Mary Lou Jim, Fred's rich Texan cousins ; and Rocky Flintstone, Fred's grandfather, who was a veteran of Stone World War One.

For the United States of America, 1945 to 1964 was an era of economic growth and prosperity which saw the victorious powers of World War II confronting each other in the Cold War and the triumph of the Civil Rights Movement that ended Jim Crow segregation in the South.

There was a reference that Jim Henson tried to sneak into Heaven only for him and Kermit the Frog to end up in a flat rectangle prison ( similar to General Zod in Superman II ) as Kermit begs for them to be released.

His other musical collaborators include Michael Moorcock, Brian Eno, Arthur Brown, Jim Capaldi, Steve Pond, Inner City Unit, Vivian Stanshall, Nektar, John Greaves, Adrian Wagner, Amon Düül II, and Spirits Burning ( posthumously ).

Frank Frederick Borman, II ( born March 14, 1928 ) is a retired NASA astronaut, best remembered as the Commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon, making him, along with fellow crew mates Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, the first of only 24 humans to do so.

* Ward II Aldermen: Jim Sear and Beverly Johnson

The current mayor of the City of Fredericktown is Kelly Korokis and Alderman are: Ward I Paul Brown and Harold Thomas, Ward II Rick Polete and Phil Wulfurt and Ward III Jim Miller and D. J.

The Big Board ( 1980 ) and Big Board II ( 1982 ) were Z80 based single-board computers designed by Jim Ferguson.

In 1976 most of the members of the SWRP joined Jim Sillars ' Scottish Labour Party and this SWRP Mark II party also became defunct.

He collaborated with a broad range of artists including Phil Lynott, George Harrison, Trilok Gurtu, Dr. Strangely Strange, Colosseum II, Travelling Wilburys, Albert Collins, Jimmy Nail, Mo Foster, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Jim Capaldi, B. B.

Curfews have long been directed at certain groups in many cities or states, such as Japanese-American university students on the West Coast of the United States during World War II, African-Americans in many towns during the time of Jim Crow laws, or people younger than a certain age ( usually within a few years either side of 18 ) in many towns of the United States since the 1980s ; see below.

* Jim Grover ( martial arts ), famous instructor in World War II combatives and defensive shooting tactics

Jim Taylor was responsible for product management in the early days, and worked closely with Wayne Ratliff and the other key developers on dBASE II.

Groomed by Jim Crockett Jr. as his future top star, Flair won the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship when he defeated Bobo Brazil on July 29, 1977 ; and during the next three years, he held five reigns as U. S. Champion while feuding with Ricky Steamboat, Roddy Piper, Mr. Wrestling II, Jimmy Snuka, and Greg Valentine ( with whom he also formed a championship tag team ).

In the meantime, World War II has started in Europe and Paul and Jim are determined to go to New York to enlist in the Army.

* Yachtsmen to have lost their lives: Mike Bannister ( Winston Churchill, 1998 ), Glyn Charles ( Sword of Orion, 1998 ), Ray Crawford ( Billabong, 1988 ), John Dean ( Winston Churchill, 1998 ), Bruce Guy ( Business Post Naiad, 1998 ), Jim Lawler ( Winston Churchill, 1998 ), Wally Russell ( Yahoo II, 1984 ), John Sarney ( Inca, 1973 ), Phillip Skeggs ( Business Post Naiad, 1998 ), Peter Taylor ( BP Flying Colours, 1989 ) and Hugh ( Barry ) Vallance ( Zilvergeest III, 1975 )

In 2000, Dolby introduced Dolby Pro Logic II ( DPL II ), an improved implementation of Dolby Pro Logic created by Jim Fosgate.

Jim Salicrup, " New Universe Part II ," Marvel Age # 48, Marvel Comics Group, Mar.

* Jim Thompson World War II activities

Bangka is famous for two other events: the Banka Island massacre during World War II, perpetrated by the Japanese against Australian nurses and British and Australian servicemen and civilians, and for reputedly being the setting for the book Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad.