The boss threatens Lefty if he forgets the secret knock in the future, then goes outside with another associate to test Lefty's memory.

In 1940, Lefty suffered an arm injury, which left him up for grabs by another team, but in 1941 he played fairly well, winning 15 and losing 5.

Simmons had another great season winning his 2nd batting title hitting. 390 with 22 home runs, 128 RBI's, 100 runs scored, 200 hits, 37 doubles, 13 triples and slugged. 641 while playing in only 128 games, finishing 3rd in AL MVP voting behind the MVP, his teammate pitcher Lefty Grove and the Yankees Lou Gehrig.

Featuring another future Hall-of-Fame pitcher in Lefty Grove, the Orioles improved on that in 1920 by winning 110 games, including the last 25 of the season.

In his rookie year, Newsome won 19 games ( third in the American League ) and compiled 10 shutouts, leading a Red Sox pitching rotation that included Charlie Wagner, Mickey Harris, Joe Dobson and Lefty Grove.

Initially mortified, Lefty asks Stretch to play the tape on her nightly radio show so the law enforcers and the people will have to listen to him.

As such, the educational benefit of the " Lefty " skits seemed to be his descriptions of his wares.

A left-handed specialist is sometimes called a LOOGY ( or Lefty One-Out GuY ), a term which can be used pejoratively ( coined by John Sickels ).

Odets's first play to be produced was the one-act Waiting for Lefty, on January 5, 1935, at the Civic Repertory Theatre on Fourteenth Street in New York City.

When the vampiress is revealed to be Lefty Callahan, Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy realize they made a mistake with suspecting Daphne and she's feeling well again.

Only three pitchers, Lefty Grove, Warren Spahn, and Early Wynn, joined the 300 win club between 1924 and 1982, which may be explained by a number of factors: the abolition of the spitball, World War II military service, such as Bob Feller's, and the growing importance of the home run in the game.

Benjamin " Lefty " Ruggiero, who helped Pistone formally become a Bonanno associate, was also targeted, but was arrested en route to the meeting where he was expected to be murdered.

He discovers that, without any microscopes (" We are poor people "), Lefty and his accomplices managed to put appropriately-sized horseshoes ( with the craftsmen's engraved signatures ) on the flea ( Lefty made the nails, which cannot be seen since they are so small ), which amazes the tsar and the English ( even though the flea now cannot dance as it used to ).

The sailor is treated well, but Lefty, authorities finding no identification on him and believing him to be a common drunkard, send him off to a hospital for unknowns to die.

She wanted me to be a pall bearer but I had to go back to work, I couldn ’ t let Lefty down and we had to play in Texas.

Bobo Henderson, Joe B. Scott, Mule Miles, Lefty Bell, James " Red " Moore, Mack " The Knife " Pride and Charley Pride ( who went on to a legendary career in country music ), were among the players selected.

McAfee, nicknamed " Lefty McAfee " in high school and " One Play McAfee " when he played in the NFL, went on to star at Duke University and for the Chicago Bears.

Belew would also co-write two songs on Rob Fetters ' Lefty Loose-Righty Tight album in 1998.

However, he, like Lefty the Salesman, Guy Smiley, and The Amazing Mumford, is still a popular main character on Sesamstrasse, the German version of the show.

Lefty the Salesman — commonly known as Lefty or simply The Salesman ) was a Muppet character on the children's television program Sesame Street.

The Lefty character is reminiscent of a comedic character played by Sheldon Leonard on the Jack Benny radio and television programs.

In 1983, six years after Emmylou Harris had first popularized it, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard covered his song " Pancho and Lefty ," scoring a number one hit on the Billboard country music charts.

Several of Van Zandt's compositions were recorded by other artists, such as Emmylou Harris who, with Don Williams, had a No. 3 country hit in 1981 with " If I Needed You ," and Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, the pair taking " Pancho & Lefty " to number one on the country charts in 1983.

Lefty leadoff man Chase Leavitt was a senior outfielder on the 2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team.

Following an investigation, the NCAA placed the Terrapin Men's basketball program on a three year probation due to academic and recruiting violations by both Lefty Driesell and his successor, Bob Wade.

Namely the Tomorrow People contact TIM via wrist communicators as the computer is non-telepathic while the characters of Ginge and Lefty are portrayed as much younger characters than they were on screen.

* 1987, the Yankees dedicated plaques for Monument Park at Yankee Stadium for Ford and Lefty Gomez ; Ford's plaque describes him as " ne of the greatest pitchers ever to step on a mound.

Lefty Grove had a no-hitter through seven innings on Opening Day, and said in response to Feller's performance to the Tigers, " I'm not sorry I didn't get a no-hitter.

Nicknamed El Chino (" The Chinese ") and El zurdo de Vitacura (" Vitacura's Lefty "), he became the first Latin American player to reach the top position on the Association of Tennis Professionals ( ATP ) singles rankings in 1998.

Then on January 27, 1943, the Yankees sold Lefty to the Boston Braves for $ 10, 000.

They pounded him half to death while Lefty, seated calmly on the bleachers, monitored the incident with interest.

After the beating, Lefty waved Grokett over to him to lecture him on good sportsmanship.

Lefty spent the last years of his life in Novato, California, and died of congestive heart failure on February 17, 1989, in Marin General Hospital in Larkspur.

On February 26, 1933, Lefty married June O ’ Dea ( born Eilean Frances Schwarz on December 18, 1912 in Revere, Massachusetts ; died December 5, 1992 in Novato, California ).

Lefty and June went on to have two daughters, Vernona and Sharon, and two sons, Gery and Duane.

The Series opener was a battle of aces, as the Giants sent screwballer Carl Hubbell, who had won 22 games during the season, to the mound against the Bombers ' Lefty Gomez, who had won 21.

Dick McAuliffe cracked the first of his two doubles against Lefty Don Rudolph to open the Bear's attack.

Lefty Tyler of the Braves went up against Bullet Joe Bush in a twelve inning thriller.

Following his 1935 successes Waiting for Lefty and Awake and Sing !, Odets went to Hollywood to write The General Died at Dawn with the intention of using his salary to support the Group Theatre, the independent theatre company that had produced his earlier plays, despite his previous protests against large corporations, including movie studios.

John Henry was given to a new trainer, Lefty Nickerson.

During his career as a defense attorney he represented defendants accused of being some of the leading organized crime figures in Las Vegas, such as Meyer Lansky, Nicky Scarfo, Herbert " Fat Herbie " Blitzstein, Phil Leonetti, former Stardust Casino boss Frank ' Lefty ' Rosenthal, and Jamiel " Jimmy " Chagra, a 1970s drug trafficker who was acquitted of ordering the murder of Federal Judge John H. Wood, Jr. His most notorious client was reputed Chicago mobster Anthony " Tony the Ant " Spilotro, who was known to have a short and violent temper.

In 2003, Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith wrote a book titled Of Rats and Men: Oscar Goodman's Life from Mob Mouthpiece to Mayor of Las Vegas, which chronicles Goodman's life, including 35 years spent defending notorious U. S. crime figures, including, among others, Meyer Lansky, Anthony " Tony The Ant " Spilotro and Frank " Lefty " Rosenthal ( The last two were portrayed respectively, and under different names, in the film Casino by Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro ).

Over the years, country music greats such as Hank Williams, Webb Pierce, Kitty Wells, Jimmie Davis, Will Strahan, Slim Whitman, Floyd Cramer, Sonny James, Hank Snow, Faron Young, Johnny Horton, Jim Reeves, Claude King, Jimmy Martin, George Jones, John and The Three Wise Men, Johnny Cash, Frankie Miller, Tex Ritter, and Lefty Frizzell, among many others performed on Louisiana Hayride.

Napolitano's crew included Bonanno street soldiers Benjamin " Lefty " Ruggiero, Nicholas Santora, Louis Attanasio, John Cersani, Jerome Asaro, Sandro Asaro, John Faraci, Daniel Mangelli, Robert Lino, Frank Lino, Richard Riccardi, Joseph Grimaldi, Nicholas Accardi, Peter Rosa, Patrick DeFillipo, Michael Mancuso, Vito Grimaldi, Anthony Urso, James Tartaglione, Joseph Cammarano, John Zancocchio, Edward Barberra, Frankie Fish, Bobby Badheart, Bobby Smash and his previous capo Michael Sabella, Joseph Puma, Steven Maruca, Salvatore Farrugia, Anthony Pesiri, Antonio Tomasulo, Anthony Rabito, Raymond Wean, Frank DiStefano, Salvatore D ' Ottavio, James Episcopa and Donnie Brasco.

* March 11-Saltis-McErlane gunmen Charles " Big Hayes " Hubacek and Frank " Lefty " Koncil are killed, possibly by Capone gunman in retaliation for Koncil's recent acquittal for the 1926 murder of Sheldon member John " Mitters " Foley, while driving through Southside O ' Donnell's territory.

Luther then contacts Alderman Tompkins to try to avert the riot, while Lefty and a large group of blacks, including Luther's brother-in-law John ( Ossie Davis, uncredited ), meet and plan their strategy.

* Animation Directors: Jay Sarbry, Frank Andrina, Oliver " Lefty " Callahan, John Drake, Bob Goe, Grzegorz Handzlik, Erna Kaluza, Les Kaluza, Rick Leon, Don Patterson, Bill Perkins, Joanna Romersa, Paul Sommers, Stanislaw Szszepanik, Phil Vallentin, Tim Walker

* John C. Reilly as Lefty, a singing cowboy

Players on the roster included Luke Easter, Johnny Markham, Al Saylor, Willie D. Smith, Jim Ford, John Hundley, Joe Spencer, Greene Farmer, John Smith, Ulysses Redd, Percy Howard, George Alexander, Joe Brooks, Lefty Napoleon, Fred Thomas, W. C. Duffy, Frank " Groundhog " Thompson, Everert Marcell, and Joe Wiley.