Other hitters bloomed with more or less vigor in the news and a few even dared to dream of matching Ruth, who was still called Jidge by all his friends, or Leo or Two-Head by those who dared to taunt him ( Leo was the name of the ball player he liked the least ) and who called most of the world `` Kid ''.

Next to Leo Durocher, Dark taught Mays the most when he was a grass-green rookie rushed up to the Polo Grounds 10 years ago this month, to help the Giants win a dramatic pennant.

The complaint on which the warrant was issued was filed by Leo Blaber, an attorney for the association.

Leo Tolstoy was a prominent Russian author of the 19th century.

Angilbert was the Homer of the emperor's literary circle, and was the probable author of an epic, of which the fragment which has been preserved describes the life at the palace and the meeting between Charlemagne and Leo III.

In 1884, he was created by Pope Leo XIII Archbishop of Caesarea in partibus and sent to India as an Apostolic Delegate to report on the establishment of the hierarchy there.

In 853, at the age of four, Alfred is said to have been sent to Rome where, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, he was confirmed by Pope Leo IV who " anointed him as king ".

A letter of Leo IV shows that Alfred was made a " consul "; a misinterpretation of this investiture, deliberate or accidental, could explain later confusion.

Algardi's large dramatic marble high-relief panel of Pope Leo and Attila ( 1646 – 53 ) for St Peter's Basilica was widely admired in his day, and reinvigorated the use of such marble reliefs.

The subject was apt for a papal state seeking clout, since it depicts the historical legend when the greatest of the popes Leo, with supernatural aid, deterred the Huns from looting Rome.

This guitar was made famous by Artists such as Lead Belly, Pete Seeger and Leo Kottke are famous 12 string players.

In 1899, Bede was made a Doctor of the Church by Leo XIII, a position of theological significance ; he is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation ( Anselm of Canterbury, also a Doctor of the Church, was originally from Italy ).

The Benedictine Confederation, which was established in 1883 by Pope Leo XIII in his brief Summum semper, is the international governing body of the order, headed by the Abbot Primate.

It was developed by Belgian-born chemist Leo Baekeland in New York in 1907.

The first benzodiazepine, chlordiazepoxide ( Librium ), was discovered accidentally by Leo Sternbach in 1955, and made available in 1960 by Hoffmann – La Roche, which has also marketed diazepam ( Valium ) since 1963.

More recently, William D. Rubinstein, Professor of Modern History at Aberystwyth University, Wales, wrote that Conservative politician and pro-Zionist Leo Amery, as Assistant Secretary to the British war cabinet in 1917, was the main author of the Balfour Declaration.

In 1902, under Leo XIII, a commission under the presidency of Monsignor Louis Duchesne was appointed to consider the Breviary, the Missal, the Pontifical and the Ritual.

He received some votes in the 1605 conclaves which elected Pope Leo XI, Pope Paul V, and in 1621 when Pope Gregory XV was elected, but only in the second conclave of 1605 was he papabile.

About two years after Cyril of Alexandria's death in 444, an aged monk from Constantinople named Eutyches began teaching a subtle variation on the traditional Christology in an attempt ( as he described in a letter to Pope Leo I in 448 ) to stop a new outbreak of Nestorianism.

The Irish Times supplement described front bench member Leo Varadkar TD as having explicitly centre-right views.

Gaussian molecular orbital methods were described in the 1986 book Ab initio molecular orbital theory by Warren Hehre, Leo Radom, Paul v. R.

One of the 48 constellations described by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, Leo remains one of the 88 modern constellations today.

For this and other reasons, including a belief by many Mormons in American exceptionalism, Molly Worthen speculates that this may be why Leo Tolstoy described Mormonism as the " quintessential ' American religion '".

Because Sergius III had reputedly ordered the murder of his two immediate predecessors, Leo V and Christopher and was the only pope to have allegedly fathered an illegitimate son who later became pope ( John XI ), his pontificate has been described as " dismal and disgraceful ".

Sviatoslav's appearance has been described very clearly by Leo the Deacon, who himself attended the meeting of Sviatoslav with John I Tzimiskes.

He was thus President in Hilary Term 1939 ; the visiting Leo Amery described him in his diaries as " a pleasant youth ".

The division of the Steins ' art collection was described in a letter by Leo:

Leo Braudy described the benefits of the epistolary form of Clarissa as, " Language can work: letters can be ways to communicate and justify ".

During the hard-fought battle, described by Leo Tolstoy in War and Peace, Napoleon entered the city.

Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky soon became internationally renowned to the point that many scholars such as F. R. Leavis have described one or the other as the greatest novelist ever.

Lamarr later sued the publisher, saying that many of the anecdotes in the book, which was described by a judge as " filthy, nauseating, and revolting ", were fabricated by its ghost writer, Leo Guild.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia said of Scriabin that, " No composer has had more scorn heaped or greater love bestowed ..." Leo Tolstoy once described Scriabin's music as " a sincere expression of genius.

Then, in 904 the renegade Leo of Tripolis sacked Thessalonica with his pirates – an event described in The Capture of Thessalonica by John Kaminiates – while a large-scale expedition to recover Crete under Himerios in 911 – 912 failed disastrously.

This includes a profile of Van Leo described as " a fellow with a brilliant smile and lively eyes, bending over prints or studying a profile, conjuring up the fascinating phantoms that people the most beautiful of dreams.

The review described the narrative as " very stirring " and " exciting " and of " remarkable imaginative power ", adding: " The ingenuity of the story ... is as subtle as ever romancer invented, and from the day when Leo and Holly land on the coast of Africa, to the day when the pillar of fire is revealed to them by the all but immortal ' She who must be obeyed ', the interest of the tale rises higher and higher with every new turn in its course ".

" Writing in The Spectator in 2006, author and journalist Leo McKinstry described her as " the high priestess of Tory sleaze ," whose actions helped to " undermine the reputation of the Conservative party in the 1990s and pave the way for the arrival of Tony Blair.

As mentioned in the “ Eastern Christianity ” section, another fool-for-Christ, Grisha, was described in Leo Tolstoy's book " Childhood.

Computer expert Leo LaPorte described AnandTech as an " outstanding review and technology website for 3D hardware and other computer components ", and said that it is " one of the most professional hardware review sites online.

The syndrome was originally described by Austrian educator Theodor Heller in 1908, 35 years before Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger described autism, but it has not been officially recognised until recently.

Although Hewitt is frequently described as the first to invent the lamp, German physicist Martin Leo Arons also demonstrated a mercury-vapor lamp although no patent was ever issued to Arons.

John Spencer, who played Leo McGarry, described his character's relationship with Josh as a mentoring one, with Leo regarding Josh as a younger version of himself.