* New York Times Article about the Monroe Lady Mustangs, January 2009

The Monroe College Athletic Department fields teams in fourteen sports: baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, men's football, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's indoor track and field, men's and women's outdoor track and field, men's and women's soccer, softball, and women's volleyball.

In fact, the beginning of the modern men's glossy magazine ( or girlie magazine ) can be traced to the 1953 purchase by Hugh Hefner of a photograph of Marilyn Monroe to use as the centerfold of his new magazine Playboy.

He is the current head men's basketball coach at the University of Louisiana at Monroe and a former head men's basketball coach at Louisiana Tech University.

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* January 14 – Marilyn Monroe marries baseball player Joe DiMaggio.

* Monroe Randolph Dolly Stark ( 1885-1924 ), baseball shortstop for the Cleveland Naps and Brooklyn Dodgers from 1909 to 1912

Instead, Carew played semi-pro baseball for the Bronx Cavaliers, which is where he was discovered by Minnesota Twins ' scout, Monroe Katz ( whose son, Steve, played with Carew on the Cavaliers ).

Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, he began his professional baseball career in with the Monroe Monarchs, a minor Negro League team.

Danny Almonte Rojas ( born April 7, 1987 ) is an assistant baseball coach at James Monroe High School in New York City.

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Monroe Park was home to the City's first baseball games.

Born in the Bronx, New York, Kranepool attended James Monroe High School, where he began playing baseball and basketball.

Sheets graduated from St. Amant High School and went to college at Northeast Louisiana University ( now the University of Louisiana at Monroe ) on a baseball scholarship.

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For instance, he appeared on October 27, 2007, at North Monroe Baptist Church in Monroe, Louisiana, to sign autographs and share baseball tales with fans of all age groups .< ref >

On June 9, 2006, the George Washington Trojans ( baseball team ) went to the championship to play against James Monroe High School of the Bronx but lost the championship to Monroe.

In 2004 the George Washington Trojans ( baseball team ) went to the championship to play against Monroe High School of the Bronx but lost the championship to Monroe.

The Monroe Monarchs were a professional baseball team based in Monroe, Louisiana, which played in the Negro leagues from the late 1920s to 1935, mostly as a minor league team loosely associated with the Kansas City Monarchs.

Fred Alonzo Stovall ( September 17, 1882 – October 8, 1958 ) was the founder of an oil drilling company and the Negro League baseball team the Monroe Monarchs.

He subsequently supported the formation of the Monroe Monarchs baseball team and in 1932 he organized the foundation of the Negro Southern League of five professional black teams.

Churchill Murray met Monroe and Eunice Murray during the two women's visit there in 1962, but it is not known whether John Murray was alive at that time, whether he was still married to Eunice or whether his career had any connection to Eunice's interest in introducing Monroe to people who did not work in the movie industry.

This thruway will cross Monroe Township just north of Shamokin Dam.

At the intersection with Monroe Avenue, WIS 29 turns south, joining WIS 54 / WIS 57 while US 141 continues westward on Main Street to cross the Fox River.

2011 season the Indians defeated another cross town rival Monroe ( 14-13 ) getting its first win against the Tornadoes since 1989.

Washington had differences with Monroe and discharged him as Minister to France, claiming his " inefficiency, disruptive maneuvers, and failure to safeguard the interests of his country.

He noted the refusal to adopt the racial equality clause, proposed by a weak country, but the conference ’ s adoption of a US-demanded clause that enshrined the Monroe Doctrine.

Such country music legends as Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Roy Acuff, the Carter family, Bill Monroe, Ernest Tubb, Kitty Wells and Minnie Pearl became regulars on the Opry's stage ( although Williams was banned in 1952 due to frequent drunkenness ).

Due to this lineage, Bill Monroe is frequently referred to as the " father of bluegrass ", although his style drew upon the country, gospel, and blues music with which he had grown up.

Monroe was named for James Monroe, the country ’ s fifth president.

Bill Monroe is known as the Father of Bluegrass, a specific style of country music.

Andrew Tyler " Andy " Griggs ( born August 13, 1973, in West Monroe, Louisiana ) is an American country music artist.

It rises in the hill country of Monroe County, approximately 5 mi ( 8 km ) northwest of the Ohio River and 8 mi ( 13 km ) southeast of Woodsfield.

Squires returned to power in 1928 because of the unpopularity of his successors, the pro-business Walter Stanley Monroe and ( briefly ) Frederick C. Alderdice ( Monroe's cousin ), but found himself governing a country suffering from the Great Depression.

Bluebird also recorded country artists such as The Monroe Brothers, The Delmore Brothers, Bradley Kincaid, and reissued many titles by Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family.

The Delmore Brothers, together with other brother duets such as the Louvin Brothers, the Blue Sky Boys, the Monroe Brothers ( Birch, Charlie and Bill Monroe ), the McGee Brothers, and The Stanley Brothers, had a profound impact on the history of country music and American popular music.

As president, Monroe was widely expected to facilitate a rapprochement of the political parties in order to harmonize the country in a common national outlook, rather than party interests.

The musical has since been performed across the country, at venues such as Kalliope Stage in Cleveland Heights, Ohio in 2004 ( directed by Paul Gurgol ) and Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke, Virginia, ( directed by Jere Hodgin and choreographed by Bernard Monroe ), and was subsequently recorded as a concert by the York Theatre Company in 2006.

Swift accompanied newly elected President James Monroe on his trip to examine the northern states and during the seven-week excursion was able to study the battlefields of the American Revolution and the War of 1812, as well as inspect arsenals, Navy yards and fortifications, and study the capacity of the country for defense.

Four of the first five presidents were Virginians: George Washington, the “ Father of his country ”; and after 1800, “ The Virginia Dynasty ” of presidents for 24 years: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe.

Traditionally, it is most often associated with the American folk musician Lead Belly, who recorded several versions in the 1940s, as well as the American bluegrass musician Bill Monroe, who helped popularize the song ( in a different variant, featuring lyrics about a train ) among bluegrass and country audiences with his versions recorded in the 1940s and 1950s.

While WCBN's programming format is primarily freeform, its also specialty programs focusing on specific styles or origins of music including Dance Hall Reggae, Nothin ’ but the Blues, the extremely eclectic country program The Down Home Show, the Bluegrass show Bill Monroe for Breakfast, the techno show Crush Collision, and the Hip hop show The Prop Shop.

The station signed on in July 1967 as WVMO ( Voice of Monroe ), founded by John Koehn of Adrian ( also the founder of Adrian's WLEN 103. 9 FM ), and featured a format of MOR and country music for many years.