Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Cy Rigler" ¶ 7
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Rigler and was
Even more eclectic was the 2002 album Mundo with the 11-member Editus Ensemble and bagpiper Eric Rigler, which incorporated instruments from around the world.
Said to have been able to speak with a voice that resembled a squeak, he was actually one of the most intelligent players of his time, and is sometimes credited with developing the hand signals used by umpires to this day, though this view is widely disputed ; Cy Rigler is believed to have created signals for balls and strikes while working in the minor leagues ( although, in the November 6, 1886 issue of The Sporting News, the deaf pitcher Ed Dundon is credited as using hand signals while umpiring a game in Mobile, Alabama on October 20 of that year ), and Bill Klem is credited with introducing those signals to the major leagues.
He was discovered by umpire Cy Rigler, who convinced him to sign directly with the Phillies, bypassing minor league baseball entirely.
Charles " Cy " Rigler ( May 16, 1882-December 21, 1935 ) was an American umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the National League from 1906 to 1935.
Rigler joined the majors at a time when the use of one umpire in a game was still common ; by the time his career ended, three umpires had become standard.
Rigler was highly regarded for his outgoing nature and for his ability to let criticism roll off his back without becoming visibly irritated.
Rigler was again the base umpire on August 25, 1922, when the Cubs defeated the Phillies 26-23 in the highest-scoring 9-inning game in history.
Bagpiper Eric Rigler played " Amazing Grace " as the casket was moved to its grave site and placed on a plinth.

Rigler and O
Rigler is tied with O ' Day for the second most World Series as an umpire ( 10 ), trailing only Klem's 18.

Rigler and never
Born in Massillon, Ohio, Rigler never played baseball in his younger days, although he played pro football briefly in 1903 as a tackle for the Massillon Tigers.

Rigler and opportunity
The Germans led by Dr. Rigler saw this invitation, and the state of disarray in the Dagbon State, as a golden opportunity to impose German domination on Dagbon.

Rigler and .
Umpire Cy Rigler later admitted that he should have called the previous pitch strike 3.
* October 17 – Franz Paul Rigler, composer and piano virtuoso ( born c. 1748 )
The main theatre now accommodates 616 patrons and is named after Los Angeles philanthropist Lloyd E. Rigler.
Lawrence E. Deutsch and Lloyd Rigler donated $ 250, 000 to commission a work for the fountain.
Rigler has also been credited with instituting the practice of using arm signals when calling balls and strikes.
While working in the minor leagues in 1905, Rigler had initiated the practice of using arm signals to note balls and strikes, so that those in the outfield would more clearly follow the action ; by the time he arrived in the majors, he discovered that the practice had become so widespread that it had preceded him there.
Rigler officiated in 10 World Series, second only to Bill Klem's 18: 1910, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1917, 1919, 1921, 1925, 1928 and 1930.
John McGraw claimed and reporters in the press box agreed that Speaker missed first base, but Cy Rigler ruled that he didn't.
Other albums followed including Looking Forward To The Past, a collection of timeless love songs ; Across the Waters, recorded in Los Angeles with musical support from Eric Rigler ; and Great Songs and Ballads of Scotland.

was and promoted
he became Otto Klemperer's personal assistant at the Cologne Opera, and a year later was promoted to the position of regular conductor.
The inference is overwhelming that Du Pont's commanding position was promoted by its stock interest and was not gained solely on competitive merit ''.
Referring further to the Foundation's officers, Dr. James F. Mathias, for eleven years our discerning colleague as Associate Secretary, was promoted to be Secretary.
He was named Product Manager of the Special Products Division of Sprague when it was founded in 1958, and was later promoted to his present post.
Walton dropped everything to serve as a district co-ordinator in the hard-fought Wisconsin primary and proved so useful that he was promoted to be liaison officer to critically important New York City.
His power was so great that he even promoted and demoted gods according to whether they had given ear or been deaf to petitions.
And little Zeme North, a Dora with real spirit and verve, was fascinating whether she was singing of her love for Floyd, the cop who becomes sewer commissioner and then is promoted into garbage, or just dancing to display her exuberant feelings.
As I grew older and was promoted, so was he, always where I was.
Its first commercial use was as a seven-bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell data services.
One month later, Johnston was promoted to major and the position of aide-de-camp to General Sam Houston.
Doubleday was promoted to major on May 14, 1861, and commanded the Artillery Department in the Shenandoah Valley from June to August, and then the artillery for Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks's division of the Army of the Potomac.
He received a brevet promotion to lieutenant colonel in the regular army for his actions at Antietam and was promoted in March 1863 to major general of volunteers, to rank from November 29, 1862.
It was also around this time that William of Tyre was promoted to archdeacon of Tyre, and was recruited by Amalric to write a history of the kingdom.
He also paid close attention to his work quickly learning to distinguish the differing sounds the incoming telegraph signals produced and learned to translate signals by ear, without having to write them down and within a year was promoted as an operator.
Betsy Ross was promoted as a patriotic role model for young girls and a symbol of women's contributions to American history.
Weaving together Jewish and Greek thought, Philo promoted praise without instruments, and taught that " silent singing " ( without even vocal chords ) was better still.
In 1993, she was moved to the Department of Employment, and she was promoted to Minister of State the following year.

was and supervisor
When 51st Street was reached, Robinson related, he stopped the bus and told the youths he was going to call the CTA supervisor.
She became a national figure in 1991 when she alleged that U. S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had made harassing sexual statements when he was her supervisor at the U. S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Hill said in the October 1991 televised hearings that Thomas had sexually harassed her while he was her supervisor at the Department of Education and the EEOC.
The next day, a supervisor passing through the yard realized that the fixture was not road debris but was in fact one of the fixtures used to light the tunnel itself.
The Aedile was the supervisor of public works ; the words " edifice " and " edification " stem from the title.
Alston was active in the Harlem Renaissance ; Alston was the first African American supervisor for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project.
Edgar took the first turn at school, and Dwight was employed as a night supervisor at the Belle Springs Creamery.
" His supervisor was John Archibald Wheeler, and his thesis committee included J. Robert Oppenheimer and Niels Bohr.
Milk was assassinated by a former city supervisor Dan White in 1978.
Working as a nurse for the Red Cross during the war, Margarete was appointed supervisor in Military District III ( Berlin-Brandenburg ).
During the Manhattan project, future Nobel laureate Richard Feynman was the supervisor of human computers who understood the use of differential equations which were being solved for the war effort.
Reports in 1999 and 2000, suggested she was a Script supervisor, Dianne Dreyer.
Captain James Fraser was employed as a supervisor, and remained by the Loch afterwards, taking cine film ( which is now lost ) on 15 September 1934.
The Bus Error and Address Error exceptions pushed a large amount of internal state onto the supervisor stack in order to facilitate recovery, and the MOVE from SR instruction was made privileged.
The new instructions included some minor improvements and extensions to the supervisor state, several instructions for software management of a multiprocessing system ( which were removed in the 68060 ), some support for high-level languages which did not get used much ( and was removed from future 680x0 processors ), bigger multiply ( 32 × 32 → 64 bits ) and divide ( 64 ÷ 32 → 32 bits quotient and 32 bits remainder ) instructions, and bit field manipulations.
Between 1990 and 1994, Paul Flaherty, a Stanford student who was looking for a project, was introduced by his wife to her supervisor.
Burnett was going to be credited on the film as " Music Supervisor " but asked his credit to be " Music Archivist " because he " hated the notion of being a supervisor ; I wouldn't want anyone to think of me as management ".
The music supervisor of Underworld was Troels Brun Folmann, he also composed the main theme, while Colin O ' Malley scored the bulk of the music.
At 08: 55, a supervisor at the New York Air Traffic Control center notified the center's operations manager of the Flight 175 hijacking, and David Bottiglia, who was tracking Flight 175, noted, " we might have a hijack over here, two of them.
When he took this idea to his supervisor, it was quickly squashed because the company was already behind schedule.

0.365 seconds.