Cubs broadcaster Jack Brickhouse called it the hardest ball he had ever seen hit without benefit of the wind, while " Cubs ' batting coach batting coach Rogers Hornsby ," reported Les Biederman of The Sporting News, " said it was the longest he ever witnessed and manager Bob Scheffing agreed it was No. 1 in his book.

While in the training camp of the Millers camp for the springtime, Williams met Rogers Hornsby, who had hit over. 400 three times, including a. 424 average in 1924, who was a coach for the Millers for the spring.

On May 21, Williams passed Chuck Klein for 10th place, on May 25 Williams passed Rogers Hornsby for 9th place, and on July 5 Williams passed Al Simmons for 8th place all-time in career home runs.

He often touted Rogers Hornsby as being the greatest right-handed hitter of all time.

At the time of his retirement, Williams ranked third all-time in home runs ( behind Babe Ruth and Jimmie Foxx ), seventh in RBIs ( after Ruth, Cap Anson, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Foxx, and Mel Ott ; Stan Musial passed Williams in 1962 ), and seventh in batting average ( behind Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Lefty O ' Doul, Ed Delahanty and Tris Speaker ).

** Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player, heart attack after cataract surgery ( b. 1896 )

* April 27 – Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player ( d. 1963 )

The grounds were home to bronze statues of Stan Musial, Enos Slaughter, Dizzy Dean, Rogers Hornsby, Red Schoendienst, Lou Brock, Bob Gibson, James ' Cool Papa Bell, George Sisler, Jack Buck and most recently, Ozzie Smith.

Sabermetrician Bill James rated Dick Allen as the second most controversial player in baseball history, behind Rogers Hornsby.

* Rogers Hornsby, Major League Baseball great, was born in Winters on April 27, 1896.

Rogers Hornsby was the first to accomplish it, winning his first in 1922 and then leading all major leagues in 1925 en route to his second Triple Crown, both with the St. Louis Cardinals.

Said noted former player Rogers Hornsby, after watching Doby play one time in 1947:

In 1957 Hodges set the NL record for career grand slams, breaking the mark of 12 shared by Rogers Hornsby and Ralph Kiner ; his final total of 14 was tied by Hank Aaron and Willie McCovey in 1972, and broken by Aaron in 1974.

Rogers Hornsby, Sr. ( April 27, 1896 – January 5, 1963 ), nicknamed " The Rajah ", was an American baseball infielder, manager, and coach who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ).

Hornsby was born in Winters, Texas, the last of Ed and Mary ( Rogers ) Hornsby's six children.

Rogers Hornsby with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1917

Rogers Hornsby with the Atlanta Braves | Boston Braves in 1928

Rogers Hornsby was so respected a hitter that once, when a rookie pitcher complained to umpire Bill Klem that he thought he had thrown Rogers a strike, Klem replied, " Son, when you pitch a strike, Mr. Hornsby will let you know.

They had a son, Rogers Hornsby, Jr., on November 15, 1920.

* The Official Site of Rogers Hornsby

Sandberg was only the third second baseman to hit 40 home runs ; Rogers Hornsby and Davey Johnson hit 42, and no American League second baseman has yet reached forty.

" If in Paris ", Rogers says, " we are in a man-made region where even the seasons are forgotten, these provincial towns are nearly always pictured in their natural setting.

Bure's first game-worn Canucks jersey ( centre ) on display at Rogers Arena ( also pictured on either side are Wayne Maki and Glen Hanlon's jerseys ).

The Reed Rogers Da Fonta Wild Life Sanctuary in Marin county on Friday officially became the property of the National Audubon Society.

Several people who spoke to Selkirk after his rescue ( such as Captain Rogers and the journalist Steele ) were impressed by the tranquillity of mind and vigour of the body that Selkirk had attained while on the island.

* Arcologies appear in the Buck Rogers XXVC RPG, particularly on ravaged Earth where they have replaced many former metropolitan centers.

A three-act stage play based on the pilot was written by David Rogers in 1968.

Rogers got in trouble when on June 29, 2005, he purposely grabbed the camera of a cameraman, resulting in one camera falling to the ground.

The CRTC is sometimes blamed for the current state of the mobile phone industry in Canada, in which there are only three national mobile network operators – Bell Mobility, Telus Mobility, and Rogers Wireless – as well as a handful of MVNOs operating on these networks.

Rogers was born on January 8, 1902, in the suburban Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago.

His later books include Carl Rogers on Personal Power ( 1977 ) and Freedom to Learn for the 80's ( 1983 ).

Together with his daughter, Natalie Rogers, and psychologists Maria Bowen, Maureen O ' Hara, and John K. Wood, between 1974 and 1984, Rogers convened a series of residential programs in the US, Europe, Brazil and Japan, the Person-Centered Approach Workshops, which focused on cross-cultural communications, personal growth, self-empowerment, and learning for social change.

" To open one's spirit to what is going on now, and discover in that present process whatever structure it appears to have " ( Rogers 1961 )

Rogers suggested that the incongruent individual, who is always on the defensive and cannot be open to all experiences, is not functioning ideally and may even be malfunctioning.

The focus is on the student ( Rogers, 1951 ).

In the story arc " The Death of Captain America ", Rogers is indicted on criminal charges for his anti-registration efforts, and in Captain America vol.

The Norse god superhero Thor communicates with what appears to be Rogers ' spirit on the first anniversary of Rogers ' death, in Thor vol.

" " The Mystery of Marie Rogêt " is particularly interesting because it is a barely fictionalized account based on Poe's theory of what happened to the real-life Mary Cecilia Rogers.

Parton continued to make inroads on the pop charts as well with a re-recorded version of " I Will Always Love You " from the feature film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ) scraping the Top 50 that year and her duet with Kenny Rogers, " Islands in the Stream " ( written by the Bee Gees and produced by Barry Gibb ), spent two weeks at number one in 1983.

In Stratford-upon-Avon, the owners of Shrieves House, the former Three Tunns Tavern and now a museum, claim William Shakespeare based the character Falstaff on William Rogers, one of the Sargeants of the mace and close friend of the Shakespeares.

It focuses on two couples, Buddy and Sally Durant Plummer and Benjamin and Phyllis Rogers Stone, who are attending the reunion.

In the May 2006 city election, incumbent mayor Larry Rogers, who also serves on JMU's Board of Visitors, lost his bid for reelection to a JMU graduate.

A later proposal by William Barton Rogers led to a charter for the incorporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was signed by the governor of Massachusetts on April 10, 1861.

The aviation department within Rogers was created by Amédée Maingard on his return from the Second World War.

Many current and recent philosophers — e. g., Daniel Dennett, Willard Van Orman Quine, Donald Davidson, John Rogers Searle, and Jerry Fodor — operate within a broadly physicalist or materialist framework, producing rival accounts of how best to accommodate mind — functionalism, anomalous monism, identity theory, and so on.

The first executions occurred over a period of five days in early February 1555: John Rogers on 4 February, Laurence Saunders on 8 February, and Rowland Taylor and John Hooper on 9 February.