Pittsburgh sent eight men on an all-out blitz, but Staubach got the pass away just before he was hit by Steelers ' safety Mike Wagner.

Against the Chicago White Sox on May 7, in extra innings, Williams told the Red Sox pitcher, Charlie Wagner, to hold the White Sox, since he was going to hit a home run.

He also hit more home runs, drove in more runs, and had a higher batting average than any other National League player during the 1920s, which makes him one of four players in baseball history ( along with Honus Wagner, Ted Williams, and Albert Pujols ) to win a decade " triple crown ".

For his ability to hit with power from both sides of the plate, The Pittsburgh Press declared he was developing into " a second Honus Wagner ".

He was on the Louisville Colonels, where his teammates included Honus Wagner, Fred Clarke and Tommy Leach ( who was his roommate ), and he hit. 304 and. 306 in his two seasons with the club ; in 1899 he broke Mike Griffin's major league record of 1459 games in center field.

Only two other major league players had attained 3, 000 career hits until Lajoie hit a double on September 27, 1914, and so joined Cap Anson and Honus Wagner in the 3, 000 hit club.

He was selected off waivers by the Pittsburgh Pirates on July 25, 1917 to back up Honus Wagner, but did not hit sufficiently.

In 2012 Wagner was announced to be a contestant on the huge worldwide ABC hit primetime show Dancing With The Stars with professional partner Anna Trebunskaya.

On August 29 of the same season, in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Galarraga spoiled Paul Wagner's bid for a no-hitter by singling with two out in the ninth, the only hit Wagner would allow in defeating the Rockies 4 – 0.

In 2010, Wagner began a recurring role as Dr. Vanessa Calder in the SyFy channel's hit drama Warehouse 13, and played the character again in its SyFy sister show Alphas in 2011.

French grand operas were regularly staged by German opera houses ; an early article by Richard Wagner depicts German opera managers hurrying to Paris to try to identify the next hit.

Wagner played a reserve role for St. Louis in 39 games and hit four home runs.

One of the first true sluggers in Angels history, Wagner hit 91 home runs with 276 RBI in 442 games.

As a Cleveland left fielder, Wagner hit 97 home runs from 1964 to 1967.

Leach had the first World Series hit, a triple off Cy Young, and scored the first ever World Series run in game one with Honus Wagner batting him in.

On April 5, 2006, he hit his first Major League home run off a 93-mph fastball in the ninth inning against Mets ' closer Billy Wagner.

Leyritz hit a number of unlikely playoff home runs and clutch hits that season, the most dramatic of which was an opposite field home run against Billy Wagner to off the right field foul pole in the top of the 9th inning in the Astrodome that tied Game 2 of the National League Division Series against the Houston Astros.

the Honorable Robert Wagner, Sr., at that time a justice of the New York Supreme Court, was on the reception committee.

Managing Director Donald C. Wagner has agreed to cooperate fully with Hemphill after a period of sharp disagreement on the matter.

The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.

" Critics believed that An American in Paris was better crafted than his lukewarm Concerto in F. Some did not think it belonged in a program with classical composers César Franck, Richard Wagner, or Guillaume Lekeu on its premiere.

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Verdi's comments on Wagner and his music are few and hardly benevolent (" He invariably chooses, unnecessarily, the untrodden path, attempting to fly where a rational person would walk with better results "), but at least one of them is kind: upon learning of Wagner's death, Verdi lamented, " Sad, sad, sad!

After the attempts to achieve German national unity failed with the Revolutions of 1848, Wagner strongly relied on the picture of Henry as the actual ruler of all German tribes as advocated by pan-Germanist activists like Friedrich Ludwig Jahn.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Wagner / Morris Island – the first formal African American military unit, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, supported by several white regiments, attempts an unsuccessful assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner.

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Although Wagner became fiercely critical of Brahms as the latter grew in stature and popularity, he was enthusiastically receptive of the early Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel ; Brahms himself, according to many sources ( Swafford, 1999 ), deeply admired Wagner's music, confining his ambivalence only to the dramaturgical precepts of Wagner's theory.

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Vit Wagner, writing for The Toronto Star in 2001 on the re-mastered edition of " Forever Changes ," said, "( It ) might not rank with the Beach Boys ' ' Pet Sounds ' and the Beatles ' ' Revolver ' and ' Sgt.

He went on to study at Columbia University and contributed to the student literary magazine, The Morningside, ( a poem " Choice " in 1922 when Charles A. Wagner was editor-in-chief and Whittaker Chambers an associate editor ).

* 1900 – American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.

Wagner also brought a new philosophical dimension to opera in his works, which were usually based on stories from Germanic or Arthurian legend.

With Wagner came an emphasis on vocal heft for his protagonist roles, with this vocal category described as Heldentenor ; this heroic voice had its more Italianate counterpart in such roles as Calaf in Puccini's Turandot.

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Helen Wagner played Hughes family matriarch Nancy Hughes on American soap As the World Turns from its April 2, 1956 debut through her death in May 2010.

On the next play, a 42-yard pass interference penalty on Pittsburgh defensive back Mike Wagner moved the ball up to the 5-yard line.

Vikings running back Brent McClanahan returned the ensuing kickoff 22 yards to the 39-yard line, but on the first play of the drive, Tarkenton's pass was intercepted by Wagner.

Then on the first play of the Cowboys ' next drive, Steelers defensive back Mike Wagner intercepted a pass from Staubach and returned it 19 yards to the Dallas 7-yard line.

Then on third down, Staubach once again tried to complete a pass to Howard in the end zone, but the ball was tipped by Wagner into the arms of safety Glen Edwards for an interception as time expired, sealing Pittsburgh's victory.

In 2000, Michael Wagner, the codirector of the RODS laboratory, and Ron Aryel, a subcontractor, conceived the idea of obtaining live data feeds from " non-traditional " ( non-health-care ) data sources.

Of particular note is 5 September 1853 ; Wagner claimed in his autobiography Mein Leben that on this date the musical idea came to him while he was half asleep in a hotel in La Spezia in Italy, but this has been disputed by Deathridge and others.

" As Wagner here implies, Berlioz himself was indifferent to the idea of what was called " la musique du passé " ( music of the past ), and clearly influenced both Liszt and Wagner ( and other forward-looking composers ) although he increasingly began to dislike many of their works.

Some controversy surrounded the use of the word in Wagner's own circle: Wagner never authorised the use of the word " leitmotiv ", using words such as " Grundthema " ( basic idea ), or simply " Motiv ".

It was from Phantasus that Wagner based the idea of Tannhäuser going to see the pope and Elisabeth dying in the song battle.

The idea of Gesamtkunstwerk in architecture in the era following Romanticism is synonymous with the Art Nouveau ; for example in the works of Josef Hoffmann and Otto Wagner in Austria, Henry van de Velde, Victor Horta and Paul Hankar in Belgium, Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Scotland, Antoni Gaudí in Spain and Eliel Saarinen in Finland.

Wagner himself conceived and promoted the idea of a special festival to showcase his own works, in particular his monumental cycle and Parsifal.

The idea of absolute music developed at the end of the 18th century in the writings of authors of early German Romanticism, such as Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Ludwig Tieck, Richard Wagner and E. T. A. Hoffmann.

The majority of opposition to the idea of instrumental music being ‘ absolute ’ came from Richard Wagner and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

" Dredd stories started as traditional UK comic stories, i. e. " six page one-offs ... Pat Mills and John Wagner seem to spurn the American comic idea of continuing stories or, worse, the idea of a 2000AD continuity between characters ," Bolland seeing this as a " strength ... hav one great new idea each week.

The plastic lemon container and the idea of selling lemon juice in this way was conceived by Stanley Wagner, an ex-RAF fighter pilot and an early stalwart of the Frozen Food industry.

For instance, he put forth many arrangements of Bach, Beethoven, Webern and Wagner ; sometimes using their traditional concepts to the idea of untraditional techniques and ways of listening to them.

As Throne explained: “ They had this idea of shooting the whole season in Italy, but they wanted me to stay behind and give Wagner ’ s character ... orders over the phone.

On this occasion, ( Robert ) Wagner " Wag " Dodge came up with the same idea independently, and successfully put it into practice.

This fact connects the idea of a baroque palace to the one of a " medieval " castle such as Neuschwanstein and reminds of the operas of Richard Wagner whose patron Ludwig was.

" ( Today's pervasive idea that singers should refrain from improvising and always adhere strictly to the letter of a composer's published score is a comparatively recent phenomenon, promulgated during the first decades of the 20th century by dictatorial conductors such as Arturo Toscanini, who championed the dramatic operas of Verdi and Wagner and believed in keeping performers on a tight interpretive leash.