He insisted he was better at basketball, but as a shortstop he won the National League batting championship and M.V.P. Award and was a five-time All-Star.
Tag: Deaths (Obituaries)
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Carolyn Bryant Donham Dies at 88; Her Words Doomed Emmett Till
She said Till, at 14, had accosted her, and her testimony in the 1955 trial of her husband and his half brother was crucial in their acquittal in one of the most epochal murders in American history.
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Jerry Springer, Host of Unapologetically Brash Talk Show, Dies at 79
The raucous and often confrontational “Jerry Springer Show” ran for nearly three decades and became a cultural phenomenon.
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Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist
In the 1950s, when segregation was still widespread, his ascent to the upper echelon of show business was historic. But his primary focus was civil rights.