Archive for January, 2023

FIRST BLACK MLB PLAYER BORN ON THIS DAY

Photos: Remembering Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) Namerican Baseball Player Photograph 1950 Digitally Colored By ...

On Oct. 24, 1972, baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson died | Multimedia | phillytrib.com
Jack Roosevelt Robinson
(January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972)

Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson, who integrated Major
League Baseball in 1947, was born to a sharecropping
family in
Cairo, Georgia, on this day in history, Jan. 31,
1919.

His fight for racial equality and his exploits on the field
of play made him the first athlete in North American
sports to have his jersey number (42) retired by every
team in his game.
 (FOXNEWS)

Jackie Robinson 1949 Bowman Rookie Card RC Dodgers HOF PSA 7.5 Very High-End

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CINTY WILLIAMS HAS DIED AT AGE 75

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Cindy Williams (Attrice): Biografia, filmografia, scheda Attrice
Cynthia Jane Williams (August 22, 1947 – January 25, 2023)

Williams was a actress and producer, known for her role
as
Shirley Feeney
on the television sitcom Happy Days
(1975–1979), and
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1982). She also
appeared in American Graffiti (1973).
She died in Los
Angeles following a brief illness.

Cindy Williams American Graffiti

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Cindy Williams and Penny Marshall in Laverne & Shirley
(1976 – 1983)

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TODAY’S JOKE FROM THE RETRO BLOG

Whoopi Goldberg Lists L.A. Home for $8.795 Million - WSJ
Caryn Elaine Johnson
(Known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg.)

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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WATERLOGG PRODUCTIONS: "Cartoon Carnival Meets The Lone Ranger" Part 2 Saturday, January 26 - 4: ...

PORTLAND RETRO BLOG | PDX RETRO - Part 148
BRACE BEEMER (center) was original announcer then the second actor to portray The Lone Ranger on the radio
series.

The first of 2,956 episodes of The Lone Ranger premiered on
radio January 30, 1933 on
WXYZ radio in Detroit, Michigan
and later on the
Mutual Broadcasting System radio network
and then on NBC’s
Blue Network (which became ABC, which
broadcast the show’s last new episode on September 3, 1954).

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FIRST MEMBERS ELECTED TO HALL OF FAME

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On January 29, 1936, the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elected its
first members in Cooperstown,
New York: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth,
Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson.

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