Joseph Henry Garagiola, Sr. (February 12, 1926 – March 23, 2016)
Joe Garagiola, a Major League Baseball legend who successfully moved from
the field to the broadcast booth, has died. The Arizona Diamondbacks made
the announcement Wednesday. The cause of his death is unclear at this time.
The front and back of one of the Ty Cobb baseball cards found.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — From a crumpled paper bag in a dilapidated house came
a baseball card find of a lifetime. Seven of them, actually.
Card experts in Southern California said Wednesday that they have verified the
legitimacy and seven-figure total value of seven identical Ty Cobb cards from
the printing period of 1909 to 1911. Before the recent find. there were only
about 15 known to still exist.
Joe Orlando, the president of Professional Sports Authenticator in Newport
Beach, California, who verified the find, said it is "spectacular" and “miraculous”
to have come across such a cache.
Orlando said in a statement…."I am not sure if any other baseball card find is
more remarkable than this new discovery.”
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961)
Ty Cobb, nicknamed "The Georgia Peach", was an Major League Baseball
outfielder. He was born in rural Narrows, Georgia. Cobb spent 22 seasons
with the Detroit Tigers, the last six as the team’s player-manager, and finished
his career with the Philadelphia Athletics.
Brian Thomas
Michael Jeffrey Jordan is 53 today.
Ross Simpson
Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron is 82 today.
The Sporting News ranked the "Hammer" fifth on its "100 Greatest Baseball
Players" list. After learning to play by hitting bottle caps with sticks he found
in the street, Aaron led his high school team to the Mobile Negro High School
Championship two consecutive years.
Sanford "Sandy" Koufax (born Sanford Braun in Brooklyn, New York)
Legendary Dodgers left-hander Sandy Koufax pitched a perfect game on the 9th
of September in 1965 and became the first MLB pitcher to throw 4 career no-
hitters. He won 4 World Series Championships, 3 Cy Young Awards, 3 Triple
Crown Awards and the 1963 NL MVP Award during his 12 years with the Dodgers,
from 1955 to 1966. Koufax, at age 36 in 1972, became the youngest player ever inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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