Jackie Robinson's #42 uniform number has been retired from active use by all Major League baseball teams, except one. Which team retains this number, and why?
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Robinson's #42 was retired by all teams on April 15, 1997, the 50th anniversary of his breaking the colour barrier in baseball. Mariano Rivera joined the Yankees in 1995.
Nope, unrelated. One man broke the 60 foot barrier and a different athlete the 70 foot barrier.
correct....and sometimes expressed as V = (4/3) x pi x r to the power of 3.
I have sometimes wondered if the following would be true:
(2xr) x (2xr) x (2xr) /2. Where 2xr is the height of a cube (and the length and width). So the volume of the cube is calculated and divided by 2. The theory being that the volume of a sphere within the cube would equal the volume of the cube that is not part of the sphere. Or said another way, the displaced volume. I had this thought as a 12 year old in the days of log tables and slide rules. Never proved it out.
Greater chance of brain damage, dehydration and exhaustion after round 12. Aggravated by weight classes below heavyweight dehydrating boxers to make the weight limit. The change of rounds from 15 to 12 was accompanied by changing the weigh in from day of bout to the day before. My personal opinion is that these measures have made boxing a safer sport although there was an allure to 15 rounds.
Jesse Owens was a great athlete. When he broke the world long jump record, it stood for more than two decades. When Owens set this record. Which great black athlete of equal or even greater fame was the second best long jumper in the world?
great answer, but what I was looking for was Ray Mancini killing a Korean fighter after a 15 round fight, coroner said that the death blow came in th later rounds.
Yes, I remember that tragedy. It became a focal point for the negative publicity. It brought to light the nefarious practices of matchmaking where ill prepared or over matched fighters were being thrown to the meat grinder of superior oponents.
Let me explain.
I was thinking of the shot put and came up with Al Oerter but was unsure as to whether he actually was shot put or if he was discus.
It turned out I was wrong as Oerter was discus. But as I read this I also read that he won 4 consecutive golds which was the answer to a different question.
Shak got it. Al Oerter. I met the guy in the eighties at a competition in TO at Birchmount and Kingston. Huge man, incredibly down to earth. Remained world class thrower into his fifties in a young mans sport.Name the only track and field athlete to win four consecutive Olympic gold medals. No Googling
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