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Horse-racing is an equestrian sporting activity which has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot races of Roman times were an early example, as was the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology.
A professional cricket match In the sport of cricket, bowling is the action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.
Sports by year See also: 1830s in sports, 1850 in sports and the list of years in sports.
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motorboating motorboating, sport of navigating a motor-powered vessel on the water.
automobile racing automobile racing, sport in which specially designed or modified automobiles race on any of various courses.
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 Al-Ahram Weekly | Sports | To Almer’a   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Team sports such as handball, basketball and volleyball will be footing the bill at the Games after admitting they would neither win a medal or finish among the top six.
Officials claim it would be a good opportunity for these team sports and would save the ministry and the federations money since participating in the Games would be cheaper than holding a training camp abroad.
Born in Egypt in 1879, he was to become a great personality in the sports world.
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 Joe Start - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
From 1879 until 1885, when he was 42, Start held down first base for the Grays and continued to hit well.
Unfortunately, 1885 was Providence's last season in the NL, so in 1886, he moved to the Washington Nationals for what would be his last season.
Start's 1879 Providence team won the National League, and in 1884 they won a World Series, beating the New York Metropolitans.
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 1879 article - 1879 1876 1877 1878 1880 1881 1882 Decades 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
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1985 in sports - Libby Riddles is the first woman to win the Iditarod; Bradford City and Heysel Stadium disasters
1958 in sports - The lights go out permanently in Brooklyn as baseball's Dodgers move to Los Angeles.
1915 in sports - Braggo Roth leads the American League with 7 home runs for the season.
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 Ya'qub Khan (1879) (from Afghanistan) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The Treaty of Gandamak (Gandomak; May 26, 1879) recognized Ya'qub Khan as emir, and he subsequently agreed to receive a permanent British embassy at Kabul.
In addition, he agreed to conduct his foreign relations with other states in accordance “with the wishes and advice” of the British government.
Hamid Karzai, picked to head an Interim Authority in Afghanistan by a UN-sponsored international conference in Bonn, Ger., in December 2001, sought to maintain balance among...
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 BBC NEWS | Wales | South West Wales | Zulu joy at Welsh sports pitch
An all-weather sports pitch once used by students in Swansea is getting a new lease of life in South Africa.
It had strong links with the Isandlwana - where in 1879 1,300 British soldiers and South African volunteers were defeated by a Zulu army just before the heroic stand-off at Rorke's Drift.
Quoting from president Nelson Mandela he said: "Sport has power to change the world, the power to inspire and to unite people in a way that little else can.
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Over the following two seasons, while seeing increasing time in the outfield and at third base, Ward had his two finest seasons as a pitcher, going 47-19 with 239 strikeouts and a 2.15 ERA in 1879 and 39-24 with 230 strikeouts and a 1.74 ERA in 1880.
Perhaps more remarkably, he pitched nearly 600 innings each year (587.0 in 1879 and 595.0 in 1880).
Ward moved to the New York Gothams (renamed the Giants in 1885) in 1883, completed his transition from a pitcher to an everyday player in 1884, and became the every day shortstop in 1885.
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 MyWestTexas.com - Local News - 12/22/2004 - Williams: On what route did Lt. John Bullis chase Mescalero Apaches in 1879?
Bullis, Tafoya, 39 fl-Seminole scouts, three Lipan Apaches who were brothers-in-law to the fl-Seminole scout James Perryman, and 15 buffalo soldiers were tracking Mescalero Apaches.
In that year of 1879, the mid-February morning had dawned clear and cold.
The trip covered more than 1,200 miles and ended when the reservation agent at Fort Stanton refused to surrender the raiders Bullis and his men were trailing.)
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 African American Registry for Tuesday November 15th 2005
*James Peters was born on this date in 1879.
*On this date, we the recall the birth of Andrew "Rube" Foster in 1879.
*The birth of Jesse Stahl in 1879 is celebrated on this date.
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 1880 in sports - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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 USATODAY.com - Baseball color line might have been broken in 1879   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Baseball color line might have been broken in 1879
Baseball historians are trying to determine whether William Edward White was the first fl player in the major leagues.
White played one game for the Providence Greys of the National League on June 21, 1879, and the Society for American Baseball Research is researching his history.
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Jones, also a left fielder, was second in home runs in 1876, with four, for the Cincinnati Red Stockings.
He almost doubled the major league record upon joining the Red Caps in 1879.
Major league record in 1879: 9, by Jones
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 Players Debuting in 1879 - Baseball-Reference.com
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