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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1939
		This is a list of aviation-related events from 1939: Events January January 12 - the RAF Auxiliary Air Force Reserve is formed February February 9 - Alex Henshaw sets a new speed record for the round trip between England and Cape Town in 4 days 10 minutes in a Percival Mew...
		Lou Gehrigs number 4 was retired by the New York Yankees in 1939 Henry Louis (Lou) Gehrig (June 19, 1903 â€“ June 2, 1941), born Ludwig Heinrich Gehrig, was an American baseball player in the first half of the twentieth century.
		The Venlo Incident in 1939 was a Gestapo-engineered capture of two British SIS agents in the early months of World War II, on November 9, 1939.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1939 (8042 words)

	1939 in sports - Biocrawler
		See also: 1938 in sports, other events of 1939, 1940 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'.
		August 11 - Jean Bugatti, automobile designer and the 30-year-old son of Ettore Bugatti, died in a crash on the Molsheim-Strasbourg highway.
		Texas AandM University 14-13 Tulane in the 1939 Sugar Bowl for the NCAA Football National Championship.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/1939_in_sports (411 words)

	Sports card - Information from Reference.com
		Sports card is a generic term for a trading card with a sports-related subject, as opposed to editorial trading cards that deal with other topics.
		Sports cards were among the earliest, and remain one of the most popular, forms of collectibles.
		The first stage in the development of sports cards, during the second half of the 19th century, is essentially the story of baseball cards, since baseball was the first sport to become widely professionalized.
	www.reference.com /search?q=Sports+card (662 words)

	Discovery Health :: Nutrition Index :: nutrition and athletic performance
		Whether an athlete enjoys sports for fun or competition, he or she needs healthy nutrition.
		Athletes in sports such as weight lifting tend to focus on protein.
		Sports beverages are a good source of the electrolyte minerals potassium, sodium, and chloride.
	health.discovery.com /encyclopedias/illnesses.html?article=1939 (779 words)

	1939 in sports Information
		December: A special election results in Lou Gehrig being selected to the Hall of Fame; he had announced his retirement after the Hall's June opening.
		The third European basketball championship, Eurobasket 1939, is won by Lithuania.
		The seventh South American Basketball Championship in Rio de Janeiro is won by Brazil.
	www.bookrags.com /1939_in_sports (668 words)

	Printed from www.newhaven.edu on 6/3/2007 2:09:08 PM
		Sports in America is a rapidly growing industry.
		Graduate degrees include an MBA with a concentration in Sport Management, a MS in the Management of Sport Industries, and a MS in the Management of Sport Industries with a concentration in Facilities Management.
		College graduates in sports management can pursue careers in professional sport franchises, stadium and arena management, ski resorts, corporate fitness centers, college sport programs, sports media industries, sporting goods merchandising, non-profit sport and a wide variety of other sport-related areas.
	www.newhaven.edu /show.asp?durki=1939&print=yes (381 words)

	1939 in sports - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		See also: 1938 in sports, other events of 1939, 1940 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'.
		The third European basketball championship, Eurobasket 1939, is won by Lithuania.
		Texas AandM University 14-13 Tulane in the 1939 Sugar Bowl for the NCAA Football National Championship.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/1939_in_sports (762 words)

	Category "1939 in sports" - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Category "1939 in sports" - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The main article for this category is 1939 in sports.
		Category "1939 in sports", 1939 and 1930s in sports.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Category/1939_in_sports (94 words)

	CHL Memorial Cup 2003
		In 1939 the Oshawa Generals returned to the Memorial Cup final for a second year in a row after losing in the 1938 final series to the St. Boniface Seals in five games.
		In the 1939 best of five series, that was played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, the Generals would face the Edmonton Athletic Club Roamers.
		The 1939 series for the Memorial Cup can best be described as the Billy "The Kid" Taylor show as the Oshawa forward was the dominant figure of the series.
	www.canoe.ca /CHLMemorialCup03/history_1939.html (393 words)

	Sports Immortals - The Founder
		Platt is a renowned authority in the field of sports collecting.
		After I explained to him my plans to develop a sports museum to honor the greatest athletes of all time, he told me that he would be glad to contribute his last Dodger uniform.
		I received a telephone in 1976 from a young college student who had a complete Lou Gehrig uniform from 1939 with the rare centennial patch on the left shoulder.
	www.sportsimmortals.com /founder.html (586 words)

	Sports
		If you enjoy college sports, there are a number of local teams you can support.
		Our goal is to help keep you on top of things in our College Corner segment, where we’ll feature top news links and provide direct Web links to local college sporting events.
		Here’s a weekly Sports Quiz that will test your knowledge of sports heroes, sports teams, and even historic sporting events.
	www.spokane.net /sports/Sports.aspx (449 words)

	ESPN.com: Billie Jean won for all women
		It was for King's crusading that Life magazine in 1990 named her one of the "100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century." Not sports figures, but Americans.
		She developed into a star softball shortstop before her parents decided that she should pursue a more "ladylike" sport and give up playing baseball and football.
		King believes that she was born with a destiny to work for gender equity in sports and to continue until it's achieved.
	espn.go.com /sportscentury/features/00016060.html (1262 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News
		For the first time, the staff members of the Sports Museum are able to catalogue and process the collection without time-consuming and cumbersome travel to the various depots.
		At the same time, it is now possible to host sport history events for up to 30 people in a seminar room, while the nearby lecture hall in the Haus des Deutschen Sports has capacities for about 200 people.
		As soon as the renovation project in the Haus des Deutschen Sports is finished, the panel exhibit will be complimented with numerous objects pertaining to sport history - the glass cases have already been put in place and will be ready to be filled by around May of 2007.
	www.iaaf.org /news/newsId=37064,printer.html (677 words)

	Women's Soccer Release - Lehigh
		Fourteen of Lehigh’s varsity sports teams collectively posted a 3.0 grade point average or higher during the fall, led by women’s soccer with a combined 3.28 GPA.
		Women’s crew, a new varsity sport at Lehigh, wasted no time fitting in with four women who achieved perfection in the classroom.
		Lehigh, which sponsors 25 Division I intercollegiate varsity sports, ranked 12th in Division I by graduating 86% of its student-athletes in the most recent NCAA survey.
	www.lehighsports.com /sports/wsoccer/release.asp?release_id=1939 (425 words)

	Olaf Stapledon . Brian Aldiss . John Maynard Smith . 1915 . 1919 . 1929 . 1939 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		1939 in film August 12 - The Wizard of Oz 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz December 15 - Gone With the Wind premiers in Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta, Georgia U.S. state Georgia.
		1939 in sports July 4 - Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, tells a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considered himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth" as...
		Where the condition is acquired as the result of infection, brain tumors, cysts or head trauma.
	www.uk.knowledge-info.org /Olaf_Stapledon-UK-6404664-sa (359 words)

	NASC: Native American Sports Council (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He was a two-time winner of the Boston Marathon in 1936 (2:33:40) and 1939 (2:28:51).
		In the 1939 Boston Marathon he was the first runner to break the 2-1û2 hour mark for the marathon.
		In 1939 Brown entered two different 26-mile races within 24 hours of one another, and he won both races.
	www.nascsports.org /index.php?page=athletes&sub=brown&back=olympians (192 words)

	Lou Gehrig . June 2 . Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1939 . Manhattan . 1939 in sports . Cal Ripken, Jr. . Roger ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		See and The 1939 in sports 1939 elections to select inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame were the last ones conducted prior to the Hall s opening that year.
		Needing just one addition to complete the initial goal of 10 inductees from the 20th century, members of the Baseball Writers Association of America BBWAA were once again given authority to select any players active in the 20th century, excepting active players.
		He earned five World Series championship rings, threw a perfect game in 1968 in sports 1968, and was known as a skilled control pitcher.
	www.uk.knowledge-info.org /Lou_Gehrig-UK-4282442-mu (804 words)

	1939 New York Knights "The Natural" Home Throwback Jersey (Sizes Small - 2XL) (Roy Hobbs)
		OnlineSports.com is your premier source for all things sports, including jerseys, sports jerseys, throwback jerseys, sports jewelry, sports apparel, sports memorabilia, sports fan gear, sports books, sports videos, sports dvds, sports accessories, and so much more.
		We carry everything from bleachers and billiards, to information on sports medicine, sports nutrition, coaching, footwear, boating, cycling, sports travel and sports tickets.
		If it's sports equipment there's a good chance we've got it: track and field equipment, fitness equipment, camping equipment, basketball equipment, playground equipment, exercise equipment, baseball equipment, to name just a few.
	www.onlinesports.com /pages/I,EFF-NYK-39H.html (546 words)

	Week in Sports: <br>June 23 - 29, Week in Sports: June 23 - June 29 - CBS News
		Week in Sports: June 23 - 29, Week in Sports: June 23 - June 29 - CBS News
		The Pittsburgh Pirates' Craig Wilson, left, and Jason Bay sit at the end of the dugout bench after a 4-2 loss to the Chicago White Sox, June 27, 2006, in Pittsburgh.
		It is the first time since 1939 that the Pirates have lost 12 games in a row.
	www.cbsnews.com /elements/2006/06/23/in_depth_sports/photoessay1746102_0_7_photo.shtml (86 words)

	Science Fair Projects - 1939
		1936 1937 1938 - 1939 - 1940 1941 1942
		1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar).
		November 4 - World War II: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/1939 (1721 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
		The Soviet women were originally the top team on the female side, winning gold in 1976, 1980 and 1992, but the US women have now surpassed them, winning gold medals in 1984, 1988, 1996 and 2000.
		Today, basketball has become one of the most popular sports in the world, rivalling football (soccer) for world-wide popularity and trailing only volleyball and track and field athletics in terms of number of member federations.
		Argentina, Yugoslavia and Spain defeated the USA who was left with a disappointing sixth place in their own country.
	www.olympic.org /uk/sports/programme/history_uk.asp?DiscCode=BK (558 words)

	African Americans in Sports (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Because the constitutions of the American Bowling Congress and the Women's International Bowling Congress had "Caucasian only" clauses, the National Negro Bowling Association was formed in 1939.
		In the late 1940s, bowling was the most popular sport among African Americans.
		The 1951 ABC championship was the first integrated bowling event for African-American "keglers," as bowlers are called.
	www.jimcrowhistory.org /scripts/jimcrow/sports.cgi?sport=Bowling (186 words)

	Women's Sports Foundation ATHLETES
		In this previously white-dominated sport, her legacy made it possible for today’s minority skaters to be judged on their skill and performance alone.
		Fairbanks passed away in October, just days before she would be inducted into The Women’s Sports Foundation Hall of Fame at the 2001 Annual Salute to Women in Sports Awards Dinner.
		She will be remembered forever as a woman of remarkable strength and determination whose contribution to the sport has eased the path for today’s African-American figure skaters.
	www.womenssportsfoundation.org /cgi-bin/iowa/athletes/article.html?record=71 (468 words)

	ESPN - MLB Season-by-Season Statistics -- Major League Baseball Season-by-Season Statistics
		It makes sense for the Players Association to be the first major union in pro sports to build its own independent drug-testing system.
		The Yankees-Red Sox series highlights one of the best sports weekends of the year.
		Eric Neel puts each American League wild-card hopeful "in a box" to help you pick a playoff team to cheer for.
	sports.espn.go.com /mlb/alltime/season?year=1939 (116 words)

	Important Events in Sports, 1930–1939 - 1930's Sports
		Important Events in Sports, 1930–1939 - 1930's Sports
		The first James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy, awarded to the country's top amateur athlete, goes to golfer Bobby Jones.
		Simply highlight the word and press SHIFT + D for a definition.
	www.enotes.com /1930-sports-american-decades/important-events-sports (179 words)

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