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  NBA History: George Mikan: The First Icon
He was named the game's best player for the first half of the 20th Century, and was also named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History.
He won scoring titles in six straight seasons, once averaging as many as 28.4 poing.
At 6-10, with broad shoulders and shar elbows, the bespectacled Mikan was so dominant that the foul lane was widened from six to 12 feet to move him away from the basket and the 24-second shot clock implemented so teams would not try to win 19-18.
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 Major League Baseball Parks
The 37-foot-high left-field wall was littered with ads until 1947, when it was painted green.
After sharing Cinergy Field with the NFL's Bengals for almost 30 years, the new home of the Reds, Great American, opened March 31, 2003, when they lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 10–1.
The stadium was known as Enron Field during its first two seasons, but the name was changed at the start of the 2002 season due to Enron's financial woes.
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 Ray Didinger, Robert S. Lyons: The Eagles Encyclopedia
Written by two of the biggest Eagles experts around, EE is loaded with stats, team history, informative profiles, and plenty of trivia (including the fact that the 1980 Birds were the first team in NFL history to receive a papal blessing).
The son of a saloon owner in southwest Philadelphia, Ray quickly became the bar "tout" for the local gamblers filling out their football pools.
There is nothing about the 2005 season, which is a good thing....
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 Bibliography Committee's Book Reviews
Harris, David The League: The Rise and Decline of the NFL (1986)
King, George Unbeatable!: The Historic Season of the 1998 World Champion New York Yankees (1998)
Stevens, David Baseball's Radical For All Seasons: A Biography of John Montgomery Ward (1998)
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 August 31 Events in History
August 31, 1947 Hungarian Communist Party wins election
August 31, 1947 New York Giants set season record for home runs by a club 183 (en route to 221)
August 31, 1938 5th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 28, Washington 16 (74,250)
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Unlucky: A Season of Struggle in Minor League Professional Soccer, by Dave Ungrady.
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