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  Billy Hamilton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Sliding Billy" Hamilton broke into the Majors in the American Association with the Kansas City Cowboys in 1888 and established himself as a star the following season by batting.301 with 144 runs and 111 stolen bases.
Hamilton joined the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League in 1890 and continued his trend-setting ways over the following six years, averaging 146 runs and 92 stolen bases a season while hitting as high as.404 (in 1894).
Hamilton was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1961.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billy_Hamilton   (264 words)

  
 Billy Hamilton
Billy's clever play and hard work made him one of the stars of the 46/47 campaign and he was virtually ever-present.
Billy also displayed his versatility during the season by filling in at left back and playing as a striker on occasions.
Billy also made 2 first team appearances during the 56/57 campaign, the first of them as a left-back in a 1-1 draw at Ashford on 30.3.57.
www.margatefchistory.co.uk /billyhamilton.htm   (612 words)

  
 Billy Hamilton | The BASEBALL Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hamilton revolutionized the game of baseball, making the head-first slide, the first-to-third advance on a base hit, and the drag bunt staples of the game in the 1890s.
With Hamilton, the Bostons improved their team average to.300 and leapfrogged the Phillies in the NL standings.
Hamilton was the table-setter, drawing walks (.475 OBP for the five-years), and scoring more runs (741) than any other player in baseball.
www.thebaseballpage.com /past/pp/hamiltonbilly   (593 words)

  
 California Performance Review :: Leadership   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hamilton was appointed as the Texas Deputy Comptroller of Public Accounts in 1999, the Chief Fiscal Officer responsible for the Texas tax administration, statewide financial management, revenue forecasting, and treasury operations.
Hamilton was the director of state and local services for the Policy Economics Group of KPMG Peat Marwick in Washington, D.C. He was also the executive director of the Select Committee on Tax Equity, a panel created by the Texas Legislature to study the state's tax structure.
Hamilton was the first recipient of the Bob Bullock Award for Public Stewardship and the first recipient of the LBJ School's Distinguished Alumni Award.
cpr.ca.gov /leadership   (570 words)

  
 Billy Hamilton -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William Robert Hamilton (February 16, 1866 - December 16, 1940) was a (Click link for more info and facts about 19th century) 19th century (Click link for more info and facts about Major League Baseball) Major League Baseball player.
Hamilton retired after the (Click link for more info and facts about 1901) 1901 season.
Hamilton was inducted into the (Click link for more info and facts about Baseball Hall of Fame) Baseball Hall of Fame in (Click link for more info and facts about 1961) 1961.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bi/billy_hamilton.htm   (227 words)

  
 Billy Hamilton Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
Billy Hamilton was born on Friday, February 16, 1866, in Newark, New Jersey.
Hamilton was 22 years old when he broke into the big leagues on July 31, 1888, with the Kansas City Blues, and his Major League Baseball stats for every season he played, along with his career totals are on this page.
Billy Hamilton's biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable) career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this Billy Hamilton baseball statistics page.
www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=hamilbi01   (309 words)

  
 HickokSports.com - Biography - Billy Hamilton
A left-handed hitter and right-handed thrower, the 5-foot-6, 165-pound Hamilton joined the Kansas City team in the American Association, then a major league, during the 1888 season.
In 1890, Hamilton joined the Philadelphia Phillies of the NL and led that league in stolen bases with 102.
Hamilton left the major leagues after hitting only.287 in 1901, but he served as a playing manager in the minors through 1909.
www.hickoksports.com /biograph/hamiltonbilly.shtml   (356 words)

  
 Wish I May
It was the moment that her potion boiled that the swamp went wild and the body - of her 21-year-old son Billy - disappeared.
The "undead" Billy's next stop is his mother's home where he is met by the welcoming arms of his little sister Layla and his mother.
But Seth Hamilton turns up in the nick of time, and, because the boys are set on returning to the ranks of the dead, Lem seems fated to get more for his visit than he bargained for.
shasta_hope-24.tripod.com /season2/id3.html   (692 words)

  
 The Clarion-Ledger: Sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
For Hamilton, the victory was extra special because he was playing two hours from where he grew up in Columbia, 90 minutes from where he played collegiately at Southern Miss.
Hamilton, here in Houston for his second Super Bowl in three years, will take part in a family reunion Friday with family he has either never met or can't remember.
Billy Hamilton was killed in Houston in a random shooting in December of 1981.
www.clarionledger.com /news/0401/28/srick.html   (837 words)

  
 Billy Hamilton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hamilton ensambló la Philadelphia Phillies en la liga nacional en 1890 y continuó su excedente de las maneras tender-que fijaba los seis años siguientes, haciendo un promedio de 146 funcionamientos y de 92 bases robadas a la estación mientras que golpeaba tan arriba como 404 (en 1894).
Hamilton se retiró después de la estación 1901.
Hamilton fue instalada en el béisbol pasillo de la fama en 1961.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/bi/Billy%20Hamilton.htm   (325 words)

  
 Surfline | Billy Hamilton (August 27, 1948- )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1959, Hamilton was introduced to surfing by way of a Hobie double-ender, and his playground would soon extend from Rincon to Baja.
In 1976, Hamilton was chosen to do the surfing for Jan Michael Vincent's character, Matt Johnson, in John Milius' Big Wednesday, as well as the scene in which lifeguards abandon their small boat in the pit of a giant, oncoming wave.
Hamilton remains on Kauai, near Hanalei, with his wife Rhonda (he and Joann divorced in 1977).
www.surfline.com /surfaz/hamilton_billy.cfm   (683 words)

  
 sliding billy hamilton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He was buried in the Carr Hamilton plot in Eastwood Cemetery.
Until recently, the only marker was the gray granite family stone, which is headed by Henry Carr, who was born in 1836 and died in 1921.
Hamilton's wife, Rebecca, was buried in the same plot in 1957.
www.atlanticuc.edu /lancaster/attractions/sliding.html   (394 words)

  
 Surfline | Laird Hamilton (March 2, 1964-)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Born is San Francisco but raised on the North Shore, with the Pipeline beach as his playground, he experienced the last of the original big-wave pioneers -- Greg Noll, Butch Van Artsdalen and Jose Angel -- and inherited their bravado and all-around skills.
Having the legendary Billy Hamilton as his stepfather afforded him a hall pass into surfing's elite.
Like most things in Hamilton's life, this pursuit was discarded upon mastery, and he turned his sights to a bigger quest.
www.surfline.com /surfaz/hamilton_laird.cfm   (610 words)

  
 Your Place And Mine - Topics - Sport - 82 World Cup - Live Chat
Billy Hamilton also bagged two goals in the Finals, as well as the vital assist for Gerry's winning strike against Spain.
Billy: There was a goal that never was with George Best, cheeky number against Gordon Banks at Windsor Park where Gordon Banks threw the ball up to kick it up field and George Best cheekily kicked the ball in mid air over his head and put it in the net.
Billy: I had to finish football at 29 through injury and I went into mangement with LImerick City I suppose it was a way of keeping involved in the game and putting back the inevitable realisation that you couldn't play any more because there's nothing like playing.
www.bbc.co.uk /northernireland/yourplaceandmine/topics/sport/A733781.shtml   (1928 words)

  
 Statewise Online
Billy Hamilton, who is second in command of the agency, has answered more than 9,000 questions from employees in his column since it debuted in November 2000.
Hamilton took annual leave periodically to consult with California officials, and the state of California paid his expenses.
Unbeknownst to Hamilton, the first time he met alone with Bullock, Bullock was interviewing him for the chief revenue estimator position.
www.window.state.tx.us /fm/statewise/04/08/spot.html   (1497 words)

  
 Odebolt, Iowa - Billy Hamilton and the Cherry Sisters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
An event that must be recorded in the history of Odebolt is the visit of these Cherry Sisters in February 1898, not so much for their appearance here (in Odebolt) but for the comment by Billy Hamilton, the outspoken editor of The Odebolt Chronicle.
Effie is spavined, Addie is stringhalt and Jessie, the only one who showed her stocking, has legs with calves as classic in their outlines as the curves of a broom handle”.
Hamilton’s article was reprinted by the Des Moines Leader and several other Iowa newspapers.
www.rootsweb.com /%7Eiaohms/cherrysisters.html   (457 words)

  
 Billy Hamilton | BaseballLibrary.com
In 1890 Hamilton brought his head-first slides to the NL's Phillies, where he led the league with 102 steals in 1890 and 115 in 1891, the year he won his first batting title with a.340 mark.
Sliding Billy continued his record-setting basepath feats in 1894 with the help of his fellow Phillies, who hit a ML-record.343 as a team that year.
After leading the league once again in runs, walks, and stolen bases in 1895, he was traded to the Braves for third baseman Billy Nash.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/H/Hamilton_Billy.stm   (532 words)

  
 The man behind the state review / Soft-spoken Texan brought 'Yoda'-like wisdom to the task   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hamilton was waiting Wednesday to get on a plane back to Austin, where he'll return to his $260,000-a-year day job as deputy comptroller of Texas' huge tax collecting and treasury agency.
Hamilton spent three days in February running a Sacramento training session for the people who would work on the performance review and "followed the program with advice and encouragement to keep the process going,'' said Gutierrez.
Hamilton has worked in state finance since 1976, a year after he graduated from the University of Texas' Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/05/MNGSI82VEF1.DTL   (932 words)

  
 Dick Perez - Sports Artist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Although best remembered as a base thief, "Sliding" Billy Hamilton also excelled at bat and in the outfield.
His 937 career stolen bases and single-season total of 115 in 1891 stood as National League as records for almost 80 years.
Hamilton remains the only player whose runs scored (1,691) exceeded his games played (1,578), and he excelled at getting on base, leading the league in walks five times.
www.dickperez.com /nts_detail.asp?ArtworkID=396   (83 words)

  
 Oxford United | History | Legends | Billy Hamilton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
May 1957, Billy joined United from Burnley for £95,000 in 1984, and quickly formed a partnership with Aldridge which was near impossible to stop.
Although most people remember his great power in the air, Billy was also no slouch on the deck, as his famous run and cross for Northern Ireland’s shock winner over Spain in the 1982 World Cup showed.
Hero of the great cup exploits of the mid 80’s, Hamilton revealed that part of this was down to a diet of mushrooms picked from the training ground, and was inundated with bags of them from well meaning fans.
www.oufc.premiumtv.co.uk /page/LegendsDetail/0,,10342~72367,00.html   (254 words)

  
 KeepMedia | USA TODAY: Finding lost family more super than game
Hamilton discovered them living in the Houston area five years ago.
None have seen him since Billy Hamilton's funeral in December 1980.
Hamilton's father was killed in a random shooting in his home just days before his wife and four sons were to move from Columbia, Miss., to......
keepmedia.com /pubs/USATODAY/2004/01/29/373416?extID=10032&oliID=213   (263 words)

  
 Double Indemnity by Billy Wilder, ISBN 0520218485 And Turner: The Late Seascapes by James Hamilton, ISBN 0300099002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This handsome book--written by Turner expert James Hamilton and published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition organized by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute--focuses primarily on the artist's spectacular seascapes dating from the 1840s, the last decade of his illustrious career.
Hamilton also examines the important role of the pendant in Turner's late art, arguing that his paired works have intentional associative narrative, stylistic, and chromatic meanings.
Including more than one hundred examples of Turner's dramatic and lively marine pictures--sixty of which are reproduced in full color--this elegant book sheds fascinating new light on one of the world's most beloved artists.
www.carloverr.com /wilder.htm   (300 words)

  
 Central View by William Hamilton
Recently, the world watched (and the Sinistra Media largely ignored), the over 63-percent of Iraqis (to include Sunni Arabs) who turned out to vote for their first-ever democratic constitution.
The study says a dramatic rise in Hispanic incomes means these newly affluent voters will behave like the rest of middle-class Americans, and are then more likely to vote Republican.
William Hamilton, a syndicated columnist, a featured commentator for USA Today and self-described “recovering lawyer and philosopher,” is the co-author of The Grand Conspiracy and The Panama Conspiracy — two thrillers about terrorism directed against the United States.
www.central-view.com   (652 words)

  
 A Tale of Weatherford, Texas ( TX )
Their problem with the official record of the Lincoln autopsy comes in the form of a man named Alexander (Billy Bob) Hamilton who lived in Weatherford from 1865 to 1881.
Only known photo of Alexander (Billy Bob) Hamilton taken in the Spring of 1869 in Weatherford, TX The strange theory coming out of Parker County, Texas is that Alexander (Billy Bob) Hamilton was in fact former President Abraham Lincoln.
Clues to his true identity included his love of quoting from the Gettysburg Address (after all he wrote it), his hat (it was just like the one Lincoln wore), and he went around telling everyone he was really President Lincoln and that he was sure sorry about that little war (The Civil War).
www.geocities.com /waylon_halen   (962 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Billy Hamilton
MSN Encarta - Search Results - Billy Hamilton
Hamilton, Sir William Rowan (1805-65), British mathematician and astronomer, known chiefly for his work in vector analysis (Vector) and in optics....
Hamilton, Sir William (1788-1856), Scottish philosopher, who introduced the ideas of German philosopher Immanuel Kant into British thought.
ca.encarta.msn.com /Billy_Hamilton.html   (106 words)

  
 Frank Richards, Billy Bunter & Charles Hamilton
Charles Hamilton is most remembered for his school stories, the most famous of which were those centred on Greyfriars School, a fictitious private school in Kent.
I collect the Magnet volumes detailing the exploits of Billy Bunter, with a particular preference for the Howard Baker volumes, and a mild aversion to the substitute writers collections, although I admire and respect the integrity of Howard Baker in keeping these apart from Charles Hamilton's' writing.
In reviewing Richmal Cromptons work, Mary Cadogan noted, correctly, that Charles Hamilton (Frank Richards) made no concession to changes in styles and patterns of behavior in a Magnet period which spanned 33 years, while Richmal Crompton's characters adopted the vogues and expressions current to the times in which she wrote.
www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com /bunter.html   (3198 words)

  
 Billy "Harp" Hamilton and the Lowriders-Cincinnati-Dayton Blues/Soul/R & B-Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Billy "Harp" Hamilton and the Lowriders-Cincinnati-Dayton Blues/Soul/R and B-Home
Welcome to the rhythmic world of Billy "Harp" Hamilton and The Lowriders, the most professional, dynamic, and entertaining blues/soul/R and B band in the Cincinnati-Dayton, Ohio, area.
"Front Man Bill Coleman [aka Hamilton] has a solid voice and adds to the blues with his harmonica....
www.thelowridersband.com   (172 words)

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