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  Mississippi Dizzy Dean Baseball
Dizzy Dean Baseball and Dizzy Dean Softball are not for coaches, parents, or spectators.
There was no organized baseball in Arkansas while Dizzy Dean was growing up and he was denied the opportunity to play baseball as a young boy.
It was Dizzy Dean's dream that one day every young person would have the opportunity to play ball.
msdizzydean.org   (160 words)

  
  "Dizzy" Dean (1910–1974) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Born in Lucas (Logan County) on January 16, 1910, Jay Dean was the son of Albert Monroe “Ab” Dean, a tenant farmer and sawmill worker, and Alma Nelson Dean.
Dean joined the Houston club for the 1930 and 1931 seasons and was in the big leagues for the 1932 season when the St. Louis Cardinals purchased his contract.
Dean was part of the first generation of former players to use their first-hand knowledge of the game to become a baseball broadcaster, and Dean was the first announcer to make humor a regular part of his broadcast.
www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net /encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=13   (1218 words)

  
 Dizzy Dean - MSN Encarta
Dean enlisted in the United States Army at the age of 16 and displayed great skill as a pitcher in army baseball contests.
Dizzy Dean won 30 games for the Cardinals that season, and together the Dean brothers led the Cardinals to the 1934 World Series title.
Dizzy Dean won the NL's most valuable player award for 1934, and remained with the Cardinals until 1938, when he was traded to the Chicago Cubs.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570048/Dizzy_Dean.html   (266 words)

  
  "Dizzy" Dean (1910–1974) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Born in Lucas (Logan County) on January 16, 1910, Jay Dean was the son of Albert Monroe “Ab” Dean, a tenant farmer and sawmill worker, and Alma Nelson Dean.
Dean joined the Houston club for the 1930 and 1931 seasons and was in the big leagues for the 1932 season when the St. Louis Cardinals purchased his contract.
Dean was part of the first generation of former players to use their first-hand knowledge of the game to become a baseball broadcaster, and Dean was the first announcer to make humor a regular part of his broadcast.
encyclopediaofarkansas.net /encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=13   (1218 words)

  
 Dizzy Dean | BaseballLibrary.com
Dean was given his nickname by his sergeant in the army, where he picked up the basics of pitching.
Dizzy led the league in wins, strikeouts, shutouts, and complete games, was second to Carl Hubbell for the ERA crown, and batted.246.
Dean forces a meeting with the press at which he denies the statements, and his suspension is lifted a few days later.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/D/Dean_Dizzy.stm   (4014 words)

  
 Jay "Dizzy" Dean, A Not-so-modest Character
Dean set up the ladder, climbed it, and began hammering on the ceiling, while his cohorts were rearranging furniture and crawling under tables.
Dizzy was also famous for taping a long piece of string to a dollar bill and sitting in a hotel lobby, snatching the buck away from the fingers of those who bent for it.
Dean's disregard for correct grammar caught the attention of the St. Louis Board of Education, which demanded that he be taken off the air.
www.cardinalshistory.com /lore_dizzy_dean.htm   (1799 words)

  
 Duke's Dizzy Dean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Dean Thompson visited the commons rooms of all of the freshmen dorms and gave a pep rally-style speech to each dorm's residents, extolling the wonders of Duke University.
The Dean praised the separate activities for fl students, arguing that simply having a racially diverse environment was not enough, because we kids would not automatically accept each other.
I asked the Dean why Maya Angelou had been invited to speak every year for orientation to educate the incoming class about multiculturalism when there were so many other possible speakers and topics to choose from.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=9722   (1453 words)

  
 St. Louis Walk of Fame - Dizzy Dean
Known for his homespun wit and good-natured bravado, Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean was perhaps the most colorful member of the Cardinals' famed "Gas House Gang." With his blazing fastball he won 30 games in 1934, earning MVP honors and leading the Cardinals to a World Series victory.
Dean moved on to announce radio broadcasts of Cardinals and Browns games, and later to television's game of the week, where his keen analysis and informal speech charmed the nation.
Dizzy Dean was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953.
www.stlouiswalkoffame.org /inductees/dizzy-dean.html   (138 words)

  
 St. Louis Public Library - Dizzy Dean
Dizzy was regretful: "If'n Paul had told me he was gonna pitch a no-hitters, I'd of throwed one too." And maybe he would have.
On the Gashouse Gang's roster of legendary baseball players, Jay Hanna 'Dizzy' Dean was the poster child, the embodiment of what fans thought baseball could be.
Dean was born in backwoods Arkansas, on the edge of the Cardinals' sphere of influence.
www.slpl.org /slpl/interests/article240086165.asp   (630 words)

  
 Dizzy Dean Baseball, Inc.
Dizzy Dean Baseball, Inc. has been organized as a youth baseball program for all youth regardless of sex, religion, race or color, five (5) through nineteen (19) years of age.
The main purpose of this program is to expand Dizzy Dean Baseball, Inc. and to provide a recreation outlet for as many youth as possible with emphasis being on local league play rather than tournament play.
Dizzy Dean was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953
www.dizzydeanbbinc.org   (205 words)

  
 Dizzy Dean | The BASEBALL Page
Paul Dean and Dizzy are the only brothers to combine for 40 wins as teammates in a single season.
It seems that Dizzy, in a chapter of his life story, recently published in a New York paper, said that Medwick was the Cardinal who started that row with Jack Miley and Irv Kupcinet a year ago this spring in a Tampa hotel.
Dean relied on his remarkable raw talent, and on more than one occassion, he let loose a fast one without properly warming up his celebrated right arm.
www.thebaseballpage.com /players/deandi01.php   (962 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Dizzy Dean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Jay Hanna 'Dizzy' Dean (16 January 1910 - 17 July 1974) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Jay Hanna 'Dizzy' Dean was born on 16 January 1910 in Lucas, Arkansas.
Dean died on 17 July 1974 in Reno, Nevada.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Dizzy_Dean   (189 words)

  
 Dizzy Dean - ExampleProblems.com
Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean (January 16, 1910–July 17, 1974) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball, elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Dizzy Dean's 1947 appearance came on the last day of the season.
Dean died at age 64 in Reno, Nevada.
www.exampleproblems.com /wiki/index.php/Dizzy_Dean   (317 words)

  
 Dizzy Dean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Jay Hanna Dean was born January 16, 1910, in Lucas, Arkansas, but he grew up in Bond, Mississippi.
Dizzy made his major league debut on the final day of the Cardinals’ 1930 season.
In 1953 Dizzy Dean was elected by 79.17% of the voters to be put into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
www2.nemcc.edu /mspeople/dizzy_dean.htm   (273 words)

  
 Texas State Historical Association - My Texas - On Dizzy Dean's Farm
Dizzy retired from pitching, but he continued to be active in the sports world with his colorful baseball announcing career in St. Louis, so consequently he and his wife were not on the farm often.
Dizzy's father, Albert Dean, and his brother Elmer lived in a white frame house, while my grandmother's family lived in a smaller one and worked on the farm milking the cows, pulling corn, and picking cotton.
Dizzy also bought a brand-new tractor with iron lug wheels to work the farm, but mules were still used for some of the work.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /mytexas/stories/OO/239.html   (1002 words)

  
 BBTF's Hall of Merit Discussion :: Dizzy Dean
Dean seems like the best of his cluster, he also has the highest peak as documented elsewhere on this thread, especially since depending on the situations with Maglie, Newc, and Antonelli, they might move out of the Dean group.
For both Jennings and Dean, their candidacies are mostly based on their performance over 5 (consecutive) seasons, though both have some small pluses in other seasons.
A second reason Dean may not be doing well is that voters may not be fully adjusting for the impact of the live ball on pitching performance.
www.baseballthinkfactory.org /files/hall_of_merit/discussion/dizzy_dean   (4363 words)

  
 Dizzy Dean Baseball, Inc.
Dizzy Dean Baseball, Inc. has been organized as a youth baseball program for all youth regardless of sex, religion, race or color, five (5) through nineteen (19) years of age.
Dizzy Dean will offer a 15 year old world series to be held In Johnson City TN starting July 19.
Dizzy Dean was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953
www.dizzydeanbbinc.org /?publicationID=270&departmentID=564   (279 words)

  
 Dizzy Dean Democrats (A ToThePoint™ Report)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Dizzy Dean the pitcher was loved by all America for his goofy grammar and good-natured humor.
Dizzy Dean the politician is loved by a small number of Americans who can’t overcome their bitterness toward George Bush.
The hatred for GW that has unhinged the Dizzy Dean Democrats is visceral, felt deeply in their gut, visceral in the way conservatives despised Bill Clinton.
www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2003/8/10/232452.shtml   (741 words)

  
 Dizzy Dean- an American Icon - Associated Content
It was a sergeant in the army that had nicknamed him Dizzy and it was in the service that he picked up the basics of pitching.
His brother Paul was a pitching prospect, also for the Cardinals, and in spring training Dizzy announced that between the pair they would win 45 games that year.
Dizzy, pitching on one day's rest, returned to again whitewash the lowly Reds while the Giants were again being taken by Brooklyn, handing the Cardinals the flag.
www.associatedcontent.com /article/20279/dizzy_dean_an_american_icon.html   (533 words)

  
 Dizzy Dean
Dean and his teammates were legendary for their antics and good humour.
One afternoon with Dean on the mound, Terry came to the plate three times and hit three rockets - the first sailed off of Dean's leg, the second whizzed past his ear, and the third rocketed off of his glove.
Dizzy Dean is dead and 1934 is gone forever.
www.baseball-statistics.com /HOF/Dean.htm   (1321 words)

  
 Dizzy Dean - Reviews on RateItAll
Dizzy Dean dominated batters during his career, which included a 1934 National League MVP award.
Only Dizzy Dean and the rest of the Gashouse Gang seemed able to compete with the fearsome New York Yankees of the 1930s.
And appropriately, Dean's name is the most prominently mentioned as he was a pitcher who played mind games with the great batters of his era.
www.rateitall.com /i-26537-dizzy-dean.aspx   (286 words)

  
 Georgia Dizzy Dean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Ty Gaulden was commissioner of Dixie Senior Baseball from 1966 until 1977 when Dizzy Dean Baseball was created.
The first commissioner of Dizzy Dean Baseball and a national director from Alabama, Mr.
This scholarship shall be awarded by the National Board of Directors, under such rules and conditions as it may determine, provided however, that only those players who participate in the program of the corporation who are in need of financial help shall be eligible.
dizzydeanga.org /scholarship.htm   (99 words)

  
 DIZZY DEAN - BASEBALL HALL OF FAME CARD SIGNED
Quickly winning recognition as an outstanding right-hander, Dean won 30 games for the Cardinals in the 1933-1934 season, when he was joined by his brother, Paul "Daffy" Dean.
"Dizzy" led the Cardinals to the 1934 World Series, where he won two games (and his brother won two), and he won the NL's MVP award that year.
Dean was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953.
www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/3_2001/great_buys/DIZZY_DEAN.htm   (230 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Dizzy Dean His Story in Baseball: Books: L. Allen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He changed his name to James Dean and was later called Dizzy, because of his wild spinning wind up when pitching the ball.
Dizzy told the general manager of the Cardinals about his brother, Paul, who was also a great pitcher.
In 1952 Dizzy Dean was traded to the Chicago Cubs where he struggled pitching.
www.amazon.com /Dizzy-Dean-His-Story-Baseball/dp/0399601287   (822 words)

  
 Dizzy Dean -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Ol' Dizzy was a colorful character who had been a pitcher with the Cardinals "Gas House Gang" in the 1930s.
Dean was a star for less than ten seasons but he remained a "personality" for years to come.
His boastfulness and constant need to be in the spotlight made him a legend in the glory years of baseball and his short stories in these 15-minute broadcasts are still entertaining today.
www.otrcat.com /dizzydean.htm   (228 words)

  
 Dizzy Dean Quotes
Dizzy died the other day at the age of 11 or 12.
Dizzy Dean was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953 and his career statistics are still some of the best.
Dizzy Dean was named to Total Baseball's (1998) list of the four-hundred greatest players in baseball history.
www.baseball-almanac.com /quotes/quodean.shtml   (1048 words)

  
 Dizzy Dean Single-Signed Ball
After retirement, one broadcasting executive, a visionary whose name is lost to history, saw fit to put Dizzy Dean in front of a live microphone.
In the heat of the Cold War, Dizzy advised the State Department 'to ship a ball and bat to them Russian kids, so we'd all be friends and talk the same language.' Unabashed to be sure -- yet self-effacing as well.
Distinct, prominent and immediately legible, this is a splendid Dizzy autograph -- one that seems to radiate his wisdom.
www.americanmemorabilia.com /Auction_Item.asp?Auction_ID=27216   (207 words)

  
 SABR :|| Convention | SABR 35 - Dizzy Dean--Quintessential Southerner (Research Presentation)
King II Born in Arkansas and raised there and in Oklahoma, this under-educated son of a poor cotton sharecropper went from dirty overalls and bare feet to riches.
Not long after, following a damaged arm which cut short his pitching career, Dean became a fabled radio and then television broadcaster who sang, joked, boasted, and slaughtered the English language on his way to the top of the charts.
It was his voice and image that brought "The Game of the Week" into millions of homes which had been previously deprived of viewing major league baseball.
www.sabr.org /sabr.cfm?a=cms,c,1339,17,0   (270 words)

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