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  George Weiss (baseball) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Martin Weiss (June 23, 1895 - August 13, 1972) was one of Major League Baseball's most successful executives.
He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971.
This person is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Weiss_(baseball)   (176 words)

  
 TheDeadballEra.com :: BAD TO THE BONE: GEORGE WEISS
George Weiss was as extremely successful a baseball man as there has ever been in baseball history.
Weiss surfaced in 1961 as president of the expansion Mets.
Weiss retired in 1966 and was elected to the Hall of Fame by the Committee on Baseball Veterans in 1971.
www.thedeadballera.com /BadBoneWeiss.html   (664 words)

  
 George Weiss | BaseballLibrary.com
A czar-like general manager, Lonesome George was a shy, colorless, and humorless penny-pincher who clung to his wife and an inner circle of old friends.
When Weiss retired in 1966 - voluntarily - he left the Mets in better shape than were the last-place Yankees; keys to the 1969 World Champion Mets, such as Tom Seaver and Jerry Koosman, were in the farm system.
Weiss was elected to the Hall of Fame by the Committee on Baseball Veterans in 1971.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/W/Weiss_George.stm   (981 words)

  
 Weiss Money   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
An attorney from Cary, North Carolina, Weiss is currently (2003-2004 session) serving in her second term in the state House.
Weiss has filed for re-election from the thirty-fifth House district in the 2004 General Assembly election; she faces Libertarian Graham Yarko Thomas in the November general election.
Weiss was the only member of Sydney's CIA "family" who wasn't recruited into the fl-ops division of the CIA, dubbed "APO," at the start of the fourth season, but this was soon rectified when he learned about the existence of APO during a mission in the second episode of the season.
www.wwwtln.com /finance/202/weiss-money.html   (600 words)

  
 George Weiss - TheBestLinks.com - Disambig, George Weiss (baseball), George Weiss (songwriter), George Weiss ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
George Weiss - TheBestLinks.com - Disambig, George Weiss (baseball), George Weiss (songwriter), George Weiss (producer),...
George Weiss, Disambig, George Weiss (baseball), George Weiss (songwriter)...
This is a disambiguation page, i.e., a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
www.thebestlinks.com /George_Weiss.html   (113 words)

  
 Snuffy Stirnweiss Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
Snuffy Stirnweiss was born on Saturday, October 26 1918, in New York, New York.
His 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 comprehensive Snuffy Stirnweiss baseball stats page.
Baseball Almanac had over 50 million hits in 2003.
www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=stirnsn01   (275 words)

  
 Weiss Financial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Weiss may refer to one of the following:
Rainer (Rai) Weiss, professor of physics emeritus at MIT, was a founding member of the LIGO project.
He made pioneering measurements of the spectrum of the cosmic microwave background radiation, and then was co-founder and an intellectual leader of the NASA COBE (microwave background) statellite.
www.wwwtln.com /finance/202/weiss-financial.html   (516 words)

  
 BTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Baseball sources cautioned that merging the Lerners and Kasten would not automatically make the group the frontrunner, but sources said the Lerner-Kasten combination would be formidable.
Major League Baseball President Robert DuPuy declined to comment on whether Lerner and Kasten are talking, but said the various groups bidding for the Nationals are allowed to communicate.
Baseball is balking at Washington’s request for guaranteed rent, believed to be about $6 million a year.
www.baseballthinkfactory.org /files/primer/discussion/27780   (4458 words)

  
 North Dakota Baseball History/Pitch Black Negro League site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Bismarck went "baseball crazy" with the prospect of Paige arriving, and Churchill quickly had extra bleachers built in anticipation of the largest crowd in North Dakota baseball history.
Dumont dreamed of organizing the greatest semipro baseball tournament the country had ever seen and was so sure that it would be a success that he convinced Wichita to build Lawrence Stadium in which to hold it.
The baseball season of 1936 in North Dakota was bitter-sweet.
www.pitchblackbaseball.com /northdakotabaseball.html   (9109 words)

  
 NOTworthy HOFers? - Baseball Fever
George Weiss, Gm of the fledgling New York Mets, but runnng the Yankees in 1959, was sought out by the Sporting News to confirm the story and while trying to downplay it, agreed that discussions had been held.
If Rick Ferrell had walked away from baseball shortly after he retired, and not spent the rest of his life in one capacity or another working just about every job possible on a team level, he would not be in.
I absolutely agree that had Rick Ferrell left baseball after the 1947 season and returned to his family's North Carolina farm never to be heard from again, then he would not be in the HOF.
www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?t=21688   (3306 words)

  
 Baseball Musings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Baseball is, after all, a game rich with statistics, and today people fool around with computerized simulations of games in various sports.
Matsui is to earn $13 million in each of the next four seasons, a baseball official familiar with the talks said on condition of anonymity because the team did not disclose the financial terms.
The Baseball Crank and Was Watching fight back against the idea that Ortiz was much more clutch than A-Rod.
baseballmusings.com   (7891 words)

  
 George Weiss | National Baseball Hall of Fame
After buying the Eastern League's New Haven team in 1919 at age 24, George Weiss went on to become one of the game's most successful executives.
He concluded his career as the first president of the Mets, and for his career, collected four major league executive of the year awards.
Tell someone about George Weiss by sending a free Hall of Fame Digital Postcard.
baseballhalloffame.org /hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/weiss_george.htm   (208 words)

  
 Rays: Zim: The Baseball Man
In a most surreal baseball moment, replayed endlessly on TV, the old coach charged Boston pitcher Pedro Martinez, only to be shoved to the ground in humiliating fashion.
They still are being forwarded to his Treasure Island house, where walls and shelves are filled with endless baseball awards, memorabilia and huge scrapbooks (Soot has filled more than 60 since their marriage).
His memory of the first Mets spring training in St. Petersburg: "George Weiss had to be a very smart man to hire Casey Stengel to manage his team.
www.sptimes.com /2004/01/11/news_pf/Rays/Zim__The_Baseball_Man.shtml   (4102 words)

  
 Wilmington College Baseball
SB - Weiss; Rockwell; Buehner; Kroeger; Bird; Krieger 2.
HBP - by George (Hesler); by George (Keener).
Weiss reached on a fielder's choice; Rockwell out at second ss to 2b.
www.wilmington.edu /ffbaseballgame042004-2.htm   (785 words)

  
 THE WEISS CHRONICLES
Chronological Account of the Weiss family with contextual remarks, some weather, sports and other news.
You can write to me at: mhw20854@yahoo.com The people in the Weiss family are: Martin, Ann, Beth and George.
Another person down the hall had set his computer likewise, he had also set his computer to automatically forward electronic newsletters to me. So while both of us were gone and our machines turned off, our digital shadows carried on quite a nice electronic conversation in the cyberspace of the file server.
weisschronicles.blogspot.com /2003_10_01_weisschronicles_archive.html   (17404 words)

  
 Baseball Crank: March 2002 Archives
Baseball Tickets can be bought for all teams, get Cardinals Tickets, Yankees Tickets, Red Sox Tickets, and Cubs Tickets.
What's strange to me about some of the "baseball people" knocking OBP is that it is one of the few statistics developed principally by and for people inside a major league organization -- the modern form of OBP came about through the efforts of Branch Rickey and his team statistician with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Tom Werner should have been banned from baseball for letting Roseanne Barr sing the national anthem, if you ask me. And Rob Neyer hit it on the head in the column last week suggesting that the Sox' decisionmaking process is already showing the hallmarks of an excessively bureaucratic management structure.
www.baseballcrank.com /archives/2002_03.php   (9858 words)

  
 Mike's Baseball Rants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Yesterday, John Smoltz returned to the mound as a starting pitcher after nearly a four-year hiatus, during which time he registered 154 saves and, if you hadn’t heard, was a closer.
Proving once again to be rigid guardians of the gate to Cooperstown, the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Veterans Committee did not elect any of the 25 candidates on its 2005 ballot.
The baseball writers had a six-year gap between picking new Hall-of-Famers from 1956 to 1962.
www.all-baseball.com /mikesbballrants   (6354 words)

  
 Weiss Coat of Arms
First found in Saxony, where the name was closely identified in early mediaeval times with the feudal society which would become prominent throughout European history.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Goerge Weiss, who came to America in 1709; Johannes Weiss arrived in 1725; and another Johannes Weiss arrived in New York State in 1710; Conrad Weiss came with his wife Margareth Suter and their son to Carolina or Pennsylvania in 1751.
Amongst the over one hundred bearers of the Weiss name who landed in Philadelphia in the 18th and 19th century were: Adam Weiss in 1737.
www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/weiss-coat-arms.htm   (1890 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Summer of '49 (Perennial Classics): Books: David Halberstam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Baseball came of age in the summer of 1949.
Of course, baseball is the main theme but it also ties in how much our culture is and was affected by it.
In "Summer of '49," Halberstam not only gave us an engaging blow-by-blow of one of baseball's best pennant races, as well as some of the key minor players to accompany the all-star cast, he gave us a feel for why baseball was so important to so many people at the time.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060007818?v=glance   (2274 words)

  
 Baseball Digest: Competitive Balance
Immutable scientific laws have nothing to do with any attempt by Selig to construct a level playing field for the game he loves and governs, but if history is a reliable guide--and it often is--such a commendable goal is doomed to failure.
It seems that despite what the bean-counters may say, baseball success is not directly linked to whether a team is "large market" or "small market." It's not a hard and fast rule that money teams win (witness the Baltimore Orioles and Los Angeles Dodgers of 1999) and impecunious ones lose.
Yet, it did produce the defining moment in their anguished annals, one that keeps the celebrity of the St. Louis Browns eternally green even among those fans--as well as nonfans--who are otherwise totally ignorant of baseball history.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_5_59/ai_64150755   (1425 words)

  
 George Weiss Recognition Page - Baseball-Reference.com
You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Non-MLBPA Persons > George Weiss
Your source for the latest baseball and sports books.
Book a player or manager for an appearance
www.baseball-reference.com /nonmlbpa/weissge99.shtml   (75 words)

  
 Phil Garner - Baseball Fever
Baseball Fever > American League > Detroit Tigers
Now that scrap iron, has been rescued from baseball exile, and came
in the pacific coast league, in the late 1940's, before GM George Weiss hired him to replace former Tiger Bucky Harris.
www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?t=21884   (318 words)

  
 George Weiss Bibliography | BaseballLibrary.com
ยป The Baseball Index is a vast index to books, articles, and other sources on baseball compiled by volunteers from the Society for American Baseball Research.
This may be a problem for any researcher regardless of the sources he or she is trying to use.
The Baseball Index contains many cataloged materials that are not easily obtained and the researcher may have difficulty locating them.
baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/sabr/tbi/W/Weiss_George.tbi.stm   (2954 words)

  
 The New York Mets Hall of Records: George Weiss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Born: June 23, 1894 in New Haven, CT Died: August 13, 1972 in Greenwich, CT The Mets' first general manager, and a legendary Yankee executive before that; a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
This card is from the Renata Galasso 20 Years of Met Baseball set.
This is a list of the George Weiss cards that I already have in my collection.
www.rndng3rd.com /NYMHall/players/W/geowei.html   (126 words)

  
 Rays: Zim: The Baseball Man
The Rays' newest addition has seen it all in more than 50 years in the game.
Don Zimmer has become the modern-day Casey Stengel in baseball, a sport he has embraced for more than half a century.
Cal Zinck of Tack and Cal's barbershop on Treasure Island treats one of his loyal customers who shows up ever three weeks for the routine more than the trim.
www.sptimes.com /2004/01/11/Rays/Zim__The_Baseball_Man.shtml   (4300 words)

  
 Hall of Fame Baseball Gravesites
George Kelly and Joe DiMaggio—Kelly in Section U, Row 59, Area 49 (Latitude: N 37º 40’ 27.9”, Longitude W 122º 26’ 48.4”); DiMaggio in Section I, Row 11, Area 6/7 (Latitude: N 37º 40’ 16.3”, Longitude W 122º 26’ 45.4”)
George Weiss (Latitude: N 41º 17’ 56.4”, Longitude W 72º 56’ 50.3”)
George Sisler—In columbarium by flag pole and benches (Latitude: N 38º 37’ 21.4”, Longitude W 90º 25’ 12.3”)
stewthornley.net /halloffamegraves   (5139 words)

  
 Find in a Library: The New York Yankees baseball team
Subjects: New York Yankees (Baseball team) -- Juvenile literature.
To find a library, type in a postal code, state, province, or country.
WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/dfe694bbeaf7faf6a19afeb4da09e526.html   (56 words)

  
 - SHOP.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
These colorful early seasons were sprinkled with some of the great names of the American pastime: Ed Barrow, Paul Kritchell, Al Mamaux, Red Rolfe, Babe Ruth, Shag Shaughnessey, Bob Shawkey, and George Weiss.
The Bears' finest hour, however, came in 1937 with a team that many experts consider the greatest in the history of the minor leagues.
This book is packed with photos and colorful profiles of Babe Dahlgren, Atley Donald, Joe Gordon, Charley Keller, George McQuinn, manager Oscar Vitt, and the rest of the great Newark players.
www.shop.com /op/aprod-p26452090   (308 words)

  
 National Baseball Hall of Fame - George Weiss's Plaque
National Baseball Hall of Fame - George Weiss's Plaque
The data on all plaques was taken from reliable sources at the time the plaques were made.
Hall of Fame plaques are property of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the images may not be reproduced without approval of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
baseballhalloffame.org /hofers_and_honorees/plaques/weiss_george.htm   (81 words)

  
 George David Weiss - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
George David Weiss - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
Songwriter George David Weiss was active from the mid-'40s through the early '60s and wrote such hits as "Oh, What It Seemed to Be" and "Can't Help Falling in Love." Born in N.Y.C. in 1921, Weiss studied at Juilliard.
Weiss landed several hits as soon as he..
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/card/0,,508446,00.html   (161 words)

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