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  New York City - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
New York City is at the heart of the New York metropolitan area with a population of around 21 million, which itself is part of the so-called BosWash megalopolis extending from Boston to Washington, DC, a core economic region of the nation with a population of approximately 44 million people.
During the Civil War, the city's strong commercial ties to the South, as well as its growing immigrant population, led to a split in sympathy between the Union and Confederacy, culminating in the Draft Riots of 1863, the worst civil unrest in American history.
Prior to 1898, New York City consisted of Manhattan and the Bronx, which was annexed by the city from southern Westchester County in two separate actions: the western portion in 1874, and the remaining portion in 1895.
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 San Francisco Giants
True, the Giants have been unable to solve their third base problem since Williams was dealt, but Kent won the 2000 MVP award, and had at least 35 doubles, 20 homers, and 100 RBI in each of his first five seasons with San Francisco.
Giants' owners made the decision was made to move the club to San Francisco, joining their rival Dodgers on the west coast.
The San Francisco Giants were one of the first teams to actively pursue fl and Latin players, and their teams reflected that in the 1960s.
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 Jersey City NJ. Jersey City New Jersey City Guide.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Jersey City, New Jersey is full of historic landmarks such as the Apple Tree House, Barrow Mansion, Newkirk House, Old Bergen Reformed Church, Pohlman’s Hall and Prospect Hall.
Jersey City, New Jersey has several attractions including the Circle Line Statue of Liberty Ferry, the Hudson Repertory Dance Theatre, the Liberty Science Center, the New Jersey City University and the Statue of Liberty Ferry Inc. Its historical monuments are the Central Railroad of NJ Terminal and the Jersey City Museum.
Jersey City dining venues include the American Hero, the Au Bon Pain, Casino-in-the-Park, D and J Noodle Corner and Donna Pizzeria and Restaurant.
www.HelloJerseyCity.com   (363 words)

  
 Jersey City Own Roosevelt Stadium Photos "ROOSEVELT STADIUM - JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY - Built in 1936, was once ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Jersey City Own Roosevelt Stadium Photos "ROOSEVELT STADIUM - JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY - Built in 1936, was once home of the "Jersey City Giants" and "Jerseys" in the baseball minor leagues.
One seat from the stadium was donated to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, and one to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington,DC.
Emerson Lake and Palmer at Roosevelt Stadium, in Jersey City, New Jersey, in the summer of 1974.
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 Jersey City Journal, October '04
My Jersey City election special turned out to be the most-viewed piece in the history of the Tris McCall Report.
It is arguable that Flood, an advocate and representative of the city's most neglected ward, deserves our highest office so she can put the cities most powerful municipal machinery at the service of its weakest residents.
The former Mayor dominated Jersey City during the Eighties, getting himself in and out of hot water until he was finally arrested and imprisoned for fraud at the dawn of the Nineties.
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 Jersey City News
A Jersey City man who couldn't produce a ticket while riding the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System in Bayonne was arrested yesterday, police said.
The Jersey City police director's chief of staff says he was hit with trumped-up charges because he complained about the way he was treated by a police officer in Downtown Jersey City recently.
A man and a woman were arrested last week on burglary charges in the Jersey City Heights after a witness spotted them breaking into the home of a neighbor who was away on vacation, reports said.
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 1937 New York Giants | BaseballLibrary.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Future Giant Tom Haller is born in Lockport, IL.
Future Giant Bob Farley is born in Watsontown, PA.
Former Giant Rube Benton dies in Dothan, AL at the age of 51.
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 Buy Jerseys Jersey City Giants. Largest Mall of Sports Products and Servise.fantasy baseball, baseball.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Giants Pitcher Louis Polli Led The International League In '43 With A 1.85 Era.
Jersey Numbers, Jersey prices include numerals, except where noted (most teams did not wear numbers prior to 1930.) We have chosen a standard number for all of our shirts, which is listed in the text for that model.
All jerseys are crafted in the USA, using American materials.
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 Notable Minneapolis Millers
The Giants already had three fls on their roster, and an informal quota system was said to still exist.
Bill Rigney had been a teammate of Irvin’s on the Giants in 1951, and recalled that it was Monte who carried the team during a 16-game winning streak that helped the Giants overcome a 13½ game deficit and eventually overtake Brooklyn for the pennant.
Following his career with the Giants and Mets, which ended in 1973, Mays was elected to the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 1979.
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 New Jersey: History
In both Jerseys confusion resulting from the unwieldy number of landowners together with widespread resentment against authority caused the proprietors to surrender voluntarily their governmental powers to the crown in 1702, although they retained their land rights.
East Jersey was dominated by Calvinism, implanted by Scottish and New England settlers, while in West Jersey the Quakers soon developed a landed aristocracy with strong political and economic influence.
New Jersey was hard hit by recession in the early 1990s and the state suffered from overdevelopment, but increasing economic diversity had fueled a recovery by the decade's end.
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 The Jersey City Economic Development Corporation - Nearby
Jersey City is right in the middle of the New Jersey/NYC metro area and is tied into the megapolis's transportation systems.
Jersey City residents can take advantage of all the commercial and cultural amenities New York City has to offer: over three-dozen world-class museums; art galleries; Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Opera House; Broadway and off-Broadway theater; dinner clubs, night clubs, and clubs that never close down.
For the more adventurous, Jersey City is just two hours from the mountains of Northwestern New Jersey with all of their outdoor attractions: snow skiing and winter sports, hunting, fishing, and camping, and even whitewater rafting on the Delaware River!
www.jcedc.org /nearby.html   (505 words)

  
 Mays, Willie --  Encyclopædia Britannica
American professional gridiron football player who was an outstanding defensive player for the Kansas City Chiefs in the 1960s and '70s, overturning the stereotype that African Americans could not handle the key defensive position of middle linebacker.
He played for the Giants in New York and San Francisco from 1951 to 1972 and for the New York Mets from 1972 to 1973.
The modern city of Naples may be as vulnerable to Mt. Vesuvius as Pompeii.
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 Jersey City Economic Development Corporation :: Quotes
Though part of the Jersey City office market is driven by Manhattan’s financial industry, “this building will fill up even if there is a 5 percent falloff in demand,” he said.
Rents in Jersey City are also still only half those in Manhattan and “in Jersey City our position continues to be to provide the most value,” Mr.
Emmanuel Stern, president and CEO of Hartz Mountain Industries observed, “It is only a matter of time until Jersey City is built out and high occupancy and/or rents force tenants migrating from Wall Street to look beyond the waterfront and toward the rest of the access-enabled, extended Manhattan market and suburban markets throughout New Jersey.
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 Encyclopedia of New Jersey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Whether you are merely perusing the pages or are researching a particular subject, the Encyclopedia of New Jersey is your definitive source for information on the Garden State, covering a broad range of subject areas.
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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
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 The History of Jim Crow
Peabody Auditorium, the city auditorium, was desegregated in 1948.
By the early 1960s the city had desegregated local lunch counters, its parks and city golf course, the Daytona Beach police department and Volusia County grand juries, and the public Halifax Hospital.
City Island Ballpark was also renamed Jackie Robinson Ballpark at this time.
www.jimcrowhistory.org /resources/lessonplans/hs_es_jackie_robinson.htm   (3863 words)

  
 The Baseball Guru OMI: Two Days In the Life of Willard Marshall by Herb Rogoff AN ARTICLE FOR BASEBALL GURU:DECEMBER ...
MEL OTT, in his first season as manager of the GIANTS, had taken him aside a few days before and told him he was to start in the season’s opener.
Durocher was lustily booed by Giant fans which prompted LaGuardia to say, “I see you brought your friends along.” Besides the paid attendance of 42, 653, there were 2,100 servicemen who attended, as well as many distinguished guests.
The centerpiece for the Giants was a mighty blow by Willard Marshall.
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 BIOPROJ.SABR.ORG :: The Baseball Biography Project.
At the end of the season Commerce High was to play Stuyvesant High for the championship of the city.
On Friday before the game the entire Commerce team along with the coach and catcher of the Stuyvesant team were called to appear before the Board of Education.
His arm was no longer sore, and he pitched solidly for Jersey City.
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 1948 Jersey City Giants road jersey Bobby Thomson
This is a great jersey produced by Ebbets Field Flannels.
The New York area in the late 1940's supported five professional baseball teams and the Jersey City Giants, a part of the International League, regularly set attendance records at Roosevelt stadium.
This is the road jersey from 1948, with number 7(Bobby Thomson) on the back.
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 Baseball Almanac - Minor League Lookback : Detours To Cooperstown - Part II
Since the change failed to produce a winning team, Gabby Street was hired to replace him during the winter and "Sunny Jim" returned to the minors as manager and occasional first baseman and pinch hitter with Syracuse.
His limited batting appearances resulted in one hit and no home runs in fourteen at bats which coincidentally were the same numbers he achieved in his first minor league stint with the 1920 Sioux City Packers.
His final major league season was 1936, after which he continued in the Giant service as the manager of their minor league Triple-A affiliate in Jersey City.
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 Roosevelt Stadium
In 1962, Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame and in 2005 was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.
With the end of the Hague era in the 1950s, attendance began to falter at stadium events, the Giants were no longer a part of the International League, and newer pastime activities competed for attention.
To commemorate the career of Jackie Robinson as the first African American to play organized baseball, a statue of him by sculptor Susan Wagner was placed in front of the PATH terminal at Journal Square in 1998.
www.njcu.edu /programs/jchistory/Pages/R_Pages/Roosevelt_Stadium.htm   (957 words)

  
 Professional Baseball in Jersey City, New Jersey
AA International League 1940 Jersey City Giants (NY-NL) 81-78 3rd AA International League 1941 Jersey City Giants (NY-NL) 74-76 5th AA International League 1942 Jersey City Giants (NY-NL) 77-75 4th lose 1 game playoff game for 3rd place.
AAA International League 1948 Jersey City Giants (NY-NL) 69-83 7th AAA International League 1949 Jersey City Giants (NY-NL) 83-71 4th AAA International League 1950 Jersey City Giants (NY-NL) 81-70 4th Giants move franchise to Ottawa for 1951 AAA International League 1960 Jersey City Jerseys (Cinn.) 41-45 Team moved from Havana Sugar Kings 7/15.
Tot:76-77 5th AAA International League 1961 Jersey City Jerseys (Cinn.) 70-82 7th AA Eastern League 1977 Jersey City Indians (Cleve) 40-97 4th,last Can-Am Division AA Eastern League 1978 Jersey City A's (Oakl.) 54-83 6th,last
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 Jersey City Apartments - Waterfront Apartments - Real Estate Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Jersey City apartment rental market is extremely active and rapidly changing.
Click here to see the latest listings in the Jersey City area.
The most luxurious apartments we offer on the Jersey City waterfront with great views of the Manhattan skyline!
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 Major League Baseball Properties, Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The selling of food stuffs such as hot dogs (Dodger Dogs) and the licensing of a single third party in New Jersey to hang photographs is not equivalent to use of a name for a restaurant in Brooklyn or sufficient to indicate a likelihood of bridging the gap.
While the court is aware of the evidence presented at trial that at least one restaurant has used the name of a major league baseball team ("The San Diego Padres") no such evidence was presented with respect to plaintiff Los Angeles.
In addition to using the "Brooklyn Dodgers" mark for different purposes than defendants, plaintiffs presented no evidence that their commercial uses since 1981 (as opposed to their uses as the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team prior to 1958) extend into defendants' geographical area of use.
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 State of New Jersey - Executive Orders
There is hereby established the New Jersey Sports History Commission, hereinafter referred to as the Commission.
The Commission shall be established in, but not of, the New Jersey Department of Commerce and Economic Development.
The Commission shall consist of 12 members appointed by the Governor, including the Commissioner of the Department of Commerce and Economic Development who shall serve as the chair of the Commission.
www.state.nj.us /infobank/circular/eow42.htm   (375 words)

  
 PTF Sports
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Authentic Dan Marino Pitt Jersey sizes 48, 52, 56, 60 $200 reg.
Authentic Shockey Giants jersey sizes 52 $175 reg.
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 wnbc.com - News - Chop Shop Busted In Jersey City
JERSEY CITY, N.J. Jersey City police have busted a so-called chop shop.
A six-month undercover operation led to the early Friday morning raid of the Two Brothers Auto Repair Center.
New Jersey Settles Claim Against Dietary Supplement Distributor
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 Throwback Baseball Jerseys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
According to most, the new trend in throwbacks is the high school jersey.
Leech's store sells the high school jerseys of Jordan, Jason Kidd, Moses Malone, and Michael Jordan.
com, on line sports,the sporting news, ice jerseys, fansedge, or other supplier.
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 Jersey City Events
A vestige of Russell's lavish overhaul can be detected in the Goodspeed's sets, where cartoon portraits of cheerful audience members are shown watching merrily from above.
The 2005 Jazz in the City season, actually two free concerts held on successive Thursdays at different venues, has scored with music fans and promoters alike.
To be a good belly dancer requires soulful expression using isolations of circular and undulating movements of the body, according to Zarouhi, a professional dance artist.
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 Roosevelt Stadium - Jersey City New Jersey - Former Home Of the Brooklyn Dodgers / Jersey City Giants
Roosevelt Stadium - Jersey City New Jersey - Former Home Of the Brooklyn Dodgers / Jersey City Giants
1978 Eastern League Jersey City Indians Cleveland Indians
We are seeking photographs of this ballpark at digitalballparks.com
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 Baseball Jersey's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
100% cotton preshrunk negro league baseball jersey richly embroidered with the Jersey City Giants on front and the official Surviving players logo on the back.
The Jersey City Giants, a part of the International League, regularly set attendance records at Roosevelt stadium.
Mid Weight 100% cotton Preshrunk Baseball Jersey Officially licensed by The Surviving Players of The Negro League.
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