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  Leon Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Leon Day (October 30, 1916 - March 13, 1995) was an American right-handed pitcher in the Negro Leagues.
Day is noted for pitching a perfect season in 1937 (13-0) while playing for the Newark Eagles, and for his fastball.
Day is the only Hall of Famer to be enshrined into the Hall with a cap of a team outside the mainland United States.
www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Leon_Day   (340 words)

  
 Leon Day -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Leon Day (October 30, 1916 - March 13, 1995) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American right-handed ((baseball) the person who does the pitching) pitcher in the (Click link for more info and facts about Negro Leagues) Negro Leagues.
Day is noted for pitching a perfect season in (Click link for more info and facts about 1937) 1937 (13-0) while playing for the Newark Eagles, and for his ((baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity) fastball.
Day is the only Hall of Famer to be enshrined into the Hall with a cap of a team outside the mainland (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) United States.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/leon_day.htm   (543 words)

  
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LEON Well, if the guy is far, in a car, and I know weather is going to be bad, rain for example, I think I would plastic the car, with a remote here.
Leon is stunned by her lack of interest for the parcel.
Leon breaks the fire equipment niche's glass, unrolls the pipe in the corridor, throws the axe into the apartment and opens the water at full pressure.
scifiscripts.com /msol/LEON.txt   (7801 words)

  
 RTalsorian Games
Leon does his best to cheer her up with a pig-shaped oven mitt, but succeeds only in spitting milk all over himself when he gets the impression that Mathilda is developing a crush on him.
Leon has brought her a new pink dress as a present, but just as Mathilda is beginning to feign disinterest, there's a knock on the door.
Leon is getting over the experience they've both just had when Mathilda emerges from the bathroom wearing the pink dress he bought her, all made up for a night on the town.
www.talsorian.com /cp_cinema_15.shtml   (5511 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle Books: Devil in the Details
Day found that the actual letter was written to John S. Dunningan, clerk of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, on October 1, while Bierce was still planning his trip in Washington, D.C., and a good six weeks before he left.
It is a crowning testament to Day's persistence and thorough historical and archeological research that he convinced Clyde P. Snow, one of the most famous forensic anthropologists in the world, to agree to conduct an exhumation of the alleged boneyard plot.
Day won't be specific on the matter, saying that it will require "serious bucks," the kind of bucks that "leads to things like 'grants,' 'advances,' and 'documentary rights' -- and other such bewildering trivia." One gets the sense, in fact, that it might be one mystery that he lacks the patience to solve.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-05-17/books_feature.html   (2631 words)

  
 Trust for Public Land (TPL) Conserving Land for People
Leon Day was born on October 30,1916 in Alexandria, VA. He moved with his family to Baltimore when he was six months old, settling in the Mt. Winans community.
Leon Day's Career Records and Major Achievements Leon Day was the 12th player from the Negro Leagues to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame (July 30, 1997).
Leon Day was inducted into the Puerto Rico Hall of Fame and the Newark, New Jersey Hall of Fame in 1993.
www.tpl.org /tier3_cdl.cfm?content_item_id=7585&folder_id=1745   (546 words)

  
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LEON Leon: Counties in Florida and Texas; the county in Florida named for Ponce de Leon, a 16th century Spanish conquistador and explorer of Florida; and the county in Texas for Alonzo de Leon, a Spanish captain who established missions in Texas.
LEON transported elements of the 1st Cavalry Division to Leyte from 16 to 22 October, and, on a repeat voyage, debarked troops of the 77th Division there on 23 November.
LEON proceeded on to Ulithi and Okinawa where she took on board 1,169 men of the Army's 7th Infantry Division destined to accept the surrender of the Japanese in South Korea.
www.hazegray.org /danfs/amphib/apa48.txt   (803 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: LEON COUNTY
Leon County (K-18) is east of Waco on Interstate 45 in the Claypan area of eastern Central Texas.
Leon County was officially formed from Robertson County by the First Texas Legislature in 1846.
Although Leon County residents made only a small material contribution to the war effort, they were forced to deal with the lack of markets and dizzying fluctuations in the value of Confederate currency, as well as concern for their relatives and friends on the battlefield.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/LL/hcl7.html   (3153 words)

  
 Leon Trotsky
Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Leon Trotsky) was born on October 26, 1879, son of a hard-working, thrifty, and well-to-do jewish farmer, in the southern part of Ukraine.
In 1917, as the Tsar abdicated, Leon Trotsky went to Russia, and in August that year he became a member of the Central Committe of the Bolshevik Party, which had Lenin as its uncontested leader and visionary.
August 20th 1940 Leon Trotsky was attacked with an ice-axe in his office in Mexico City by one of Stalin's followers, and the following day Leon Trotsky died.
www.fbuch.com /leon.htm   (780 words)

  
 The Challenge of Life
Leon gets into a fight with some bad guys and ends up being thrown in the juvenile detention center (kind of like a juvenile jail, I guess) with his friend, "Cockroach".
Leon's dad's godson's body is found and he's accused of the crime.
Leon is unable to control his anger and he steals the will from Frankie and his men.
www.geocities.com /TelevisionCity/Stage/2538/challenge.html   (1441 words)

  
 Leon Day
Leon Day, along with Hilton Smith, was probably the top right-handed pitcher in the Negro Leagues in the late 1930s and 1940s, and, like Smith, could do so much more.
Day was 30 years old when Jackie Robinson broke in with the Brooklyn Dodgers in '47, and he thought he still had enough to make a Major League squad.
Day was elected to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY in 1995, the same year he died.
www.pitchblackbaseball.com /nlotmleonday.html   (724 words)

  
 L-News Issue #3
Leon did say that the reason why he agreed to show up for the press conference was because both him and his pet dog usually eat Dreyers together at home and because Hutchinson has good relations with Dreyers also.
Leon will be performing in Vancouver on the 11th and in Toronto on the 20th both for charity reasons.
She told Leon that he has no rush to find a girlfriend yet, and that to find a good girlfriend in HK is not easy and takes time to find.
dawn.leonfamily.com /leonnews/leonnewsletter3pt1.htm   (1731 words)

  
 BBC - Wear Features - Leon Greenman, holocaust survivor
Leon Greenman was born in London, a Jewish man, and is a British citizen.
Leon's two year old son and wife Elsa were both murdered in the gas chambers.
Leon reckons he has made almost 1,000 speeches over 55 years.
www.bbc.co.uk /wear/features/2003/11/leon.shtml   (525 words)

  
 Project for Public Spaces (PPS) | Leon Day Park: Case Study   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Leon Day Park, a large meadow located along the Gwynns Falls Trail in Baltimore, was a centerpiece of Olmsted's vision for the city.
On August 23, 1997 residents from Baltimore's Franklintown and Rosemont neighborhoods gathered in Bloomington Oval to celebrate the passage of a bill changing the park's name to Leon Day Park, in honor of a Negro Leagues baseball Hall of Famer who lived in the area after he retired.
Leon Day Park is scheduled to be up and running by March 1, 1999 although the baseball fields will need a year before regular playing on them can begin.
www.pps.org /topics/forreview/leondaypark   (767 words)

  
 Day 1 - Leon to Astorga
It is a fairly uneventful day, mostly highway riding.
The Camino is a footpath which for most of this day's ride parallels the main highway.
The hardest part of this day is going against the strong headwinds.
ourworld.cs.com /Terieng/camino/day1.htm   (466 words)

  
 Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Leon: The Professional vs. Training Day
Leon: Hitman trains girl to be hitman in order to avenge the death of her family that was killed by crooked DEA officers.
Training Day is a story about overcoming a teacher who you become dissillusioned with, while Leon is far more complex in that Mathilda changes Leon's life as much as he changes hers.
Wallace and Gromit and the Curse Of The Were-Rabbit - 6.0
www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=208492   (1003 words)

  
 Blackbaseball.com :: Negro Baseball Leagues :: Leon Day
The most consistently outstanding pitcher in the Negro National League during the late 1930's and 1940's, Leon Day was a heady pitcher whose money pitch was his fastball.
Not only was Leon a great pitcher, but he was also a good baserunner and a good hitter, with averages of.320,.274 and.469 to show for the seasons of 1937, 1942 and 1946.
After the opening day no-hitter, Leon continued his pitching heroics, topping the league in strikeouts, innings pitched, and complete games; and finishing with a 9-4 record as the Eagles captured the pennant.
www.blackbaseball.com /players/leonday.htm   (492 words)

  
 L-News Issue #2 Part 2
Leon: Nope just that after having a 3-sided stage concert this time its going to be 4-sided and the next one will be 3-sided again.
Leon: Well in a concert the most important part is the music and the band then comes my performance on the stage and the need of dancers.
Leon: Everybody want to get an award, I'm not greedy at first I was saying if you call my name for the bronze award it would be fine which would be better than getting none.
dawn.leonfamily.com /leonnews/leonnewsletter2pt2.htm   (3204 words)

  
 Leon Day | BaseballLibrary.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Day was the most outstanding pitcher in the Negro National League during the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Day's best season was 1937, when, backed by the Eagles' "million-dollar infield," he was 13-0 in league play and batted.320.
Day served in the army during WWII, was discharged in February 1946, and threw an Opening Day no-hitter against the Philadelphia Stars.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/D/Day_Leon.stm   (538 words)

  
 Jet: Negro League star Leon Day selected to Baseball Hall of Fame - Brief Article
Leon Day, a feared right-hand pitcher with the Baltimore Elite Giants and Newark Eagles in the Negro Baseball Leagues, recently was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veteran's Committee.
Day, according to baseball records, out-dueled Satchel Paige three out of four meetings in 1946 when he was a hurler with Newark.
Day, 78, received the news of his selection at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, where he is being treated for a heart ailment.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n20_v87/ai_16709242   (259 words)

  
 Leon Day | National Baseball Hall of Fame
The Negro leagues' outstanding strikeout pitcher with a dominating fastball and wicked curve, quiet Leon Day was the mainstay of the Newark pitching staff in the late 1930s and 1940s.
Also a superb contact hitter and speedy baserunner, Day was versatile enough to play second base or the outfield when he wasn't pitching.
Tell someone about Leon Day by sending a free Hall of Fame Digital Postcard.
www.baseballhalloffame.org /hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/day_leon.htm   (225 words)

  
 Home of the Leon Day Foundation, Inc.
The Leon Day Foundation was founded in 2001 by Geraldine Day, widow of the late Leon Day (Baseball Hall of Fame Inductee).
Leon’s love and involvement with children made it clear that the love of athletics is a key to keeping them off the streets, and away from drugs.
For the foundation to be successful in our endeavors, we will need the support of the whole community, churches, neighborhood associations, businesses, government agencies, and the citizens of Baltimore City.
www.leondayfoundation.org   (163 words)

  
 Camino
Day 27: Leon 21.8 km to Villadangos del Paramo
Day: 2-3 -4-5-6 -7-8-9 -10-11-12 -13-14-15 -16-17-18 -19-20-21 -22-23-24 -25-26-27 -28-29-30 -31-32-33 -34-35-36 -37-38-39 -40-41-42 -43-44-45 -46-47 -Trips End
Monday May 3: We leave Leon past a palace (the Parador) that has been converted to a Hotel.
www.ee.ualberta.ca /~albert/camino/day27.html   (112 words)

  
 Leon Day Little League Shines at Leon Day Park
The whole neighborhood comes out for the annual Leon Day Park anniversary celebration, June 8, 2002.
Bob receives a hug from Betty Hawkins, Secretary of the Leon Day Foundation at the 3rd anniversary celebration of Leon Day Park June 8, 2002.
Bob is overcome by emotion as he"s presented a surprise honorary trophy from the Leon Day League Administrator, Paul Phair at the 3rd Anniversary of the Park in June 2002.
www.21stcenturyradio.com /articles/02/0725121.htm   (256 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Leon's Story (Sunburst Books)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Leon suffers a lot of tragedy in his life, such as his dad being killed by drunk Klansmen.
One day he was going to this little restaurant to get something to eat, and fl people can't enter in the front way because white people don't like it when they enter that way.
On this day Leon's parents go to the store and on their return they are approched by a group of three young white boys driving in their car, the outcome of this is not very good.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374443300?v=glance   (1420 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Leon Day
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 Leon Day
Yet, in 1937 Leon Day delivered a perfect 13-0 record for the Newark Eagles, a club that featured several future Hall Of Famers.
Though armed with a full arsenal of pitches, Day's bread and butter was his fastball.
Day regularly spent the Negro League off season playing winter ball in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Cuba and Mexico.
www.negroleaguebaseball.com /players/Day.html   (223 words)

  
 Holidays and Festivals - Puerto Rico
Commemorates the anniversary of the day in 1952 when Puerto Rico became a commonwealth with the proclamation of their constitution.
Also known as Commonwealth Day, or Occupation Day in commemoration of the US troops landing on the island on this day in 1898.
Observance of Saint John's Day and commemoration of the Battle of San Juan, in which the Americans defeated the Spanish.
www.shagtown.com /days/puertorico.html   (231 words)

  
 Fodor's Travel Guides | Forums Messages
Day 4 — Bilbao and daytrip to the east.
Day 20 — Fly from Madrid to SJU - We are traveling with FF (SJU-MAD-SJU) and I am scared of what could happen if we missed the overeas flight if the morning flight from Santiago is delayed.
On the way from Leon to Ponferrada, perrhaps you could stop by Astorga-an important town on Camino with lovely cathedral and Museum Camino(by Gaudi).
www.fodors.com /forums/pgMessages.jsp?fid=2&tid=34545201&numresponses=8&start=0   (1344 words)

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