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unusual facts about Majors



1992 Tennessee Volunteers football team

However in August, Majors underwent emergency quintuple bypass surgery, and as a result Phillip Fulmer was named interim head coach.

2005 Roger Federer tennis season

However, Federer failed to make the final at the other two Majors, losing in the semifinals of the Australian Open to Marat Safin and the French Open to Rafael Nadal.

24th Virginia Infantry

The field officers were Colonels Jubal A. Early and William R. Terry; Lieutenant Colonels Peter Hairston, Jr. and Richard L. Maury; and Majors William W. Bentley, Joseph A. Hambrick, and J.P. Hammet.

25th Virginia Infantry

The field officers were Colonels John C. Higginbotham, George A. Porterfield, and George H. Smith; Lieutenant Colonels Patrick B. Duffy, Jonathan McGee Heck, Robert D. Lilley, and John A. Robinson; and Majors Wilson Harper, Albert G. Reger, and William T. Thompson.

40th Virginia Infantry

Field officers were Colonel John M. Brockenbrough; Lieutenant Colonels Fleet W. Cox, Arthur S. Cunningham, and Henry H. Walker; and Majors Edward T. Stakes and William T. Taliaferro.

American Championship car racing

The season was conducted similarly to the sanctioning of professional golf — the four golf majors are sanctioned by separate organizations, but they still count as the most important events on the PGA Tour calendar.

Barry Cheesman

Cheesman was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1977 Major League Baseball Draft with the 613th pick in the 25th round but never made it to the majors, spending four years in the minors.

Bob Dill

A minor league team of the New York Giants, the Millers organization was the "stopping point" for Ted Williams, Willie Mays and many other greats on their way to the "majors."

Daniel Nava

Taking the advice of Red Sox radio broadcaster Joe Castiglione, who before the game told him to swing as hard as he could on the first pitch because "that's the only first pitch in the majors you'll ever see," Nava did swing at the first pitch he saw and hit a grand slam off Phillies pitcher Joe Blanton into the Red Sox bullpen.

Davidson County, North Carolina

Eddie Mathews, Hall of Fame baseball player, played for Thomasville in 1949 before going to the majors.

Dick Kenworthy

Although Kenworthy finally caught on in the majors, he had to endure five more failed tryouts with Chicago, serving as a backup for Don Buford and Pete Ward.

Dick Kryhoski

On July 16 of that year, the Browns tied, by then, a majors record with three successive home runs belted by Clint Courtney, Kryhoski and Jim Dyck, in the first inning of a 8–6 victory over the Yankees.

Don Dennis

Before the 1967 season, he was sent by St. Louis along with Walt Williams to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for Johnny Romano and a minor leaguer, but he never appeared in the majors for Chicago.

Dusty Cooke

He reached the majors in 1930 with the New York Yankees, spending three years with them before moving to the Boston Red Sox (1933–1936) and Cincinnati Reds (1938).

Farm to Market Road 2101

Though the road primarily serves local residential and agricultural traffic, FM 2101 also serves commuters bound for a large L-3 Communications facility at Majors Airport.

Firpo Marberry

Born in Streetman, Texas, he became well-known around the majors for the scowl he seemed to constantly have on his face that sometimes frightened batters; his appearance and demeanor reminded observers of boxer Luis Firpo, earning Marberry the nickname for which he often expressed disdain.

Frank Colman

Colman returned the Majors to the Intercounty loop in 1958, organizing an exhibition ballgame in June 1958 in conjunction with the Knights of Columbus and the Mocha Temple Shrine in aid of the Shrine Hospitals for Crippled Children.

Frank Francisco

Following an injury to Éric Gagné in mid-April, Francisco was recalled to the majors.

Glen Sefcik

Coach Sefcik has individually coached Colonels and Command Sergeant Majors at the Pre-Command Course for the US Army in leadership and development as well as leaders in the insurance and Federal Emergency Management agencies.

Grady Hatton

He came to the majors in 1946 without any minor league seasoning, making his debut against the Chicago Cubs.

Gregor Blanco

He was eventually called up to the majors because of Jordan Schafer's struggles.

Hirotoshi Ishii

The Swallows were reluctant to release Ishii in the 2005 off-season, but promised they would allow him to come to the majors if he was able to play another full season in Japan (a similar promise was made to Akinori Iwamura, who signed with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays).

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

It is close to HITEC City (a centre housing software development centres of companies like Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, Motorola, Infosys and GE Capital) and the presence of IT majors from across the globe right on the campus through their schools and research centers.

Irina Mikitenko

In spite of her age she remained one the best international runners and took third place at the 2013 Tokyo Marathon (a new addition to the World Marathon Majors circuit).

J. Steven Svoboda

Previously, he received a Bachelor's Degree in Physics and English from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), receiving awards as an Outstanding Student in each of his two majors.

Jack Damaska

Damaska's five games in the majors were all in July of 1963.

Joe Aitcheson, Jr.

Aitcheson’s father, Joe Sr., who also pitched for the Baltimore Orioles in the minor leagues and the Brooklyn Dodgers in the majors, helped his brother Whitney found the Iron Bridge Hounds, serving as its Master of Foxhounds for many years.

Johnny Petraglia

Petraglia would win two more majors: the 1977 BPAA U.S. Open and 1980 PBA National Championship, making him one of only six players to earn the PBA career "Triple Crown." (Billy Hardwick, Mike Aulby, Pete Weber, Norm Duke and Chris Barnes are the others.

José Constanza

On July 29, 2011, Constanza was called up to the majors when Nate McLouth was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a lower abdominal strain.

Juan Joseph

As a sophomore in 2006, Joseph led a resurgence of the Majors' struggling program, under the tutelage of new head coach Mike DuBose, formerly the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide.

Kalar, Iraq

The University of Garmian, a satellite campus of University of Sulaymaniyah, majors in agriculture.beside many of other departments university of Kalar is the first scientific center in the area which provides Geographic Information System laboratory for post graduated students.

Ken Grundt

Grundt entered the majors in 1996 with the Boston Red Sox, playing for them until the 1997 midseason.

Kim Jeong-hoon

He previously attended Seoul National University (College of Dentistry) until he dropped out to focus on his acting career and became a student in Chung-Ang University, where he majors was acting.

Lee Majors Come Again

"Lee Majors Come Again" is a song by alternative hip hop group Beastie Boys, released as the first single from their eighth studio album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (2011).

Lieutenant commander

On service khakis and all working uniforms, lieutenant commanders wear a gold oak leaf collar device, similar to the ones worn by a majors in the USAF and Army, and identical to that worn by majors in the Marine Corps.

London Majors

In 1974, after Denny McLain had retired from the major leagues two years earlier, McLain played a season for the London Majors.

Majors Airport

Originally named Majors Field, is mostly used for general aviation, but is also home to an L-3 Communications facility that is used to modify aircraft.

Marlan Coughtry

He reached the majors in 1960 with the Boston Red Sox, spending one year with them before appearing with the Los Angeles Angels, Kansas City Athletics and Cleveland Indians in 1962.

Mike Loynd

Like the much heralded David Clyde in 1973, Loynd was expected to contribute immediately upon being called to the Majors.

Nakajō, Niigata

The buildings have since become a very small school for high school and college English majors.

Nienhaus Field

Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Tom Gordon also played for the Foxes, between the time he was drafted in 1986 and when he was called up to the majors in 1988.

Rich McKinney

He spent the entire 1976 season with Tucson, batting .317 with career highs in home runs (22) and RBI (95), but did not get a call to the majors.

Sheikh Anwarul Haq

He graduated from D.A.V. College, Jullundur in 1936 with Economics and Political Science as his majors.

Stéphane Huet

In 1999, Huet made the second round of two Majors, the Australian Open, where he beat Arnaud Di Pasquale and the French Open, where he defeated Hendrik Dreekmann, before losing a five set match to eventual finalist Todd Martin, in a final set tie-break.

Steve Chilcott

Chilcott seemed to be well on his way to making the majors when, in 1967 while playing for the Winter Haven Mets in the Florida State League, he dived back toward second base when the pitcher tried to pick him off.

Thorndale Independent School District

Morris played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for several years before retiring a second time from the Majors.

Tuck Turner

Before reaching the majors, Turner was a paid player in the Buffalo Amateur Baseball League of the Amateur Athletic Union.

William Nigh

Most of his directorial output was in the "B"-movie category, and he worked mainly for lower-rung studios such as Monogram Pictures (where he directed several "Charlie Chan" and "East Side Kids" films) and Producers Releasing Corporation, although he did occasionally work for such "majors" as RKO Pictures and such "mini-majors" and "minors" as Universal and Republic Pictures.


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