Bobby Cox, the Atlanta Braves manager, waved to fans in 2010. He was voted manager of the year four times by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.
Face was one of the first major-league hurlers to make the closer job a specialty. Not an overpowering pitcher, he finagled outs with a tricky forkball.
ElRoy Face followed through after serving up a pitch against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium in the fifth game of the 1960 World Series. Face helped take the Pirates to a stunning defeat of the Yankees that year.
She began working as a park ranger at age 85, educating visitors about the women and people of color who served on the home front in World War II, herself among them.
He emerged out of obscurity when his cargo plane was shot down while illegally ferrying arms to Nicaraguan rebels, setting off a scandal that tarnished the Reagan and Bush White Houses.
Eugene Hasenfus after he was captured by Sandinista soldiers in October 1986. His plane ferrying supplies to right-wing rebels in Nicaragua had been shot down. Parachuting to safety, he was the only crewman to survive.
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