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  2. Avery Brundage - Wikipedia

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    Avery Brundage ( / ˈeɪvri ˈbrʌndɪdʒ /; September 28, 1887 – May 8, 1975) was an American sports administrator who served as the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972. The only American and only non-European to attain that position, Brundage is remembered as a zealous advocate of amateurism and for his ...

  3. George Halas - Wikipedia

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    George Stanley Halas Sr. (February 2, 1895 – October 31, 1983), nicknamed " Papa Bear " and " Mr. Everything ", was an American football end, coach, and executive. He was the founder and owner of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL), and served as his own head coach on four occasions. He was also lesser-known as a player ...

  4. New York Giants (baseball) - Wikipedia

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    See list. The New York Giants were a Major League Baseball team in the National League that began play in the 1883 season as the New York Gothams [a] and became known as the Giants in 1885. They continued as the New York Giants until the team moved to San Francisco, California after the 1957 season, where the team continues its history as the ...

  5. 1917 World Series - Wikipedia

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    1918 →. The 1917 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1917 season. The 14th edition of the World Series, it matched the American League champion Chicago White Sox against the National League champion New York Giants. The White Sox won the Series four games to two.

  6. Eastern Carolina League - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Carolina League was a minor league baseball affiliation which operated in the Eastern part of North Carolina. The league had two distinct periods of operation: 1908 to 1910 and a revival of the league in 1928 and 1929. It was classified as a Class D level league. The most famous person to play in the league was Jim Thorpe ...

  7. Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's decathlon

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    Results. Jim Thorpe's gold medal was stripped by the International Olympic Committee in 1913, after the IOC learned that Thorpe had taken expense money for playing baseball, violating contemporary Olympic amateurism rules, before the 1912 Games.

  8. Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's pentathlon

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    Thorpe's gold medal was stripped by the International Olympic Committee in 1913, after the IOC learned that Thorpe had taken expense money for playing baseball, violating contemporary Olympic amateurism rules, before the 1912 Games. This moved everyone else up in the rankings.

  9. File:Baseball.svg - Wikipedia

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    Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 520 × 520 pixels. Other resolutions: 240 × 240 pixels | 480 × 480 pixels | 768 × 768 pixels | 1,024 × 1,024 pixels | 2,048 × 2,048 pixels. Original file ‎ (SVG file, nominally 520 × 520 pixels, file size: 81 KB) English: SVG drawing of a baseball. This file is from the Open Clip Art Library ...

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