Norman “Turkey” Stearnes, who played for the Dallas Stars in the old Negro Leagues, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000.
Before signing with the Milwaukee Braves, Henry Aaron played for the Indianapolis Clowns in the then-fast-fading Negro Leagues.
Henry Aaron and his brother Tommy hold the major league record for the most home runs by two brothers.
Hank Aaron’s uniform number, 44, was retired by both the Atlanta Braves and the Milwaukee Brewers. Though he only played 2 seasons with the Brewers (his final two), the prime of Aaron’s career was spent in Milwaukee, as a Brave, before the Braves moved to Atlanta in 1966.
The Braves are the oldest continuously-operating team in American professional sports, having been founded in 1870 as the Boston Red Stockings using players from the folded Cincinnati Red Stockings. The team was also nicknamed Red Caps, Beaneaters, Doves, Rustlers, and Bees at different points.
Portions of Braves Field remain today, incorporated into Boston University’s Nickerson Field.
The Miami Dolphins’ defense of the early Eighties was nicknamed the Killer Bees, because so many of their stars had last names that began with the letter B.
The smallest dolphin species is the Maui’s Dolphin, averaging 4 ft & 90 lbs and the largest species is the Orca (aka the Killer Whale), averaging 30 ft & 11 tons.
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The Killers, a 1964 adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway short story of the same name, was Ronald Reagan’s last screen role. He played the heavy. (I saw it in college and it was very weird seeing the then-President barking out orders to his henchmen and menacing Angie Dickinson with a pistol).
New York Giants cornerback Jason Seahorn proposed to his girlfriend, “Law and Order” actress Angie Harmon, on “The Tonight Show.”
She accepted.
The Palme d’Or is the highest award given to films at the Cannes film festival. Michael Moore was the last American winner, for Fahrenheit 9/11.
Les Clefs d’Or (The Golden Keys) is an international association of professional hotel concierges.
Woody Allen’s comedy What’s Up Tiger Lilly? was based on an actual Japanese spy movie called Key of Keys.
The name of Key West only coincidentally refers to the fact it’s the westernmost of the more-or-less-connected Florida Keys. The name is a corruption of the Spanish Cayo Hueso, or “Bone Key”, which refers to the fact the island was littered with bones when discovered by Juan Ponce de León.
In The Mysterious Island, a sequel of sorts to ***20,000 Leagues Under ***the Sea, Jules Verne revealed that Captain Nemo’s real name was Armitage Ranjit Dakkar, and that he was born a prince in India.
Robert Downey, Jr.'s father was a Hollywood film director, best known for the satire Putney Swope. Downey, who was billed in the film as “Robert Downey (a Prince)” also dubbed in all of Swope’s lines.
Swope Park is located in Kansas City, MO. It is mentioned in a number of the works of Robert A. Heinlein, as one of his recurring protagonists (Lazarus Long) is originally from Kansas City.
After leaving the White House, Harry Truman and his wife Bess retired in 1953 to Independence, Mo., where his presidential library was eventually built.
Before entering a nursing home due to Alzheimer’s Disease, composer Aaron Copland gave most of his possessions, including his cat, to the music curator of the Library of Congress.
After the Library of Congress was burned by the British while briefly occupying Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812, Thomas Jefferson donated many of his books to restart the collection. Today, one of the LoC’s major buildings is named after him.
Double play: The District of Columbia originally included Alexandria, Virginia. The Library of Alexandria, the center of learning in the Ptolemaic dynasty, was burned by an invading Muslim army led by Amr ibn al 'Aas in 642.