Duncan Park Baseball Stadium in Spartanburg, South Carolina is the oldest minor-league stadium in the US.
The 101st Grey Cup game, organised by the Canadian Football League, will be held this Sunday at Taylor Field, Regina. For the first time ever, the Saskatchewan Roughriders will be playing in a Grey Cup game before the home crowd. The stadium is expected to be green all over, with only a smattering of black and yellow for their opponents, the Hamilton Ti-Cats.
George Hamilton is often confused with Warren Beatty. His cameo in Bulworth (1998) pokes fun at this.
George Hamilton cohosted a talk show with his ex-wife, Alana, many years after their divorce and after her remarriage & divorce from Rod Stewart. Hamilton and Alana have a son, Ashley, who was often in the tabloids in the 90s for various scandals, and have remained friends for decades.
Sunday’s Grey Cup will be the 18th appearance by the Hamilton Ti-cats, including appearances by its predecessor clubs, the Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Wildcats.
Joe Kapp is the only player to quarterback in the Super Bowl (Min. Vikings), Rose Bowl (Cal), and the Grey Cup (BC Lions).
Al Capp, creator of the comic strip Li’l Abner, was run down by a trolley car at the age of nine, and had to have his left leg amputated, well above the knee.
Two Belgian surgeons have just located a new ligament in the human knee, called the anterolateral ligament. Its discovery is expected to result in groundbreaking new methods for repairing ACL injuries.
In Murder by Death, Milo Perrier had to put up with Sam Diamond calling him “Frenchie” until he exploded with, “I’m not a Frenchie, I’m a Belgie!”
Chris Milo is the place-kicker for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, with an accuracy rate of 88% in 2013. His two field goals in the fourth quarter helped the Riders maintain a comfortable lead over the Stamps, sealed by a run-in touchdown by Kory Sheets.
Chris Penn drank only Bookers bourbon. He liked to drink in the afternoon at burlesque great Betty Rowland’s 217 bar in Santa Monica, California.
Huh. How could a ligament have been undiscovered for so long?
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Sean Penn angered many Britons when he recently backed Argentina’s territorial claim to the Falkland Islands, known to Argentinians as the Malvinas.
Sean Astin has hit bad guys over the head with a frying pan in two different movies – as Sam Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and as Billy Tepper in Toy Soldiers (1991).
In the DVD commentary to The Fellowship of the Ring, Sean Astin said his mother didn’t want to know how he and the other actors playing Hobbits were made to look shorter than they are, because she didn’t want to “ruin the magic”. Ironically, his mother is Patty Duke, and she played identical twins (and a third, identical cousin) on The Patty Duke Show, which was also done with trick photography.
John Astin mostly retired from show business to join the faculty of his alma mater, John’s Hopkins University. His youngest son, Mackenzie, once an actor on Facts of Life, teaches as an adjunct.
John Astin played Ford’s Theater in a production of Ken Ludwig’s Leading Ladies with, among others, Charlotte Rae from The Facts of Life
Ken Jeong, who played Mr. Chow in The Hangover movies, is fully licensed to practice medicine in California. He earned his medical degree at the University of North Carolina.
The Wright Brothers selected the Outer Banks of North Carolina for their flying experiments due to Weather Bureau-reported sustained winds, and soft sands.
Once during the run of I’ll Say She Is, the Marx Brothers’ first Broadway play, Harpo tried to play a practical joke on Groucho by chasing a chorus girl onto the stage while Groucho was in the middle of his act. Not to be outdone, Groucho simply pulled out his watch and said, “The Five Fifteen is right on schedule.”
Groucho and Harpo’s ex sister-in-law, Barbara, who was married to Zeppo Marx before becoming the fourth and final Mrs. Frank Sinatra, was in the news recently when she denounced third Mrs. Sinatra Mia Farrow’s suggestion that Frank fathered her son Ronan, who was conceived long after Frank and Barbara’s marriage, as a lie told for publicity.