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Once a semipro baseball player in Japan, Yukihiro Shimura has now become a baseball missionary.
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Jack Nicas Dado Galdieri, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
Toby Keith, a former rodeo hand, oil rigger and semipro football player who became a rowdy king of country music, singing patriotic anthems, wry drinking songs and propulsive odes to cowboy culture that collectively sold more than 40 million records, died Feb. 5 at 62.
—Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
He had been paid $25 for playing in a semipro baseball game.
1951 — Jimmie Foxx and Mel Ott are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
Brooks Calbert Robinson was born on May 18, 1937, in Little Rock, Ark., where his father was a fireman and also played semipro baseball.
—Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
Advertisement Reese led his semipro team to the Louisville city championship in 1937 and signed with the minor league Louisville Colonels.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
Aaron Hernandez's suicide notes revealed in new book Hernandez’s brother was former NFL star and Aaron Hernandez, who was convicted of murder in the 2013 killing of semipro football player Odin Lloyd.
—Zenebou Sylla, CNN, 27 July 2023
After more than a week of driving all day and all night through 10 countries, Tetiana and the couple’s oldest son finally arrived in Turku, Finland, where their youngest son, a semipro hockey player, lives.
—Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 25 July 2023
On the horrific Sunday in 1963 when Ku Klux Klan members bombed the church, killing four girls, Greason was away playing semipro baseball.
—Louie Lazar, New York Times, 4 June 2023
Jack Nicas Dado Galdieri, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
Toby Keith, a former rodeo hand, oil rigger and semipro football player who became a rowdy king of country music, singing patriotic anthems, wry drinking songs and propulsive odes to cowboy culture that collectively sold more than 40 million records, died Feb. 5 at 62.
—Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
He had been paid $25 for playing in a semipro baseball game.
1951 — Jimmie Foxx and Mel Ott are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
Brooks Calbert Robinson was born on May 18, 1937, in Little Rock, Ark., where his father was a fireman and also played semipro baseball.
—Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
Advertisement Reese led his semipro team to the Louisville city championship in 1937 and signed with the minor league Louisville Colonels.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
Aaron Hernandez's suicide notes revealed in new book Hernandez’s brother was former NFL star and Aaron Hernandez, who was convicted of murder in the 2013 killing of semipro football player Odin Lloyd.
—Zenebou Sylla, CNN, 27 July 2023
After more than a week of driving all day and all night through 10 countries, Tetiana and the couple’s oldest son finally arrived in Turku, Finland, where their youngest son, a semipro hockey player, lives.
—Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 25 July 2023
On the horrific Sunday in 1963 when Ku Klux Klan members bombed the church, killing four girls, Greason was away playing semipro baseball.
—Louie Lazar, New York Times, 4 June 2023
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