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Bill VeeckBorn: Feb. 9, 1914Maverick baseball executive owned AL teams in Cleveland, St. Louis and Chicago from 1946-80; introduced ballpark giveaways, exploding scoreboards, Wrigley Field's…Bill Walsh
Bill Walsh Born: Nov. 30, 1931 Football Hall of Fame coach and GM of 3 Super Bowl winners with San Francisco (…Bill Walton
Bill WaltonBorn: Nov. 5, 1952Basketball C 3-time College Player of Year (1972-74); led UCLA to 2 national titles (1972-73); led Portland to NBA title as MVP in 1977; regular season MVP in…Bill White
Bill WhiteBorn: Jan. 28, 1934Baseball former NL president and highest ranking Black executive in sports from 1989-94; as 1st baseman, won 7 Gold Gloves and hit .286 with 202 HRs in 13 seasons.…Bill Lewis
Bill Lewis Born: Nov. 30, 1868Football College star at Amherst College and then Harvard; first Black player to be selected as an All-American (1892-93); also the first Black person admitted to…Graham, Robert
(Encyclopedia) Graham, Robert, later Robert Cunninghame Graham, c.1735–1797, Scottish poet and politician. He is best known for the lyric “If Doughty Deeds My Lady Please.” He inherited sizable…Monroe, Bill
(Encyclopedia) Monroe, Bill (William Smith Monroe), 1911–96, country singer, musician, and songwriter, often called the “father of bluegrass,” b.…Mauldin, Bill
(Encyclopedia) Mauldin, Bill (William Henry Mauldin), 1921–2003, American cartoonist, b. Mountain Park, N.Mex. During World War II, in which he served as an infantryman-cartoonist in Italy, France,…Clinton, Bill
(Encyclopedia) Clinton, Bill (William Jefferson Clinton), 1946–, 42d President of the United States (1993–2001), b. Hope, Ark. His father died before he was born, and he was originally named William…Robinson, Bill
(Encyclopedia) Robinson, Bill, 1878–1949, African-American tap dancer popularly known as “Bojangles,” b. Richmond, Va., as Luther Robinson. An influential virtuoso tap dancer, he was a tap innovator…Trending
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