Articles related to "Era"

The past 25 years have seen pitchers such as Roger Clemens, Randy Johnson, Greg Maddux and Pedro Martinez win multiple Cy Young Awards.

The best pitchers alive head up the 2007 Top 20 Fantasy Pitchers. Johann Santana and Roy Halladay could lead your team to a 2007 Fantasy Baseball Championship.

From Don Newcombe in 1956 to Steve Stone and Steve Carlton in 1980, the Cy Young award honors baseball's best pitchers. Here are the winners over the first 25 years.

"Richard Cory" seduces the reader with its perfectly rhymed verses but ultimately shocks with its pointed concluding lesson.

Baseball has enjoyed a share of ups and downs in its history, from the Cincinatti Red Stocking and the Golden Age of Babe Ruth to Ted Williams in the 1940s and steroids.

The best starting pitchers from number 6 through 25.

American Girl dolls, now by Mattel Company, are popular toys that portray eras in the history of America through lines of books and historically accurate accessories.

To truly begin to understand paleontology, it is first important to have a good grasp on the basic geological timeline in which all life has existed.

It's the biggest risk in a fantasy draft: who do you draft as starters? That decision can make or break a fantasy team. Here are the best, the worst and some surprises.

In the first of the Quarterly Reports, the Red Sox are showing that 2004 may not have been a fluke, but may be the start of a trend. Has the curse been forever reversed?

During the 1970's, disco music was all the rage. Disco dominated the decade so heavily, until people forget the important, and still relevant contributions of 70's Soul.

In the 1930s, Texas' poor struggled to adjust to rapidly increasing unemployment and homelessness plus the emotional scares that lasted long after the economy recovered.

The Progressive Era was a time of intense reform, but for most blacks it was a transition; not from slavery to freedom, but from slavery to Jim Crow.

Breaking up has always been difficult, but Facebook isn't making it any easier.

Charlie Chaplin developed his timeless character of "The Tramp" while working for the famous Keystone movie studios.

Christmas carols were reinvented in the 19th century, regarded as a Victorian phenomenon. Songs include the famous Silent Night and The First Noel.

The giant women's sewing pattern catalogs from the 1920s and 1930s included gorgeous, fascinating costume ideas, as well as vintage versions of some current standards.

Public education was invented to improve society and its citizens. African-Americans and girls, to an extent, were excluded from this process.

Even in the atmosphere of intense violence, Freedmen's Bureau agents committed themselves to the education of Texas' former slaves.

To vote in the age of Jackson, a white man experienced a boisterous campaign and polling place that featured parades, violence, drinking, and fraud.

Brett Favre will be sorely missed by everyone, not just sports fans. However, he leaves football with numerous records, a championship, and the hearts of millions.

Fell's Point on Baltimore's graceful Inner Harbor is an architectural treasure. Here visitors will revel in well-preserved examples of America's emerging Federal style.

The Rolling Stones wanted to give a free concert at the end of their 1969 U.S. tour. Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin were commissioned to film the show.

If you long for the glory days of Hollywood, there are a few iconic spots left where you can tread the same boards as bygone cinema legends.

After much debate and speculation, instant replay has been officially introduced into Major League Baseball, but can be used only to determine home runs and foul balls.

Continuing to look at our herbs and medieval plants still in use today. Many medieval herbs and plants are still used in modern gardens very successfully.

The Victorian Era (1837-1901) was a time of change. One important change was in the treatment of mental illness.

The Minnesota Renaissance Faire is part history and part fantasy. Stroll the lanes of a 16th century marketplace with royalty, knights and bawdy wenches.

With brand new Head Coach Mike D'Antoni at the helm, the Knicks will play an up tempo style of basketball that should keep the Garden fans interested.

Lydia Roosevelt’s husband wants to take a steamboat all the way from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. Although pregnant, Lydia is determined to go also.

Toronto's Massey Hall, built expressly for orchestral and choral performances, opened June 14, 1894 and earned a unique place in history.

The Yankees are the greatest dynasty in baseball, even in sports overall, but their greatest dominance occurred between 1927 and 1953.

Early Twentieth Century Congressional Democrat and Republican Progressives work together to expand the power of the electorate through passage of the 17th Amendment.

Francis Petrarch and Pico Mirandola, Fathers of the Renaissance, based their conclusions on writings of ancient greek and roman philosophers.

The Renaissance comes to life through art!

The first half of Pixar's WALL-E harkens back to cinema's silent era in the best possible way -- with stylized images in the place of ordinary dialogue to tell its story.

A look at how the action movie was influenced by literature and how Douglas Fairbanks became cinema's first action star.

Off India's beaten track in the central state of Madhya Pradesh is the World Heritage group of stupas dedicated to the Buddha in Sanchi

The construction of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal marked the height of America's canal age and its closing marked the end of canal as general transportation in the U.S.

Vietnam-themed movies began as a patriotic apologetic for the war, transformed the genre into anti-war and critical stories, and ended as objective documentaries.

A growing sector of people seem to be turning to past eras in preference to modern culture. How might Critical Theory explain what people seek in the charms of the past?

The 1970s ushered in radical new forms and approaches to making art that continue to impact cultural practices today.

Over rough trails and dirt roads, the stagecoach carried passengers, money and mail between cities and towns across Canada, and kept to schedules, too.

Colonial Era German immigrants are not easy-to-trace ancestors. Genealogists welcome such records as this 1738 passenger list.

Vegan, what is one? No, what this is not about natives of Las Vegas, Nev. (even if they actually are called vegans.)

In the days before Babe Ruth, home runs were less common than smart decisions by the Bush administration.

Tim Lincecum recently won a 2nd consecutive NL Cy Young in the closest race since 1996. He's also the top ranked National League fantasy starting pitcher for 2010.

Josh Towers is having a season that is comparable to the 1954 Philadelphia Athletics' starters, but young fans don't know it because other starters are just as bad.

Pitching wins championships. From Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy, known as Connie Mack, to the modern era of Joe Torre, good pitching will usually stop good hitting.

Pioneer of Depression Era photography, Dorothea Lange gave a realistic portrait to the plight of thousands of displaced Americans during the 1930s.