

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization that constitutes one of the four major professional sports leagues in North America. Teams play in the American League (AL) and National League (NL), which operated as separate legal entities from 1901 and 1876 respectively. In 2000, the leagues merged into a single organization led by the Commissioner of Baseball. The organiza...
This project is dedicated to all those who have made baseball America's pastime. Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team (the batting team) take turns hitting against the pitcher...
Siia projekti soovime Genist kokku koguda tuntumaid Eesti sportlasi aga ka sporditegelasi (ROK presidendid, spordiajakirjanikud, jms.) läbi kõigi ajajärkude. Kuna see projekt Eesti sport kipub liiga mahukaks muutuma - on tulnud ettepanek teha selle asemel eraldi projektid , nagu: Eesti sport - ujujad Eesti sport - tõstjad Eesti sport - suusatajad Eesti sport - maadlejad Eesti sport...
This is a project for those who have been involved with the NBA.The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America, and is widely considered to be the premier men's professional basketball league in the world. It has thirty franchised member clubs (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada), and is an active member of USA Basketball ...
This is a project for those who have been involved with the PBA. The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of twelve company-branded franchised teams. Founded in 1975, it is the first professional basketball league in Asia and is the second oldest continuously professional basketball league existing in the world after the ...
Association football, commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. It is the world's most popular sport.This project is for listing the profiles of football players with an international career . For profiles to be eligible they should:* be Public, with a photo and biography* be connected to the World Tree* be international a...
IMPORTANT NOTE: If a relevant sub-project already exists for an individual's sport, please add them to that sub-project and not this portal. Sports Auto Racing Fast & Furious Indianapolis 500 NASCAR National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame Baseball Main project: Baseball National Baseball Hall of Fame inductees Negro League Baseball Notable people in baseball
Includes both Court (or "Real") Tennis and Lawn Tennis (commonly called "Tennis") Court Tennis description: limited to members of the International Tennis Hall of FameInternational Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum web site (including list of inductees):
FOUNDERS & CONTRIBUTERS =* Walter Camp , known as the "Father of American Football" is the person who founded the rules for what we know as American Football.* Fielding Yost invented the position of linebacker, co-created the first ever bowl game, the 1902 Rose Bowl, with then legendary UM athletic director Charles Baird, invented the fieldhouse concept that bears his name, and supervised the b...
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Please note that this refers to the hall of fame for American football , not association football (soccer) . Pro Football Hall of Fame Web site: Hall of Famers by Year of Enshrinement 1963 Sammy Baugh 1963 Bert Bell 1963 Joe Carr 1963 Earl (Dutch) Clark 1963 Harold (Red) Grange 1963 George Halas
This project focuses on people who have made significant contributions to the automobile industry including race car drivers.
This project is a place to list famous and "historic" Olympians and perhaps connect them to Geni profiles.==Youngest Olympic Champions in History==*The youngest athlete to participate at the Modern Olympics was Dimitrios Loundras of Greece who was 10 years, 216 days old when he competed in men's team parallel bars gymnastics at the 1896 Games in Athens. * Inge Sørensen of Denmark was 12 yrs, 24...
The modern Olympics have been taking place since 1896 (Winter Olympics since 1924). This project is designed to identify the people who have had the incredible skill and perseverance to win a medal. Alpine Skiing (Winter): Kjetil André Aamodt (1971 - ) Paul Accola (1967) Émile Allais (1912 - 2012) Sébastien Amiez (1972 - ) Debbie Armstrong (1963 - ) Wolfgang Bartels (1940 - 2007)
Lithuanian Americans who are Americans by citizen but are of Lithuanian descent or were born in Lithuania. Lithuanians began coming to the US as early as 17th century. Until about 1870s immigrants from the Lithuanian territory were mostly noble. Towards the end of 19th century peasant Lithuanians started to settle in the mining areas of the US such as Pennsylvania and other industrial areas lik...
The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL) and are one of the Original Six teams of the league. Founded in 1926, the team was known as the Detroit Cougars from then until 1930. For the 1930–31 and 1931–32 seasons the team was called the Detroit Falcon...
is an individual or team sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual medley. In addition to these individual events, four swimmers can take ...
Lithuania sent its athletes to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris for the first time. In 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Lithuania did not participate due to economic difficulties and political controversies surrounding the National Olympic Committee. In 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Lithuania was not invited by Germany due to Memelland/Klaipėda region controversy. In 1940, Lithuania lost...
Sochi 2014 >>> Welcome to the umbrella project for the Sochi Winter Olympics !==Overview==] The 2014 Winter Olympic Games , officially known as the XXII Olympic Winter Games , are scheduled to take place in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia from 7 to 23 February 2014.The Sochi Games will be the first ever hosted by the Russian Federation, and the first Winter Games held in Russia or the Soviet Unio...
The 2016 Summer Olympics (Portuguese: Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016 ), officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad , and commonly known as Rio 2016 , is a major international multi-sport event in the tradition of the Olympic Games due to take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016.A record number of countries are participating in a record number of sports. More than...
Olympic Movement ‧ since 1850 Participants • Sports • Hosts Vanderlei Cordeiro DE LIMA - marathon - lights the Olympic Flame Opening Ceremony Rio 2016 Olympic Games - Maracana stadium Rio de Janeiro. Brazil, 05 August 2016. © EPA/Lukas SCHULZE NL • XYZ • EN • [ FR] • [ DE] • [ EU] • [ETC] • • • Special Olympics historic actores William Penny BROOKES ‧ x ‧ Pierre...
The Maccabiah Games (a.k.a. the World Maccabiah Games; Hebrew: משחקי המכביה, or משחקי המכביה העולמית; sometimes referred to as the "Jewish Olympics"), first held in 1932, are an international Jewish and Israeli multi-sport event held quadrennially in Israel. The Maccabiah Games are open to Jewish athletes from around the world, and to all Israeli citizens regardless of their religion. It is the...
This project celebrates gymnasts who have competed on the U.S. national team. Both past and present gymnasts, male and female, are covered by the scope of the project. The fields of gymnastics in the United States include artistic, rhythmic, acrobatic, and trampoline and tumbling (T&T).When adding a gymnast to the project, please list them under the proper heading(s) and include their years act...
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 25 Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, operated by private interests serving as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in the United States and beyond, the display of baseball-related artifacts and exhibits, and the honoring of persons who have excelled in playing, mana...
Scope of Project===Famous/Notable Cricketers from around the world. Books ===="100 Great Westindian Test Cricketers, " by Bridgette Lawrence with Reg Scarlett. Links ====* Cricket * Test cricket * List of West Indies Test cricketers * West Indies Cricket: A Select Bibliography of Resources * List of West Indies women Test cricketers * Women's Test cricket * Cricket