Brady was already in rare company prior to Sunday, with his six championship rings tying him with Michael Jordan, one of his idols. But on Sunday night, he surpassed Jordan and Alabama coach Paul Bear Bryant. Now, he is tied with Nick Saban, Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth, to name a few.
The sports figures who have won more? Bill Russell won 11 NBA titles and Sam Jones won 10. In baseball, Yogi Berra won 10 World Series rings, Joe DiMaggio won nine and Phil Rizzuto, Frankie Crosetti, Bill Dickey and Lou Gehrig each won eight the same number of titles that Tom Heinsohn, K.C. Jones, Tom Satch Sanders and John Havlicek claimed in the NBA. And don t forget about Brady s former coach Bill Belichick, who has eight Super Bowl rings two with the New York Giants and six with the New England Patriots.
Chattanoogan Bill Akers Outshined The Babe In September Of 1930 Tuesday, January 19, 2021 - by Joseph Dycus
The Major League Baseball season is the longest of any pro sport in America, and it has been this way for over 100 years. Each season has hot streaks and slumps, masterful pitching performances and demotions to the bullpen. On any given day, the unknown ballplayer can become a hero. On September 13, 1930, Detroit Tigers rookie shortstop and Chattanoogan Bill Akers didn’t just outduel Gehrig and the Babe. He won the game.
Akers was born in Chattanooga in 1904, and played his first bit of professional baseball as a 19 year-old for the Lookouts in 1924. After five years in the minor leagues, he finally got his shot as a 24 year old rookie for the Tigers in 1929. According to today’s standards (less than 130 at bats) and apparently yesteryear’s standards, Akers and his 98 career at bats were still a rookie by the time 1930 rolled around.
Adams County was home to at least two historians of national eminence. One was Allan Nevins of Columbia University. Nevins was a Camp Point, Ill., native who twice won the Pulitzer Prize and wrote a multi-volume history of the Civil War and its prologue.
The other was Marshall Smelser, a graduate of Quincy High School and Quincy College. He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard under the direction of Samuel Eliot Morison, a Pulitzer Prize historian of maritime and American history. Smelser taught at the University of Notre Dame for almost three decades.
Smelser belonged to the Quincy family known for its photography studio. His parents, Albert and Gladys Alma Smelser, established their business in 1923 in the 600 block of Hampshire Street where, The Herald-Whig reported on April 4, 1954, it was still operated by his brother, Howard. Marshall married Anna Padberg of Quincy and was an assistant field director for the Red Cross during World War II. By 1947, The Herald-Whig reported on Sept. 21
Advanced Proteome Therapeutics Corp.: Advanced Proteome Therapeutics Announces Dr. Benjamin Krantz to Join Company as CEO
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( APC or the Company ), is pleased to announce that Dr. Benjamin Krantz will be joining the Company s US subsidiary Advanced Proteome Therapeutics Inc. ( APTI ) as CEO following the completion of his oncology fellowship at NYU Langone Health on July 1
st, 2021. Bill Dickie will continue his role as interim CEO of APTI until then and remain a member of the board of directors after.
Benjamin Krantz MD, MBA is the Chief Fellow in hematology/oncology at New York University Langone Medical Center and is currently on the Board of Directors at APTI. He completed his residency in internal medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia University Medical Center during which time he analyzed investigator intellectual property disclosures as a Columbia Technology Ventures fellow. He subseque
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