Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
Apríl 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff
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Á október 20, 1916, Ad Santel, þekktur „krókari“ eða hæfur uppgjafarglímumaður, met Taro
Hver er mesti lögmæti atvinnuglímumaðurinn til að glíma í Bandaríkjunum? How do
Þegar það kemur að því að vél stjórnmál og skipulagðri glæpastarfsemi, Kansas City hefur alltaf outshone St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City var einnig heimili nokkurra Áberandi gangland shootings. St. Louis’ síðasta skipulögð glæpastarfsemi leiðtogi var handtekinn fyrir að spila spil. We did have a Democratic party political machine around
21-year old Charles Merrell had already served a term in the Missouri Penitentiary for stealing a car in Scotland County, when he got the idea to hold up the Morris Packing Company on Saturday, Apríl 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell var ráðinn sem vélvirki á
Fyrir vikum, Ég var að leita að eintaki af Ivanhoe eftir Sir Walter Scott úr gamla bókasafni afa míns. Afi Gilbert P. Ellis átti bókasafn sem hann gaf mér snemma á tíunda áratugnum. Þessar bækur og skrifborðið hans eru gersemar sem munu fylgja mér til dauðadags. Sem krakki, Ég sat í honum
Before he was the “Sherlock Holmes of St. Louis”, St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond was Detective “Billy” Desmond. One of the most talented detectives in St. Louis Police sögu, Desmond met one of the most famous international criminals in history, Eddie Guerin, in the mid-1880s. Guerin robbed the American Express Office in Paris in the early 1900s. French
At our fantasy football draft this year, one of the other owners asked me who I thought was the best mixed martial artist of all time. I told him that based on skill, the greatest mixed martial artist of all time was Jon “Bones” Jones. Þó, Jones’ frequent problems outside of the Octagon would keep him from being considered the
William Muldoon, World Greco-Roman Glíma Champion og líkamlega menningu talsmaður, kom til Los Angeles á þriðjudag, Apríl 15, 1884 að takast á við staðbundin Wrestler Fred Bauer. Leikurinn fór fram á staðnum Turnvereine Hall í Los Angeles. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he
Nóvember 30, 1871, mikill mannfjöldi fór um borð í tíu lestarvagna á New Orleans, Mobile og Texas járnbraut þar sem hún stoppaði á Canal Street í New Orleans, Louisiana. Lestin hélt áfram að Montgomery stöðinni nálægt Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, þar sem mannfjöldinn yfirgaf rigninguna og lagði leið sína inn í skóginn. Svo skrýtin ganga
On the morning of Saturday, Apríl 22, 1922, a green Paige automobile pulled up in front of the Morris Packing Company at 3000 S. Broadway. One man emerged, looked around and waived for his companion to exit the back seat. After hesitating for a few seconds, the other man exited as the automobile crawled down the busy street. Tíminn
Á Desember 1, 1938 á 5:15 am, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 ára. While enjoying robust strength his whole life, Baptiste’s doctor discovered he had stomach cancer in June 1938. The doctor operated on Baptiste but was unable to remove all the cancer. Baptiste had been living at his country home
Last Monday, I was able to scratch a big item off my bucket list. I attended a Liverpool Football Club game in person. Liverpool FC came to my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri on August 1, 2016 to play a preseason game with AS Roma. My daughter Caity attended the match with me, which made the day extra special. Ég