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March 27, 2002 Cosmic Baseball PlayerMilton Berle, Former Superba Pitcher, Passes Away | |
Berle was born in New York City on July 12, 1908. He was the fourth of five children of Moses and Sarah Glantz Berlinger. As noted in the Internet Movie Database among other places, Berle was reputed to have an extraordinarily large penis. He was married five times to four women. His first marriage to actress Beryl Wallace ended in divorce. He married Joyce Matthews, a showgirl, twice (1941, 1949) and had two children with her. Both marriages to Matthews ended in divorce. His marriage (1953-1989) to third wife, Ruth Cosgrove a Hollywood press agent, included two children and ended when Cosgrove died. In 1992 when he was in his 80s, Berle married his fourth wife, fashion designer Lorna Adams (she was 52). Berle broke into entertainment on the Vaudeville stage. He made his "adult" film debut in 1937 and had mostly small roles in a variety of films including the gangster parody Tall, Dark and Handsome (1942) where he played Frosty. Berle was one of the first comedians to migrate to television. By the end of the 1940s, he was an established television personality. In the early 1950s he was dubbed "Mr. Television" and "Uncle Miltie" for his success as the host and star of Texaco Star Theater (1948-1956) an early variety/comedy television show. Berle, by the way, was the first man to wear a woman's dress on television. In 1991, Berle was the first inductee into the International Comedy Hall of Fame. In 1996, he was given the American Comedy Lifetime Achievement Award. As a cosmic baseball pitcher Milton Berle was tireless. He pitched more than 150 innings per season for fourteen seasons including 239 innings in his last season.
Goodbye Uncle Miltie.
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March 24, 2002 Cosmic Baseball GameBhutan Vanguards @ Delta Dragons: Middleleague Game Report | |
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March 23, 2002 Cosmic Baseball ChronologyCosmic Baseball Association Chronology Updated | |
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March 18, 2002 Cosmic Baseball StatisticsCBASE 2002- Cosmic Player Summary Records | |
CBASE 2002, which is now online, represents one segment of the larger database. CBASE 2002 includes career summary records for all cosmic players, active and inactive, since the first cosmic baseball season in 1981. CBASE 2002 visitors and users can browse through the records alphabetically or search for specific cosmic baseball players. In addition to providing the names of all past and present cosmic baseball players, summary statistical data for batters and pitchers is organized in tabular form. Cosmic Batter data includes Number of Seasons, Career At Bats, Career Homeruns and Career Batting Average. Cosmic Pitcher data includes Number of Seasons, Career Innings Pitched, Career Won/Lost Record and Career Earned Run Average.
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March 17, 2002 Cosmic Baseball PlayersHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Season 2002 Cosmic Player Plate | |
For some reason his popularity declined after his death and in the 20th Century his work was frequently ignored as too simplisitc and didactic. However, not many American poets have three statues or busts in existence. Longfellow has been honored with a statue in his home town of Portland (Maine), another exists in Cambridge (Massachusetts) and a third honors him in Washington, D.C. Longellow is an outfielder with the Paradise Pisces. Longfellow was born February 27,1807.
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March 15, 2002 Cosmic Baseball Association Season 2002Cosmic Baseball Season 2002 Begins | |
The Season 2002 Opening Cosmic Baseball Game was played between two Overleague teams: the Wonderland Warriors and the Paradise Pisces.
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March 12, 2002 Cosmic Baseball GamesSeason 2002 Jack Kerouac Memorial Cosmic Baseball Game | |
Kerouac also plays left field for the Dharma Beats, a team of Beat Generation personalities in the Cosmic Overleague.
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March 10, 2002 Cosmic Baseball PlayersLavinia Fontana 2002 Cosmic Player Plate | |
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March 4, 2002 Cosmic Baseball General ManagersBo Belinsky Named Woodsox General Manager | |
Robert Belinsky was born in 1936 in New York City. His mother was a Russian Jew, his father a Polish Catholic. Belinsky entered the Major Leagues in 1962 after spending six years in the minors. He became a rookie sensation on May 5, 1962 when he pitched a no-hitter for the Los Angeles Angels against the visiting Baltimore Orioles. He played for eight seasons in the Major Leagues compiling undistinguished career statistics: 28 wins, 51 losses with an earned run average of 4.10 runs per nine innings. He pitched in 665 innings for five different teams. His career ended during the 1970 season. (Belinsky threw a second no-hitter while doing a stint pitching minor league baseball in 1968 in Hawaii.) After his baseball career, Belinsky became dependent on drugs and alcohol. He later claimed to have remained sober since 1976. In the 1990s he lived in Las Vegas where he worked for a car dealer. After being diagnosed with bladder cancer in 1998, Belinsky underwent a religious conversion and became a born again Christian. He died from heart failure on November 22, 2001 in his Las Vegas home. In 1956 while deciding to sign his first minor league contract with the Baltimore Orioles to play for their D Class minor league affiliate in Brunswick, Georgia (for $185 a month), Belinsky recalled pulling out a map and looking for the town, I saw that it was on the ocean. I figured it would be a kick. What the hell else was I doing? I think I was working in an overalls factory that day, shooting pool, fooling with the broads. I always liked older broads. I was eighteen, nineteen, and I would take out these twenty-two-, twenty-three-year-old broads. They used to make me laugh, though. You could fuck them in a car. That was okay, but if you mentioned a motel to them, they'd go out of their minds. Anyway, I figured baseball would be just as good as the overalls factory. |
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