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When is your Birthday

should someone make a calender so we will remember
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Just blow out a candle for me that will be enough times 2000
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15%
Id tell ya but Id have to kill you first
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19%
mine is everyday Happy birthday to me!!
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20%
 
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Postby Clancy Courtney » Fri Mar 24, 2006 11:05 am

Kerry, Don't forget we share Jan 9 with with Joan Baez and Jimmy Page.
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Postby toypusher » Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:40 pm

My wife says to post her birthday, so here it is: She shares the same birthday as Boog Powell. (now how can tell me what date that is???) :)
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Postby mikeschn » Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:42 pm

Boog Powell

John Wesley Powell (born August 17, 1941 in Lakeland, Florida) is a former first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Baltimore Orioles (1961-74), Cleveland Indians (1975-76) and Los Angeles Dodgers (1977). He batted left handed and threw right handed.

Powell currently owns Boog's Barbecue, which sells barbecue sandwiches and ribs along Eutaw Street at Camden Yards and along the Boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland.
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* 1 Biography
* 2 Baltimore's Glory Years
* 3 Calling It A Career
* 4 Career
* 5 Highlights
* 6 See also
* 7 External links

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Biography

Powell joined the Orioles in after leading the International League in home runs at Rochester in 1961, and spent his first three seasons as a slow-footed left fielder before switching to first base in 1965. Offensively, he was an immediate success, hitting 25 home runs in 1963, then leading the American League in slugging percentage (.606) in 1964 while blasting a career-high 39 home runs despite missing several weeks because of a broken wrist. He slumped to .248 with 17 home runs in 1965, then won the American League Comeback player of the Year honors in 1966 (.287, 34 home runs, 109 runs batted in) while being hampered by a broken finger.
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Baltimore's Glory Years

In 1966, Powell led the Orioles to the 1966 World Series and there they surprised the baseball world by sweeping the mighty Los Angeles Dodgers in 4 games to become baseball's world champions.

Before the 1967 season, Powell lamented, "once, just once, i'd like to through a whole season without an injury," and he did just that, playing over 150 games each of the next three seasons. In 1969 he hit a career-high .304 with 37 home runs and 121 runs batted in, and in 1970 he was the American League Most Valuable Player, narrowing missing a .300 average on the last day of the season and hitting 35 more home runs with 114 runs batted in. In the 1970 World Series, Powell homered in the first two games as the Orioles whipped the Cincinnati Reds in 5 games. Prior to the 1971 seaon, Powell appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated for a 1971 baseball preview issue, when the regular season ended, Powell helped Baltimore to a third straight World Series that year, blasting a pair of home runs in game two of the American League Championship Series against the up-and-coming Oakland Athletics, but he hit only .111 in the 1971 World Series as Baltimore lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates in seven games.
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Calling It A Career

The aging slugger was traded to Cleveland with Don Hood for Dave Duncan and a minor leaguer before the 1975 season, and he hit .297 with 27 home runs for the Indians that year, but he hit only nine home runs in 1976 and none as a pinch-hitter for the Dodgers in 1977.
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Career

In a 17-season career, Powell posted a .266 batting average with 339 home runs and 1187 RBI in 2042 games. Powell hit three home runs in a game thre times, and was second only to Eddie Murray on the Orioles all-time home run list before Cal Ripken Jr. surpassed Powell in 1998.
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Highlights

* 3-time All-Star (1969-71)
* American League MVP Award (1970)
* Led American League in slugging percentage (1964)
* 7-time Top 10 in HR (1964, 1966, 1968-70, 1972, 1975)
* 7-time Top 10 in RBI (1964, 1966, 1968-72)
* TSN Comeback Player of the Year Award (1966)

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Postby toypusher » Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:48 pm

yah, yah, yah! Anybody can use GOOGLE! :lol:

Guess I should have mentioned that it was DIFFERENT years!!! :lol:
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Postby mikeschn » Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:53 pm

Sorry Kerry, it was just too easy...

X9's are a little tougher though...

I was wondering about your x9... do you know how to do the x,y thingie?

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Postby toypusher » Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:57 pm

mikeschn wrote:Sorry Kerry, it was just too easy...

X9's are a little tougher though...

I was wondering about your x9... do you know how to do the x,y thingie?

Mike...


Yup, I have the Cubby plans and that's how Kevin did it. I need to figure out spar placement though, and a few other things. :o
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Postby mikeschn » Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:02 pm

We'll get those details worked out, no problem... Now I'll return this thread back to the birthday thread... :noyes:

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Postby toypusher » Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:05 pm

mikeschn wrote:... Now I'll return this thread back to the birthday thread... :noyes:

Mike...


Is that the regularly scheduled thread? :running man:
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Postby anonymous2 » Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:15 pm

Hi all,

I was born on Halloween,and my sister on April fools day. My Mom has a sick sense of humor.


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Postby toypusher » Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:57 am

pateardropper wrote:Hi all,

I was born on Halloween,and my sister on April fools day. My Mom has a sick sense of humor.


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Of course you did not inherit any of that,right??? :D
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Postby Tony » Thu Apr 13, 2006 9:53 pm

April 2nd, just missed by 2 minutes of being on the 1st :)
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Postby thobbs » Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:16 pm

Mine is next Tuesday, April 18th. I've been hinting to everyone what teardrop parts I want as gifts! :lol:
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Postby sdtripper2 » Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:26 pm

thobbs wrote:Mine is next Tuesday, April 18th. I've been hinting to everyone what teardrop parts I want as gifts! :lol:


Well, Thobbs ! Hows that working out for you?

Do you expect the floor will be full of Parts the morning of the 18th? :worship:

Guess that depends on how many "Everyone" is eh?

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Postby Miriam C. » Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:07 pm

:P
Mine's February 13th and Mike C.'s is January 5.
(I should tell the year for his :lol: )

Happy Birthday to all! :wine party:
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Postby Steve_Cox » Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:33 pm

My birthday is day after tomorrow. April 16th. Maybe I'll invite some Hippies over.
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