Barry Lamar Bonds
Barry Lamar Bonds 1964-, American baseball player, b. Riverside, Calif. Bonds grew up surrounded by baseball; his father, Bobby Bonds, was a San Francisco Giants outfielder (1968-74), and the great Willie Mays was his godfather. Bonds left Arizona State Univ. to play for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1986, and just four years later he was voted the National League's Most Valuable Player (MVP). In 1992 he was again MVP, and as a free agent signed a lucrative contract with the San Francisco Giants. The next season the left-handed power hitter and Gold Glove-winning outfielder again was named MVP and led the NL in home runs and runs batted in.
In 2001, Bonds made baseball history by smacking 73 homers, surpassing by three Mark McGwire 's 1998 record. Bonds also shattered two of Babe Ruth 's long-standing records—the 81-year-old slugging record (Ruth's was .847; Bonds' .863) and the 78-year-old record for walks in a season (Ruth had 170, Bonds 177)—and won his fourth MVP, a record until he was again the MVP in 2002 and 2003. In 2004 he set new season walks (232) and on-base percentage (.609) records, surpassing ones he set two years before. Bonds also ranks first on the career home-runs list, having reached the 700-homer mark in 2004 after 13 consecutive 30-home-run seasons, breaking Jimmie Foxx 's record of 12 seasons, and having passed Hank Aaron 's lifetime major-league record of 755 in 2007. A scandal that began in 2003 and involved the use of anabolic steroids by various athletes implicated Bonds, who denied knowingly using steroids, but his alleged use has tainted his achievements in the eyes of many fans. In Nov., 2007, he was indicted on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice with respect to an investigation into the 2003 scandal.
Bibliography: See M. Fainaru-Wada and L. Williams, Game of Shadows (2006).
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Cornish language is far from a dodo ; Nternational experts tell us the Cornish language is "extinct". Is it therefore as dead as the dodo? Are those who persist in supporting it just deluding themselves there is still life in the old bird, like the parrot in the well-known Monty Python sketch?
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 2/24/2009; 700+ words
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CORNISH CALLS LEAVING `WRENCHING'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/15/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Chelsea School Superintendent Irene L. Cornish recalls the transition she had to make...Now, as she returns to Connecticut, Cornish is struck by how difficult it is for her to leave Chelsea. Cornish, who has been Chelsea's school superintendent...
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Cornish good to go for Kansas football.
Newspaper article from: Journal-World (Lawrence, Kansas); 10/19/2006; 700+ words
; ...undisclosed injury to running back Jon Cornish won't be enough to keep him out of Kansas...Stadium in Waco, Texas. "I feel good," Cornish said after practice Wednesday. "Good enough to play. I'm always ready." Cornish sat out much of the second half last week...
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Cornish on the cusp.
Newspaper article from: Journal-World (Lawrence, Kansas); 11/25/2006; 700+ words
; ...University's football coach, liked Jon Cornish on tape, but the competition in British...by which to scout. It was late 2001. Cornish just completed a massive senior season...a television correspondent who covered Cornish, the Canadian standout sent his highlight...
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Cornish.(Endangered Languages)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 9/1/2007; ; 571 words
; The Celtic language of Cornish is spoken by about 300 people, mainly...Closely related to Breton and Welsh, Cornish started to branch out from Welsh toward...seventh century C.E. Three types of Cornish--Old Cornish, Middle or Medieval...
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Cornish woman spreading the word, traditions; Celtic connections: Jenkin feels right at home in southwest Wisconsin
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 10/21/2000; ; 645 words
; ...call it part of England," said the Cornish woman during a visit to Shullsburg...work has been in linking Cornwall to Cornish descendants living elsewhere in the world. Jenkin is a grand bard of the Cornish Gorsedd. In ancient Celtic times...
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CORNISH
Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal; 4/14/1999; 641 words
; L.M. Cornish L.M. "Bud" Cornish, 77, Topeka, died Monday, April 12, 1999, at a Topeka nursing home. Mr. Cornish, an attorney, was a partner with Raines, Glenn and Cornish...
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Cornish College president is set to retire in 2011.(YourThursday)
Newspaper article from: The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA); 7/2/2009; 700+ words
; ...Tschernisch, president of Seattle's Cornish College of the Arts, says he will retire...70 this year, Tschernisch assumed his Cornish job in 1994 and has significantly expanded...over a period of remarkable expansion of Cornish. Enrollment has swelled from 500 students...
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Why Cornish didn't tick the right box ; It is quite wrong for Cornwall's nationalist party, Mebyon Kernow, to claim that the independent Office of National Statistics is treating the Cornish as "second rate" by not providing a Cornish "tick box" in the 2011 Census questionnaire (WMN, December 17).
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 12/23/2008; 616 words
; ...Office of National Statistics is treating the Cornish as "second rate" by not providing a Cornish "tick box" in the 2011 Census questionnaire...million Welsh can have a tick box so should the Cornish, who are less than 5 per cent of that number...
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KU's Cornish confident about NFL Combine.
Newspaper article from: Journal-World (Lawrence, Kansas); 2/17/2007; 700+ words
; ...Byline: Ryan Wood Feb. 17--When Jon Cornish analyzes his potential place in professional...their whole futures banked on the NFL," Cornish said. "I'm not in a position that...Houston in front of dozens of NFL scouts, Cornish is flying to Indianapolis next week to...
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Cornish, Sam
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
Sam Cornish 1935 — Poet, educator An underappreciated...movement of the 1960s and 1970s, poet Sam Cornish wrote about the urban African-American...King ("Death of Dr. King," 1971), Cornish depicted rage not in mounting cascades...
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Cornish
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Cornish ETHNONYM: Kernow Orientation Cornwall...refers to the geographic entity, while "Cornish" is the name of the indigenous language...there were no more than 30,000 native Cornish speakers, restricted to the geographic...
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CORNISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
CORNISH. 1. The ancient Celtic language of Cornwall...Mousehole, died in 1777. 2. Also revived Cornish . The partly ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE administered by the Kesva Tavas Kernewek (Cornish Language Board), set up in 1967 ‘...
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Cornish hen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Cornish hen or Cornish chicken, breed of poultry that originated in Cornwall, England...and broad muscular breasts. Although relatively slow-growing, the Cornish hen has excellent meat qualities and is used extensively in breeding...
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Cornish literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Cornish literature The literature of the Celtic...Breton drama. Also surviving is the Middle Cornish narrative poem The Passion of Our Lord...concerted effort to revive spoken and written Cornish, which has met with minor success. Bibliography...
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