Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Jim Northrup timeline

Born: November 24, 1939
1957-61: Attended Alma College
1961: Signed with Detroit Tigers
1961-4: Minor Leagues
Debut: September 30, 1964
1967: Becomes regular
1968: Hit five grand slams (2 in one game and three in a week). He also clubbed one in the World Series.
1968: Had GW hit in 1968 World Series
1968: Tigers win World Series
August 28, 1969: Went 6-for-6 including a walk-off roof top home run at Tiger Stadium
1972: Feuded with Manager Billy Martin
1972: Tigers win AL East
1974: Sold to Expos
1974: Sold to Orioles
1975: Retired
1977-8: Played professional softball
1985-94: Tiger announcer
2000: Elected to Michigan Sports Hall of Fame
2011: Died
Accomplishments:
1968 World Champion
.267 career
153 Home Runs
610 RBI
Two Grand Slams in one Game
1254 Hits
31 doubles (1969)
20+ Home runs: 3x
90 RBI (1968)
.307 (1973)
.508 slugging (1969)
Postseason: .286, 2 HR 9 RBI, .810 OPS (2 Series)

Monday, May 28, 2012

Bobby Veach: Timeline

Born: June 29, 1888

Debut: September 6, 1912 (Detroit Tigers)

1913: Became starting left fielder for Tigers

1915: Veach, Cobb, and Crawford made up the greatest outfield of all time

1915-22: Had more RBI and extra base hits than any other player

1916: Scored run that ended Babe Ruth’s 25 inning scoreless streak.

1921: Began feud with Ty Cobb

1924: Sold to Red Sox

1925: Traded to Yankees

1925: Released by Yankees, signed with Senators

1925: Washington won the pennant (lost World Series)

1926-29: Played with Toledo Mudhens.

1943: Had operation

1945: Died after a long illness

Accomplishments:
.310 hitter

64 HR

1166 RBI

.370 OBP

.442 Slugging

.812 OPS

Led league in games played: 2x

110 runs (1921)

200+ hits: 2x

Led league 191 hits (1919)

30+ doubles: 8x

40+ doubles: 3x

Led league in doubles: 2x

10+ triples: 10x

Led league 17 triples (1919)

100+ RBI: 6x

Led league in RBI: 3x

20+ steals: 5x

Hit .300: 8x

.355 (1919)

.500 slugging: 2x

324 total bases (1921)

Led league HBP (9) in 1917

Postseason:
0-for-1 (1925 World Series)

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Star Trek Timeline: 25th century and beyond


2472: Humans reach the Delta Quadrant

By the 26th century, the Klingons join the Federation

2550s: The Battle of Procyon V: Federation defeats the Sphere Builders

28th century: Future Guy originates from this period.

29th century: Capt. Braxton’s time. Braxton accidentally travels to 1967. His timeship provides the tech for the computer revolution of the late 20th century.

31st century: Daniels helps Jonathan Archer from this period.

31st century: A backup copy of the Doctor is activated in the Delta Quadrant.

123rd century: Radiation in the Andromeda Galaxy make life impossible.

5 billion years: The Sun will go nova in the Sol System.

60-70 trillion years: The Galaxy will collapse

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Star Trek Timeline: 24th Century part III

2371: Voyager launched, goes after the Maquis, and is sucked into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker. The ship’s CMO is killed leading to the EMH program being run continually for seven years.

2371: Dr. Tolian Soran tries to destroy the Veridian system to enter the Nexus, but is stopped by James T Kirk and Jean Luc Picard

2371: Voyager discovers a human colony in the Delta Quadrant

2372: Attempted coup against Federation president

2372: Klingons withdrawal from Khitomer Accords, war breaks out with Federation

2372: Changeling bombs Antwerp Conference, infiltrates Alpha Quadrant powers

2373: Second Borg invasion stopped by Enterprise-E (and thrown into the past)

2373: Cardassia joins Dominion, Klingons re-install Khitomer Accords

2373: Dominion War begins

2374: Voyager forced to help Borg fight Species 8472

2374: Voyager boarded by Hirogen and forced to fight continual combat simulations

2374: Betazed conquered by Dominion

2374: Romulans enter war against Dominion

2375: Siege at AR-558

2375: Starfleet attempts to forcibly relocate the Ba’ku in the Briar Patch and is stopped by the USS Enterprise-E

2375: Breen join Dominion and attack Star Fleet HQ

2375: Cardassian resistance coalesces around Damar

2375: Martok becomes Klingon Chancellor

2375: Dominion War ends in Federation victory.

2376: Federation makes contact with Voyager

2378: Voyager returns to Alpha Quadrant and destroys an important Borg hub precipitating an all out invasion in 2381

2379: Praetor Shinzon takes over Romulan Empire, attempts to destroy Earth, but is stopped by the Enterprise-E and Romulans

2379: The Federation and Romulus begin a détente

2381: Third Borg invasion. This time they seek to destroy the Alpha Quadrant and are stopped by an advanced alien civilization.

2381: Kathryn Janeway officially killed…or was she?

2382-83: Typhon Pact books

2387: Romulus destroyed by Supernova; Spock stops the Supernova, but is flung back 129 years along with Nero and the Narada.

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Star Trek Timeline: 24th Century part II

2351: Terok Nor completed (Deep Space Nine)

2353: Tholians destroy a Starbase with only one survivor.

2354: Last contact with the Raven on its mission to study the Borg (bad idea).

2355: The Picard maneuver is used at The Battle of Maxia

2357: Talarian attack on Galen IV

2357: Gallitep labor camp liberated on Bajor

2358: Pegasus assumed destroyed in a test of a Federation cloaking device

2360: Gul Dukat assumes command of Terok Nor

2362: Setlik III Massacre: Cardassians destroy Federation colony setting off Cardassian border wars.

2363: USS Enterprise-D commissioned

2364: First Contact with Q, Ferengi, and others

2364: Lore discovered

2364: Neural parasites attempt to conquer the Federation

2364: Several Romulan and Federation outposts along the Neutral Zone are destroyed

2365: Official First Contact with the Borg

2366: Duras discovered to be a Klingon traitor, but Worf covers for the good of the Empire

2366: Wolf 359: First Borg invasion

2367: Borg cube destroyed above Earth

2367: Klingon Civil War

2368: The Klingon Civil War ends when Romulan influence is discovered

2368: Ambassador Spock goes to Romulus seeking reunification

2368: Sarek of Vulcan dies

2369: Bajoran Wormhole discovered

2369: Montgomery Scott found alive and well. He goes on to head the Starfleet Corps of Engineers

2369: Cardassian occupation of Bajor ends. Federation establishes a presence at Deep Space Nine. Ben Sisko is assigned the command

2369: Jean Luc Picard taken hostage by the Cardassians and is tortured

2370: Lore leads a group of renegade Borg. He is defeated by Data and other Borg.

2370: Pegasus discovered.

2370: The Maquis forms to combat the Federation-Cardassian treaty

2370: The Dominion destroy USS Odyssey because they can.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Star Trek Timeline: 24th Century Part I

2305: Jean Luc Picard is born

2309: Joseph Sisko is born

2311: Enterprise-B involved in The Tomed Incident. Romulans break contact for 50 years.

2311: Treaty of Algeron bans Federation use of cloaking technology

2312: Warp calculations changed. Warp 10 becomes top speed.

2318: Cardassian Occupation of Bajor begins

2319: Mark Jameson trades arms for hostages on Mordan IV leading to a 40-year civil war

2320: Dr. Lewis Zimmerman is born

2320: Christopher Pike dies on Talos IV

2321: Boothby begins career as groundskeeper at Star Fleet Academy

2324: Beverly Howard (Crusher) is born

2327: Picard graduates from Academy

2328: Miles O’Brien is born

2329: Star Fleet begins using isolinear chips

2329: Chakotay is born

2332: Ben Sisko is born

2333: Picard becomes C.O. of the USS Stargazer

2335: William Riker is born

2335: Geordi La Forge is born

2335: Lore is activated

2336: Data is activated

2336: The Crystalline Entity destroys Omicron Theta

2336: Deanna Troi is born

2337: Tasha Yar is born

2337: Odo is found adrift in space

2338: Data is discovered on Omicron Theta

2340: Worf is born

2340: Ro Laren is born

2340: Reg Barclay is born

2341: Jadzia is born

2341: Julian Bashir is born

2343: Kira Nerys is born

2344: Battle of Narenda III: USS Enterprise-C is destroyed defending a Klingon colony from a Romulan attack

2344: Kathryn Janeway is born

2345: Sela is born

2346: Khitomir Massacre: Romulans massacre Klingon outpost. Worf survives.

2348: Wesley Crusher is born

2348: Julian Bashir’s DNA is illegally resequenced

2349: Harry Kim is born

2349: B’Elanna Torres is born

2350: Annika Hansen (Seven of Nine) is born

2350: A group of Native Americans decide to colonize a world on the Klingon border

Monday, May 14, 2012

Star Trek Timeline: 23rd Century part III


2271: Enterprise refit begins
2271: Klingons attack the Romulans at the Battle of Klach D’Kel Brakt
2273: V’Ger Incident
2278: Enterprise ends another five year mission; Kirk retires from Starfleet
2278: USS Bozeman disappears near the Typhon Expanse
2284: Kirk returns to Starfleet
2285: Genesis Crisis
2285: Admiral Kirk steals the Enterprise to rescue Captain Spock and encounters Klingon renegades
2285: Dax symbiont merges with Curzon
2286: Whale Probe Crisis
2286: Kirk and crew are put on trial for hijacking the Enterprise. All charges but one are dropped. Kirk is demoted to captain and given command of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A
2286: Transwarp experiments end in failure
2287: Sybok hijacks the Enterprise to travel through the Great Barrier in an effort to find God.
2290: Three Klingon battle cruisers are sent to capture the Albino. They destroy his base, but the Albino slowly murders the first born sons of each of the captains (Kor, Koloth, and Kang).
2292: Klingons and Romulans become blood enemies
2293: Klingon moon Praxis explodes
2293: Klingon Chancellor Gorkon is assassinated
2293: Khitomir Conference
2293: Starfleet opens a classified database on the Borg after rescuing El Aurian refugees
2293: James T Kirk believed killed on maiden voyage of USS Enterprise NCC-1701-B
2294: USS Jenolan crashes into a Dyson sphere trapping Montgomery Scott for decades

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Star Trek Timeline: 23rd Century part II

2251: Enterprise refit; Christopher Pike assumes command

2254: Captain Garth wins the Battle of Axanar, a key moment in history

2257: Enterprise under Captain Pike begins third 5-year mission

2258: Enterprise travels to Talos IV

2261: Enterprise ends third 5-year mission (2nd under Captain Pike)

2264: Tuvok is born

2265: The Borg destroy the El-Aurian homeworld

2265: Kirk takes command of Enterprise from Pike

2265: Enterprise reaches edge of Galaxy; encounters the Great Barrier

2266: Enterprise refit

2266: Kodos the Executioner is found alive, but is accidentally killed by his daughter

2266: Redjac trapped by USS Enterprise and beamed into space

2266: Romulans reappear after a century of isolation. They attack and destroy several listening outposts before being destroyed by the Enterprise.

2267: SS Botany Bay discovered adrift in space with Khan Noonien Singh alive and well

2267: Treaty of Organia

2267: Christopher Pike is severely injured and taken to Talos IV by Spock to live out his life free of physical constraints

2267: Neural parasites nearly destroy Deneva

2267: Zefram Cochrane discovered alive and well

2267: Doomsday machine destroyed by James T Kirk

2267: Mirror Universe discovered due to transporter accident

2268: Klingon-Romulan alliance leads to the sharing of cloaking technology

2268: Ceti Alpha VI explodes

2268: Babel Conference

2269: Omega Molecule discovered

2270: Enterprise ends its five year mission

2270: James T Kirk promoted to admiral, Spock and McCoy retire from Starfleet

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Star Trek Timeline: 23rd Century part 1


2203: Philip Boyce is born

2209: Transporter psychosis is first diagnosed

2217: USS Valiant disappears after becoming a casualty in the war between Eminar VII and Vendikar.

2219: Christopher Pike is born

2222: Montgomery Scott is born

2223: Klingon-Federation relations degrade to an open cold war

2227: Leonard McCoy is born

2230: Spock is born

2232: Janice Rand is born

2233: James T Kirk is born

2236: SS Columbia crash lands on Talos IV with one survivor

2243: Duotronics created by Dr. Richard Daystrom

2245: USS Enterprise NCC-1701 is launched with Captain Robert April in command

2245: Battle of Donatu V is fought between Klingons and Federation without a decisive end

2245: Pavel Chekov is born (The 2009 Star Trek movie changed it to 2241)

2245: Jonathan Archer dies (still alive in 2258 in alternate timeline)

2246: Fungus kills Tarsus IV’s food supply. Governor Kodos executes 4000 people, including Hoshi Sato, in order to feed the rest. James T Kirk and 8 others are eye witnesses. Kodos’ daughter murders all but Kirk.

2249: Spock joins Starfleet; turns down Vulcan Science Academy due to Vulcan bigotry

2250: Robert April becomes Federation ambassador at end of his five year tour

Monday, May 7, 2012

Star Trek Timeline: 22nd Century Part 2

2151: Enterprise NX-01 launches leading to Earth’s increased influence in the Alpha Quadrant

2151: First Contact between humans and Klingons, Andorians, and several other species.

2151: The P’Jem Incident

2151: Terra Nova colony discovered alive and living underground

2152: First contact with Romulans and other species

2153: Wreckage of a Borg sphere is found at North Pole

2153: Xindi attack Earth

2153: Xindi Crisis ends

2154: Syrannites overthrow Romulan controlled Vulcan government ushering in a Renaissance

2154: Babel Crisis

2155: Coalition of Planets forms

2155: Augment Crisis

2155: Vulcan Awakening begins

2155: Romulan drone ship wrecks havoc in the quadrant

2155: Klingon Augment crisis

2155: Terra Prime Incident

2155: Coridan is devastated by a Romulan attack and withdraws from Coalition

2156-61: Romulan War

2156: Romulans attack the Columbia NX-02 and the vessel is presumed lost.

2156: Redjac kills 10 at Heliopolis on Alpha Eridani II

2160: The Battle of Cheron ends the Romulan War

2161: The Federation is born

2161: Starfleet Academy incorporated

2165: Sarek is born

2167: The USS Archon visits Landru’s planet and is lost

2169: Jonathan Archer becomes Federation ambassador to Andoria

2175: Jonathan Archer becomes a member of the Federation Council

2184: Jonathan Archer elected Federation President (he steps down in 2192)

2195: Robert April is born

2196: Starfleet retires the Daedalus class

Late 22nd century: Money becomes obsolete

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Star Trek Timeline: 22nd Century part I

Sometime during this century, the First Hebitian Burial Vaults are opened and plundered by impoverished Cardassians

2103: Martian colonies established

2103: Degra is born

2104: Andorians make contact with Aenar

2105: Eight women killed by Redjac

2112: Jonathan Archer is born

2113: War, poverty, and disease eliminated on Earth

2113: United Earth government forms

2119: Zefram Cochrane opens the Warp Five complex and then disappears until found by James T Kirk 148 years later.

2121: Charles Tucker III is born

2122: T’Pau is born

2126: Travis Mayweather is born

2129: Hoshi Sato is born

2137: Syrran discovers Surak’s katra (later destroyed in a Romulan attack)

2143: NX Program breaks Warp 2 barrier

2144: Warp 3 barrier is broken

2150: The last nation, Australia, joins United Earth

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Quotes of the Month: April 2012


Quote of the Month: “My heart will always be in Detroit -- 100 percent and forever."

-Brandon Inge
 

Dumb Quote of the Month 1: "I believe that it is part of our solemn responsibility to future generations that we look after this planet; that we make sure our air is clean and our water is clean; that we’re not poisoning our kids."

-Barack Obama
Dumb Quote of the Month 2: “His wife has actually never worked a day in her life.”

-Dem Strategist Hilary Rosen on Ann Romney
And the rest…

“Truth is stronger than lies.”

-Pope Benedict 16
"I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys.”

-Ann Romney
"So let sleeping dogs lie or lying dogs sleep or whatever. Time to move on. People get divorced. Life doesn't owe you your own personal happy ending especially at another's, or in this case several others', expense."

-Axl Rose
“I love Fidel Castro.”

--Ozzie Guillen

"If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”

-Ted Nugent
“A better America begins tonight.”

-Mitt Romney

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Moose Skowron: Timeline

Born: December 18, 1930

1938: Dubbed “Mussolini” for his haircut, the name was shortened to “Moose” and stuck for the rest of his life.

1950: Signed with New York Yankees after attending Purdue on a football scholarship

Debut: April 13, 1954 (New York Yankees)

1955: Yankees win Pennant

1956: Yankees win World Series

1957: Yankees win Pennant

1958: Became full time first baseman

1958: Had game-winning hit in Game 6 of the World Series and a key 3-run home run in Game 7.

1958: Yankees win World Series

1960: Yankees win Pennant

1961: Yankees win World Series

1962: Scored only run in Game 7 of the World Series

1962: Yankees win World Series

1962: Traded to the Dodgers

1963: Dodgers win World Series

1963: Purchased by the Senators

1964: Traded to the White Sox

1967: Traded to the Angels

1967: Released by Angels/Retired

1999: Worked for White Sox Community Relations

2005: White Sox win World Series

2012: Died of congestive heart failure

Accomplishments:
5x World Champion

8x All Star

.282 average

211 home runs

888 RBI

1566 hits

682 runs

.792 OPS

34 doubles (1960)

20+ home runs: 4x

90+ RBI: 2x

Hit .300+: 3x

.500 slugging: 3x

.910 OPS (1956)

Postseason: .293, 8 Home runs, 29 RBI (8 World Series)