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