Monday, November 29, 2010

The wrestler Ignacio Jimenez, who wrestled as the Son of Cien Caras, was killed last night in Mexico City.
Although the 33 year-old wrestler was not familiar with the Reyes family members (Cien Caras, Mascara Universe Year 2000 and 2000), was part of the new generation of "Dynamite Brothers."

El Hijo del Santo, who traveled to several tours with Ignacio Jimenez, confirmed the death of the fighter, who was shot as he arrived at his home in Coyoacán.

"I very much regret the death of a great companion, The Son of 100 Faces, traveled in all our tours in Europe, rest in peace", said the "silver" through your twitter account.

According to preliminary data from the Attorney General of the Federal District (PGJDF), the continuation of the dynasty of Carmelo Reyes was shot in front of number 1953 of University Avenue, where he arrived with a woman of 42, who was also killed .

DOCH


Former Yankee great Gil McDougald, 1951 AL rookie of the year, dead at
82


By Bill Madden
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER


Originally Published:Monday, November 29th 2010, 5:08 PM
Updated: Monday, November 29th 2010, 5:55 PM


Gil McDougald, the versatile '50s Yankee who, along with Pete Rose,
had the unique distinction of being selected to the All-Star team at
three different positions, died Sunday at his home in Wall Township,
N.J., after a long bout with prostate cancer. He was 82.


McDougald played a pivotal role on eight Yankee American League
pennant-winning teams from 1951-60, winning Rookie of the Year honors
in 1951 when he hit .306 with 14 homers and 63 RBI. He was named to
the All-Star team five times, as a third baseman in 1952, a shortstop
in 1957 and a second baseman in 1958. But as fine an all-around player
as McDougald was, hitting .276 during a 10-year career all with the
Yankees, it was his fate to be forever remembered for hitting a line
drive that struck Cleveland Indians' pitcher Herb Score in the right
eye on May 7, 1957. At the time, the fireballing Score seemed destined
for a Hall of Fame career, but was never the same after the incident.


"All I remember was him pitching a low fastball away and then seeing a
splattered face and blood spurting from Herbie's eye," McDougald
recalled in an interview years later. "I don't even remember running
to first base. I remember telling (Yankee manager) Casey (Stengel)
afterward: 'If Herbie loses his eye, I'm going to quit.'"


"I was the batter on deck," said Yogi Berra Monday. "It was really
awful. Gil was a great fastball hitter and that's what he got. He was
really shook up and he went to the hospital right after the game. I'm
going to miss him, he was a great guy and a great teammate."


Ironically, two years earlier, McDougald himself, during batting
practice, was struck by a line drive in the left ear off the bat of
teammate Bob Cerv. Unbeknownst to him at the time, it shattered a bone
in his ear which eventually caused him to go deaf after his career - a
condition that was cured in 1995 when McDougald underwent a cochlea
implant procedure in his inner ear by Dr. Noel Cohen, head of
otolaryngology at NYU Medical Center.


"It was as if I was reborn," he said after the operation. "It was
unreal. From that moment on, my life changed."


A product of the San Francisco sandlots, McDougald was signed to a
$1,000 bonus in 1948 by the Yankees' legendary West-Coast scouting
chief Joe Devine. Despite a much-criticized and unorthodox wide-open,
slumped-arm batting stance, which one scout described as looking like
a "broken banana stick", McDougald made it to the Yankees after only
three years in the minors. Up until then, second base had been his
only position, and while Mickey Mantle was the rookie who garnered all
the attention in spring training in 1951, it was McDougald who wound
up making the biggest impression on Stengel by proving he had the arm
to play third base, which led to him beaing out incumbent Billy
Johnson.


"Gil was one tough ballplayer," said Whitey Ford Monday. "He could
also be hard-headed. I'll always remember that crazy stance of his and
he didn't want to change. He was a great guy to have playing behind
you. He played all of those positions and played them well."


On May 3, 1951, McDougald made baseball history by driving in six runs
in an inning with a grand slam and a triple in a 17-3 romp over the
St. Louis Browns. He played 82 games at third and 55 at second while
leading the Yankees in hitting that year, then capped his outstanding
rookie season by becoming only the third player in history to hit a
grand slam in the World Series, connecting off the Giants' Larry
Jansen in Game 5.


Although he was selected to the All-Star team for the first time in
1952, McDougald's average slipped to .263, prompting him to finally
change his batting stance to satisfy critics, the most notable being
Yankee manager Stengel.


"Stengel and I weren't on very good terms my first five years,"
McDougald said in a 1999 interview with Baseball Digest. "He was
always getting on me, and after we lost the 1955 World Series to the
Dodgers, I confronted him and he told me I played better when he was
on my case."


McDougald, who also led the AL in triples with nine in 1957 and won
the 1958 All-Star Game for the AL with an RBI single, played his
entire career for Stengel, electing to retire after the 1960 season
rather than go to the newly formed Los Angeles Angels in the expansion
draft. McDougald claimed in a 1999 interview with Sports Collector's
Digest that Angels owner Gene Autry begged him to play one year for
the expansion team after which he could become manager. "(Angels'
first manager) Bill Rigney was a friend of mine and I just wasn't
going to do that," McDougald said.


Upon retiring, McDougald opened a maintenance company in New Jersey
and was head baseball coach at Fordham University from 1970-77, when
his hearing began to deteriorate to the point where he had problems
communicating with his players.


He is survived by his wife, Lucille, whom he married in 1948, and
their seven children.

Oscar-Nominated Director Mario Monicelli Dies
Oscar-nominated director Mario Monicelli dies at 95, jumps from Rome hospital window
The Associated Press
ROME November 29, 2010 (AP)
A Rome hospital says Oscar-nominated director Mario Monicelli has died after jumping from a fifth-story hospital window.

Anna Scoltore, who heads the media office of Rome's San Giovanni hospital, confirmed Monicelli died Monday night. He was 95.

Monicelli worked with some of the biggest names of the commedia all'Italiana of the 1940s, 50s and 60s, including Marcello Mastroianni, Toto and Alberto Sordi.

He directed Mastroianni in "Big Deal on Madonna Street," (1958) and his "The Great War" a year later picked up the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

He was nominated for Oscar's best foreign language film for "Casanova '70" of 1965 and "I Compagni" of 1963, according to film databases.

Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.


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