Ozzie Smith (born 1954) is a retired American professional baseball
player who was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002. Nicknamed
"The Wizard," Smith played shortstop for the San Diego Padres and St.
Louis Cardinals in Major League Baseball, winning the National League
Gold Glove Award for play at shortstop for 13 consecutive seasons. A
15-time All-Star, Smith accumulated 2,460 hits and 580 stolen bases
during his career, and won the National League Silver Slugger Award as
the best hitter at shortstop in 1987. Smith continued to earn Gold
Gloves and All Star appearances on an annual basis until 1993, and
later missed nearly three months of the 1995 season after undergoing
shoulder surgery. After tension between Smith and his new manager Tony
La Russa developed in 1996, Smith decided to retire at season's end,
and subsequently had his uniform number (# 1) retired by the Cardinals.
Smith served as host of the television show This Week in Baseball from
1997 to 1999, and continues to be an entrepreneur in a variety of
business ventures.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1558:
Elizabeth I became Queen of England and Ireland, marking the beginning
of the Elizabethan era.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England>
1796:
French Revolutionary Wars: French forces defeated the Austrians at the
Battle of the Bridge of Arcole in a maneuver to cut the latter's line
of retreat.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bridge_of_Arcole>
1855:
Explorer David Livingstone became the first European to see Victoria
Falls, one of the largest waterfalls in the world, on what is now the
Zambia–Zimbabwe border.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Falls>
1869:
The Suez Canal , which allows water transportation between Europe and
Asia by linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, opened to
shipping.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal>
1950:
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was enthroned as Tibet's head of
state at the age of fifteen.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Dalai_Lama>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Demiurge (n):
1. (Platonism) The subordinate being that fashions the perceptible
world in the light of eternal ideas.
2. (Gnosticism) A prideful, inferior being that creates the material
world
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Demiurge>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct
action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political
action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally
rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them
through.
--Voltairine de Cleyre
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltairine_de_Cleyre>
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