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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzbJn2UAoIs He was Major League Baseball's first superstar. The first man ever inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. And he still has the game's highest career batting average – .366 – almost 90 years after he retired. His name is Ty Cobb. Yet, despite his historic achievements, he is often remembered for being the worst racist and the dirtiest player ever to take the field. If you know baseball, you've heard the stories: Ty Cobb would pistol-whip black men he passed on the street. He once stabbed to death a black waiter in Cleveland just because the young man...

Colorado Rockies right-hander Chad Bettis is taking a break from baseball to undergo chemotherapy after discovering that his testicular cancer has spread. The Rockies said Bettis, who had a testicle removed Nov. 29, would undergo cancer treatment “over the next several weeks” in Arizona. There is no timetable for his return. Bettis said his oncologist found inflamed lymph nodes during a routine checkup last week and a biopsy showed “that my testicular cancer has unexpectedly spread, and I will begin a regimen of chemotherapy in the very near future.”

BEFORE THEY STRETCHED, before they played catch, before they practiced their first cutoff and relay this spring, the New York Yankees watched a video. It was part of their annual media training. Prominent among the topics was the hottest button in American life right now: Politics.

Ned Garver, the only pitcher in American League history to win at least 20 games in a season for a ball club that lost at least 100 times, achieving the feat for the 1951 St. Louis Browns, died on Sunday in Bryan, Ohio. He was 91.

A Baltimore Orioles executive says he'd prefer President Trump not throw out a first pitch at Camden Yards without first apologizing for statements that could be viewed as problematic "from a race, ethnicity, religious, gender, disability" standpoint.   John Angelos, son of owner Peter Angelos and the Orioles' executive vice president and chief operating officer, said on a Baltimore-based podcast that divisive rhetoric and actions during Trump's campaign and since his swearing-in require that the president re-double efforts to embrace all members of the community.

The former model looked stunning as she accompanied her husband Donald Trump at the rally. Less than a month since he was sworn in as the US President, Donald Trump decided to hold a rally in Melbourne, Florida. Melania, who was pictured holding her husband’s hand as they walked through the crowd, glowed in the simple yet eye-catching scarlet red dress. .

It doesn’t get much more authentic than this… Smile on Mr. Huber, smile on!

Amazing. Can you imagine Michelle Obama doing this? http://www.nbcnews.com/video/melania-trump-leads-trump-crowd-in-lord-s-prayer-880348739815

President Donald Trump addressed a huge crowd in Melbourne, Florida on Saturday, making the case that he is hardly the first president to attack the press, noting that several presidents before him also spoke of the press in less than favorable terms. advertisement - story continues below “Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln and many of our greatest presidents fought with the media and called them out often times on their lies,” President Trump told the crowd at Orlando-Melbourne International Airport. “When the media lies to people, I will never, ever let them get away with it. I will...

I had the best time today. I decided to take my family to the Trump Rally. It was so much fun. I left for the Rally around 2 o'clock and got there about 3:45. I parked in the Dollar General which I THOUGHT was close....Haha. Nope had to walk a mile to the end of the line. Once we were in line, it was so much fun being among patriots. It really brought home that we are going to be ok. We were immediately behind 3 Law School young guys from University of Florida and a young Lady who was...

Moments ago, Melania Trump appeared before a crowd of rally-goers to introduce her husband, President Donald Trump. The First Lady began her speech by leading the audience in The Lord’s Prayer. This didn’t sit well with many Twitter users, who quickly began blasting Melania’s use of the prayer. @CNNPolitics separation of church and state. God should stay in the church not in government! — Manon Pilon Fry (@ManonPilonFry) February 18, 2017

(CNN)In what appeared to be an improvised moment, President Donald Trump invited one of his supporters to join him on stage and take the microphone during a rally in Melbourne, Florida, on Saturday night. As the man climbed up, the President addressed security concerns by saying to the crowd, and perhaps to Secret Service agents, "I'm not worried about him. I'm only worried he's going to give me a kiss. I'm not worried about anything else."

full title.................'I'm here because I want to be among the people': Trump continues his assault on 'fake' news with campaign rally at Orlando-Melbourne Airport introduced by First Lady Melania........................President Trump stepped off Air Force One for a speech in Melbourne, Florida He was introduced by the First lady who opened the rally with the Lord's Prayer In an event that was extremely similiar to the 2016 rallies Trump spoke about bringing back jobs, increasing national security and how the press is untruthful He defended the controversial immigration ban and bashed the appellate court that struck it down Yesterday, he called...

Link to YouTube video. First lady's speech starts at 3:40. https://youtu.be/dxIBnfgwj90

According to Twitter uses on the scene, attendees waiting to hear President Donald Trump speak at the Orlando-Melbourne International Airport hangar waited several hours to get in and the line reportedly stretched at least one mile past the gate. Other journalists tweeted out images of the crowd inside the hangar, which looked to be sizable and eager to hear Trump speak in what the White House has called a “campaign event.” Citizen journalists were also documenting the event as Air Force One arrived around 5:30 p.m....

Pick up the ongoing LIVE thread of the Trump presidential Rally in Melbourne, FL at the Orlando-Melbourne International Airport @ 5 pm.

President Donald Trump will hold a large rally in Melbourne, Florida this Saturday, February 18 at 5 p.m. EST, according to Trump’s still active campaign website. The rally will be held at the same location as a campaign rally in on September 27, 2016, at the Orlando-Melbourne International Airport’s AeroMod Hangar 6 that held around 15,000 supporters in the hangar and on the tarmac. An estimated 12,000 supporters were reported turned away from the filled to capacity rally. Views of crowd from inside the media pen and from above.

The Washington Post published an article Thursday night that tries to intimidate President Donald Trump from showing off Air Force One at his massive Melbourne, Florida, airport rally Saturday evening. Tickets to the rally are still available as of publication time of this article. Trump Force One at Melbourne, FL, campaign rally, September 27, 2016, photo by Kristinn Taylor. The Post article, White House: Air Force One will not be used as a ‘prop’ at political rally, was written by Jenna Johnson who quotes an unnamed alleged administration official as telling her Air Force One would not be used as...

Support out great POTUS!!! POTUS, Trump Rally, Melbourne, Florida, International Airport on Saturday, February 18, 2017.

A list of the posts on FR related to President Trump's 18 Feb 2017 visit to Melbourne Florida. Trump protester signs along Presidential route outside AeroMod hangar Melania Trump Stuns Rally Crowd In Tight Alexander McQueen Red Dress, Takes On The Haters Melania Trump attacked for reciting 'The Lord's Prayer' at campaign rally Fact-checking President Trump’s rally in Florida {hurl alert} Melania Trump DAZZLES in a scarlet red dress at Florida rallyTRUMP Does The UNTHINKABLE! Secret Service Goes CRAZY! Asks Man To Say A Few Words To Crowd! Authentic as They Come – MAGA Supporter Gene Huber Interview on Judge...