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Jim Hall may refer to: Sports * Jim Hall (baseball) (died 1886), professional baseball player from 1872 to 1875 * Jim Hall (boxer) (1868–1913), Australian boxer in the late 19th century * Jim Hall (footballer, born 1914) (1914–?), English footballer who played for Blackpool * Jim Hall (footballer, born 1945), English footballer who made 450 Football League appearances * Jim Hall (Australian footballer) (1919–2006), Australian rules footballer for St Kilda * Jim Hall (announcer) (1933-2017), for the New York Giants * Jim Hall (racing driver) (born 1935), founder of Chaparral Cars Other * Jim Hall (civil engineer), British professor of civil and environmental engineering * Jim Hall (musician) (1930–2013), American jazz guitarist * Jim Hall (computer programmer), began the FreeDOS project * Jim Hall (body artist), Baltimore native known for his whole-body tattoo See also * James Hall (other) James Hall may refer to: Entertainment * James Norman Hall (1887–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Hall (baseball)
James Hall was a professional baseball player who played second base for the Brooklyn Atlantics (1872, 1874) of the NAPBBP The National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (NAPBBP), often known simply as the National Association (NA), was the first fully- professional sports league in baseball. The NA was founded in 1871 and continued through the 1875 se .... External links * 1886 deaths 19th-century baseball players Brooklyn Atlantics players Year of birth missing 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in New York (state) {{baseball-second-baseman-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Hall (boxer)
Montague James Furlong (22 July 1868 – 14 March 1913), commonly known as Jim Hall, was an Australian middleweight boxer. He won the Australian middleweight title in 1887 before moving to the United States in an attempt to take the World title from Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey. Described as "one of the best little fighters that ever lived" in ''The Milwaukee Journal'', Hall's career was affected by alcoholism, and he died of tuberculosis in 1913. Hall was the 2007 Inductee for the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame Pioneers category. Biography Australia Born in Murnbyee, New South Wales, Hall began his professional boxing career in 1886 at the age of 17. Fighting mainly in Sydney, he established himself as one of the country's best middleweights with his quick and graceful style. He won the Australian middleweight title at his first attempt in 1887, defeating Jim Fogarty with a knockout. His only loss to that point was to welterweight Billy Williams, who Hall said he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Hall (footballer, Born 1914)
James Henry Hall (born 1914, date of death unknown) was an English footballer who played as a wing half. He made 26 appearances in the Football League for Blackpool and scored one league goal. Career Hall made his debut for Joe Smith's ''Tangerines'' midway through the 1936–37 campaign, in a Christmas Day 3–0 victory at Fulham Fulham () is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea. The area faces Wandsworth .... He played in a further seven league games before the end of the season, as well as in both of Blackpool's FA Cup ties against Luton Town F.C., Luton Town.Calley (1992) p. 248. The following season, 1937–38 Blackpool F.C. season, 1937–38, Hall made thirteen league appearances, mainly deputising for George Farrow. He also scored one goal—in a 1–1 draw with Derby County F.C., Derby County at Bloo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Hall (footballer, Born 1945)
James Leonard Hall (born 21 March 1945) is an English former footballer who played as a forward. He started his football career at Northampton ON Chenecks as a youth player gaining one cap for England Youth before he made 450 appearances in the Football League, including over 300 for Peterborough United Peterborough United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. The team compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. Peterborough have a long-standing .... He scored 122 League goals for Peterborough between 1967–1975, and is their all-time leading League goalscorer. References 1945 births Living people Footballers from Northampton Association football forwards Northampton Town F.C. players Peterborough United F.C. players Cambridge United F.C. players English Football League players English footballers {{England-footy-forward-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Hall (Australian Footballer)
Jim Hall (10 March 1919 – 29 August 2006) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). A rover, Hall was St Kilda's joint leading goal-kicker in 1945, with 21 goals. He had bettered that tally the previous year, when he kicked 24 goals, but he finished second in the goal-kicking behind Sam Loxton Samuel John Everett Loxton (29 March 19213 December 2011) was an Australian cricketer, footballer and politician. Among these three pursuits, his greatest achievements were attained on the cricket field; he played in 12 Tests for Australia fr .... Hall continued his career at Oakleigh, his original club, in 1946.'' The Argus'"Hall (St Kilda) For Oakleigh?" 3 April 1946, p. 11 References 1919 births 2006 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) St Kilda Football Club players Oakleigh Football Club players {{AFL-bio-1919-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Hall (announcer)
Jim Hall (May 30, 1933 – June 12, 2017) was the public address announcer for New York Giants football games at MetLife Stadium, located in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Career Hall served as spotter and understudy to legendary New York Yankees and Giants PA announcer Bob Sheppard from the opening of Giants Stadium in 1976 until the beginning of the 2006 season, when he replaced the retiring Sheppard as principal announcer. He held that position until the end of the 2015 season. Hall met Sheppard when he was in high school, as Sheppard would judge Hall in speech and debate events. Hall, like Sheppard, taught in high school and at St. John’s University, where he became the chairman of the Department of Speech, Communication and Theater for twelve years out of a forty-five year tenure, before retiring in 2004. Hall also served as Sheppard's understudy at Yankee Stadium for many years, beginning in the mid-1960s. He filled in for Sheppard for the 2007 postseason when Sheppard d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Hall (racing Driver)
Jim Hall (born July 23, 1935 in Abilene, Texas) is a retired American racing driver, race car constructor, and team owner. While he is best known as a car constructor, he was one of the greatest American racing drivers of his generation, capturing consecutive United States Road Racing Championships (1964, 1965), two Road America 500s (1962, 1964), two Watkins Glen Grands Prix for sports cars (1964, 1965), the 1965 Canadian Grand Prix for sports cars, the 1965 Pacific Northwest Grand Prix, and scoring a massive upset at the 1965 12 Hours of Sebring over a contingent of factory-backed Ford GTs, Shelby Daytona Coupes and Ferrari entries. If anything Hall's accomplishments behind the wheel have been overshadowed by his pivotal contributions to race car design through his series of Chaparral sports racing and Indy cars. Hall's cars won in every series in which they competed: USRRC, Can-Am, Trans-Am, Formula 5000, World Sportscar Championship, Autoweek Championship, Canadian Sports Car C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Hall (civil Engineer)
James Hall, (born May 6, 1968) is Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks and former director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. He is director of research at the School of Geography and the Environment, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Engineering Science and Fellow of Linacre College. Hall is a member of the UK Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology, Commissioner of the National Infrastructure Commission, and is chair of the Science and Advisory Committee of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. He was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2010. He was a member of the Adaptation Sub-Committee of the UK Climate Change Committee from 2009 to 2019. He was appointed as Vice-President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 2021 with a view to become President in 2024. Career Hall was born in Sidcup, England and studied civil engineering at the University of Bristol, with a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Hall (musician)
James Stanley Hall (December 4, 1930 – December 10, 2013) was an American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger. Biography Early life and education Born in Buffalo, New York, Hall moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, during his childhood. Hall's mother played the piano, his grandfather violin, and his uncle guitar.Hall, Devra "Sketches from PROS Folios: Jim Hall". Copyright 1988-2004. He began playing the guitar at the age of 10, when his mother gave him an instrument as a Christmas present. At 13 he heard Charlie Christian play on a Benny Goodman record, which he calls his "spiritual awakening". As a teenager in Cleveland, he performed professionally, and also took up the double bass. Hall's major influences since childhood were tenor saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Paul Gonsalves, and Lucky Thompson. While he copied out solos by Charlie Christian, and later Barney Kessel, it was horn players from whom he took the lead. In 1955, Hall attended the Cleveland I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Hall (computer Programmer)
Jim Hall (James F. Hall) is a computer programmer and advocate of free software, best known for his work on FreeDOS. Hall began writing the free replacement for the MS-DOS operating system in 1994 when he was still a physics student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. He remains active with FreeDOS, and is currently the coordinator for the project. Hall has said he created FreeDOS in response to Microsoft announcing end of support for MS-DOS in 1994, a year before Windows 95 was released. As a user and fan of MS-DOS, Hall did not want the functionality of DOS to go away. Prompted by a March 31, 1994 post on comp.os.msdos.misc asking if "anyone, for example GNU et al. ever considered writing a Public Domain DOS", Hall decided to garner support for a free version of DOS, written under a free or public domain model. In a June 29, 1994 post, Hall announced an effort to create a free DOS, called PD-DOS, writing: Within a few weeks, other programmers including Pat Villani a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Hall (body Artist)
Jim Hall, also known as the Blue Comma, is a retired Baltimore urban planner and body modification artist who has devoted much of his life to transforming his body into an artwork by tattooing his entire body blue and having a variety of body modifications, a process which he started in 1967. As of 2014, he was listed by Guinness World Records ''Guinness World Records'', known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as ''The Guinness Book of Records'' and in previous United States editions as ''The Guinness Book of World Records'', is a reference book published annually, listing world ... as the second most tattooed person in the world. Hall's body modifications include a variety of piercings and implants, including genital modifications. References External links Portrait of Jim Hall at the Baltimore Tattoo Convention 2012by Valerie Paulsgrove People known for being heavily tattooed People known for their body modification 1940s births 20th-century American artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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