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August 3rd, 1977: God gave us Tom Brady... Happy Birthday to Tom Brady!!! #NFL #Patriots #Birthday 5:37 AM Aug 3rd, 2010 via Twitter for iPhone
July 14th, 1981: US President Reagan met w/Willie Stargell #Pirates to discuss sickle cell anemia & funding for the Nat. Institute of Health 2:11 AM Jul 15th, 2010 via TweetDeck from Plinske Family, Bristol
July 14th, 1981: The All-Star Game was postponed because of a 33-day-old baseball players strike. The game was held on August 9. #MLB #ASG 6:00 PM Jul 14th, 2010 via TweetDeck from Plinske Family, Bristol
July 14th, 1970: U.S. President Nixon threw out the first ball at the major league baseball All-Star Game. #MLB #ASG 5:00 PM Jul 14th, 2010 via TweetDeck from Plinske Family, Bristol
July 14th, 1969: US President Nixon signed a baseball from the baseball Hall of Fame that had the signatures of 9 other US Presidents. #MLB 4:00 PM Jul 14th, 2010 via TweetDeck from Plinske Family, Bristol
July 14th, 1968: Hank Aaron (Atlanta Braves) hit his 500th career home run. #MLB #Braves #HankAaron #755 3:00 PM Jul 14th, 2010 via TweetDeck from Plinske Family, Bristol
July 14th, 1967: Eddie Mathews of the Houston Astros hit his 500th career home run. #MLB #Astros 2:00 PM Jul 14th, 2010 via TweetDeck from Plinske Family, Bristol
July 14th, 1951: The first sports event to be shown in color, on CBS-TV, was the Molly Pitcher Handicap at Oceanport, NJ. 1:00 PM Jul 14th, 2010 via TweetDeck from Plinske Family, Bristol
TrueSportFans #TSF #BreakingNews @MLB @AllStarGame starters are #NL @Rockies Ubaldo Jimenez & #AL @RaysBaseball @DAVIDprice14 #ASG #AL #NL #rockies #rays 10:52 AM Jul 12th, 2010 via TweetDeck from Plinske Family, Bristol Retweeted by TSF_OnThisDay and 3 others
With @Plinske doing something with sofas (ask him, not me), @ChrisEmma51 will be tweeting during the Lebron presser. #lebrondecision 4:05 PM Jul 8th, 2010 via TweetDeck
Check out @TrueSportFans' Road to Wrigley game recap of the @KCCoougars and @PeoriaChiefs: Major League Dreaming http://bit.ly/bjRqWe 1:54 PM Jul 8th, 2010 via TweetDeck
TrueSportFans #TSF #BreakingNews @SFGiants rookie Buster Posey already has a 6rbi game & Giants rookie 1st since Rick Parker... btw its only the 4 inning 6:51 PM Jul 7th, 2010 via TweetDeck from Chicago, IL Retweeted by TSF_OnThisDay and 1 other
TrueSportFans can somebody just bbq this chicken already as hes a menace to the game and thinks hes the pink panther 6:09 PM Jul 7th, 2010 via TweetDeck from Chicago, IL Retweeted by TSF_OnThisDay and 4 others
ChristopherEmma Also check out @TrueSportFans for live tweets during the Road to Wrigley. @Plinske will be running the tweets tonight. #Athletics #Cubs 4:29 PM Jul 7th, 2010 via TweetDeck Retweeted by TSF_OnThisDay and 5 others
cont. Armstrong was booked in2 the Orange County jail on charges of battery on a law-enforcement officer & resisting arrest w/out violence. 11:28 AM Jul 7th, 2010 via TweetDeck from Bristol, IL
July 7th, 2003: Darrell Armstrong (Orlando Magic) was arrested after bein accused of fightin w/a female cop outside a nightclub (cont.) 11:27 AM Jul 7th, 2010 via TweetDeck from Bristol, IL
July 7th, 1990: Martina Navratilova won a record ninth Wimbledon women's singles title. #Tennis 10:21 AM Jul 7th, 2010 via TweetDeck from Bristol, IL
July 7th, 1985: Boris Becker became the youngest, the first unseeded and the first German player to win the Wimbledon men's finals. #Tennis 9:20 AM Jul 7th, 2010 via TweetDeck from Bristol, IL
TrueSportFans #TSF #RandomQuote #Sports / "A hot dog at the ballpark is better than steak at the Ritz." - Humphrey Bogart 8:32 AM Jul 7th, 2010 via TweetDeck from Bristol, IL Retweeted by TSF_OnThisDay and 4 others
July 7th, 1937: During the All-Star Game, Earl Averill hit a line drive that broke one of Dizzy Dean's toes. #MLB #AllStar 8:20 AM Jul 7th, 2010 via TweetDeck from Bristol, IL

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