W.A.A. considers it a tremendous honor to be elected to the Hall of Fame on the first ballot.
Mr Ammiano, whose first fame had been as a performer at a homosexual comedy club he helped to found, is a rallying figure for many of the more radical elements in San Francisco.
Since the inaugural class of Ruth (95.1%), Cobb (98.2%), Mathewson (90.7%), Johnson (83.6%) and Wagner (95.1%) of 1936, only 39 men have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on the first ballot.
Jobs first rose to fame as the smooth-talking young co-founder of one of the first personal computer companies, Apple.
Born John Barry Prendergast in 1933, the York-born musician first found fame as leader of the John Barry Seven.
The cat first gained fame in September when Bryan, Tabatha's brother, posted some photos of her on Reddit, the social-news site.
Her father first found fame in the late 1970s with his own form of stand-up comedy and became a household name in Britain with his own series.
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In fact, that sound was already developing in Muscle Shoals at a studio called Fame the first studio in the region to cut a hit record.
After first finding fame in the late '80s and mid '90s, New Kids On The Block and Backstreet Boys, respectively, experienced a comeback of sorts when they toured together.
But he first achieved fame performing works by Chopin, having won the International Chopin Piano Competition in 1960, and familiarity with these pieces has not dimmed their allure for him.
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First finding fame in Gainsborough Pictures' melodramas in the 1940s, the actress became best known for her role as Kate Harvey in the BBC One series from 1985 - 1990.
ZeptoLab, founded and financed by twin brothers Semyon and Efim Voinov, first gained fame with 2010's "Cut the Rope, " which became a gaming sensation, and which the company says was profitable from the start.
Mr. Emanuel first gained fame in the mid-1990s after he, along with three other agents, shocked Hollywood by founding Endeavor overnight and turned it into one of the city's largest, most powerful agencies with a roster of clients that now includes Mark Wahlberg, Martin Scorsese, Ben Stiller, Matt Damon, Tina Fey and Denzel Washington.
Better known as Geohot, he first achieved internet fame at the age of 17 with his announcement of a hardware unlock method for the original iPhone.
Rodriguez first achieved global fame in 1996, before his label even existed, when he designed the bias-cut slip dress Carolyn Bessette wore at her secret wedding to John F.
Rusty Staub, a member of the Mets' Hall of Fame, threw out the first pitch on his 69th birthday as the club celebrated the 40th anniversary of its 1973 pennant.
Dr Meredith first came to fame four years ago, when she showed that cabernet sauvignon, widely reckoned the noblest grape of them all, was a hybrid of cabernet franc and sauvignon blanc.
The charging announcement delivers one more public relations blow to Murdoch, who last week stepped down from a string of company boards of directors and further distanced himself from the print business that first brought him fame and fortune.
The charging announcement delivers one more public relations blow to Murdoch, who stepped down from a string of company boards of directors earlier this month and further distanced himself from the print business that first brought him fame and fortune.
The "Blade Runner" has reveled in the fame that came from becoming the first amputee sprinter to compete at both the Olympics and Paralympics.
So, my first 15 minutes of fame portrayed a grotesque version of me as newspaper-slayer, a very unlikely and ill-fitting role for me indeed.
Rusty Staub, a member of the Mets' Hall of Fame, will throw out the first pitch Monday as the club celebrates the 40th anniversary of its 1973 pennant.
Marco Arment, of Instapaper fame, was one of the first to notice and very vocal -- bringing the issue to the attention of many in the media and at Apple.
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Its scribes included Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle and Winston Churchill (who first rose to minor fame by escaping from a prisoner-of-war camp on the day before he was to have been released).
Her first foray into fashion fame came when she appeared on the fifth season of "Project Runway, " a U.S. reality fashion show where participants compete with each other to create the best clothes.
The man at the top of the hall of fame list may be surprising at first glance, until one recalls that Microsoft has been a public company since March of 1986 and Bill Gates has grown up from tech wunderkind to middle-aged philanthropic revolutionary.
"It was a real challenge to finish once we had lost the foil, our speed dropped so much so we knew we had to do something drastic to fix it, " said Moshin Al Busaidi, the 37-year-old Omani sailor who shot to fame in 2009 when he became the first Arab to sail non-stop around the world in just 76 days.
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W.A.A., Joe DiMaggio first appeared on a Hall of Fame ballot in 1945 where he earned only 0.4% of the vote.
The first video game from Hall of Fame football player Jerry Rice is being demoed at CES, so I stopped by the booth to check it out.
Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott, who won the first World Cup in 1996 with Cigar, said he hopes Royal Delta "breaks well and has a clean trip, " from the No. 8 post.
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