Other pitchers to win MVP and Cy Young in the same year were Newcombe (1956), Los Angeles' Sandy Koufax (1963), St.

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However, in the land of Rod Laver, Roy Emerson, John Newcombe, Pat Cash, Margaret Court and Evonne Goolagong Cawley, that simply is not good enough.

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The 2006 AL Rookie of the Year, Verlander joined the Brooklyn Dodgers' Don Newcombe as the only players to win all three majors awards in their careers.

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Connors straddled a magnificent run of tennis history, playing against Laver, Rosewall, Newcombe, Ashe, McEnroe, Borg, Becker, and Lendl, among others a period of dynamic revolution in on-court strategy and technology (Connors, of course, long holding out with his trusty fly-swatter, the Wilson T-2000).

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Late Thursday evening, following a campaign rally in this tightly contested Midwestern state, Bush--with his wife, Laura, at his side -- told reporters news accounts of the incident were accurate, that he had been drinking in a bar with Australian tennis pro John Newcombe and others.

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Pitching for the Brooklyn Dodgers in a National League playoff against the rival New York Giants, Branca, who had just come in to relieve starter Don Newcombe with two men on base and the Dodgers holding a 4-2 lead, served up a ninth-inning home run ball to Bobby Thomson.

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