But while Secretariat has joined the ranks of the immortals, Sham is a mere footnote in history.
The young actor, best known for his work in The Immortals, is the latest to take on the role of Superman.
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While not everyone that has donned the uniform will richly benefit in the same manner, the immortals of the pinstripes are handsomely rewarded for meritorious careers and achievements of distinction.
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The Eight Immortals, for example, are almost crude compared with some of the musicians or with a scene from daily life showing a muscular horse pulling on its tether.
Almost immediately, baseball writers were comparing Ichiro to baseball immortals of the past.
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One day, Li set out to visit the founder of Taoism, Laozi, in the realm of gods and immortals.
However, 3, 000 hits places him in a pantheon of baseball excellence that is only inhabited by immortals and some of the greatest ball players that have ever lived.
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The induction ceremonies at the Clark Sports Center is synonymous with thousands of people sitting on the green grass or in folding chairs enjoying the speeches and celebrating the achievements of their favorite baseball immortals.
He was a useful dinner guest, entertaining the company with stories of this century's immortals, Einstein, Picasso, Freud, and so on, and no one doubted that he had met them.
By snatching Cavill up now for Superman, Warner Bros. is securing the actor before he has a chance to hike his price if Immortals is a hit.
But modern would-be immortals know that old-fashioned cure-alls, like the ground mummy dust to which hopeful aristocrats turned in medieval times, were only so much quackery.
The clearest demonstration that he deserves his status as one of music's immortals is his enduring popularity with audiences, who recognise him as both a supreme melodist and a master who can deliver the convincing satisfactions of coherence.
While it would be almost impossible for Jeter or anyone for that matter to receive a unanimous selection to the Hall of Fame, his mounting accomplishments will undoubtedly put him into an elite class of baseball immortals.
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