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Thomas Mitchell
Born
Thomas John Mitchell
(1892-07-11)July 11, 1892
Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S.
Died
December 17, 1962(1962-12-17) (aged 70)
Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Resting place
Chapel of the Pines Crematory
Occupation
Actor, director, playwright, screenwriter
Years active
1916–62
Spouse(s)
Rachel Hartzell
(m. 1937–1939)

Ann Stuart Breswer
(m. 1915–1935)

(m. 1941)
Thomas John Mitchell (July 11, 1892 – December 17, 1962) was an American actor. Among his most famous roles in a long career are those of Gerald O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, Doc Boone in Stagecoach, Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life and Mayor Jonas Henderson in High Noon. Mitchell was the first male actor to win an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Tony Award.
Nominated twice for an Oscar, first for The Hurricane (1938), he won the Best Supporting Actor award for Stagecoach (1939); later, he would be nominated three times for an Emmy Award. He was nominated twice, in 1952 and 1953, for his role in the medical drama The Doctor, winning the Lead Actor Drama award in 1953. Nominated again in 1955, for an appearance on a weekly anthology series, he did not win. Mitchell won the Tony for Best Actor in a Musical, in 1953, for his role as Dr Downer in the musical comedy Hazel Flagg, based on the 1937 Paramount comedy film Nothing Sacred, rounding out the Triple Crown of Acting. In addition to being an actor, he was also a director, playwright, and screenwriter.
Contents
1 Early life
2 Acting career
3 Death
4 Awards and honors
5 Complete filmography
5.1 As actor
5.2 As writer
5.3 Other
6 Radio appearances
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Early life[edit]
Mitchell was born to Irish immigrants in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He came from a family of journalists and civic leaders. Both his father and brother were newspaper reporters, and his nephew, James P. Mitchell, later served as Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of Labor.[1] Later on, in the 1952 presidential election, Mitchell, a Republican himself, would go on to support Eisenhower's campaign.[2] The younger Mitchell also became a newspaper reporter after graduating from St. Patrick High School in Elizabeth. However, Mitchell soon found that he enjoyed writing comic theatrical skits much more than chasing late-breaking scoops. In 1927 Mitchell joined The Lambs.[3]
Acting career[edit]
from the trailer for
High Barbaree (1947)
He became an actor in 1913, at one point touring with Charles Coburn's Shakespeare Company. Even while playing leading roles on Broadway into the 1920s Mitchell would continue to write. One of the plays he co-authored, Little Accident, was eventually made into a film (three times) by Hollywood. Mitchell's first credited screen role was in the 1923 film Six Cylinder Love.
as Tom Blue in the trailer for The Black Swan (1942)
Mitchell's breakthrough role was as the embezzler in Frank Capra's film Lost Horizon (1937).
Following this performance, he was much in demand in Hollywood.[4] That same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Hurricane, directed by John Ford.
Over the next few years, Mitchell appeared in many significant films. Forty-three of the fifty-nine films in which he acted, were made in the 10-year period from 1936–1946. Considered one of the finest character actors in film,[5] in 1939 alone he had key roles in Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Only Angels Have Wings, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Gone with the Wind.[5] While probably better remembered as Scarlett O'Hara's loving but doomed father in Gone with the Wind, it was for his performance as the drunken Doc Boone in Stagecoach, co-starring John Wayne (in Wayne's breakthrough role), that Mitchell won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. In his acceptance speech, he quipped, "I didn't know I was that good". Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Mitchell acted in a wide variety of roles in productions such as 1940's Swiss Family Robinson, 1942's Moontide, 1944's The Keys of the Kingdom (as an atheist doctor) and High Noon (1952) as the town mayor. He is probably best known to audiences today for his role as sad sack Uncle Billy in Capra's Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946) with James Stewart.
with Tyrone Power in the trailer for The Black Swan (1942)
From the 1950s and into the early 1960s, Mitchell worked primarily in television, appearing in a variety of roles in some of the most well-regarded early series of the era, including Playhouse 90, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater (in a pilot episode that became the CBS series Johnny Ringo), and Hallmark Hall of Fame productions. In 1954, he starred in the television version of the radio program, Mayor of the Town. In 1955, he played Kris Kringle in The 20th Century-Fox Hour version of The Miracle on 34th Street opposite Teresa Wright and MacDonald Carey. In 1957 he hosted The O. Henry Playhouse. In 1959, he starred in thirty-nine episodes of the syndicated television series, Glencannon, which had aired two years earlier in the United Kingdom.
In the early 1960s, Mitchell originated the stage role "Columbo", later made famous on NBC and ABC television by Peter Falk (Bert Freed played the part on live television before Mitchell portrayed Columbo on stage); Columbo was Mitchell's last role.
Death[edit]
Mitchell died at age 70 from peritoneal mesothelioma in Beverly Hills, California.
Awards and honors[edit]
In 1953, Mitchell became the first man to win the "triple crown" of acting awards (Oscar, Emmy, Tony). He remains one of only a handful of individuals to have won each of these awards. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 1939's Stagecoach. In 1952, he won the Best Actor Emmy (Comedy Actor category), and the following year a Tony Award for best performance by an actor, for the musical Hazel Flagg (based on the Carole Lombard film Nothing Sacred). He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for his work in television at 6100 Hollywood Boulevard, and a second star for his work in motion pictures at 1651 Vine Street.[6]
Complete filmography[edit]
As actor[edit]
Six Cylinder Love (1923) as Bertram Rogers (film debut)
Craig's Wife (1936) as Fergus Passmore
Adventure in Manhattan (1936) as Phil Bane
Theodora Goes Wild (1936) as Jed Waterbury
Man of the People (1937) as William J. Grady
When You're in Love (1937) as Hank Miller
Lost Horizon (1937) as Henry Barnard
I Promise to Pay (1937) as District Attorney J.E. Curtis
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) as George Cooper
The Hurricane (1937) as Dr. Kersaint
Love, Honor and Behave (1938) as Dan Painter
Trade Winds (1938) as Police Commissioner Blackton
Stagecoach (1939) as Doc Josiah Boone
Only Angels Have Wings (1939) as Kid Dabb
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) as Diz Moore
Gone with the Wind (1939) as Gerald O'Hara
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) as Clopin
Swiss Family Robinson (1940) as William Robinson
Three Cheers for the Irish (1940) as Peter Casey
Our Town (1940) as Dr. Gibbs
Angels Over Broadway (1940) as Gene Gibbons
The Long Voyage Home (1940) as Driscoll
Flight from Destiny (1941) as Professor Henry Todhunter
Out of the Fog (1941) as Jonah Goodwin
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) (uncredited)
Joan of Paris (1942) as Father Antoine
Song of the Islands (1942) as Dennis O'Brien
Moontide (1942) as Tiny
This Above All (1942) as Monty
Tales of Manhattan (1942) as John Halloway
The Black Swan (1942) as Tommy Blue
Immortal Sergeant (1943) as Sgt. Kelly
The Outlaw (1943) as Pat Garrett
Bataan (1943) as Cpl. Jake Feingold
Flesh and Fantasy (1943) as Septimus Podgers
The Fighting Sullivans (1944) as Mr. Thomas F. "Tom" Sullivan
Buffalo Bill (1944) as Ned Buntline
Wilson (1944) as Joseph Tumulty
Dark Waters (1944) as Mr. Sydney
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) as Dr. Willie Tulloch
Captain Eddie (1945) as Ike Howard
Within These Walls (1945) as Warden Michael Howland
Adventure (1945) as Mudgin
Three Wise Fools (1946) as Terence Alaysius O'Davern
The Dark Mirror (1946) as Police Lt. Stevenson
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) as Uncle Billy
High Barbaree (1947) as Capt. Thad Vail
The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947) as Gill MacBean
Silver River (1948) as John Plato Beck
Alias Nick Beal (1949) as Joseph Foster
The Big Wheel (1949) as Red Stanley
Journey Into Light (1951) as Gandy
High Noon (1952) as Mayor Jonas Henderson
Of Time and the River (1953 TV movie) as William Oliver Gant
The Backbone of America (1953 TV movie) as Fred Tupple
Secret of the Incas (1954) as Ed Morgan
Destry (1954) as Rags Barnaby
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1955 TV movie) as "Pap" Finn
While the City Sleeps (1956) as Jon Day Griffith
Handle With Care (1958) as Mayor Dick Williston
Too Young to Love (1960) as Judge Bentley
The Right Man (1960 TV movie) as Grover Cleveland
The Joke and the Valley (1961 TV movie) as Truman Winters
By Love Possessed (1961) as Noah Tuttle
Pocketful of Miracles (1961) as Judge Henry G. Blake
As writer[edit]
Little Accident (1928) – play Little Accident
Papa Sans le Savoir (1932) – play Little Accident
All of Me (1934) - screenplay
Life Begins with Love (1937) - screenplay
Little Accident (1939) – play Little Accident
Casanova Brown (1944) – play Little Accident
Peter's baby (1961) – play Little Accident (uncredited)
Other[edit]
All of Me (1934) - dialogue director
Radio appearances[edit]
Year
Program
Episode/source
1953 Theatre Guild on the Air A Square Peg[7]
1945 Suspense 1945-02-22 John Barby and Son
See also[edit]
Biography portal
List of actors with Academy Award nominations
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Life. October 19, 1953. "Labor gets a new secretary". p. 56.
Jump up ^ Motion Picture and Television Magazine, November 1952, page 34, Ideal Publishers
Jump up ^ http://www.the-lambs.org
Jump up ^ Monush, Barry. Hal Leonard Corporation. (2003). ISBN 1-55783-551-9. p. The Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965. p. 509.
^ Jump up to: a b Wilson, Steve (2014). The Making of Gone With the Wind. University of Texas Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-292-76126-1.
Jump up ^ "Walk of Fame Stars-Thomas Mitchell". Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Archived from the original on April 3, 2016. Retrieved October 13, 2016.
Jump up ^ Kirby, Walter (March 15, 1953). "Better Radio Programs for the Week". The Decatur Daily Review. p. 46. Retrieved June 25, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
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James "Cool Papa" Bell
Center fielder
Born: (1903-05-17)May 17, 1903
Starkville, Mississippi
Died: March 7, 1991(1991-03-07) (aged 87)
St. Louis, Missouri
Batted: Switch Threw: Left
Negro leagues debut
1922, for the St. Louis Stars
Last appearance
1946, for the Homestead Grays
Negro leagues statistics
Batting Average
.328
Home runs
73
Teams
St. Louis Stars (1922–1931)
Detroit Wolves (1932)
Kansas City Monarchs (1932–1934)
Santo Domingo (1937)
Homestead Grays (1932, 1943–1946)
Pittsburgh Crawfords (1933–1938)
Mexican League (1938–1941)
Memphis Red Sox (1942)
Chicago American Giants (1942)
Career highlights and awards
8x All-Star (1933–1936, 1942 (2)-1944)
Lifetime batting average: .337 (Negro leagues)
Member of the National
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction
1974
Election Method
Negro Leagues Committee
James Thomas "Cool Papa" Bell (May 17, 1903 – March 7, 1991) was an American center fielder in Negro league baseball from 1922 to 1946. He is considered by many baseball observers to have been one of the fastest men ever to play the game. Stories demonstrating Bell's speed are still widely circulated. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. He ranked 66th on a list of the greatest baseball players published by The Sporting News in 1999.
Contents
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1 Early life
2 Baseball career
2.1 Negro National League and East-West League
2.2 Latin America
2.3 Return to the United States
3 Later life and legacy
4 See also
5 Notes
6 References
7 External links
Early life[edit]
Bell was born May 17, 1903, in Starkville, Mississippi to Jonas Bell and Mary Nichols.[1] The 1910 U.S. Census shows him as the fourth of seven children living with his widowed mother, Mary Nichols, in Sessums Township, just outside Starkville. His brother Fred Bell also played baseball. As a teenager, Bell worked at the creamery at what is now Mississippi State University and at the school's agricultural experiment station.[1]
At the age of 17, he moved to St. Louis to live with older brothers and attend high school. However, rather than attending night school as planned, Bell spent most of his time playing baseball in the neighborhood.[1] He signed as a knuckleball pitcher with the Compton Hill Cubs, a black semipro baseball team, until the team broke up in August 1921. He played with Compton Hill on Sundays and holidays while he worked for a packing company during the week. For 1922, Bell moved to the East St. Louis Cubs, a semipro team that paid him $20 weekly to pitch on Sundays.[2]
Baseball career[edit]
Negro National League and East-West League[edit]
Bell at the 1936 East–West All-Star Game
Bell joined the St. Louis Stars of the Negro National League (NNL) as a pitcher in 1922. Bell earned his nickname in his first Negro league season; he was referred to as "Cool" after striking out standout player Oscar Charleston and added "Papa" to the nickname because it sounded better.[3] At first, Bell made only occasional appearances in the outfield. By 1924, at the urging of manager Bill Gatewood, Bell began working on his defensive skills and appearing more in the outfield.[4]
Bell ultimately made a permanent move to center field and stopped pitching. Before becoming an outfielder, Bell batted right-handed and threw left-handed. His transition to the outfield was aided by learning to bat as a switch hitter. When he batted left-handed, his baserunning speed was even more problematic for opponents because he was a couple of steps closer to first base. Biographer Shaun McCormack points out that Bell did not have a strong throwing arm. However, Bell's speed allowed him to play very shallow in the outfield and to still catch balls that were hit behind him.[5]
Pitchers tried to avoid issuing walks to Bell, because he was often able to steal both second base and third base, scoring a run on the next play. Bell could also sometimes score a run if he was on first base and the batter got a base hit.[6] Bell described the style of play on the occasions when the Negro league players faced white teams in exhibitions: "We played a different kind of baseball than the white teams. We played tricky baseball. We did things they didn't expect. We'd bunt and run in the first inning. Then when they would come in for a bunt we'd hit away. We always crossed them up. We'd run the bases hard and make the fielders throw too quick and make wild throws. We'd fake a steal home and rattle the pitcher into a balk."[7]
Bell led the Stars to league titles in 1928, 1930, and 1931. While with the Stars, he played alongside close friend and shortstop Willie Wells and first baseman Mule Suttles.[8] He moved to the Detroit Wolves of the East-West League when the NNL disbanded. The Wolves were owned by former Negro league star Cumberland Posey and they jumped to a first-place lead with a 29–13 win-loss record before the league disbanded. Attendance figures had remained too low in the wake of the Great Depression.[9]
Bell bounced to the Kansas City Monarchs and the Mexican winter leagues until finding a home with the Pittsburgh Crawfords in the reorganized NNL. In Pittsburgh, he played with Ted Page and Jimmie Crutchfield to form what is considered by many to have been the best outfield in the Negro leagues. On the 1936 Crawfords team, Bell was one of six players who were subsequently inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.[10]
Latin America[edit]
Bell left the Crawfords in 1937 when owner Gus Greenlee defaulted on player salaries. Bell, Satchel Paige and other Crawfords players went to the Dominican Republic to play on a team assembled by dictator Rafael Trujillo. Trujillo felt that a baseball championship would strengthen his ruling power and he kept the players under armed supervision.[11] Outside of Negro league players, the club featured Puerto Rican star Petrucho Cepeda, father of future Major League Baseball (MLB) Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda. They were led by Cuban manager Lázaro Salazar, who was later elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame.[12]
While playing for Trujillo, the team members began to fear that losing might threaten their lives. Author Mark Ribowsky describes an experience with the team that was related to him by Crutchfield. After one loss, the players were said to have been met at the hotel by an Army officer who warned the team not to lose again, firing gunshots at the walls of the hotel courtyard. Bell was said to have been crying and wanting to leave the Dominican Republic. One of the Cubans on the team later denied any incidents involving gunfire, and Ribowsky points out that even Paige's detailed writings never mentioned actual gunfire.[12]
Ultimately, the team won the league championship, finishing ahead of two other clubs by four games or less. The second-place team featured several Negro league players, Cuban star Luis Tiant, Sr. and manager Martin Dihigo, a future Hall of Famer. The third-place club was intentionally composed of mostly Dominican players and only two Negro leaguers were on its roster. Trujillo was disappointed that a $30,000 team of Americans had barely beaten the competition, so his league was disbanded the next year and no organized baseball was played in the Dominican Republic for 12 years.[12]
Bell went to the Mexican League, which was integrated, between 1938 and 1941. He spent the first two seasons with the team in Tampico, hitting for batting averages of .356 and .354. He split the 1940 season between teams in Torreón and Veracruz.[13] In that season, Bell became the first Mexican League player to win the Triple Crown, leading the league with a .437 batting average, 12 home runs, and 79 runs batted in. He finished that year with 167 hits and eight of his home runs were inside-the-park home runs.[14] Veracruz won the pennnant that year. He spent his last Mexican League season in Monterrey. His career Mexican League batting average came to .367.[13]
Return to the United States[edit]
Bell came back to the United States in 1942 to play for the Chicago American Giants of the Negro American League. He joined the Homestead Grays in the NNL in 1943. The Grays won league championships in Bell's first two seasons. In an attempt at a third consecutive title in 1945, the Grays lost in the league's World Series. The 43-year-old hit .396 for the 1946 Grays. Bell became a player-manager for Negro league farm teams until 1950. He finished his Negro league career with a .341 batting average; he hit .391 in exhibitions against MLB players. Bell was a part-time scout for the St. Louis Browns from 1951 to 1954, when the team moved to Baltimore.[13]
Though statistics were not meticulously maintained for most of Bell's career, it is clear that he was known as one of the best players in Negro league baseball. As Paige noted in his autobiography, Maybe I'll Pitch Forever, "If schools had known Cool Papa was around and if Cool Papa had known reading real good, he'd have made the best track man you ever saw."[15] Anecdotes about Bell's speed are still widely circulated; some are not easily believable, while others are thought to be true. Paige liked to refer to a story from one hotel at which he and Bell stayed. There was a short delay between flipping the light switch off and the lights actually going off due to faulty wiring, sufficient for Bell to jump into bed in the interim. Leaving out the explanatory details, Paige liked to say that Bell was so fast he could turn off the light and be under the covers before the room got dark. Legend also holds that Bell hit a ball up the middle of the field and that he was struck by the ball as he slid into second base.[16]
In Ken Burns' Baseball, Bell was described as being so fast that he once scored from first on a sacrifice bunt. In an exhibition game against white all-stars, Bell is said to have broken for second on a bunt and run with Paige at the plate. By the time the ball reached Paige, Bell was almost to second and rounded the bag, seeing the third baseman had broken towards home to field the bunt. The catcher, Roy Partee of the Boston Red Sox, ran to third to cover the bag and an anticipated return throw from first. To his surprise, Bell rounded third and brushed by him on the way home; pitcher Murry Dickson of the St. Louis Cardinals had not thought to cover home with the catcher moving up the line, and Bell scored standing up.[17] Bell once circled the bases in 13.1 seconds on a soggy field in Chicago; he claimed that he had done it in as few as 12 seconds in dry conditions.[16]
Teammate Ted Page commented on the clean off-the-field lifestyle that Bell lived. He said that Bell was "an even better man off the field than he was on it. He was honest. He was kind. He was a clean liver. In fact, in all of the years I've known him, I've never seen him smoke, take a drink or even say one cuss word."[18]
Later life and legacy[edit]
Row of houses along James "Cool Papa" Bell Avenue
After Bell's playing and managing days were over, Bell lived in an old red-brick apartment in St. Louis.[1] He worked as a scout for the St. Louis Browns for four years,[3] then he served as a security officer and custodian at St. Louis City Hall until 1970.[19] He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. His Hall of Fame plaque highlights the fact that Bell's contemporaries regarded him as the fastest runner on the base paths.[10] He was the fifth Negro league player inducted into the Hall of Fame.[1] Negro league players Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Monte Irvin and Buck Leonard were inducted between 1971 and 1973.[20]
Mike Shannon interviewing James "Cool Papa" Bell in 1986.
Bell suffered a heart attack and he died at Saint Louis University Hospital on March 7, 1991; his wife Clara had died a few weeks earlier.[21] In his honor, Dickson Street, on which he lived, was renamed James "Cool Papa" Bell Avenue. He was also inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame.[22] Cool Papa Bell Drive is the road leading into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in Jackson, of which he is a member. The St. Louis Cardinals have recognized Bell's contributions by erecting a bronze statue of him outside Busch Stadium along with other Hall of Fame St. Louis baseball stars, including Stan Musial, Lou Brock and Bob Gibson.
References to Bell appeared in Hanging Curve by Troy Soos, a 1999 novel about the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. He was also noted in the 1994 movie Cobb, in which Ty Cobb, played by Tommy Lee Jones, is chided for being a lesser player than Bell. His character makes a brief appearance in the 2009 feature film The Perfect Game, encouraging and aiding the 1957 Little League World Series champion team from Monterrey, Mexico; the role is played by Lou Gossett Jr.[23]
In 1999, Bell was ranked 66th on The Sporting News list of Baseball's Greatest Players,[24] one of five players so honored who played all or most of his career in the Negro leagues, and was named to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.[25]
He is the subject of the song "Cool Papa Bell" on Paul Simon's 13th studio album Stranger to Stranger.
See also[edit]
Baseball portal
List of Negro league baseball players
Notes[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d e Rogers, William. "Cool Papa Bell". Mississippi Historical Society. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
Jump up ^ McCormack, pp. 20–21.
^ Jump up to: a b Mandel, Ken. "Speed to Burn". MLB.com. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
Jump up ^ McCormack, p. 26.
Jump up ^ McCormack, pp. 28–29.
Jump up ^ McCormack, p. 31.
Jump up ^ McCormack, p. 35.
Jump up ^ McCormack, p. 32.
Jump up ^ "Detroit Wolves". Negro League Baseball Players Association. Retrieved August 24, 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b "Bell, Cool Papa". Baseball Hall of Fame. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
Jump up ^ Pacelle, Richard. "Cool Papa Bell". American National Biography. Retrieved August 24, 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b c Ribowsky, Mark (2000). Don't Look Back: Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball. Da Capo Press. pp. 154–157. ISBN 030680963X.
^ Jump up to: a b c Gates, Henry Louis, Brooks Higginbotham, Evelyn (2004). African American Lives. Oxford University Press. pp. 67–68. ISBN 019988286X.
Jump up ^ Rubio, Jesus Alberto. "Luis Terrero" (in Spanish). reydelosdeportes.com. Retrieved August 24, 2013.
Jump up ^ Paige, Leroy (Satchel) (1993). Maybe I'll Pitch Forever. University of Nebraska Press. p. 50. ISBN 0803287321.
^ Jump up to: a b Kram, Mark (June 20, 1994). "No Place In The Shade". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved September 20, 2013.
Jump up ^ Lew Freedman (2007). African American Pioneers of Baseball: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 48. ISBN 0313338515.
Jump up ^ Bak, Richard (1995). Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919–1933. Wayne State University Press. p. 155. ISBN 0814325823.
Jump up ^ "James "Cool Papa" Bell". Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
Jump up ^ Singer, Tom. "Teddy Ballgame makes difference for Negro Leaguers to enter Hall". MLB.com. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
Jump up ^ ""Cool Papa" Bell was a Noble Man". Eugene Register-Guard. March 9, 1991. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
Jump up ^ St. Louis Walk of Fame. "St. Louis Walk of Fame Inductees". stlouiswalkoffame.org. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
Jump up ^ Phillips, Michael (April 15, 2010). "'Perfect Game': Real-life baseball fable turns into an easy out". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved August 24, 2013.
Jump up ^ "100 Greatest Baseball Players by The Sporting News : A Legendary List by Baseball Almanac". Baseball-almanac.com. Retrieved 2012-09-14.
Jump up ^ "The All-Century Team". MLB.com. Retrieved September 20, 2013.
References[edit]
McCormack, Shaun. Cool Papa Bell. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, 2002.
External links[edit]
Cool Papa Bell at the Baseball Hall of Fame
Negro league baseball statistics and player information from Seamheads.com, or Baseball-Reference (Negro leagues)
BaseballLibrary – profile
April 6, 1970 transcript of interview at Western Historical Manuscript Collection – University of Missouri-St. Louis
The Deadball Era
Negro Leagues Baseball Blog
Cool Papa Bell at Find a Grave
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Cityplaza
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Coordinates: 22°17′9″N 114°13′4″E / 22.28583°N 114.21778°E / 22.28583; 114.21778
Cityplaza
General information
Location
18 Taikoo Shing Road, Taikoo Shing, Hong Kong
Opening
1982-2000（Phase 1-2）
1991-1997（Phases 3-4）
Owner
Swire Properties
Technical details
Floor area
1,700,000 sq ft (160,000 m2) (Retail)
1,110,000 sq ft (103,000 m2) (Office)
Design and construction
Developer
Swire Properties
Other information
Number of stores
170
Interior atrium
Cityplaza One, a 25-storey office building completed in 1984
"Ice Palace" skating rink
Cityplaza (Chinese: 太古城中心) is an office and shopping development, owned and managed by Swire Properties, at 1111 King's Road, Taikoo Shing, Hong Kong. It is adjacent to Taikoo Place, another office complex developed by Swire.
The six-level shopping centre, connected to Tai Koo Station, houses more than 170 shops, restaurants, a cinema and an indoor ice rink. Cityplaza constantly updates its seasonal decoration, and also has frequent art, sport and other exhibitions in the public space near the MTR station.
Contents
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1 History and development
1.1 Phase I
1.2 Phase II
2 Services
3 Entertainment
4 Transport
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
History and development[edit]
Phase I[edit]
Cityplaza was completed in 1982. As there was no MTR connection yet, double decker buses were used as a free shuttle service when the Island Eastern Corridor expressway was finished in 1984.[citation needed]
There are six storeys in Phase I, with many locations having changed. The first phase also included an office tower called Mount Parker House which has since been demolished and replaced with the East hotel.
The 1/F used to be a Standard Chartered Bank with the remaining space for car parking, until 1987 when a big renovation saw the area converted into retail stores, including Marks & Spencer.
After the relocation of Wing On Department Stores, the former space was left unoccupied for over three years. Only in 1999 was it leased to Citysuper Log-On, and later fashion store Uniqlo.
Phase II[edit]
Phase II was completed in 1987. As there was a hole in the southwest corner of 2/F (opposite Cafe de Coral), one could see part of Whimsy's mini roller coaster ride, but this was filled after the latter's closing down in 1990. There were also large neon advertisements in the middle of Phase II, but these were removed after a big renovation in 2002 and 2014.
The old food court, including Burger King, Oliver's Super Sandwiches, Mario's, Fairwood, were originally situated next to the ice rink. It was closed in 2001 and replaced by the another food court on the 3rd floor, called Food Republic. In Dec 2016, a new food court, TREATS, opened in the original shop of Maxim's Palace. It provides bread, cheese sandwiches, fresh juices, Hong Kong style barbecued food & noodles, pasta, salad, sushi, sashimi and bento. Two restaurants, Cha Cha Room (dim sum) and Minh & Kok (Vietnamese food) are also situated inside TREATS.
Services[edit]
Cityplaza has offered a three-hour free Wi-Fi access. Also, the mall provides two car parks, namely Cityplaza Carpark and Taikoo Shing Stage 10 Carpark.[1]
Entertainment[edit]
The shopping centre is host to the oldest ice skating rink in Hong Kong named "Ice Palace".[2]
Transport[edit]
MTR Tai Koo Station is accessible directly from the second floor of Cityplaza. The companion escalator running from the MTR station to Cityplaza was completed in April 2012. Shoppers can also get to the shopping centre by buses.
Buses and minibuses
Buses and minibuses [show]
Citybus
77- Tin Wan ↔ Shau Kei Wan
77X- Wah Kwai Estate → Tai Hong Street
85- Siu Sai Wan ↺ Braemar Hill
85A- Shau Kei Wan ↺ Braemar Hill (Morning Peak)
85A- Aldrich Bay → Braemar Hill (Morning Peak)
85A- North Point (Island Place) → Shau Kei Wan (Afternoon Peak)
99- South Horizons ↔ Shau Kei Wan
99X- South Horizons/ Ap Lei Chau → Tai Hong Street
A12- Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) ↔ Siu Sai Wan (Island Resort)
New World First Bus
2- Grand Promenade ↔ Central (Macau Ferry)
81- Hing Wah Estate ↔ Lai Tak Tsuen (via Tai Hang)
81A- Hing Wah Estate ↔ Lai Tak Tsuen(via Braemar Hill) (Rush Time Service)
82- North Point Ferry ↔ Siu Sai Wan (Island Resort)
82X- Siu Sai Wan ↺ Quarry Bay
85- North Point (Island Place)↔ Siu Sai Wan (Island Resort)
720- Grand Promenade ↔ Central (Macau Ferry) (Express)
720P- Tai Koo Shing ↔ Central (Gilman Street) (Morning Peak Service)
722- Yiu Tung Estate ↺ Central (Exchange Square)
Cross Harbour Tunnel Bus
102- Mei Foo ↔ Shau Kei Wan
106- Siu Sai Wan ↔ Wong Tai Sin
110- Shau Kei Wan ↺ Tsim Sha Tsui/ Jordan
606- Choi Wan (Fung Shing Street) ↔ Siu Sai Wan (Island Resort)
606A- Choi Wan (Fung Shing Street) ↔ Yiu Tung (Morning Peak Service)
682- Ma On Shan ↔ Chai Wan (East)
682A- Ma On Shan Town Centre → Siu Sai Wan Estate (Morning Peak Service) (No Return Trip Service to Ma On Shan.)
682B- Sha Tin → Siu Sai Wan Estate (Morning Peak Service) (No Return Trip Service to Sha Tin.)
682P- Ma On Shan/ Wu Kai Sha Station → Chai Wan (East) (Morning Peak Service) (No Return Trip Service to Ma On Shan.)
802- Sha Tin Racecourse → Siu Sai Wan (Island Resort) (Race Day Service) (No Return Trip Service to Sha Tin.)
N122- Mei Foo ↔ Shau Kei Wan (Midnight Service)
Minibus
18- Hang Hau (North) ↔ North Point (Pak Fuk Road)
32- Kornhill ↔ Shau Kei Wan
68- Aldrich Bay ↔ Quarry Bay Tai Koo
65A- Quarry Bay ↔ Chai Wan
See also[edit]
One Island East
Swire Hotels
Taikoo Place
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "MALL SERVICES | Cityplaza". Retrieved 2015-05-19.
Jump up ^ "ICE PALACE | Cityplaza". Retrieved 2015-05-19.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cityplaza.
Official website
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