The Eagles, meanwhile, had a cluster of future Hall of Fame players: Monte Irvin, Larry Doby, Leon Day, Willie Wells, Ray Dandridge and Biz Mackey, a longtime catcher and manager who was selected last month.
In a magical season, the Giants retired the number of their first black player, Monte Irvin, and invited the daughters of Bobby Thomson, who produced the greatest moment in franchise history — still — to throw out the first ball of the second World Series game.
Now, at 33, Ljubicic is about to enter his last week as a player: The Monte Carlo Masters, which begins Monday, will be his farewell tournament.
It's enough to make one pine for the three-card monte players of the old days.
Moving her pots and pans and little bowls of chopped onions and clarified butter around the counter, she might have been a three-card-monte player in Times Square.
Since the worst malefactor the cops meet is a three-card-monte player, the film on its surface is all shaggy-dog charm.
While it may be more of a challenge to find three-card monte players on the street corners of Midtown Manhattan, thieves are as resilient as the crocuses that sprout in junk-filled lots.
This is a far cry from the 1980's, when the area was most noted for X-rated entertainment, pinball parlors and phony-identification shops and when the sidewalks were infested with three-card monte players and other con artists.
Of all 4-man lineups in the NBA with 200 or more minutes, the seventh-best in net rating – and the only one in the top 30 or more comprised solely of bench players – consists of Monte Morris, Malik Beasley, Trey Lyles and Mason Plumlee, at a 14.5 in 207 minutes which is simply absurd.
Williams driver Felipe Massa posted a photograph on Twitter of himself, and wife Raffaela and son Felipinho, with world number one tennis player Rafael Nadal at the Monte Carlo Masters in Monaco.
