Every FIFA Cover Player, 1993 to 2022
There has never really been a single FIFA cover. For most of the series’ thirty-year run, the same game shipped with different footballers on the box depending on where you bought it, so the... Read More →
Every Act That Played Woodstock in 1969
Woodstock did not happen in Woodstock. The festival borrowed its name from the artists’ colony in Ulster County, New York, where Bob Dylan was living and where its four young promoters hoped to build... Read More →
Every Triple Crown of Acting Winner
There is no Triple Crown of Acting. No academy hands it out, no committee meets to confer it, no statuette exists for the shelf. The phrase was lifted from horse racing – where a... Read More →
Every Winner at the First Grammy Awards (1959)
On the night of May 4, 1959, the recording industry handed out its first Grammy Awards at two black-tie dinners held at the same hour on opposite coasts – one in the Grand Ballroom... Read More →
Every Toy in Toy Story 5
Toy Story 5 opens with a wedding. Bonnie, eight years old now, marries a plastic spork to a plastic knife named Karen Beverly, casts Buzz Lightyear as best man and a tyrannosaur as maid... Read More →
Every Member of the First Baseball Hall of Fame Class (1936)
There was a second ballot in 1936, and it elected nobody. Alongside the writers choosing the modern stars, a panel of seventy-eight old-timers was asked to pick the great players of the nineteenth century,... Read More →
Every Charter Member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (1963)
When the Pro Football Hall of Fame first opened its doors, five of the seventeen men it was enshrining were not alive to see it. Joe Carr had been dead twenty-four years; Jim Thorpe,... Read More →
Every EGOT Winner in History, in the Order They Won
In 1984, a Miami Vice actor named Philip Michael Thomas began wearing a gold medallion stamped with four letters: EGOT. He told a reporter he expected to win all four awards it stood for... Read More →
Every Recording on the Voyager Golden Record (Music)
The one piece of music Carl Sagan’s committee wanted most never made it aboard. They asked for the Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun,” and the Beatles themselves agreed. The record company that owned the... Read More →
Every Early Influence Inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Robert Johnson had been dead for forty-eight years when the Hall of Fame put him in its founding class of 1986 – not through the Performer wing, but by way of a separate honor... Read More →
