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Phil Rizzuto. Philip Francis Rizzuto (September 25, 1917 – August 13, 2007), nicknamed " the Scooter ", was an American Major League Baseball shortstop. He spent his entire 13-year baseball career with the New York Yankees (1941–1956), and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994. A popular figure on a team dynasty that ...
John Loy Rocker (born October 17, 1974) is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher who played six seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his major league debut in 1998 with the Atlanta Braves, for whom he played parts of four seasons. He was later a member of the Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers, and Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
AL Rookie of the Year (1976) AL ERA leader (1976) Mark Steven Fidrych ( / ˈfɪdrɪtʃ / FID-rich; [ 1] August 14, 1954 – April 13, 2009), nicknamed " the Bird ", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played five seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Detroit Tigers . Known for his quirky antics on the mound, Fidrych led ...
World Series champion ( 1954) James Lamar "Dusty" Rhodes (May 13, 1927 – June 17, 2009) [ 1] was an American professional baseball player, an outfielder and pinch hitter whose otherwise unremarkable seven-year Major League Baseball career was dramatically highlighted by his starring role for the champion New York Giants during the 1954 season ...
Sandy Koufax. Sanford Koufax ( / ˈkoʊfæks /; né Braun; born December 30, 1935), nicknamed " the Left Arm of God ", is an American former baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers from 1955 to 1966. Widely regarded as one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history, as well as the ...
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story is a 2004 sports comedy film written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber and starring Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller.The film follows a group of unlikely misfits who enter a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament in the hopes of winning $50,000 to save their cherished local gym from being taken over by corporate health fitness chain Globo Gym.
Charles Radbourn. Charles Gardner Radbourn (December 11, 1854 – February 5, 1897), nicknamed " Old Hoss ", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for Buffalo (1880), Providence (1881–1885), Boston (National League) (1886–1889), Boston (Player's League) (1890), and ...
Battles/wars. World War II. Pacific theater. Joseph Henry Garagiola Sr. (February 12, 1926 – March 23, 2016) was an American professional baseball catcher, later an announcer and television host. Garagiola played nine seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, and New York Giants.