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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.
Sidd Finch. Sidd Finch is a fictional baseball player, the subject of the notorious April Fools' Day hoax article "The Curious Case of Sidd Finch" written by George Plimpton and first published in the April 1, 1985, issue of Sports Illustrated. According to Plimpton, Finch was raised in an English orphanage, learned yoga in Tibet, and could ...
Bryce Aron Max Harper (born October 16, 1992) is an American professional baseball right fielder and first baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Washington Nationals . One of the most heavily touted draft prospects in recent history, Harper has been cited as a " five-tool ...
Giancarlo Cruz-Michael "Mike" Stanton was born on November 8, 1989, in Panorama City, California. Stanton is mostly of Irish, African-American, and Puerto Rican descent. His maternal great-great-grandmother was Puerto Rican. His parents, Mike Stanton and Jacinta Garay have been divorced since Stanton was eight years old.
Randall David Johnson (born September 10, 1963), nicknamed " the Big Unit ", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (1988–2009) for six teams, primarily the Seattle Mariners and Arizona Diamondbacks . At 6 feet 10 inches (2.08 metres) tall, Johnson was the tallest player in MLB ...
Introduction. The character debuted on June 6, 2000, when the Angels were trailing the San Francisco Giants 5–4 in the bottom of the ninth inning. Two video board operators, Dean Fraulino and Jaysen Humes, took a clip of a monkey jumping around from the 1994 Jim Carrey movie comedy Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and superimposed the words "RALLY ...
Hank Bauer. Henry Albert Bauer (July 31, 1922 – February 9, 2007) was an American right fielder and manager in Major League Baseball. He played with the New York Yankees ( 1948 – 1959) and Kansas City Athletics ( 1960 – 1961 ); he batted and threw right-handed. He served as the manager of the Athletics in both Kansas City ( 1961 –62 ...
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 and that year's World Series .