Veteran sportscaster Gary Thorne is the current lead television announcer, with Jim Hunter as his backup along with Hall of Fame member and former Orioles pitcher Jim Palmer and former Oriole infielder Mike Bordick as color analysts.

Former Browns RB Jim Brown, who was a prominent member of the 1964 NFL Championship team, the team's all-time leader in rushing yards, and a Pro Football Hall of Fame member.

In the 1940s through the 1960s, players such as Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, and Jim Hall laid the foundation of what is now known as " jazz guitar " playing.

* 1935 – Jim Hall, American race car driver

The offensive line included future Hall of Fame members Jim Langer and Larry Little and Pro Bowler Bob Kuechenberg.

* 1944 – Jim Boeheim, Hall of Fame basketball coach

In addition to his work with Brubeck he led several of his own groups and did significant collaborations with artists such as Gerry Mulligan, Jim Hall and Chet Baker.

After some time spent inactive, he was asked to play the famous Half Note in New York City in 1971 by guitarist Jim Hall.

Desmond met Ed Bickert through Jim Hall in Toronto, Canada and began performing with him at several clubs in the Toronto area.

With Jim Hall

In addition to Bobby Thomson and Willie Mays, other memorable members of the Giants teams during the 1950s include: Hall of Fame manager Leo Durocher, coach Herman Franks, Hall of Fame outfielder Monte Irvin, outfielder and runnerup for the 1954 NL batting championship ( won by Willie Mays ) Don Mueller, Hall of Fame knuckleball relief pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm, starting pitchers Larry Jansen, Sal Maglie, Jim Hearn, Marv Grissom, Dave Koslo, Don Liddle, Max Lanier, Rubén Gómez, and Johnny Antonelli, catcher Wes Westrum, catchers Ray Katt and Sal Yvars, shortstop Alvin Dark, third baseman Hank Thompson, first baseman Whitey Lockman, second basemen Davey Williams and Eddie Stanky, outfielder, pitcher Clint Hartung, Hall of Fame second baseman Red Schoendienst and utility players: Bill Rigney, Daryl Spencer, Bobby Hofman, and Dusty Rhodes among others.

Both of their starting running backs from the previous year, future Pro Football Hall of Famers Paul Hornung and Jim Taylor, had left the team.

Famous athletes include Baseball Hall of Fame members Roger Bresnahan and Addie Joss, U. S. boxing Olympian Devin Vargas, 2012 Olympic silver medalist Erik Kynard ( Track & Field, high jump ), professional basketball player John Amaechi, retired NBA player Jim Jackson, and NBA Champions Chicago Bulls Dennis Hopson.

* May 28 – Indianapolis 500: Al Unser wins his third race, and the first for car owner Jim Hall.

* December 4 – Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist

Future Pro Football Hall of Fame members defensive end Reggie White of the University of Tennessee and quarterbacks Jim Kelly of the University of Miami and Steve Young of Brigham Young University, began their professional careers with the USFL's Memphis Showboats, Houston Gamblers, and Los Angeles Express, respectively.

Hayes is the second Olympic gold medalist to be inducted to the Hall of Fame, after Jim Thorpe.

Petersburg area decided to bid for a franchise: a St. Petersburg-based group fronted by future Hartford Whalers / Carolina Hurricanes owners Peter Karmanos and Jim Rutherford, and a Tampa-based group fronted by two Hall of Famers — Phil Esposito and his brother Tony.

Hall was drafted by the expansion St. Louis Blues for the 1967 – 68 season, while Pilote was traded to the Maple Leafs for Jim Pappin in 1968.

* Jimmy Giuffre 3: Jimmy Giuffre, Bob Brookmeyer, Jim Hall

* Jim Langer — former Miami Dolphin and Super Bowl Winner, elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1987

* 1910 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States.

In response, the Machine quietly supported Jim Taylor, a former professional boxer, Streets and Sanitation worker, and barely literate Daley figurehead, over Washington.

* The Blue Beetle ( Jim Boyd ): A bumbling super hero with a mask, a hood with antennae, wings, tennis shoes, boxer shorts, and a T-shirt that bore his name, the Blue Beetle often made matters worse instead of better for people who he tried to help.

The now-defunct Wagon Wheel Bar and Restaurant was where heavyweight boxer Jim Jeffreys trained in the 1940s.

Among his opponents were Fireman Jim Flynn, the only boxer ever to beat Dempsey by a knockout when Dempsey lost to him in the first round ( although many boxing historians, including Monte Cox, believe the fight was a " fix "), and Gunboat Smith, formerly a highly ranked contender who had beaten both World Champion Jess Willard and Hall of Famer Sam Langford.

Los Angeles Times columnist Jim Murray called Dávila " a picture boxer ", saying that he fought " with his brains instead of his face.

He followed that with Jim Sheridan's The Boxer as a former boxer and IRA member recently released from prison.

This constituted a remarkable achievement, as Jim Corbett, a skilled boxer, weighed a stone ( 14 lb ) more than Fitzsimmons.

Later at night, Jim decides to turn on a porn film that Stifler rented, but accidentally uses superglue instead of lubricant to masturbate, permanently gluing his entire hand to his penis and boxer shorts.

* Jim Crawford ( boxer ), Australian boxer

His father, James Henriksen ( born as Jim Marino Henriksen in Tønsberg in 1910 ), was a Norwegian merchant sailor and boxer nicknamed " Icewater " who spent most of his life at sea.

* Jim Watt ( boxer )

* Jim Johnson ( boxer ) ( 1887 – 1918 ), American boxer

James John " Gentleman Jim " Corbett ( September 1, 1866 – February 18, 1933 ) was an American professional boxer and a former World Heavyweight Champion, best known as the man who defeated the great John L. Sullivan.

Jim Corbett lost his Heavyweight Championship to the Cornish British boxer Bob Fitzsimmons in Carson City, Nevada.

Tex Rickard, famed sportsman and promoter, held the view: " Big Jim will always live in my memory as the greatest heavyweight boxer of his time.

A popular local charity, one of many benefactors was the boxer Jim Driscoll, who after burial in Cathays cemetery in 1925 has had his grave tended to this day by the nuns of Nazareth House.

* Jim Johnson ( boxer ) ( 1887 – 1918 ), or Battling Jim Johnson, early 20th century heavyweight boxer

The hoard was found in 1868 by two boys, Jim Quinn and Paddy Flanagan, digging in a potato field on the south-western side of a rath ( ring fort ) called Reerasta, beside the village of Ardagh, County Limerick, Ireland.

Tragedy struck again in 1867 when Larcena's sister died of malaria and in 1868 her brother, Jim Pennington, was killed during a persecution of Apache.

* Jim Adams ( baseball ) ( 1868 –?