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

Jim Palmer won the Cy Young Award, but the Orioles lost the division title to the Boston Red Sox and their mega-rookies Fred Lynn and Jim Rice.

Manager Lee Fohl, who had taken over in early 1915, acquired two minor league pitchers, Stan Coveleski and Jim Bagby and traded for center fielder Tris Speaker, who was engaged in a salary dispute with the Red Sox.

Notable creators of happenings included Allan Kaprow — who first used the term in 1958, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Red Grooms, and Robert Whitman.

Names such as Christy Mathewson, Iron Man Joe McGinnity, Bill Terry, Jim Thorpe, Mel Ott, Casey Stengel, and Red Ames are just a sample of the many players who honed their skills under McGraw.

The following evening, after concluding the first set at Butterfield's Nightclub in Menlo Park, California, with his rousing interpretation of " Eleanor Rigby ," Guaraldi and drummer Jim Zimmerman returned to the room they were staying in that weekend at the adjacent Red Cottage Inn, to relax before the next set.

The family's three oldest children, Sandra ( now Sandra Hanks Benoiton, a writer ), Larry ( now Lawrence M. Hanks, PhD, an entomology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) and Tom, went with their father, while the youngest, Jim, now an actor and film maker, remained with his mother in Red Bluff, California.

" Margie " has been recorded by Louis Armstrong, who also covered the band's " Tiger Rag ", Ray Charles, Al Jolson, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra in 1935, the Billy Kyle Swing Club Band, Claude Hopkins, Red Nichols, Django Reinhardt, George Paxton, the Dutch Swing College Band, Fats Domino, Sidney Bechet, Don Redman, Cab Calloway, Jim Reeves, Gene Krupa, and Benny Goodman.

On June 18, in a 10 – 4 loss to the Boston Red Sox in a nationally-televised game at Fenway Park in Boston, Jim Rice, a powerful hitter but notorious slow runner, hit a ball into shallow right field that Jackson appeared to weakly attempt to field.

This group generally consists of those who were playing during the " Golden Age " in the 1950s, including Wade Mainer and his Mountaineers, Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys, the Stanley Brothers, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs with the Foggy Mountain Boys, Hylo Brown and The Timberliners, Ervin T. Rouse, who wrote the standard " Orange Blossom Special ", Reno and Smiley, the Sauceman Brothers, Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, Jim & Jesse, Jimmy Martin and the Osborne Brothers, Red Allen ( who also recorded with the Osborne Brothers for MGM in the mid-fifties ), Mac Wiseman, Mac Martin and the Dixie Travelers, Carl Story and his Rambling Mountaineers, Buzz Busby, The Lilly Brothers, Bill Clifton and Jim Eanes.

Jim Rice played his entire career for the Boston Red Sox from 1974 to 1989.

Rice later wrote, " Who would you pick to win a football game-eleven Jim Thorpes-eleven Glen Davises-eleven Red Granges-or eleven Bronko Nagurskis?

* Convincing John ( performed by Jim Henson )-An evangelist-like Fraggle, uses his fast-talking musical numbers to convince Fraggles to do anything, from getting Red to wear a blindfold to getting all Fraggles to stop eating Doozer constructions ( and, subsequently, to start eating them again ).

Jim Connell ( 1852 – 1929 ), writer of the anthem, " The Red Flag ", lived close to St Hilda's Church at 22A Stondon Park.

* Former NFL players Red Cochran and Jim Tolbert were born in Fairfield.

In 1930, the New Red Front Warehouse was built and operated by Jimmie Taylor and Jim Gray.

Also that year, Gray's, Red front, and Central Warehouses were under the ownership of James E. Gray, Jim Gray, R. K. Adkins, and Jack Sharp, taking the place of his late father-in-law, Mr. Charlie Gray.

* Jim Ed Rice: former professional baseball player with the Boston Red Sox from 1974 to 1989.

* Jim Carlen, former head football coach of the West Virginia Mountaineers, Texas Tech Red Raiders, and South Carolina Gamecocks

Key contributors to the form included Carolee Schneemann, Red Grooms, Robert Whitman, Jim Dine Car Crash, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Delford Brown, Lucas Samaras, and Robert Rauschenberg.

Jim Devellano, the Red Wings ' then-general manager, wanted to draft Pat LaFontaine, who had grown up outside Detroit and played his junior hockey in the area ; however, when the New York Islanders took LaFontaine third overall, Devellano settled on Yzerman, drafting him fourth.

* In the 1984 production of Red Dawn, the main character, Jed Eckert portrayed by Patrick Swayze, says that he was named after Smith by his father and states that he studied Smith's exploits along with other mountainmen of the era such as Jim Bridger.

* Big Red, Jim Kjelgaard's first and most famous book about Irish Setters.