* 1983 – Joe Mauer, American baseball player

The Twins also had the AL MVP in Justin Morneau, the AL batting champion in Joe Mauer, and the AL Cy Young Award winner in Johan Santana.

That year, Joe Mauer became only the second catcher in 33 years to win the AL MVP award.

Nishioka's broken leg in a collision at second base led the way and was followed by DL stints from Kevin Slowey, Joe Mauer, Jason Repko, Thome, Delmon Young ( two stints on the DL ), Jose Mijares, Glen Perkins, Joe Nathan, Francisco Liriano, Jason Kubel, Denard Span ( two stints ), Justin Morneau, Scott Baker, and Alexi Casilla.

Commissioner Bud Selig, who earlier had threatened to disband the team, observed that without the new stadium the Twins could not have committed to sign their star player, catcher Joe Mauer, to an unprecedented 8-year, $ 184 million contract extension.

Sports Illustrated named Nagurski one of the four greatest athletes in Minnesota state history ( the other three were Dave Winfield, Kevin McHale, and Joe Mauer ).

His. 320 batting average was the highest career mark for catchers until Joe Mauer surpassed it in.

Fearing signability problems, the Twins opted to take local talent catcher Joe Mauer, leaving Prior to be taken 2nd overall by the Chicago Cubs.

Minnesota Twins superstar Joe Mauer, who missed most of the first two months of the 2011 season due to a difficult recovery from arthroscopic knee surgery after the 2010 season, reported to Minnesota's Class-A Florida State League team, the Fort Myers Miracle, which is based in their well-equipped Spring Training facility in Fort Myers.

MLB Batting title winner Joe Mauer was a River Bandit during the Twins affiliation.

* In the second game of a doubleheader between the Minnesota Twins and Chicago White Sox on July 6, 2007, the Twins initially used their starting catcher, Joe Mauer, as the DH because Mauer had started the first game at catcher.

Because Minnesota's normal starting catcher Joe Mauer was in the game as the DH and no other catcher was available, Minnesota was forced to forfeit the DH position for the remainder of the game.

* Sporting News All-Decade Team ( 2009 ): C – Joe Mauer, Twins ; 1B – Albert Pujols, Cardinals ; 2B – Jeff Kent, Giants – Astros – Dodgers ; 3B – Alex Rodriguez, Mariners – Rangers – Yankees ; SS – Derek Jeter, Yankees ; OF – Barry Bonds, Giants ; OF – Ichiro Suzuki, Mariners ; OF – Manny Ramirez, Indians – Red Sox – Dodgers ; DH – David Ortiz, Twins – Red Sox ; SP – Randy Johnson, Diamondbacks – Yankees – Giants ; RP – Mariano Rivera, Yankees

* A 2007 ad featuring Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer and Scott Van Pelt having a conversation about Minnesota in the cafeteria.

* Catcher Joe Mauer ( 2003 )

* 2009: Joe Mauer, Minnesota Twins

Blanco became a valuable member of the Twins when rookie catcher Joe Mauer was injured early in the 2004 season.

In 1942, the Boston Braves purchased Lombardi's contract, despite his leading the league in hitting that season with a. 330 batting average ( albeit, in only 309 at-bats ); the next batting title to be won by a catcher came more than 60 years later when Joe Mauer won the AL batting title in 2006, a testament to how difficult it is for a catcher to win the title.

Former Twins farmhand and older brother of Twins catcher Joe Mauer, Jake Mauer, was named manager of the team after having led the GCL Twins to a wild card victory in and the South Division crown in.

Joe Mauer was a 2003 FSL All-Star for the Fort Myers Miracle

Durbin, Jason Kubel, Joe Mauer

* 1952 – Joe Strummer, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor ( The Clash, The Mescaleros, and The Pogues ) ( d. 2002 )

AMI continued to expand after it bought Joe Weider's Weider Publications in 2002.

* Harrington, Joe S. ( 2002 ).

From 1986 to 2002, NPR's most consistent producer of radio drama was the idiosyncratic Joe Frank, working out of KCRW in Santa Monica.

Anime created by Sunrise that have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize are Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979 and the first half of 1980, Space Runaway Ideon in the second half of 1980, Crusher Joe ( co-production ) in 1983, Dirty Pair in 1985, Future GPX Cyber Formula in 1991, Gundam SEED in 2002, Gundam SEED Destiny in 2004 and 2005, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion in 2006 and 2007 and Code Geass R2 in 2008.

* Joe Black ( 1924 – 2002 ), birthplace and childhood home, professional baseball player, Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds.

* Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros played a gig in support of striking firefighters on November 15, 2002 at Acton Old Town Hall, and Mick Jones joined Strummer on stage, marking the first time they performed together since Jones's departure from The Clash.

Gainsbourg's longtime partner is French-Israeli actor / director Yvan Attal, and together they have three children: a son, Ben ( b. 1997 ) and daughters Alice ( b. 2002 ) and Joe ( b. 2011 ).

He appeared on the 2002 album " A Classic Rock Christmas " performing the song " Santa's Lament " featuring Joe Walsh and Joe Vitale.

* Melana Scantlin, Miss Missouri USA 2002 and Average Joe star

In addition, he has produced a number of miniseries including Sebastian O ( 1993 ), the Doom Patrol spin-off Flex Mentallo ( 1996 ), Seaguy ( 2004 ), Vimanarama ( 2005 ), We3 ( 2004 – 2005 ) and " Joe The Barbarian " ( 2010 ) as well as the longer miniseries The Filth ( 2002 – 2003 ).

Everman Joe C. Bean High School is home to the 2001 and 2002 Texas 3A State Football champions and the Texas 3A State Boys Basketball champions.

* Garner, Joe ( 2002 ).

The 2002 American-German film Joe and Max tells the true story of Joe Louis and Max Schmeling and their enduring friendship.

In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Joe Louis on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

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* Joe Conason's Journal: Lott's involvement with the neo-Confederate movement, racists and extreme rightists goes way back, Salon. com, December 12, 2002.

John Graham Mellor ( 21 August 1952 – 22 December 2002 ), best remembered by his stage name Joe Strummer, was a British musician who was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of the British punk rock band The Clash.

Burke's career was revived with the July 23, 2002 release of Don't Give Up on Me on Fat Possum Records and produced by Joe Henry, where he sang songs written specifically for the album by various leading recording artists, including Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello and Tom Waits.

* Joe Flaherty-From SCTV, made an appearance in 2002.

He has also released further albums: 2001's Meet Joe Mac, One Too Many — a live compilation album of his work in 2002, — and a pop album 8: 09 in 2004.

In 2002, Lord delivered what the media and others hailed as an electrifying speech at the national Progressive Conservative Party of Canada convention in Edmonton, Alberta, which started speculation that he might run for a job in federal politics, specifically, replacing Joe Clark as federal PC leader.

Works deriving themes and elements from Future Shock include the science fiction novels The Forever War ( 1974 ) by Joe Haldeman, The Shockwave Rider ( 1975 ) by John Brunner, the RPG Transhuman Space ( 2002 ) by Steve Jackson Games, and the indie RPG Shock: Social Science Fiction ( 2006 ) by designer Joshua A. C. Newman.