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* Tim Beckham-professional baseball player who was the first overall pick in the 2008 Major League Baseball draft after attending Griffin High School ( born in Griffin )
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Just before the commission, in a letter to sportswriter Tim Murnane, Spalding noted, " Our good old American game of baseball must have an American Dad.
Notable athletes to come out of Fairport include Tim Soudan in lacrosse ( UMass, Rochester Knighthawks ), Shawn Johnson in football ( Duke University, Tennessee Titans ), Steve Soja ( Coastal Carolina University, River City Rascals, Mid-Missouri Mavericks, Gateway Grizzlies and Yuma Scorpions ) and Ryan Szwejbka in baseball ( University of South Carolina, Aberdeen Pheasants ), Dave Cerny in lacrosse ( SUNY Albany Hall of Fame ), Dan Predmore in track and field ( Cornell University Hall of Fame ), Chris Collins in hockey ( Boston College Providence Bruins ), professional tennis player Marcus Fugate, Dhruv Tyagi in diving ( Stanford University ), Ryan Kavanaugh in Rowing ( Columbia University )
Following the 1969 season in which Rojas hit only. 228 and hot prospect Denny Doyle tore through AAA with a. 310 average, the Phillies decided to include him in the blockbuster trade that sent slugging first baseman ( and known malcontent ) Dick Allen and right-handed pitcher Jerry Johnson to the St. Louis Cardinals for centerfielder Curt Flood, catcher Tim McCarver, outfielder Byron Browne, and left-handed pitcher Joe Hoerner, the trade that led ultimately to Major League baseball free agency.
The lowest single-season WHIP in baseball history, 0. 7373, was posted by Pedro Martínez, who was then with the Boston Red Sox, in, breaking the previous MLB record of 0. 77 by Guy Hecker of the Louisville Eclipse, even though he had less than 150 innings pitched that year, just like all-time MLB single-season ERA record holder Tim Keefe in 1880 ( at 0. 86 with 105 innings pitched ).
Its founding members included Joe S. Jackson, the association's first president ; syndicated columnist Hugh Fullerton ; and Boston Globe baseball writer Tim Murnane (" Baseball Writers Unite ," 9 ).
Tim McCarver wrote that the New York Yankees in 1996 " revolutionized baseball " with Mariano Rivera, " a middle reliever who should have been on the All-Star team and who was a legitimate MVP candidate.
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Tim Blake ( synthesiser player on Planet Gong ) produced a solo album called " Blake's New Jerusalem ", including a 20 minute track with lyrics from Blake's poem.
Born-again athletes like New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow, St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford and former Rams Superbowl XXXIV winning quarterback Kurt Warner, Olympic hurderler Lolo Jones, boxer Katie Taylor and New York Knicks player Jeremy Lin.
But he lost to Tim Henman, 6 – 7 ( 5 ), 3 – 6, in the second round of the Miami Masters, a player he had defeated eight times previously in as many matches.
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