In 2011, The Marlins brought in several relief pitchers ( Randy Choate, Edward Mujica, Ryan Webb, and Michael Dunn among them ) to revamp a depleted bullpen ; All-Stars John Buck and Omar Infante, and former All-Star Javier Vázquez were also added to their roster.

Buck O ' Neil was the most recent former Negro league player to appear in a professional game when he made two appearances ( one for each team ) in the Northern League All-Star Game in 2006.

Other frequent, occasional, former or one-time guest members of Guy's All-Star Shoe Band ( some of whom were also members of The Powdermilk Biscuit Band ):

George Sherrill, a 2008 MLB All-Star, is a former Evansville Otter.

In what was to be the largest trade in NBA history, in a 5-team, 13-player transaction the Heat traded away Eddie Jones, Rasual Butler and Qyntel Woods and in exchange received former NBA All-Star Antoine Walker, Jason Williams, and James Posey.

Miami also signed former All-Star guard Gary Payton, former UCLA star Jason Kapono and first round pick and NCAA All American Wayne Simien.

On February 24, 2011 the Cavs made two trade deadline deals, acquiring former All-Star Baron Davis and a 2011 first round draft pick from the L. A. Clippers, which ended up being the number one pick in the draft, for Mo Williams and Jamario Moon in return.

After the lockout, the Pacers signed former two-time All-Star power forward David West to a two-year deal.

They would, however, through the draft acquire such standout players such as high-scoring forward Purvis Short ( 1978 ), former Georgetown Hoyas point guard Eric " Sleepy " Floyd ( 1982 ) ( who would later become an All-Star before being traded to the Houston Rockets ), and former Purdue University standout center Joe Barry Carroll, ( 1980 ) whose once promising career would be short-circuited because of injury, as well as center Robert Parish ( 1976 ).

They hired former All-Star ( and Los Angeles native ) Dennis Johnson as an assistant coach, as well as Hall of Fame former Laker great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to help tutor second-year center Michael Olowokandi.

An eleven-year NBA veteran and former NBA All-Star ( 2004 ), Martin joined the Clippers after signing with the Xinjiang Guanghui Flying Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association the previous summer.

* Robert McAdoo, former NBA All-Star and college basketball All-American.

* Éric Gagné, former three-time All-Star Major League Baseball closer and 2003 NL Cy Young Award winner, begins his MLB-record streak of 84 consective games saved.

* Ace Adams, born in Willows, former major league baseball All-Star

* Brittany Klein, former member of the United States U-23 women's national soccer team and a WPS All-Star in 2009.

* Doug Jones, former relief pitcher and All-Star in Major League Baseball

* Butch Beard – former NBA All-Star

* Gary DiSarcina, former professional baseball player, AL All-Star ( 1995 )

* Joe Dumars, former Detroit Piston captain and All-Star and current GM

* Sergei Federov, former Detroit Red Wing All-Star

* Steve Yzerman, former Detroit Red Wing captain and All-Star, current Tampa Bay Lightning GM

* Red Holzman, 2-time NBA All-Star guard, former coach of the New York Knicks, Hall of Fame

He is a five-time NBA All-Star, a former All-NBA First Teamer, a former NBA Rookie of the Year, and a former # 1 overall NBA Draftee.

It was nevertheless almost incredible that four years after Yalta there should be a complete split over Germany, with hot heads on both sides planning to use the Germans against their former allies, and with Nazi-minded Germans expecting to recover their power by fighting on one side or the other.

These historians point towards the unstable oligarchies established by Lysander in the former Athenian Empire and the failures of Spartan leaders ( such as Pausanias and Kleombrotos ) for the eventually suppression of Spartan power.

Ebby Thacher, Wilson's former drinking buddy and a Grouper who followed the evangelical bent and sought out other alcoholics, presented himself to Wilson telling him he had " got religion " and was sober, and that Wilson could do the same if he set aside objections to religion and formed, instead, a personal idea of God, " another power " or " higher power ".

Abd al-Rahman and a small selection of his family fled Damascus, where the center of Umayyad power had been ; people moving with him include his brother Yahiya, his four-year old son Sulayman, and some of his sisters, as well as his former Greek slave ( a freedman ), Bedr.

In 2001, former King Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha returned to power, this time as Prime Minister with his National Movement Simeon II.

France, the former colonial power, in particular, continues to provide significant aid and supports Compaoré's developing role as a regional powerbroker.

In July 1996, former Burundian President Buyoya returned to power in a bloodless coup.

* Further promises to Zion ( 4: 6 – 7 ) This is another later passage, promising Zion that she will once more enjoy her former independence and power.

In the former, so weakened was the defeated King John of England that he soon needed to submit to his barons demands and sign the Magna Carta, limiting the power of the crown and establishing the basis for common law.

Whether Henry actually intended to bring about the assassination of Becket is debatable, but there is no question that at the time of the murder, the two men were embroiled in a bitter dispute regarding the power of Royal Courts to exercise jurisdiction over former clergymen.

Chad is officially non-aligned but has close relations with France, the former colonial power.

Among the country ’ s five presidents since independence in 1960, three have been former army chiefs-of-staff, who have taken power through coups d ’ état.

The Serbian-Croatian Cvetković-Maček government that came to power, distanced Yugoslavia's former allies of France and the United Kingdom, and moved closer to Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in the period of 1935 – 1941.

The motive power for locomotive-hauled commuter trains may be either electric or Diesel-electric, although some countries, such as Germany and some of the former Soviet-bloc countries, also use diesel-hydraulic locomotives.

Similarly, rebels who took power in the city but with the citadel still held by the former rulers could by no means regard their tenure of power as secure.

* Combustion Engineering, a former American manufacturer of power systems ; sometimes given as C-E

Cuauhtémoc took power in 1520 as successor of Cuitláhuac and was a cousin of the former emperor Moctezuma II, and his young wife, who would later be known as Isabel Moctezuma, was one of Moctezuma's daughters.

Himself a former Sandinista who had held several high posts in the government, he had resigned apruptly in 1981 and defected, believing that the newly found power had corrupted the Sandinista's original ideas.

In June, they signed a peace accord in which Kabila would share power with former rebels.

On the Bourbons returning to power, David figured in the list of proscribed former revolutionaries and Bonapartists — for having voted execution for the deposed King Louis XVI ; and for participating in the death of Louis XVII.

A bare majority of Congress, acting in a special session called by former President Lucio Gutiérrez in December, 2004, ousted 27 of the 31 justices and replaced them with new members chosen by Congress, notwithstanding the lack of any provisions permitting impeachment of Supreme Court justices by Congress and the specific provisions giving the Court the power to select new members.

Environment – current issues: air heavily polluted with sulfur dioxide from oil-shale burning power plants in northeast ; contamination of soil and groundwater with petroleum products, chemicals at former Soviet military bases ; Estonia has more than 1, 400 natural and artificial lakes, the smaller of which in agricultural areas are heavily affected by organic waste ; coastal sea water is polluted in many locations.

Emperors have been known to come into conflict with the reigning shogun from time to time ; a notable example is the Hōgen Rebellion of 1156, in which former Emperor Sutoku attempted to seize power from the then current Emperor Go-Shirakawa, both of whom were supported by different clans of samurai.