Events include a fishing contest to see who can catch the biggest catfish, a street dance, a square dance, Sunday parades, co-ed volleyball tournament, men's 12-team softball tournament, bean bag tournament, queen contest / variety show, chess tournament, " Kiss the Catfish Contest ," music at the park, a raffle, church services, fire department water ball, and a St. Luke's Lutheran Church-sponsored breakfast.

He left a powerful legacy that included " Bottle It Up and Go ," " Cross Cut Saw Blues " later covered by Albert King, " My baby's gone " ( covered and adapted by Moon Mullican ), " Deep Blue Sea Blues " ( aka " Catfish Blues "), and others whose lasting power has been evidenced through the repertoires and re-recordings of other artists.

) It was Pérez's home run off future fellow Hall of Famer Catfish Hunter that propelled the National League to victory.

* June 10, 2004: Catfish pitcher Julio Pimentel set all-time Columbus records, outdueling Rome Braves ( and future Atlanta Braves ) pitcher Chuck James by striking out the first 8 batters, and 16 total in game 1 ( 7 innings complete game ) of doubleheader.

He began performing around 1969 as drummer with Boston band Catfish Black, which also included future Modern Lovers members Jerry Harrison ( also later of Talking Heads ) and Ernie Brooks.

Perquimans County is the home of Baseball Hall of Famer Jim " Catfish " Hunter and Harvey Point Defense Testing Activity facility.

* January 14 – Catfish Hunter and Billy Williams are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

While the Baseball Hall of Fame plaques generally depict each of their inductees wearing a particular club's cap ( with a few exceptions, such as Catfish Hunter ), the bust sculptures of each Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee make no reference to any specific team.

James Augustus " Catfish " Hunter ( April 8, 1946 – September 9, 1999 ), was a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher.

In addition to Billy Williams, the first Bee inducted into the Hall of Fame, former players who have enjoyed major league success include Sal Bando, Vida Blue ( who struck out a team-record 231 batters in 1968 ), Jim " Catfish " Hunter George Hendrick, Phil Garner, Chet Lemon, Claudell Washington, Hall of Famer Paul Molitor, Randy Ready, Larry Walker, Rubén Sierra, Kenny Rogers, José Vidro, Ugueth Urbina, Javy López, Mark Buehrle, Mike Mordecai, Shawn Estes, Ruben Gotay and Gus Zernial.

*** The Oakland Athletics, for Hall of Famer Catfish Hunter.

* Hall, Yancey ( 2005 ) Using Hands As Bait, " Noodlers " Stalk Giant Catfish National Geographic News.

The A's won the Division again in 1975, but the loss of pitcher Catfish Hunter, baseball's first modern free agent, left them vulnerable, and they were swept in the ALCS by the Boston Red Sox.

Hertford is the hometown of baseball pitcher Catfish Hunter.

Martin ( center ) with pitcher Catfish Hunter and Brad Gulden during a 1979 game soon after Thurman Munson's death.

The last pitcher to throw 30 complete games in a season was Catfish Hunter, who did so for the New York Yankees in 1975.

* On September 5, 1976, New York Yankees starting pitcher Catfish Hunter pinch-hit for second baseman Sandy Alomar, Sr. in top of the 6th inning and stayed in the lineup as the pitcher for the Yankees in the bottom half of the inning.

Charles O. Finley, owner of the Kansas City A's, gave Hunter the nickname " Catfish " in 1965 for no reason other than that he thought his new pitcher needed a flashy nickname.

* May 20, 2004: Catfish pitcher Chuck Tiffany pitched a 7-inning perfect game against the Greensboro Bats in game 2 of a doubleheader.

He played in 143 games that year, the most of his career, on a team that had three twenty game winning pitchers ( Ken Holtzman, Vida Blue and Jim " Catfish " Hunter ).

* Gave up Jim " Catfish " Hunter's first major league home run ( D. C. Stadium, May 30, 1967, 2nd game )

Klan Wizard James W. " Catfish " Cole began a campaign of harassment against the Lumbee, claiming they were half-breeds who had overstepped their place in the segregated Jim Crow South.

The New York Yankees were as far back as fourteen games behind the Boston Red Sox at mid-July suffering from injuries to pitchers Catfish Hunter and Jim Beattie.

But John Boy quit in February 1986, while Billy stayed for a month and a half, partnering unsuccessfully with Jim " Catfish " Prewitt.

The networks were later moved to Dallas Texas where talent on Country Coast to Coast included: Jim Casey, Steve Sharp, Jerry Walker, R. J. Steele, Mark Edwards, Becky Wight, Catfish Prewitt.

" So in Yankee Stadium, Dennis Boyd was never introduced as " Oil Can ", nor Jim Hunter as " Catfish.

Figueroa joined a Yankees pitching staff that included Catfish Hunter and Dock Ellis, yet it was Figueroa who turned out to be the staff ace, going 19 – 10 with a 3. 02 ERA to finish fourth in American League Cy Young Award balloting behind Jim Palmer, Mark Fidrych and former California teammate Frank Tanana in.

There a " Third Dynasty " soon emerged, with three World Championships in a row from 1972 to 1974 led by players including Catfish Hunter, Reggie Jackson, ace reliever Rollie Fingers, and colorful owner Charlie O. Finley.

However, Kansas City once again lost to the Yankees in the ALCS, but not before Brett hit three home runs off Catfish Hunter in Game Three, becoming the second player to hit three home runs in an LCS game ( Bob Robertson was the first, having done so in Game two of the 1971 National League Championship Series ).

* Catfish Hunter, professional baseball player

Catfish Hunter and Ken Holtzman also went for the bonus, but Fingers with his Snidely Whiplash took the prize.

The A's ( as they were officially known from ) moved to California in January 1968, just as the new talent amassed over the years in the minors ( such as Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando, Joe Rudi, Bert Campaneris, Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingers, and Vida Blue ) was starting to gel.

* Catfish Hunter singled in 1973, Ken Brett singled in 1976, and Tim Lollar singled in 1986, but although known as pitchers, in these instances these players were in the game as pinch hitters, NOT as pitchers.

Brad Gulden ( with Billy Martin and Catfish Hunter ) was one of two catchers to play in the game after Thurman Munson's funeral.

Upon hearing her demands, Buttermaker asks, " Who do you think you are, Catfish Hunter?

Cy Young, Christy Mathewson and Catfish Hunter are the only Major League pitchers to win 200 games by the time they were 31 years old.

* In 2004, the Oakland Athletics began the Catfish Hunter Award.

These five home runs still stand as a Major League record for the most home runs batted in a single inning, and were hit off starter Catfish Hunter ( three ) and reliever Paul Lindblad ( two ).

Until 1989, it included its smaller relative the Ghost Catfish, now known as K. minor.

In western Borneo, where they are sympatric, both K. minor and K. bicirrhis are collectively known as lais tipis in the Malay language, but when locals want to distinguish the two, they refer to the Glass Catfish as lais limpok.

In Cambodia, where it is known as trey kes prak, the Khmer people use the Ghost Catfish as a key ingredient in the fine fish condiment prahoc.

* Over 130 species of fish including bull sharks ( carcharhinus leucas ), rays, cobblers ( cnidoglanis macrocephalus, also known as Swan River Catfish.

A pond with a waterfall lets visitors sit and observe gourami, tin foil barbs, Iridescent Sharks ( a large, Asian Catfish readily available when small in most pet shops and also known as " Swai " when sold filleted in your local supermarket ) and Fly River turtles.

Phelps " Catfish " Collins ( 1944 – August 6, 2010 ) was an American rhythm guitarist known mostly for his work in the P-Funk collective.

The Suckermouthed Catfish ( Hypostomus punctatus ) is a tropical fish known as a Plecostomus belonging to the armored suckermouth catfish family ( Loricariidae ).

It was also known as the Rio Mariano, Rio San Jose, or Rio de Bagres ( Catfish river ).

Initially the mill was known as " The Catfish Mills.

The Catfish, then known as the Wilmington Waves as one of two South Atlantic League expansion teams in 2001, played their inaugural season in Wilmington, North Carolina, as an affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Catfish have even been known to take Ivory Soap as bait.

The best known of his paintings belongs to Taizō-in, a subtemple of Myōshin-ji in Kyoto, which is entitled ' Catching a Catfish with a Gourd ' ( c. 1413 ).