* 1957 – Kirk Gibson, American baseball player

The Tigers were managed by Sparky Anderson and featured shortstop and native San Diegan Alan Trammell and outfielder Kirk Gibson, along with Lance Parrish and DH Darrell Evans.

* May 28 – Kirk Gibson, American baseball player

He is most famous for his call in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series of Kirk Gibson's game-winning home run, and his disbelief at the feat by Gibson, who at the time had two injured legs.

He declared Kirk Gibson " the next Mickey Mantle ," which he later acknowledged may have put too much pressure on Gibson early in his career.

He finished a very close second in MVP voting to the Dodgers ' Kirk Gibson.

Former Michigan State players in Major League Baseball include Hall of Fame inductee Robin Roberts, Kirk Gibson, Steve Garvey and Mark Mulder.

A batter who grounded into comparatively few double plays ( 72 in his long career ) was Kirk Gibson, a left-handed hitter and a fast runner who struck out often but largely hit fly balls and hit few ground balls.

Kirk Gibson and Joe Maddon are the most recent winners.

He is also noted as the pitcher who gave up a dramatic, walk-off home run ( a phrase Eckersley coined after this home run ) to the injured Kirk Gibson in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series.

In the first game of the 1988 World Series, Dennis Eckersley tried to strike out Kirk Gibson with a slider, but Gibson was sitting on that pitch and hit a game-winning home run.

Kirk Harold Gibson ( born May 28, 1957 ) is an American former Major League Baseball player and current manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks.

After the ceremonies, the two of them sat together for an ESPN interview on the podium, taking audience questions and gently ribbing each other, especially about the upper-deck home run Kirk Gibson hit in the 1984 World Series.

1st-year manager Kirk Gibson.

The following season, playing without any injuries, Trammell became only the second player in Detroit history to hit 20 home runs and steal 20 bases ( Kirk Gibson was the other and Curtis Granderson has since joined the club ).

He currently serves as the bench coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks under former teammate Kirk Gibson.

Trammell was named bench coach of the Arizona Diamondbacks in October 2010 joining his former teammate Kirk Gibson who had earlier been named manager.

And of course there was “ Mr. Clutch ”, right-fielder Kirk Gibson, who had a break-out year with 27 home runs, 29 stolen bases, 91 RBIs, and a. 282 batting average.

After the Padres closed it to a one-run game in the eighth with a rare run off closer Willie Hernández, Kirk Gibson came to the plate in the bottom of the eighth for the Tigers with runners on second and third and one out.

Former and current members included Kirk Hammett, Rick Hunolt, Gary Holt, Jeff Andrews, Lee Altus, Rob Dukes, Tom Hunting and Jack Gibson.

The most memorable moment of the 1988 World Series occurred when injured Dodgers MVP Kirk Gibson, who could barely walk due to injuries suffered during the National League Championship Series, hit a pinch-hit, walk-off home run against Athletics closer Dennis Eckersley in Game 1.

Kirk Gibson ’ s 25 home runs led the team but was only good enough for seventh in the National League.

It was intensity and fortitude, however, that defined the 1988 Dodgers, a trend that began when Kirk Gibson was signed as a free-agent over the winter from the Detroit Tigers, the team he helped lead to the 1984 World Championship.

I would like to add one more practical reform to those mentioned by Russell Kirk ( Dec. 16 ).

Having left his widow expecting a child, the spectre of Kirk told Graham that he would appear at the baptism, whereupon Graham was to throw an iron knife at the apparition, thus freeing Kirk from the Fairies ' clutches.

Believing it is the elders ' responsibility to ensure that participants do not " eat and drink judgment to themselves " ( as mentioned in I Corinthians 11: 27-34 ) they require those who would participate to make themselves known to the Kirk Session before the service begins.

This became known as slash from the '/' mark used in adzines to differentiate a K & S story ( which would have been a Kirk and Spock friendship story ) from a K / S story, which would have been one with a romantic or sexual bent between the characters.

Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the " two tribes " of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries ( giving the examples of " cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons "), the song does contain the line " On the air America / I modelled shirts by Van Heusen ", a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 ( briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s ), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.

Beginning in the summer of 2004, and continuing throughout the fourth season, there were reports that William Shatner would reprise the role of James T. Kirk or perhaps an ancestor in the series, but an agreement could not be reached.

" They chose to reveal McCoy befriended Kirk first, explaining the " bias " in their friendship and why he would often be a " little dismissive " of Spock.

" The paltry sum of money Knox bequeathed to his family, which would have left them in dire poverty, showed that he had not profited from his work in the Kirk.

In " The Paradise Syndrome "," the Enterprise attempts to save a pre-industrial planet by moving an asteroid that was on a collision course with it ; when McCoy asks Kirk if he should warn the people, Kirk and Spock only point out the people would not understand the warning, and neither makes any reference to the Prime Directive.

When the scammer – who apparently never heard of the television series, asked for his passport details, he sent a copy of a fake passport with a photo of Star Trek's Captain Kirk, hoping that the scammer would attempt to use it and get arrested.

A comedy veteran, Shatner suggested making the show's characters as comfortable working in space as they would at sea, and having Kirk be a humorous " good-pal-the-captain, who in time of need would snap to and become the warrior ".

When Star Trek was cancelled in 1969, Shatner assumed it would be the end of his association with the show ; however, Shatner went on to voice Kirk in the animated Star Trek, star in the first seven Star Trek movies, and provide voice acting for several games.

Kurtzman said casting someone whose portrayal of Kirk would show that the character " is being honored and protected " was " tricky ", but that the " spirit of Kirk is very much alive and well " in Pine's depiction.

In a later TOS episode " Requiem for Methuselah ", Spock specifically requests a Terran brandy after Dr. McCoy, while serving himself and Captain Kirk, observes that he had no expectation that Spock would be joining them in a drink for fear that the alcohol would affect his logic faculties.

During the film Star Trek Generations, Captain Kirk states that he sold his house some time in the previous nine years, which from Kirk's perspective would be between 2284 and roughly 2290.

The Scott character, as conceived, would have been a semi-regular, but with fellow cast members Leonard Nimoy ( Spock ) and DeForest Kelley ( Dr. McCoy ), was elevated in importance to leads alongside William Shatner's Captain James T. Kirk.

According to tradition, Jesse Kirk, Kirksvilles first postmaster, shared a dinner of turkey and whiskey with surveyors working in the area on the condition that they would name the town after him.

Kirk realized that if a town were built near the water it would be a virtual freshwater port to the sea, as well as help support any prospective mill.

In 1965, the leadership was assumed by the younger Norman Kirk, who many believed would revitalise the party.