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William Darrell Mays Jr. (July 20, 1958 – June 28, 2009) [2] [3] was an American television direct-response advertisement salesperson.Throughout his career, he promoted a wide variety of products, including OxiClean, Orange Glo, Kaboom, Zorbeez, and Mighty Mendit.
Under this deal, Rodriguez also received $6 million when he tied the career home run total of Willie Mays (660), and would have received $6 million more had he tied Babe Ruth (714), Hank Aaron (755), and Barry Bonds (762), along with another $6 million for breaking Bonds' mark.
Stevenson compared Offer to earlier, "more upbeat" television pitchmen like Billy Mays and the Home Shopping Network hosts and concluded that Offer's "smooth-talking condescension" was more suited to the present "zeitgeist" than the "earnest fervor" of spokesmen like Mays and Ron Popeil. [15] Consumer Reports reported that the infomercial for ...
The death of a direct-to-consumers product spokeman isn't ordinarily something that would send ripples through the media world. But Billy Mays, who died unexpectedly on Sunday at age 50, was no ...
Billy Mays II and Billy Mays III in the late 1980s (left), and again in the early 2000s Billy Mays' son, Billy Mays III, has worked hard to keep his dad's memory alive in the 15 years since his death
Billy and his first wife, Dee Dee, welcomed their son, Billy Mays III, in August 1986. He was raised with his mother, Dee Dee, in Pittsburgh, and spent summers with his father in Florida.
Willie Mays, the all-time leader in games played as a center fielder. Games played (most often abbreviated as G or GP) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated (in any capacity); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested.
Although Billy Mays died two weeks ago, the powers that be have determined that the show -- and Mays' amazing showmanship -- must go on. Before his death, the famed pitchman recorded commercials ...