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Larry Dierker's number 49 was retired by the Houston Astros in 2002. He was signed by the Houston Colt.45s at age 17 after winning a bidding war with teams such as the Chicago Cubs to sign him for $55,000. Dierker made his major-league pitching debut on his 18th birthday – and struck out Willie Mays in the first inning.
Larry Dierker is the only Astros manager to have had his uniform number retired by the Astros, with his uniform number 49 retired by the Astros in 2002. [5] Dierker is also the sixth manager in MLB history to win a division championship in his first season for the Astros in 1997. [5]
Dierker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Chris Dierker (born 1994), Vietnamese-American basketball player; Hugh Dierker (1890–1975), American film director and producer; Larry Dierker (born 1946), American baseball player, manager, and broadcaster
In the off-season, the Astros traded starting pitcher Claude Osteen to the Cardinals, and lost pitching ace Don Wilson, who died from carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 29 on January 5, 1975. [31] As a result, Richard entered the 1975 season as the third starter of the Astros' pitching rotation, behind veterans Larry Dierker and Dave Roberts.
James Sherman Wynn (March 12, 1942 – March 26, 2020), nicknamed "the Toy Cannon", was an American professional baseball player. He played 15 seasons as a center fielder; he spent ten of his fifteen seasons with the Houston Colt .45s / Astros before playing 2 All-Star seasons for the Los Angeles Dodgers and then two more seasons with three other teams.
Larry Ellison, the cofounder of Oracle, is being praised for looking 30 years younger at age 80. The antiaging advocate Bryan Johnson highlighted Ellison's youthful appearance on social media.
Plaques of numbers retired by the New York Yankees in Monument Park at Yankee Stadium. Major League Baseball (MLB) and its participating clubs have retired various uniform numbers over the course of time, ensuring that those numbers are never worn again and thus will always be associated with particular players or managers of note.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink made headlines this week when he warned of a looming retirement ... Fink said it’s “crazy” that 65 is considered the normal retirement age when so many Americans are ...