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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.
The Houston Astros are a professional baseball franchise based in Houston, Texas. They are a member of the American League West Division in Major League Baseball. The team joined MLB in 1962 as an expansion team named the Houston Colt .45s and changed their name to the Houston Astros in 1965. The team won their first NL Championship in 2005.
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.
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Bryce Dejean-Jones – basketball shooting guard [9] Larry Dierker – MLB pitcher, manager, broadcaster [10] Spencer Dinwiddie – NBA guard for the Los Angeles Lakers [11] Larry Drew II – basketball point guard [12] Eazy-E – rapper, West Coast hip hop [13] Everlast – rapper/singer House of Pain; Jordan Farmar – basketball point guard ...
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
On October 3, 2009, Johnson spoke at Baseball Americana 2009, organized by the Library of Congress, in the company of Larry Dierker, Ernie Banks, and other figures from baseball's history. [13] In 2015, a Little League named for Johnson was formed in Washington. [1] Johnson is also featured in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York ...
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