Shane Victorino

Shane was born on November 30th, 1980 in Wailuku Hawaii. In high school, Shane was a track and Field champ, clocking in at 10.80 for a ten meter dash. He even got the state record for this time! He started minor leagues when he got drafted for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1999. He then spent most of his time from 1999 to 2005 in the minor leagues. Victorino got drafted for the Philadelphia Phillies in 2005, but he failed to stay in the major league club, and was offered back to the dodgers. The dodgers declined, so the Phillies Took his contract. And he has been an out feilder for them from then until now.

Batting average     .279

Home runs     59

Runs batted in     280

Stolen bases     132

Cal Ripken Jr.

Calvin Edwin "Cal" Ripken, Jr. was born in Havre de Grace and was raised in Aberdeen, Maryland, in a baseball family. His father, Cal Sr., was a long-time coach in baseball who managed the Orioles in the late 1980s. Calvin went to Aberdeen High school, along with his brother, Billy.

Ripken only played for one MLB team, and they were the Baltimore Orioles. He Played from 1981 all the way to 2001, thats a good 20 years! He played as Shortstop and Third baseman.

Batting Average -- .276

Hits -- 3,184

Home Runs -- 431

Runs Batted In -- 1,695

Lou Gehrig

Gehrig was born on June 19, 1903(1903-06-19) in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, and weighed almost 14 pounds (6.4 kg) at birth. Gehrig first earned national attention in baseball while playing in a game at Cubs Park (now Wrigley Field) on June 26, 1920. Gehrig played in front of a crowd of more than 10,000 spectators.With his team winning 8-6 in the top of the ninth inning, Gehrig hit a grand slam completely out of the major league park, which was crazy for a 17-year old to do.

 Gehrig joined the New York Yankees midway through their 1923 season. on June 15, 1923, Gehrig debuted  as a pinch hitter. In his first two seasons, he saw limited playing time, mostly as a pinch hitter and he played in only 23 games and was not on the Yankees' 1923 World Series roster. In 1925, he batted .295, with 20 home runs and 68 RBIs.

After six days of extensive testing at the famed Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, the diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) was confirmed on June 19, Gehrig's 36th birthday. Lou Gehrig later died on June 2, 1941(1941-06-02) (aged 37) at Riverdale, New York City, New York.

Batting average -- .340

Home runs -- 493

Hits -- 2,721

Runs batted in  -- 1,995

Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth was born at 216 Emory Street in Pigtown, a neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Kate Schamberger-Ruth and George Herman Ruth, Sr. were Ruth's parents, and they owned some saloons and sold lightning rods. One sad thing about his childhood was that only one of Ruth's seven siblings, his sister Mamie, survived past infancy.

 Ruth was sent by his father to st. Mary's orphanage/school when he was seven years old. Brother Matthias Boutlier was the head of discipline at St. Mary's school and first introduced Ruth to the game of baseball. Matthias also acted like a father figure to Ruth. Ruth played against Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland in 1913, and gained the attention of Jack Dunn, owner and manager of the then minor-league Baltimore Orioles, and later got signed to his team.

on July 9, 1914, Dunn signed Ruth and two other players to Joe Lannin with the Boston Red Sox. Ruth played for the Red Socks for about six years, then got signed to the New York Yankees for about 14 years, and then, finally, got signed to the Boston Braves for 1 year.

.342 -- Batting Average

714 -- Home Runs

2,873 -- Hits

2.217 -- Runs Batted In

94-46 -- Win-Loss Record

2.28 -- Earned Run Average

Hank Aaron

            Hank Aaron was born in Mobile, Alabama to Herbert and Estella (Pritchett) Aaron. Aaron had seven siblings. Tommie Aaron, one of his brothers, also went on to play Major League Baseball. Aaron grew up in a poor family, and he worked on a farm picking cotton. Aaron’s family couldn’t afford baseball equipment, so he had to make the equipment out of things he found off the street, like sticks and bottle caps.

After relocating to Indianapolis, Indiana, eighteen-year-old Aaron helped the Indianapolis Clowns win the 1952 Negro League World Series. After playing for the Clowns, Aaron received two offers from MLB teams via telegram; one offer was from the New York Giants, the other from the then Boston Braves. Aaron chose the Braves because they paid fifty dollars more a month.

The 1970 season saw Aaron reach two more career milestones. On May 17th, Aaron collected his 3,000th hit, in a game against the Cincinnati Reds, the team against which he played his first game. He was the first player to get 3,000 career hits and 500 career home runs. Also during that year, Aaron established the record for most seasons with thirty or more home runs in the National League.

Batting average---- .305

Home runs---- 755

Hits---- 3,771

Runs batted in---- 2,297

Nolan Ryan, Jr.

Nolan Ryan, Jr. was born on January 31^st of 1957 in Refugio, Texas. Nolan was the youngest of six children. His parents were Nolan Ryan, Sr. and Martha Lee Hancock Ryan. His family moved to Alvin, Texas when he was he was only 6 months old. As a young boy, Nolan liked throwing objects at targets so his dad got him into baseball. He joined little league when he was nine.

In MLB, Nolan played for four different teams. He started in 1966 with the New York Mets, and stopped playing for them in 1971. He then moved to the California Angles in 1972, and stopped in 1979. He then signed to the Houston Astros for eight years, from 1980 to 1988. His last team was the Texas Rangers and he played for them from 1989 to 1993.

Ryan played in more seasons (27) than any other player in major league history. Ryan ranks first all-time in strikeouts (5,714), fewest hits allowed per nine innings (6.56), and no-hitters (7).

Nolan Retired from playing baseball but stayed in the baseball spirit. He threw out the ceremonial "first pitch" before Game 3 of the 2005 World Series between the Astros and the White Sox, the first World Series game ever played in Texas. That game went 14 innings, equaling the longest in innings in World Series history.

NFL Crash!

NFL quarterback Tom Brady was unhurt after he was involved in a two-car accident Thursday in Boston Tom Brady was reportedly "shaken" following the crash and refused to be taken to a hospital Tom Brady Sr. arrived in Boston from the family's California home and found out about the accident as soon as he got off his flight. A passenger in the other vehicle had to be freed with the Jaws of Life. Police responded to the intersection at about 6:30 a.m. to reports of an accident between an Audi sedan and a minivan. Bill Barron said he was in his apartment overlooking the intersection when he heard a collision that sounded like "a bolt of lightning." When he looked out the window, he saw the driver of the car picking glass off his clothes and wiping himself off with a towel. He didn't realize until later that it was Brady. Brady then retrieved some items from his car, made a series of phone calls and was picked up by another vehicle, Barron said.

The Most "Important" Meal of the Day

BREAKFAST! The most important meal of the day! Get a bowl and a box of cereal, pour the cereal, and dig in! Eat it with an orange, or just a muffin. It fuels you for the rest of the day, and it keeps you healthy. Most people have just cereal, but some people have a full breakfast with eggs, bacon, and the whole deal. Yes it is breakfast, its important and should be eaten every single day.