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 the final round and take the Middleweight title on January 25, defeating Oddone Piazza. After the tournament, <mask> lost to Dave Maier in a seventh-round technical knockout on November 27, 1931, in Buffalo. In the sixth, <mask> received a bad cut near his eye.Facing a furious barrage of punches, <mask> was down twice in the seventh for counts of nine before Maier put him to the mat for the final time. Opening rounds, Light Heavy Tournament
Don Petrin lost to <mask> on December 30, 1931, in the second round of the NBA World Light Heavyweight Tournament. <mask> scored a technical knockout over Petrin one minute into the fifth round of eight in Chicago, though he had taken considerable punishment in the early rounds. A terrific left hook to the chin of Petrin landed him on the mat for a count of nine. <mask> then closed the bout with rights and lefts nearly knocking his opponent out of the ring. The referee called the bout with Petrin hanging over the ropes, and unable to mount a defense. In the third round of the NBA tournament, on January 15, 1932, <mask> defeated Charley Bellanger in a ten-round points decision.<mask> knocked down Belanger for a count of nine in the fifth, and broadened his margin in the remaining rounds. Bellanger, who had a nine-pound weight advantage, used his experience in ringcraft to weather the remainder of the bout. NBA Light Heavyweight tournament, 1932
<mask> scored a decisive victory over Lou Scozza on January 28, 1932, in the fourth round of the NBA light heavyweight elimination tournament in Chicago. <mask> began to pile up a points margin in the second round when he scored with a left to Scozza's jaw. In the semi-final round of the NBA tournament on February 18, 1932, before a crowd of 23,000, Billy Jones fell to <mask> in a ten-round points decision. Many in the large crowd were there to see Jack Dempsey fight Kingfish Levinsky in a preliminary exhibition. <mask>'s win stunned many ringside as Jones was favored to reach the final bout and take the championship.An

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 enthralled audience watched him down his opponent twice in the second round, once for a count of nine, and once for a count of two. He downed Jones again in the fourth for a long count of nine. <mask> was only down briefly in the fifth. Though his opponent finished strong in the final rounds, <mask> had amassed too large a points margin and won the decision. Taking the NBA World Light Heavyweight title
<mask> took the NBA Light Heavyweight title in a shocking upset against fellow Southpaw Dave Maier in a close decision on March 18, 1932, in Chicago. The match was the deciding round in the NBA Light Heavyweight championship elimination tournament. <mask>, who had previously lost to Maier, was a 100-1 underdog in the early betting.Outpunching and outboxing his opponent, <mask> fought back ferociously any time he was cornered. He scored well in the fourth with lefts to the head and jaw, knocking Maier sagging into a corner, and turning the tide of contest. <mask> won a fifth-round technical knockout against Red Fitzsimmons, of Wichita in Colorado Springs on July 22, 1932. <mask> dropped a ten-round points decision to Ham Jenkins on July 29, 1932, in Denver. As both boxers were under the Light Heavyweight Limit, the match was not for the title. Jenkins may have won the infighting by a shade, and finished strong in the closing rounds. Joe Knight defeated <mask> in Charleston, South Carolina on October 17, 1932, in a decisive ten-round decision, though no title was on the line.Knight charged into his opponent from the opening bell, and <mask> failed to take a round. On October 28, 1932, <mask> lost a furious ten round points decision to Adolph Heuser at the Arena in Boston. Uncharacteristically, <mask> was down five time in the first round. Fighting fatigue, he went the full ten but lost ground badly in the closing rounds. Losing the NBA Light Heavyweight title
<mask> was stripped of his title on December 17, 1932, for failing to defend it within eight months. He lost to Al Gainer on May 15, 1933, in a


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 crowd had come to see Joe Knight fight Max Rosenbloom to a draw in the title bout. On September 16, 1935, using a five-pound weight advantage, <mask> outscored fringe middleweight contender Tony Tozzo in a six-round points decision in Buffalo.Though stripped of the title, <mask> fought on, finding a number of quality opponents. Allen Matthews fell to <mask> on July 8, 1936, before 10,000 fans in a ten-round points decision in Chicago. Matthews skillfully landed a blow over <mask> left eye in the opening round, but may have ultimately had difficulty adjusting to his opponent's Southpaw style. Matthews was down for a no count from a blow to the face in the fifth. In a strong finish, <mask> floored Matthews with a left to the jaw for a count of nine in the ninth. Before a sizable crowd of 10,000, <mask> lost a non-title ten-round decision against John Henry Lewis, reigning Light Heavyweight Champion, at Municipal Auditorium in St. Louis, Missouri on August 12, 1936. <mask> impressively staggered the champion in the fifth with a crushing left, but Lewis piled up points in all the other rounds, and had <mask> hanging on groggily in the eighth and ninth.<mask> had drawn with Lewis on April 7, 1936, at Broadway Auditorium in Buffalo. He used a hard left effectively throughout the bout, often posing it near Lewis's face. Life away from the ring
He married national speed skating champion, Kit Klein in 1933 in Ripley, New York, but the marriage was brief and quickly annulled. He was married to Bertie Horn during his boxing career, and throughout his retirement from the ring. Several sources report <mask> died on September 27, 1986, in Sandusky, Ohio. In 1997, he was in the first class inducted into Buffalo, New York's Ring 44 Boxing Hall of Fame. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/213879137/john-george-nichols

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texts: <mask>. (born May 6, 1931), nicknamed "The Say Hey Kid" and "Buck", is an American former professional baseball center fielder. He spent almost all of his 22-season Major League Baseball (MLB) career playing for the New York/San Francisco Giants (1951–1952, 1954–1972) before finishing his career with the New York Mets (1972–1973). Regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979. <mask> joined the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League in 1948, playing with them until the Giants signed him once he graduated from high school in 1950. He won the Rookie of the Year Award in his MLB debut year of 1951, spent two years in the United States Army during the Korean War, and won the National League (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award in 1954 after leading the league in batting with a .345 batting average. His over-the-shoulder catch of a Vic Wertz fly ball in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series is one of the most famous baseball plays of all time. The Giants swept the Cleveland Indians, the lone World Series triumph of <mask>'s career.<mask> led the NL with 51 home runs (HR) in 1955. In 1956, he stole 40 bases, leading the NL for the first of four straight years. He won his first of 12 Gold Glove Awards in 1957, a record for outfielders. The Giants moved to San Francisco after the 1957 season, and Mays contended for the batting title until the final day of 1958, hitting a career-high .347. He batted over .300 for the next two seasons, leading the league in hits in 1960. After leading the NL with 129 runs scored

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 in 1961, <mask> led the NL in home runs in 1962 as the Giants won the NL pennant and faced the New York Yankees in the World Series, which the Giants lost in seven games. By 1963, Mays was making over $100,000 a year, setting a record at the time with a $105,000 contract for that season.In 1964, his manager Alvin Dark named him the Giants' captain. He led the NL with 47 home runs that year. He hit 52 the following year, leading the NL and winning his second MVP award. 1966 was the last of 10 seasons in which he had over 100 runs batted in (RBI). In 1969, he hit the 600th home run of his career; he got his 3,000th hit in 1970. Traded to the Mets in 1972, Mays spent the rest of that season and 1973 with them before retiring. He served as a coach for the Mets until 1979 and later rejoined the Giants as a special assistant to the president and general manager.<mask> finished his career batting .302 with 660 home runs, the sixth-most of all time, and 1,903 runs batted in. He holds MLB records for most putouts (7,095) and the most extra-inning home runs (22). <mask> was selected for 24 All-Star Games, tied for the second-most of all time. He was named to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999 and ranked second on The Sporting Newss "List of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players", behind only Babe Ruth. President Barack Obama presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015. Early life

<mask> <mask>, Jr., was born on May 6, 1931, in Westfield, Alabama, a primarily black company town near Fairfield. His father, <mask>, was a talented baseball player with the black

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 team at the local iron plant.Annie Satterwhite, his mother, was a gifted high school basketball and track star. His parents never married but separated when Mays was three. His father raised him and two girls, Sarah and Ernestine. <mask> worked as a railway porter and later at the steel mills in Westfield. He exposed <mask> to baseball at an early age, playing catch with him at five and allowing him to sit on the bench with his Birmingham Industrial League team at ten. His favorite baseball player growing up was Joe DiMaggio; other favorites were Ted Williams and Stan Musial. Mays played several sports at Fairfield Industrial High School.On the basketball team, he led players at all-black high schools in Jefferson County in scoring. Mays played quarterback, fullback and punter for the football team. Though he turned 18 in 1949, Mays did not graduate from Fairfield until 1950, which journalist Allen Barra calls "a minor mystery in <mask>'s life". Negro and minor leagues
Mays's professional baseball career began in 1948 when he played briefly during the summer with the Chattanooga Choo-Choos, a Negro minor league team. Later that year, Mays joined the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League, managed by Piper Davis, a teammate of Mays's father on the industrial team. When Fairfield Industrial principal E. J. Oliver threatened to suspend Mays for playing professional ball, Davis and Mays's father worked out an agreement. Mays would only play home games for the Black Barons.In return, he could still play high school football. Mays helped Birmingham advance to the 1948

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texts: Grounds.Mays went hitless in his next 12 at-bats, and Durocher dropped him to eighth in the batting order on June 2, suggesting that Mays stop trying to pull the ball and just make contact. Mays responded with four hits over his next two games on June 2 and 3. By the end of the month, he had pushed his batting average to over .300. He would bat close to .290 for the rest of the season. Although his .274 average, 68 RBI and 20 home runs (in 121 games) would rank among the lowest totals of his career, he still won the National League (NL) Rookie of the Year Award. On August 11, the Giants found themselves  games back of the Dodgers in the NL pennant race; Brooklyn manager Charlie Dressen triumphantly predicted, "The Giants is dead." However, the Giants went 40–18 in the season's final 58 games, winning their last seven of the year to finish the regular season tied with the Dodgers.During the pennant race, <mask>'s fielding and strong throwing arm were instrumental in several important Giants' victories. Mays was in the on-deck circle on October 3 when Bobby Thomson hit a three-run homer to win the three-game NL tie-breaker series 2–1. The Giants met the New York Yankees and <mask>'s boyhood favorite DiMaggio in the 1951 World Series, which the Giants lost in six games. In Game 1, Mays, Hank Thompson, and Monte Irvin comprised the first all-African-American outfield in major league history. Mays hit poorly while the Giants lost the series 4–2. In Game 5 he hit a consequential fly ball, which DiMaggio and Yankee rookie Mickey Mantle pursued. As DiMaggio called Mantle off, the

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 younger Yankee got his cleat stuck in an open drainpipe, suffering a knee injury that would affect him the rest of his career.U.S. Army (1952–1953)
Soon after the 1951 season ended, Mays learned the United States Army had drafted him to serve in the Korean War. Before he left to join the Army, Mays played the first few weeks of the 1952 season with the Giants. He batted .236 with four home runs in 34 games. He surprised sportswriters like Red Smith when he drew cheers from fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Giants' archrivals, in his last game before reporting. After his induction into the Army on May 29, Mays reported to Fort Eustis in Virginia, where he spent much of his time playing on military baseball teams with other major leaguers. It was at Fort Eustis that Mays learned the basket catch from fellow Fort Eustis outfielder Jerry Salvador. Mays missed about 266 games because of his military service.Discharged on March 1, 1954, he reported to Giants' spring training camp the following day. MVP, World Series champion (1954–1955)

<mask> began the 1954 season on Opening Day with a home run of over  against Carl Erskine. After he batted .250 in his first 20 games, Durocher moved him from third to fifth in the batting order and again encouraged him to stop attempting to pull the ball and try to get hits to right field. Mays changed his batting stance and stood straighter at the plate, keeping his feet closer together. He credited these adjustments with improving his batting average, as he batted .450 with 25 RBI in his next 20 games. On June 25, he hit an inside-the-park home


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texts: run in a 6–2 victory over the Chicago Cubs. <mask> was selected for the NL All-Star team; he would be part of 24 straight NL All-Star teams over 20 seasons.Mays became the first player in history to hit 30 home runs before the All-Star Game. He had 36 home runs through July 28. Around that time, Durocher asked him to stop trying to hit them, explaining the team wanted him to reach base more often. Mays hit only five home runs after July 28 but upped his batting average from .326 to .345 to win the team's first batting title since Bill Terry's in 1930. Hitting 41 home runs, Mays won the NL Most Valuable Player Award and the Hickok Belt. The Giants won the NL pennant and the 1954 World Series, sweeping the Cleveland Indians in four games. The 1954 series is perhaps best remembered for "The Catch", an over-the-shoulder running grab by Mays of a long drive off the bat of Vic Wertz about  from home plate at the Polo Grounds during the eighth inning of Game 1.The catch prevented two Indians' runners from scoring, preserving a tie game. "The Catch transcended baseball" Barra wrote, and Larry Schwartz of ESPN said of all the catches that Mays made, "it is regarded as his greatest". Mays did not even look at the ball for the last twenty feet as he ran, saying later he realized he had to keep running if he was going to get the ball. The Giants won the game in the 10th inning on a three-run home run by Dusty Rhodes, with <mask> scoring the winning run. Mays added base stealing to his talents, upping his total from eight in 1954 to 24 in 1955. In the middle of May, Durocher asked him to


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 try for more home runs. Mays led the league with 51 but finished fourth in NL MVP voting.Leading the league with a .659 slugging percentage, Mays batted .319 as the Giants finished in third. During the last game of the season, Durocher, who had supported Mays since his career had begun, told him he would not be returning as the Giants manager. When Mays responded, "But Mr. Leo, it's going to be different with you gone. You won't be here to help me," Durocher told his star, "<mask>s doesn't need help from anyone." New manager (1956–1957)

In 1956, Mays struggled at first to get along with new manager Bill Rigney, who publicly criticized him. The center fielder grew particularly annoyed after Rigney fined him $100 for not running to first base on a pop fly that was caught by the catcher. He hit 36 homers and stole 40 bases, becoming only the second player to join the 30–30 club.Though his RBI (84) and batting average (.296) were his lowest for nearly a decade, Barra observed that "<mask> was still the best all-around player in the National League." The relationship between Mays and Rigney improved in 1957. Rigney stopped giving Mays as much direction, trusting his star player's ability and instinct. In his 2010 authorized biography of Mays, James S. Hirsch wrote Mays had "one of his most exhilarating excursions" on April 21. In the game against the Phillies, Mays reached second base on an error, stole third, and scored the winning run on a Hank Sauer single, all on plays close enough that he had to slide to make each one. He stole home in a 4–3 loss to the Cubs on May 21. 1957

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 was the first season the Gold Glove Awards were presented.<mask> won the first of 12 consecutive Gold Gloves for his play in center field. He finished in the NL's top-five in a variety of offensive categories: runs scored (112, third) batting average (.333, second), and home runs (35, fourth). In 1957, Mays became the fourth player in major league history to join the 20–20–20 club (doubles, triples, homers). He stole 38 bases that year, making him the second 20–20–20 club member (after Frank Schulte in 1911) to steal at least 20 bases. This gave him his second straight 30-30 club season. Dwindling attendance and the desire for a new ballpark prompted the Giants to move to San Francisco following the 1957 season. In the final Giants' home game at the Polo Grounds on September 29, 1957, fans gave Mays a standing ovation in the middle of his final at bat, after Pirates' pitcher Bob Friend had already thrown a pitch to him."I do not recall hearing another ovation given a man after the pitcher has started to work on him," Mays biographer Arnold Hano wrote. Move to San Francisco (1958–1961)
In 1958, Rigney wanted Mays to challenge Babe Ruth's record of 60 home runs in a season. Consequently, Rigney did not play Mays much in spring training hoping to use his best hitter every day of the regular season. As he had in 1954, Mays vied for the NL batting title until the final game of the season. Moved to the leadoff slot the last day to increase his at-bats, Mays collected three hits in the game to finish with a career-high .347, but Philadelphia's Richie Ashburn batted .350. Mays shared


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texts: center fielder ever to come from San Francisco. Hal Wood mentioned the DiMaggio theory, as well as two other explanations: 1) the fans had heard so many wonderful things about Mays's play in New York that they expected him to be a better player than he actually was, and 2) Mays tended to keep to himself. Mays said in 1959 that he did not mind the booing, but he admitted in a 1961 article that the catcalls were bothering him. Whatever the reason, the boos, which had begun to subside after Mays's four-home run game in 1961, grew even quieter in 1962, as the Giants enjoyed their best season since moving to San Francisco. Mays led the team in eight offensive categories in 1962: runs (130), doubles (36), home runs (49), RBI (141), stolen bases (18), walks (78), on-base percentage (.384), and slugging percentage (.613). He finished second in NL MVP voting to Maury Wills, who had broken Ty Cobb's record for stolen bases in a season. On September 30, Mays hit a game-winning home run in the Giants' final regularly scheduled game of the year, forcing the team into a tie for first place with the Los Angeles Dodgers.The Giants faced the Dodgers in a three-game playoff series. With the Giants trailing 4–2 in the top of the ninth inning of Game 3, <mask> hit an RBI single, eventually scoring as the Giants took a 6–4 lead. With two outs in the bottom of the inning, Lee Walls hit a fly ball to center field, which Mays caught for the final out as the Giants advanced to the World Series against the Yankees. In Game 1 of the World Series, a 6–2 loss to New York, <mask> recorded three hits. He


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 would bat merely .250 in the series overall. The Series went all the way to a Game 7, which the Yankees led 1–0 in the bottom of the ninth. Matty Alou led off the inning with a bunt single but was still at first two outs later when Mays came up with the Giants one out from elimination.Batting against Ralph Terry, he hit a ball into the right-field corner that might have been deep enough to score Alou, but Giants third base coach Whitey Lockman opted to hold Alou at third. The next batter, McCovey, hit a line drive that was caught by Bobby Richardson, and the Yankees won the deciding game 1–0. It was <mask>'s last World Series appearance as a Giant. Mays reveled in the fact that he had finally won the support of San Francisco fans; "It only took them five years," he later said. Record-setting contract (1963–1964)
Before the 1963 season, Mays signed a contract worth a record-setting $105,000 per season (). On July 2, when Spahn and Juan Marichal each threw 15 scoreless innings, Mays hit a 16th-inning home run off Spahn, giving the Giants a 1–0 victory. He considered the home run one of his most important, along with his first and the four-home-run game.In August, he won his third NL Player of the Month Award after batting .387 with eight home runs and 27 RBI. Mays finished the 1963 season batting .314 with 38 home runs and 103 RBI, stealing only eight bases, his fewest since 1954. Normally the third batter in the lineup, Mays was moved to fourth in 1964 before returning to third in subsequent years. On May 21, Dark named Mays the Giants' captain, making Mays the first


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 African-American captain of an MLB team. "You deserve it," Dark told Mays. "You should have had it long before this." Against the Phillies on September 4, Mays made what Hirsch called "one of the most acrobatic catches of his career".Ruben Amaro, Sr., hit a ball to the scoreboard at Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium. <mask>, who had been playing closer to home plate than normal, ran at top speed after the ball. He caught it in midair and had to kick his legs forward to keep his head from hitting the ballpark's fence, but he held on to the ball. While he batted under .300 (.296) for the first time since 1956, he led the NL with 47 home runs and ranked second with 121 runs scored and 111 RBI. MVP again (1965–1966)
A torn shoulder muscle sustained in a 1965 game against the Atlanta Braves impaired <mask>'s ability to throw. He kept the injury a secret from opposing players, making two or three practice throws before games to discourage them from running on him. On August 22, <mask> acted as a peacemaker during a 14-minute brawl between the Giants and Dodgers after Marichal had bloodied Dodgers catcher John Roseboro with a bat.<mask> grabbed Roseboro by the waist and helped him off the field, then tackled Lou Johnson to keep him from attacking an umpire. Johnson kicked him in the head and nearly knocked him out. After the brawl, <mask> hit a game-winning three-run home run against Sandy Koufax, but he did not finish the game, feeling dizzy after the home run. <mask> won his fourth and final NL Player of the Month award in August 1965 (.363, 17 home runs, 29 RBI). On September 13,

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texts: 1965, he hit his 500th career home run off Don Nottebart. Warren Spahn, off whom Mays hit his first career home run, was now his teammate. After the home run, Spahn asked him, "Was it anything like the same feeling?"Mays replied, "It was exactly the same feeling. Same pitch, too." The next night, Mays hit one that he considered his most dramatic. With the Giants trailing the Houston Astros by two runs with two outs in the ninth, Mays swung and missed at Claude Raymond's first two pitches, took three balls to load the count, and fouled off three pitches before homering on the ninth pitch. The Giants won 6–5 in 10 innings. <mask> won his second MVP award in 1965 behind a career-high 52 home runs, in what Barra said "may very well have [been] his best year". He batted .317, leading the NL in on-base percentage (.400) and slugging percentage (.645).The span of 11 years between his MVP awards was the longest gap of any major leaguer who attained the distinction more than once, as were the 10 years between his 50 home run seasons. He scored 118 runs, the 12th year in a row he had scored at least 100 runs in a season. <mask> tied Mel Ott's NL record of 511 home runs on April 24, 1966, against the Astros. After that, he went for nine days without a home run. "I started thinking home run every time I got up," Mays explained the slump. He finally set the record May 4. Despite nursing an injured thigh muscle on September 7, Mays reached base in the 11th inning of a game against the Dodgers with two outs, then attempted to score from first base on a Frank Johnson single.On a close play,


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 umpire Tony Venzon initially ruled him out, then changed the call when he saw Roseboro had dropped the ball after Mays collided with him. San Francisco won 3–2. <mask> finished third in the NL MVP voting, the ninth and final time he finished in the top five in the voting for the award. He batted .288 with 99 runs scored, 37 home runs, and 103 RBI; by season's end, only Babe Ruth had hit more home runs (714 to 542). Player of the Decade (1967–1970)
Mays had 13 home runs and 44 RBI through his first 75 games of 1967 but then went into a slump. On June 7, Gary Nolan of the Cincinnati Reds struck him out four times; this was the first time in his career this had happened, though the Giants still won the game 4–3. Afflicted by a fever on July 14, Mays left that day's game after the sixth inning because of fatigue and spent five days in a hospital."After I got back into the lineup, I never felt strong again for the rest of the season," he recalled. In 141 games, Mays hit .263 with 83 runs scored, 128 hits, and 22 home runs. He had only 70 RBI for the year, the first time since 1958 he had failed to reach 100. Before a game in Houston on May 6, 1968, Astros owner Roy Hofheinz presented Mays with a 569-pound birthday cake for his 37th birthday—the pounds represented every home run Mays had hit in his career. After sharing some of it with his teammates, Mays sent the rest to the Texas Children's Hospital. He played 148 games and upped his batting average to .289, accumulating 84 runs scored, 144 hits, 23 home runs, and 79 RBI. In 1969, new Giants' manager Clyde King moved Mays to the


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texts: safely.Evading Foli's tag on the return throw to third, Mays scored the winning run on a sacrifice fly. He had 15 home runs and a .290 average at the All-Star break but faded down the stretch, only hitting three home runs and batting .241 for the rest of the year. One reason he hit so few home runs was that Mays walked 112 times, 30 more times than he had at any point in his career. This was partly because <mask>, who often batted behind Mays in the lineup, missed several games with injuries, causing pitchers to pitch carefully to Mays so they could concentrate on getting less-skilled hitters out. Subsequently, Mays led the league in on-base percentage (.425) for only the second time, though his 123 strikeouts were a career-high. He batted .271 and stole 23 bases. The Giants won the NL West in 1971, returning Mays to the playoffs for the first time since 1962.In the NL Championship Series (NLCS) against the Pirates, <mask> had a home run and three RBI in the first two games. In Game 3, <mask> attempted an unsuccessful sacrifice bunt in a 1–1 tie in the sixth with no outs and Tito Fuentes on second base, a move that surprised reporters covering the game. The Giants lost 2–1. "I was thinking of the best way to get the run in," Mays explained the bunt, pointing out that McCovey and Bonds were due up next. The Giants lost the series in four games. After the season, <mask> was honored as the winner of the inaugural Roberto Clemente Award, known at that time as the Commissioner's Award. <mask> got off to a tortuous start to the 1972 season, batting .184 through his first 19

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texts: the outfield, assets throughout his career, were diminished in 1973, and he only made the All-Star team because of a special intervention by NL President Chub Feeney. However, the Mets won the NL East. On August 17, 1973, <mask> hit his final (660th) home run against the Reds' Don Gullett.Having considered retirement all year, Mays finally told the Mets officially on September 9 that 1973 would be his last season. He made the announcement to the public on September 20. "I thought I'd be crying by now," he told reporters and Mets' executives at a press conference that day, "but I see so many people here who are my friends, I can't...Baseball and me, we had what you might call a love affair." Five days later, the Mets honored him on Willie Mays Night, proclaimed by New York City mayor John Lindsay, where he thanked the New York fans and said goodbye to baseball. In 66 games, Mays batted a career-low .211 with six home runs. Against the Reds in the NLCS, Mays helped restore order in Game 3 after Mets fans began throwing trash at Pete Rose following a brawl Rose had started. Game 5 was the only one Mays played; he had a pinch-hit RBI single as the Mets won 7–2, clinching a trip to the 1973 World Series against the Oakland Athletics.A shoulder injury to Rusty Staub prompted the Mets to shift Don Hahn to right field and start Mays in center at the start of the Series. He stumbled four times in the first two games, including a fielding error in Game 2 that allowed the Athletics to tie the game and force extra innings. <mask>'s last hit came later in the same game, an RBI single


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 against Rollie Fingers that snapped a 7–7 tie in the 12th inning of a 10–7 victory. His final at-bat came in Game 3, where he pinch-hit for Tug McGraw and grounded into a force play. The Mets lost the series in seven games. All-Star games
<mask>'s 24 appearances on an All-Star Game roster are tied with Musial for second all-time, behind only Hank Aaron's 25. He "strove for All-Star glory" according to Hirsch, taking the game seriously in his desire to support his NL teammates.In the first All-Star Game of 1959, <mask> hit a game-winning triple against Whitey Ford; Bob Stevens of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that "Harvey Kuenn gave it honest pursuit, but the only center fielder in baseball who could have caught it hit it." He scored the winning run in the bottom of the 10th inning of the first All-Star Game of 1961 on a Clemente single in a 5–4 win for the NL. At Cleveland Stadium in the 1963 All-Star Game, he made the finest catch, snagging his foot under a wire fence in center field as he grasped a long fly ball hit by Joe Pepitone that might have given the AL the lead. The NL won 5–3, and Mays was named the All-Star Game MVP. With a leadoff home run against Milt Pappas in the 1965 All-Star Game, Mays set a record for most hits in his All-Star Games (21). <mask> led off the 1968 All-Star Game with a single, moved to second on an error, advanced to third base on a wild pitch, and scored the only run of the game when McCovey hit into a double play; for his contributions, <mask> won the All-Star Game MVP Award for the second time. He individually holds the records for most

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 at bats (75), hits (23), runs scored (20), and stolen bases (six) by an All-Star; additionally, he is tied with Musial for the most extra-base hits (eight) and total bases (40), and he is tied with Brooks Robinson for the most triples (three) in All-Star Game history.In appreciation of his All-Star records, Ted Williams said, "They invented the All-Star Game for <mask>s." Barnstorming
During the first part of his career, Mays often participated in barnstorming tours after his regular season with the Giants ended. Teams of star players would travel from city to city playing exhibition games for local fans. Following his rookie year, Mays went on a barnstorming tour with an All-Star team assembled by Campanella, playing in Negro League stadiums around the southern United States. From 1955 through 1958, Mays led <mask>'s All-Stars, a team composed of such stars as Irvin, Thompson, Aaron, Frank Robinson, Junior Gilliam, Brooks Lawrence, Sam Jones, and Joe Black. The team travelled around the southern United States the first two years, attaining crowds of about 5,000 in 1955 but drawing less than 1,000 in 1956, partly because of the advent of television. In 1957, the team went to Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic, drawing 117,766 fans in 15 games, 14 of which were won by Mays's team.They played 20 games in Mexico in 1958, but Mays did not lead a team in 1959; Stoneham wanted him to rest because he was suffering from a broken finger. In 1960, Mays also did not barnstorm, but he and the Giants did go to Tokyo, playing an exhibition series of 16 games against the Yomiuri


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 another time scoring from first base on a McCovey bunt (without an error). Assessment and legacy

On January 23, 1979, <mask> was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. He garnered 409 of the 432 ballots cast (94.68%). Referring to the other 23 voters, the acerbic New York Daily News columnist Dick Young wrote, "If Jesus Christ were to show up with his old baseball glove, some guys wouldn't vote for him.He dropped the cross three times, didn't he?" In his induction speech, Mays said, "What can I say? This country is made up of a great many things. You can grow up to be what you want. I chose baseball, and I loved every minute of it. I give you one word—love. It means dedication.You have to sacrifice many things to play baseball. I sacrificed a bad marriage and I sacrificed a good marriage. But I'm here today because baseball is my number one love." In 1999, Mays placed second on The Sporting Newss "List of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players", trailing only Babe Ruth. Later that year, fans elected him to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. Fellow players and coaches recognized his talent. "To me, <mask>s is the greatest who ever played," Roberto Clemente said.<mask> learned the hard way how good Mays's arm was when the center fielder threw him out in a game in 1965. "I couldn't believe Mays could throw that far. I figured there had to be a relay. Then I found out there wasn't. He's too good for this world." "If somebody came up and hit .450, stole 100 bases and performed a miracle in the field every day, I’d still look you in the eye and

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texts: say <mask> was better," Durocher said. "All I can say is that he is the greatest player I ever saw, bar none," was Rigney's assessment.When Mays was the only player elected to the Hall of Fame in 1979, Duke Snider, who finished second in voting that year, said, "<mask> really more or less deserves to be in by himself." Don Zimmer remarked, "In the National League in the 1950s, there were two opposing players who stood out over all the others—Stan Musial and <mask>s. ... I’ve always said that <mask>s was the best player I ever saw. ... [H]e could have been an All-Star at any position." Teammate Felipe Alou said, "[Mays] is number one, without a doubt. … [A]nyone who played with him or against him would agree that he is the best." Al Rosen remembered "...you had the feeling you were playing against someone who was going to be the greatest of all time."Throughout his career, <mask> maintained he did not specifically try to set records, but he ranks among baseball's leaders in many categories. Third in home runs with 660 when he retired, he still ranks sixth as of June 2021. His 2,062 runs scored rank seventh, and his 1,903 RBI rank 12th as of June 2021. Mays batted .302 in his career and his 3,283 hits are the 12th-most of any player as of June 2021. His 2,992 games played are the ninth-highest total of any major leaguer as of June 2021. He stole 338 bases in his career. By the end of his career, Mays had won a Gold Glove Award 12 times, a record for outfielders today (shared by Roberto Clemente).He is baseball's all-time leader in outfield putouts (7,095), and he played 2,842

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texts: games as an outfielder, a total exceeded only by Cobb (2,934) and Barry Bonds (2,874). <mask>'s 24 appearances on an All-Star Game roster are tied with Musial for second all-time, behind only Aaron's 25. He holds individually the All-Star Game records for most at bats (75), hits (23), runs scored (20), and stolen bases (six); additionally, he is tied with Musial for the most extra-base hits (eight) and total bases (40), and he is tied with Brooks Robinson for the most triples (three) in All-Star Game history. Mays's 156.2 Wins Above Replacement (WAR) ranks fifth all-time, and third among position players (trailing Barry Bonds's 162.8 and Ruth's 162.1). He led NL position players in WAR for 10 seasons, and led the league in on-base plus slugging (OPS) five times, ranking 26th all time with a .941 mark. Sabermetrician Bill James thinks Mays was the best centerfielder of all time, naming him the best in the major leagues in the 1950s and the 1960s. David Schoenfield of ESPN, James, and Barra each think he should have won the NL MVP Award at least seven times."He was one of the best fielders of all time," Schoenfield writes, noting Mays has the eighth-most fielding runs saved (a sabermetric stat) of all-time. Barra claimed in 2004, "Most modern fans would pick <mask>s as the best all-around player in the second half of the twentieth century." Sportscaster Curt Gowdy said of Mays, "<mask>s was the best player I ever saw. He did everything well." Sudden collapses plagued Mays sporadically throughout his career, which occasionally led to hospital stays. He attributed them to his

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 greeter. After being told by Kuhn that he could not be part of both baseball and a casino, Mays terminated his contract with the Mets, and he was banned from baseball. Kuhn was concerned about gambling infiltrating baseball, but Hirsch points out that Mays's role was merely as a greeter, he was not allowed to place bets at the casino as part of his contract, and the casino did not engage in sports betting. In 1985, less than a year after replacing Kuhn as commissioner, Peter Ueberroth decided to allow Mays to return to baseball. At a press conference with <mask> and Mantle (reinstated from a similar suspension), Ueberroth said, "I am bringing back two players who are more a part of baseball than perhaps anyone else." <mask> was named special assistant to the president and general manager of the Giants in 1986. He signed a lifetime contract with the team in 1993 and helped to muster public enthusiasm for building Pac Bell Park, which opened in 2000.Mays founded a charity, the Say Hey Foundation, which promotes youth baseball. The Giants retired Mays's number 24 in May 1972. Oracle Park, their stadium, is at 24 <mask> Mays Plaza. In front of the main entrance is a nine-foot-tall statue of Mays, who has a private box at the stadium. When the Giants dedicated a Wall of Fame to their greatest players in 2008, Mays became part of its inaugural class. Special honors, media appearances

Mays has met with United States Presidents. During Gerald Ford's administration in 1976, he was invited to the White House state dinner honoring Queen Elizabeth II, whom Mays met.He was the Tee Ball

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texts: Commissioner at the 2006 White House Tee Ball Initiative on July 30, 2006, during George W. Bush's presidency. On July 14, 2009, he accompanied Barack Obama to St. Louis aboard Air Force One for that year's All-Star Game. Six years later, Obama honored Mays with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In September 2017, Major League Baseball renamed the World Series MVP Award the <mask>s World Series MVP Award. Though Mays never went to college, he has been awarded honorary degrees by Yale University, Dartmouth College, and San Francisco State University. Mays has made many appearances on film and television. He made multiple appearances as the mystery guest on the long-running game show What's My Line?Through a friendship with Tony Owen and Donna Reed, he was able to appear in three episodes of The Donna Reed Show. During the 1960s, he appeared on shows including The Dating Game and Bewitched. NBC-TV aired an hour-long documentary titled A Man Named Mays in 1963, telling the story of the ballplayer's life. In 1972, Mays voiced himself in the animated fictional special <mask>s and the Say-Hey Kid, produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts mentioned Mays numerous times. Many popular songs reference Mays. The Treniers recorded the most famous one—"Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song)"—in 1954, with Mays himself participating in the recording."Centerfield" by John Fogerty, which is often played at major and minor league stadiums, mentions Mays, Cobb, and DiMaggio. Others mentioning him include "I Shall Be Free" by Bob Dylan,  "Talkin' Baseball" by Terry

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Mays became the third husband of Marghuerite Wendell Chapman (1926–2010) in 1956. The couple adopted a five-day-old baby named Michael in 1959. They separated in 1962 and divorced in 1963, with Marghuerite taking Michael for the majority of the time. Eight years later, Mays married Mae Louise Allen, a child-welfare worker in San Francisco. Wilt Chamberlain had given Mays her number in 1961, and they dated off and on the next several years.In 1997, she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease; <mask> cared for her devotedly until she died from it on April 19, 2013. In the 1970's, Mays was good friends with Gambino Crime Family caporegime Greg DePalma, often playing golf with him. Mays is the godfather of Barry Bonds, whose father, Bobby Bonds, was a friend of his when they were Giants teammates. Glaucoma forced Mays to stop driving a car and playing golf after 2005. See also

Notes

References

Bibliography

 The Series, An Illustrated History of Baseball's Postseason Showcase, 1903–1993, The Sporting News, copyright 1993, The Sporting News Publishing Co. External links

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May 1951: Minneapolis Tribune account of Mays's first home game as a Minneapolis Miller
<mask>s: Say Hey! – slideshow by Life magazine
<mask>s Biography and Interview on American Academy of Achievement

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<mask> (November 29, 1907 – January 25, 1977) was an American college football, basketball and baseball player during the 1920s, who later became a Hollywood motion picture actor and stunt performer for over forty years. <mask>el played college football for the University of Florida, and was recognized as the first-ever first-team All-American in the history of the Florida Gators football program. Early life

<mask> was born in Eatonton, Georgia, on November 29, 1907 to <mask> and Ella McGaen, but grew up in Gainesville, Florida. His father William owned a photography studio in Gainesville. The family came to Georgia originally from Guernsey County, Ohio. High school
<mask> attended Gainesville High School, where he played high school football for the Gainesville Purple Hurricanes. <mask>'s older brother Talmadge had also been an all-state player for Gainesville High.In 2007, eighty-one years after he graduated from high school, the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) recognized <mask> <mask> as one of the "100 Greatest Players of the First 100 Years" of Florida high school football. He is generally regarded as the best high school football player produced in the state of Florida before the 1930s. College career

<mask> attended the University of Florida in Gainesville. He played right end for the Florida Gators football team for three seasons from 1927 to 1929, on the opposite side of the line from left end Dutch Stanley. During his three years as a member of the Gators varsity, the team won twenty-three of twenty-nine games. Led by future Hall of Fame coach Charlie Bachman in 1928, <mask> and the Gators posted an 8–1 record during his junior season, outscoring their competition 366–44—the most points scored in the nation. The Gators' sole 1928 loss was to Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee—by a single point, 12–13.The Associated Press, Newspaper Enterprise Association and Grantland Rice of Collier's Weekly named <mask> to their

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 respective 1928 first-team All-America squads, making him the first player from the University of Florida to be named a first-team All-American. As was typical of the 1920s era, <mask> played both offense and defense; his College Hall of Fame biography describes him as "a swift and sure-handed receiver on offense and a gifted defensive player." <mask> was injured during his senior football season in 1929, and while he was productive, he was unable to post the same sort of numbers in 1929 that he did during his 1928 All-American season. He was also a first-team All-Southern selection in both 1928 and 1929. <mask> was also the team captain and a varsity letterman for the Florida Gators basketball and Gators baseball teams. He was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great," and he was also the first Gator to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1975. The sportswriters of The Gainesville Sun selected him as the No.11 all-time Gator player among the top 100 from the first century of Florida football in 2006. <mask> graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in 1930, and he remained at the university to be an assistant coach for the Gators football and basketball teams during the 1930 and 1931 seasons. Hollywood career

After his two-year coaching career, <mask> moved to Hollywood to begin a career as a movie stuntman, and had his first on-screen stunt role in the Marx Brothers' 1933 film Duck Soup. Over the next thirty-eight years, <mask> appeared as an extra and occasional leading man in over 280 films and television episodes, and performed on-screen stunts in another 140. In addition to appearing in numerous B movies, he was a stunt man and on-screen extra in such Hollywood classics as The Searchers, North by Northwest and Spartacus. He was a founding member and the first president of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures. <mask> died in 1977 in Newport

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 Beach, California as a result of injuries received while filming a car crash stunt in 1975; he was 69 years old.<mask> was survived by his wife Iris and their daughter. An Oral History of Florida's Pursuit of Gridiron Glory, Legends Publishing, LLC, St. Petersburg, Florida (2002).  .
 Hairston, Jack, Tales from the Gator Swamp: A Collection of the Greatest Gator Stories Ever Told, Sports Publishing, LLC, Champaign, Illinois (2002).  .
 Johnson, Bob,  Interviewee Dennis Keith "Dutch" Stanley, University of Florida Oral History Project, George A. Smathers Libraries, Digital Collections, Gainesville, Florida (July 25, 1974). McCarthy, Kevin M.,  Fightin' Gators: A History of University of Florida Football, Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (2000).  .
 McEwen, Tom, The Gators: A Story of Florida Football, The Strode Publishers, Huntsville, Alabama (1974).  .
 Nash, Noel, ed., The Gainesville Sun Presents The Greatest Moments in Florida Gators Football, Sports Publishing, Inc., Champaign, Illinois (1998).  . External links

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Sportspeople from the Atlanta metropolitan area
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All-Southern college football players
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texts: <mask> (27 March 1942 – 30 August 2007) was an English writer and journalist. He was the author of many influential books about beer and whisky. He was a regular contributor to a number of British broadsheets, particularly The Independent and The Observer. <mask>'s books have sold over three million copies worldwide and have been translated into eighteen languages. He is credited with helping to start a renaissance of interest in beer and breweries worldwide in the 1970s, particularly in the United States. He is also widely credited with popularising the idea of beer styles. His influential television series The Beer Hunter was shown in fifteen countries.He was as well-versed in malt whisky as he was in beer, and his book <mask>'s Malt Whisky Companion (1989) is the best-selling book on the subject in the world. At the time of his death <mask> had been suffering from Parkinson's disease for at least a decade. He did not declare his illness until his symptoms caused some to think he was drunk. <mask> was born in Wetherby, West Riding of Yorkshire. His father had Anglicised his Lithuanian Jewish surname Jakowitz to <mask>. The family moved to Leeds after the war. He went to King James's Grammar School, Almondbury and became a journalist, particularly being associated with Edinburgh, where he first encountered whisky.On his return to London he briefly edited the advertising trade journal Campaign. <mask> became known in beer circles in 1977 when his book The World Guide To Beer was first published. This was later translated into more than ten languages and is still considered to be one of the most fundamental books on the subject. The modern theory of beer style is largely derived from this book, in which <mask> categorised a variety of beers from around the

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texts: world in local style groups suggested by local customs and names. His work had a special influence on the popularisation of the brewing culture in North America, and in 1989 he hosted a television series entitled The Beer Hunter, which was shown on Channel 4 in the UK and the Discovery Channel. It involved several episodes in which <mask> would visit a different country. Episodes featured beer barrels being lined with pitch or iron foundry workers drinking 'light' beer while they worked in hot conditions to quench thirst, practices which he knew were likely to be ended soon.<mask> considered beer as a component of culture and described beers in their cultural context. Although he travelled around the world and discovered different beer cultures, he was especially fond of the Belgian beers. He was appointed to an honorary officer of the Ridderschap van de Roerstok in 1997 for his important contribution to the international success of the Belgian beers. This honour had previously only been given to brewers. In 1998, <mask> brought forth his own line of beer glassware. Shortly after, <mask> also helped create and worked with the only beer club he ever endorsed, <mask>'s Rare Beer Club. <mask> was also an important reviewer of whiskies.In his book The Malt Whisky Companion, he reviewed a large number of whiskies and gave them marks from 0–100, considering only those with a score above seventy-five worth purchasing. In many ways, his work in the world of whisky exceeded his significance as a beer writer. He was arguably the most important writer on whisky since the Victorian commentator Alfred Barnard and certainly the most significant and influential modern whisky writer. This was recognised by the award of "Master of the Quaich" and the prodigious sale of his

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 whisky books and sell-out attendances at his tastings. He had a large influence on the development of single malt whisky globally. Apart from his work as a journalist and a critic, he was also a fan of Rugby league. It was revealed in December 2006 that <mask> had been suffering for at least a decade from Parkinson's disease.He also suffered from diabetes. <mask> died of a heart attack in his home on the morning of 30 August 2007 at the age of 65. He was survived by his girlfriend of 26 years, Paddy Gunningham, and her daughter and grandchildren. Awards
André Simon Award
Winner of the Glenfiddich Trophy, a British prize for culinary writers. Honorary officer of the Ridderschap van de Roerstok, a Belgian award. The Gold Tankard of the British Guild of Beer Writers, given for his CD-Roms
Columnist of the Year from the North American Guild of Beer Writers
Winner James Beard Award, 2006
 Keeper of the Quaich; Master of the Quaich (Scotch Whisky industry award)
 Holder of the Haarikka ("haarikanhaltija" in Finnish) 1995 (Finnish Sahti Association award)
First recipient of the US Achievement Award of the Institute for Fermentation Studies. Honorary Master beer judge; Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP)

Selective bibliography
 <mask>, <mask> (1976).The English Pub
 <mask>, <mask> (1977). The World Guide to Beer
 <mask>, <mask> (1986). Pocket Guide to Beer
 <mask>, <mask> (1987). The World Guide to Whisky
 <mask>, <mask> (1988). New World Guide to Beer (Updated)
 <mask>, <mask> (1991). <mask>'s Great Beers of Belgium
 <mask>, <mask> (1997). <mask>'s Beer Companion
 <mask>, <mask> (1998) Ultimate Beer
 <mask>, <mask> (1998) Little Book on Beer
 <mask>, <mask>; Lucas, Sharon (ed.)(1999). <mask>'s complete guide to Single Malt Scotch (fourth ed.).

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 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:  Running Press Book Publishers. <mask>, <mask>; Lucas, Sharon (ed.) (2000). <mask>'s Great Beer Guide. DK ADULT.<mask>, <mask> (2001). Scotland and its Whiskies
 <mask>, <mask> (2004). The Malt Whisky Companion, Penguin Books 2004
 <mask>, <mask> (2005). Bar and Cocktail Party Book
 <mask>, <mask> (2005). Whisky

Multimedia
 The Beer Hunter (1989), a set of two VHS videocassettes
 A Journey of Discovery – Tasting the Classic Malts with <mask> (1992), a VHS videocassette
 The Beer Hunter (1995), a CD-ROM about the American beer culture
 World Beer Hunter (1996), a CD-ROM on beer cultures around the world
 Beer Hunter The Movie (2013), a documentary film on <mask>'s life

See also
 Jim Murray (whisky writer)

References

External links
<mask> Special Collection This is held in the Oxford Brookes University Library and includes 1,500 books from the expert's personal library on beer, whisky and other drinks, as well as 300 copies of his own books. <mask>'s Beer Hunter
Obituary, "The Guardian", 4 September 2007 (written by Roger Protz)
 Obituary, Washington Post, 1 September 2007
Obituary, The Daily Telegraph, 1 September 2007
Obituary, The Independent, 3 September 2007
 Obituary, The Times, 5 September 2007
'Lives Remembered' The Times
Remembering <mask>, The Brewers Association
 <mask>'s Life and Death, All about Beer
'<mask>'s Rare Beer Club'
<mask> – special issue of Brewery History
http://www.beerhuntermovie.com/about_the_film.php
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wandermedia/beer-hunter-the-movie/description

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<mask> bar Shay Allah was the Patriarch of Antioch, and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1483 until his death in 1493. Biography

Early life
<mask> was the son of Shay Allah, who was the son of Sad al-Din, also known as Ibn al-Asfar, and his family was originally from Bartulli. He was born in the city of Mardin in 1442, and became a monk at the Monastery of Mor Hananyo. Whilst at the monastery, <mask> received a special education equal to that of Aziz, the nephew of <mask> of Maʿdan, Patriarch of Antioch, and was educated in Syriac literature by the priests Simon of Amid and <mask> of Mardin, as well as the monks Joshua of Basibrina and David bar Qashafo of Qalat al-Imra'a. Simon of Amid was a priest at the Church of the Forty Martyrs in Mardin, but died during his education of <mask> and was succeeded by <mask> of Mardin who educated him until he was eighteen. David bar Qashafo taught <mask> astronomy and an anonymous tutor from Constantinople educated him in the use of the use of the astrolabe. <mask> also received an education in dialectics, philosophy, and theology in Mardin, Syria and Egypt.In 1471, according to official church documents, <mask> was ordained Bishop of Amid, however, it has been argued that the ordination took place in 1474. After his ordination as bishop, <mask> became <mask> Chaleph's companion and adviser, and was put in charge of his financial affairs. <mask> extended his title to Bishop of Amid and Sawro, so named after the village of Sawro near the Monastery of Mor Abay, where he resided. As bishop, <mask> immediately began to

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 restore dilapidated churches and monasteries throughout his diocese, including the Monastery of Mor Abay. He also restored the monasteries near the village of Qellet and bought and returned land formerly belonging to the monasteries that had been seized by Muslims. As well as this, <mask> built an extension to the Church of the Forty Martyrs in Mardin, and ransomed eight Georgian captives enslaved by Turkish raids. <mask> gifted the Georgians with horses and supplies to help them to return to Georgia.As a result of his building activities, <mask> accumulated large debts to Ibrahim Beg, Emir of Mardin. Patriarchate
Following the death of <mask> Chaleph in 1483, the Syriac Orthodox population of Mardin was divided over who would succeed Chaleph, and <mask> and Baselius Aziz, Maphrian of the East, Chaleph's nephew, and heir presumptive, were the two most popular contenders for the patriarchal throne. Certain bishops subsequently attempted to bribe Ibrahim Beg to usurp the patriarchal throne for themselves. <mask> travelled to meet with Ibrahim Beg alongside the priest <mask> Badre and Isa, chief layman of Mardin, and secured his aid so that he may secure the patriarchal throne. <mask>'s debts apparently influenced Ibrahim Beg to support <mask> and the emir granted him an official seal of approval and a fine garment. As patriarch, <mask> continued to build and restore churches and monasteries in the regions of Harput, Se'ert, Mardin, Amid, Nisibis and Mosul, such as the Church of Yoldath Aloho (Mother of God) in Harzam. The patriarch set out to restore a Syriac Orthodox

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texts: church in the town of Nisibis, which had only three or four Syriac Orthodox households and was largely populated by Nestorians, adherents of a rival church known as the Church of the East.He initially excavated the Church of Mor Jacob with the intention of rebuilding it, but abandoned this effort, and rejected a suggestion to restore the Church of Mor Dimet in the outskirts of Nisibis, as it was too far from the centre. <mask> was shown where the Church of Mor Batlo once stood in the town, and, satisfied by its location, had it excavated. Under Islamic rule, Christians were permitted to only rebuild churches, not build new ones, and thus <mask>, having excavated the ruins of the church, gained official permission from the qadis and faqihs (Islamic jurists) to rebuild the church. The Nestorians sent a delegation to the Emir of Mardin to protest the reconstruction of the Church of Mor Batlo and claimed there had not be a church there in the past, thus breaking Islamic law, and <mask> was summoned to defend himself. <mask> travelled from Nisibis to Mardin to answer the summons and, with the evidence of the foundations of the original church and the official permission of the qadis and faqihs of Nisibis, the allegations were dismissed and he returned to Nisibis. The Church of Mor Batlo was completed and rededicated as the Church of Mor Batlo and Yoldath Aloho following <mask>'s return. <mask> cooperated with Baselius Aziz and the two stayed at the church prior to its consecration.Whilst at the church, <mask> received an apparition of Mor Batlo in a dream who indicated

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 the location of his remains and, in the following morning, <mask> and Baselius Aziz dug at the indicated place and discovered the remains of Mor Batlo. <mask> had a chapel built on the location and connected it to the church. He also appointed a bishop of Nisibis to minister to the Syriac Orthodox population of the town. <mask>'s efforts in Nisibis were largely symbolic and were seen as the reclamation of their heritage. This is because the town of Nisibis was the diocese of Jacob of Nisibis, a highly venerated saint in the Syriac Orthodox Church, and thus to appoint a Syriac Orthodox bishop was to reclaim the town from the Nestorians. Baselius Aziz died shortly after the consecration of the Church of Mor Balto and Yoldath Aloho in 1487 and fear of Nestorian attacks in Mosul led <mask> to travel to the city and restore the nearby Monastery of Mor Behnam. <mask> resolved an issue affecting the Monastery of Mor Hananyo whereby the monks faced harassment from Muslims who lived in a nearby orchard.<mask> threatened the Emir of Mardin that himself and all other members of his church would relocate if the issue was not resolved. The emir capitulated and an agreement was reached by which the aforementioned orchard was exchanged for another property. It was alleged that <mask> was poisoned in 1493 by Joshua, Bishop of Sawro, who would later become patriarch in 1509. References

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<mask> (; born 24 March 1944) is a Serbian former politician and statesman who served as the last president of FR Yugoslavia from 2000 to 2003, and as the prime minister of Serbia for two terms (from 2004 to 2007, and from 2007 to 2008). <mask> won the 2000 Yugoslav presidential election as a candidate of a broad alliance Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), which led to overthrow of Slobodan Milošević and the withdrawal of international sanctions against Yugoslavia. He strictly opposed cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and his party left the coalition government in protest at the decision to extradite Slobodan Milošević to the ICTY. After the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election, the first elections after the dissolution of DOS and assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić, <mask> formed a minority government with the support of the Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia and became the head of government. He was one of the crucial figures in the adoption of the first constitution of an independent Serbia, as well as for declaring Serbia a neutral country. During his second government (2007-2008), he opposed signing the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the European Union, leading to the fall of the government after a year and the early elections won by pro-European parties. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Democratic Party of Serbia from its creation in 1992 until 19 March 2014, when he resigned as party president and retired from active politics after his party failed to reach the 5% threshold to enter the Parliament on March 16 elections for the first time in its history.In October 2014, he left the party after disagreements with the new party leadership over what he saw as their abandonment of the policy of political neutrality. In November 2014, he was one of the founders of the right-wing eurosceptic "Statehood Movement of Serbia". Early life and education
<mask> was born on 24 March 1944 in his family home in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. As a youth he went by the nickname 'Voja'.

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 He was educated in Belgrade, where he finished elementary school, and graduated from the Second Belgrade High School in 1962. <mask> enrolled in the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Law the same year, graduating in 1966. He earned his master's degree in 1970 and his Ph.D. in 1974 with his thesis "Institutionalized Opposition in the Political System of Capitalism".<mask> was an assistant at the faculty from 1970 until 1974, when he left due to a political purge at the university for criticising the communist regime of Josip Broz Tito. After his expulsion, <mask> worked at the Institute of Social Sciences, and from 1981 at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, where he engaged in the protection of human rights, specifically in the defence of freedom of thought and expression. Political career
<mask> was a founding member of the Democratic Party (DS) in 1989. He left the Democratic Party in 1992 over opposing views in leadership and formed the Democratic Party of Serbia. President of Yugoslavia (2000–03)

Supported by both nationalists and liberals, the Democratic Opposition of Serbia backed him in the 2000 presidential election against incumbent Slobodan Milošević. <mask> received 50.2 percent of the vote in the first round of voting, just a few thousand votes over the threshold needed to win outright. Milošević disputed the results of the first round, claiming that <mask> had only received 49 percent of the vote and a runoff was required.The Otpor movement, a student-led movement to oust Milošević  and install free and fair elections, organized a protest where thousands of Serbians participated in strikes and took over the Belgrade capital and forced Milošević to accept the results and step down as president. <mask> then assumed the presidency. He was the last president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. <mask> opposed the extradition of his predecessor, to the Hague Tribunal, and voiced opposition to the court. Prime Minister of Serbia (2004–08)

<mask> became prime minister in March 2004 at the head of the new minority government, albeit with the support of

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 the Socialist Party of Serbia. Serbian parliamentary elections in January 2007 were inconclusive. On 15 May 2007 <mask> agreed to form a fragile coalition government with Boris Tadić, with <mask> continuing his role as Prime Minister and Tadić's party receiving 13 of 25 cabinet posts.On 8 March 2008, Koštunica called for new elections on 11 May after the collapse of his party's coalition with the Democratic Party over relations with the European Union and Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence. Pro-EU candidate Boris Tadić and his Democratic Party wound up winning the parliamentary elections and on July 7, a coalition between the Democrats and the Socialist Party was formed with Mirko Cvetković succeeding Koštunica as Prime Minister. Policy

Koštunica is a conservative politician with strong anti-communist views but also critical of the West, namely the United States and the European Union. In an interview with German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel, Koštunica stated he is "fairly close to de Gaulle", in his views. On Kosovo
On 21 February 2008, following Kosovo's declaration of independence, Koštunica made an emotional speech in Belgrade, which included the following:  Buses took thousands of supporters to the rally; some protestors then attacked embassies and looted shops. On 25 February 2008, Koštunica demanded that the United States rescind its recognition of Kosovo, warning that "there will be no stability until the fake state" is annulled. On the European Union

On 4 April 2008, Koštunica stated that European Union membership was no longer on the agenda for Serbia.He stated that before EU integration could continue, Serbia and the EU must discuss the matter of Serbia's territorial integrity. He stated that Serbia must not by any means sign the Stabilisation and Association Agreement, which he referred to as "Solana's agreement". On 21 April 2008 <mask> said that the SAA was in the interests of Olli Rehn and Javier Solana and not in Serbia's national interests. He also said that "the NATO pact cannot claim that Serbia recognised Kosovo’s independence with that

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 signature." and that "the only thing the NATO pact will be able to claim is that individual parties signed Solana’s agreement." On 27 April 2008 he said that anyone who signed the SAA on behalf of Serbia would become an accomplice to tearing Serbia apart. He also implied there is a cover-up of something in the agreement by saying: "I am convinced every Serbian sees that things are being covered up, and that there is something seriously amiss with the Solana agreement."and he asked "who in Serbia dares to ignore these facts and conceal the real goal of Solana's agreement." On 28 April 2008 he said that "the signature will not be valid for Serbia and whoever signs the SAA will have to assume responsibility for such an act". On 1 May 2008 Koštunica said that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was right when he said that the SAA should have been signed before Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence and its recognition by 18 EU member states at the time. One day later on 2 May 2008 he vowed to annul the agreement after the election, calling it "a trick", "Solana's agreement" and "the Tadić-Đelić SAA signature". He said he refers to the act of signing of the SAA as anti-Constitutional and anti-state that leads to the breakup of Serbia. A spokesperson of Koštunica's Democratic Party of Serbia stated that Tadić was putting a seal of Judas of his party coalition to the Solana Agreement by signing it. On 4 May he called the document "a forgery and a trick".See also
Democratic Party of Serbia
Cabinet of Vojislav <mask> (2004–2007)
Cabinet of Vojislav <mask> II (2007–2008)

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<mask> (; born 19 October 1959) is an Israeli businessman and politician. He served as mayor of Jerusalem between the years 2008–2018. Biography
<mask> was raised in Jerusalem. His father, Zalman, was a professor of physics at the Hebrew University. His great-grandfather came from Russia to Mandatory Palestine in the 1920s, and died in 1924. <mask> served in the Paratroopers Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces for six years (1977-1983), as well as reserve duty, and reached the rank of Major. <mask> was also wounded in combat in Lebanon.<mask> holds a BA in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also studied for a master's degree in business administration at the same institution, but hasn't completed it. <mask> and his wife Beverly, an artist, have three daughters. The family lives in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit HaKerem. <mask> <mask> was named the 43rd most influential Jewish person in 2013.

Business career

High-Tech Ventures
<mask> started his career in the high-tech industry by founding a software company called BRM in 1988, which specialized in antivirus software. Later, the company became an incubator venture firm that invested in several companies such as Check Point and Backweb. He later helped found the social investment company IVN, Israel Venture Network.In 2007, <mask> took part in the Israeli version of Dragons' Den, the venture-capitalist television program, which consists of entrepreneurs pitching their ideas in order to secure investment from business experts. Private fortune
According to Forbes in 2013, <mask>'s net worth is estimated at NIS 450 million (about $122 million), more than the combined value of the next three politicians on the list making him the wealthiest Israeli politician. On October 3, 2021, <mask>'s name was included among 565 Israelis whose names were included in the Pandora papers. As mayor, he did not take any salary from the city of Jerusalem. Political career

Campaign for mayor of Jerusalem

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 Jerusalem's education system. In 1999, the <mask> family began to explore the educational gaps in Jerusalem through their investment in The Snunit Center for the Advancement of Web Based Learning, a non-profit, non-governmental organization which uses web based resources to improve online education and improve personal and social growth within the Israeli society. <mask> saw this investment as the beginning of his interest in entering into Jerusalem's municipal politics.<mask>'s official entry into politics began in January 2003, when he founded the party Yerushalayim Tatzli'ah ("Jerusalem Will Succeed") and ran in the Jerusalem mayoral race, securing 43% of the vote and losing to Uri Lupoliansky. After his initial loss, <mask> served as head of the opposition on the city council until his election as mayor in 2008. During this period he helped form StartUp Jerusalem, a venture to create jobs in the capital. He briefly led the Jerusalem faction of the Kadima party from 2006 - 2007, then a powerhouse in Israeli politics, but left due to disagreements with the proposal to relinquish portions of Jerusalem. Mayor of Jerusalem
<mask> ran for a second time in November 2008, this time winning the election with 52% of the vote (his main rival, Meir Porush, won 43%). <mask> was described as a secular politician, contrasting with both Lupoliansky and Porush, who are Haredi. He ran on a platform of increasing tourism, finding solutions to the housing crisis, and opposing the light rail.He also vowed to make city council more approachable and transparent and decried the use of the mayors office a stepping stone to national politics. Controversies during his first term included the firing of city council member Rachel Azaria and his proposal for relinquishing predominantly Arab populated neighborhoods on the outskirts of the city limits. He helped to initiate the city's first international marathon in 2011 and has personally participating in races both in Jerusalem and abroad. In 2013, he ran for a second term, during which he was endorsed by the Labor Party, and also by a range of

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texts: prominent Likud activists; he also had the tacit support of Meretz, which withdrew its candidate, Pepe Alalu, in order not to steal votes away from <mask>. His opponent Moshe Lion had backing from Avigdor Lieberman, head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party and Aryeh Deri, head of Shas. <mask> was re-elected with 52% of the vote compared to his main opponent Moshe Lion former head of the Jerusalem Development Authority, who ran as the Likud candidate who garnered 43% of the electorate. Lion has since served as a member of city council and in 2015 joined <mask>'s coalition.Following the tense campaign, <mask> was fined NIS 400,000 for improper use of election funds. Since his election as Mayor, <mask>im street. Mayor <mask> also had a long-running feud with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon over funding which led to city-wide strikes several years in a row. Kahlon argued that <mask> was wasting funding and mismanagement, while <mask> argued that Kahlon was withholding funds for political reasons.The resulting strikes caused garbage to pile up throughout the city and the threat of mass firings of municipal employees. In December 2015 <mask> joined the Likud party. He previously endorsed Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu for Prime Minister in the 2013 and 2015 Knesset elections. In March 2018 he announced his intention to run for national politics rather than seek re-election for a third term as mayor. Since the mid 2000s, Jerusalem has developed into a regional center for tech start-ups, and was named the #1 emerging tech hub by Entrepreneur magazine. <mask>'s administration has provided incentives, tax breaks, and grants for companies with employees living in the city. By 2016, over 500 start-ups had been established in Jerusalem, bringing in upwards of $243 million in investment in the first nine months of 2015."'After the election of [Mayor <mask>] <mask>, personal activism strengthened in the city. People felt they had influence, and it really connected with the entrepreneurial character', said Dana Mann, a partner in PICO Ventures, and previously a partner in OurCrowd." <mask> has

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 come under fire from some women's rights activists. Some women on the Jerusalem City Council have protested illegal modesty signs. Jerusalem city councilwoman Rachel Azaria, who brought the case of gender-segregated buses in Jerusalem to the court's attention, was fired by <mask>. Laura Wharton, a member of Jerusalem City Council, complained about the illegal modesty signs, but claims she was brushed off." <mask> has criticized Women of the Wall for their confrontational efforts to pray at the Kotel.2015 terrorist attack
In February 2015, <mask> garnered international attention when he intervened after seeing a Palestinian man trying to stab a Jewish victim. <mask> succeeded in physically subduing the attacker, with the Mayoral security detail coming in immediately afterward and the victim receiving first aid. The Tzahal Square incident prompted responses from figures such as former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren, who stated that <mask> had "courageously" acted, as well as commentators on Facebook who shared tongue-in-cheek images depicting <mask> as Batman, Neo, and other film characters. In October 2015, he encouraged Israelis to carry guns as a "duty" in light of increased tensions. His comments were criticised by various commentators. National politics
In March 2018 he announced he would not run for another term in the Municipal Election, and instead will join the Likud Party, to be a member of Knesset in next elections. On 4 December 2018, he ceased serving as mayor.See also
Politics of Israel

References

External links
 <mask> <mask> official campaign page - Hebrew
 Sari Makover-Belikov, 'After Netanyahu - it's my turn', Ynetnews, October 14, 2019

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<mask> (born June 29, 1955) is a retired NASA astronaut. His career in flight began at an early age, and spans his entire lifetime. He served in the US Air Force, piloted numerous jet aircraft, and piloted and commanded the Space Shuttle. Notably, he piloted or commanded several missions which involved docking with the Russian Mir space station and was heavily involved in Russian/US Space relations as well as the International Space Station collaboration. He also served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1998 to 2002. He retired from the USAF with the rank of colonel. Biography
<mask> was born on June 29, 1955, in Waltham, Massachusetts, and considers Hudson, Massachusetts, to be his hometown.He graduated from Hudson High School, Hudson, Massachusetts, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1977. In 1988, he received a Master of Science degree in engineering management from Golden Gate University. He received a Master of Arts degree in national security affairs and strategic studies from the United States Naval War College in 1990. While at the United States Air Force Academy, <mask> also attended the French Air Force Academy in 1976 as part of an exchange program. He is fluent in French and Russian. <mask> retired from NASA in 2004 and is a vice president at Orbital ATK in Utah. Personal life
He is married to the former Lynne Denise Mungle of St. Charles, Missouri, who works with Coldwell Banker Real Estate, and coordinates many charity and volunteer events.They have three daughters, Michelle, Sarah, and Aimee. <mask> and his wife enjoy golfing, downhill skiing, and flying light aircraft. He flies a Varieze, an experimental aircraft that he built. <mask> became a grandfather following the births of two grandsons in 2009 and 2010. Organizations
Vice President of the Association of Space Explorers
Associate Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP)
Member and on the board of directors of the Experimental

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Military decorations include:

Distinguished graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and the United States Naval War College Distinguished Graduate Leadership Award
Air Training Command Trophy Winner as the outstanding graduate of his pilot training class (1978)
Recipient of the David B. Barnes Award as the Outstanding Instructor Pilot at the United States Air Force Test Pilot School (1989)
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<mask> was inducted into the NASA Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 5, 2012 in a ceremony that took place the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. <mask> graduated from Undergraduate Pilot Training at Reese Air Force Base, Texas, in 1978.Initially, he flew as an instructor pilot in the T-37, and later as a maintenance test pilot in the T-37 and T-38 aircraft. From 1982 through 1984, he flew an operational tour in the F-15 Eagle Eagle at Bitburg Air Base in Germany. In 1985 he attended the United States Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Upon graduation, <mask> was assigned as a test pilot at Edwards, where he flew the F-15E, F-4 Phantom II, A-7 Corsair II, and A-37 Dragonfly aircraft until mid-1989, when he began studies at the United States Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Upon graduation from the War College, <mask> joined the astronaut program. His flight experience includes over 7,500 hours in over 60 types of civil and military aircraft. He holds commercial pilot, multi-engine instrument, glider and certified flight instructor ratings.<mask> retired from the air force on March 31, 2000. NASA experience
Selected by NASA in January 1990, <mask> became an astronaut in July 1991. His other technical assignments to date have included: manager of ascent, entry, and launch abort issues for the Astronaut Office Operations Development Branch; spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM), providing the voice link from the Mission Control Center during launch and entry for several Space Shuttle missions; director of

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 operations for NASA at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, from October 1995 to April 1996, with responsibility for the coordination and implementation of mission operations activities in the Moscow region for the joint U.S./Russian Shuttle-Mir Program. From May 1996 to September 1998, he served as Acting Assistant Director (Technical), Johnson Space Center. From October 1998 through November 2002, <mask> was chief of the Astronaut Corps, responsible for the mission preparation activities of all space shuttle and future International Space Station crews and their support personnel. From November 2002 until his 2004 retirement from NASA, <mask> served as the deputy manager for the International Space Station, responsible for the day-to-day management of ISS operations, on orbit assembly and the interfaces with NASA contractors and the International Partners. A veteran of four space flights, he has logged over 932 hours in space.He served as a mission specialist on STS-55 (April 26 to May 6, 1993), was the pilot on STS-71 (June 27 to July 7, 1995), and was the spacecraft commander on STS-84 (May 15–24, 1997) and STS-91 (June 2–12, 1998), the final scheduled Shuttle-Mir docking mission, concluding the joint U.S./Russian Phase I Program. Space flight experience
STS-55 Columbia launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on April 26, 1993. Nearly 90 experiments were conducted during this German-sponsored Spacelab D-2 mission to investigate life sciences, materials sciences, physics, robotics, astronomy and the Earth and its atmosphere. STS-55 also flew the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX) making contact with students in 14 schools around the world. After 160 orbits of the earth in 240 flight hours, the 10-day mission concluded with a landing on Runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on May 6, 1993. STS-71 (June 27 to July 7, 1995) was the first Space Shuttle mission to dock with the Russian Space Station Mir, and involved an exchange of crews

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<mask> (widely known as <mask>, 4 November 1955 – 6 July 2020) was a Bangladeshi playback singer. His notable songs include Jiboner Golpo Achhe Baki Olpo, Daak Diyachhen Doyal Amare, Haire Manush Rongin Fanush, Amar Shara Deho Kheyo Go Mati, Amar Buker Moddhe Khane, Amar Babar Mukhe Prothom Jedin Shunechilam Gan, Bhengeche Pinjor Meleche Dana, and Shobai To Bhalobasha Chae. <mask> won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer a record eight times for his performance in the films Boro Bhalo Lok Chhilo (1982), Surrender (1987), Khotipuron (1989), Padma Meghna Jamuna (1991), Kabul (1996), Aaj Gaye Holud (2000), Saajghor (2007) and Ki Jadu Korila (2008). <mask> bagged the prestigious Bachsas Awards five times under the category of ‘Best Male Playback Singer for films Princes Tina Khan (1984), Shami Stri (1987), Premer Taj Mahal (2001), Mone Prane Acho Tumi (2008), and Golapi Ekhon Bilate (2010). Moreover, his golden career was embellished by Meril Prothom Alo Award for three consecutive years (1998-2000) under the ‘Best Singer Male’ category. Furthermore, in 2012, he won Ifad Film Club Award in the category of Best Playback Singer (Male). <mask> is considered as the "Playback King" of Bangladesh music industry who sang more than 15 thousands of heart touching songs.His versatile and melodious voice gave life to Bengali movie songs for several decades. Early life and career
At the age of six <mask> started acquiring formal singing training from late Ustad Abdul Aziz Bachchu, the then chief music director of Rajshahi Betar. He was a student of Ustad Abdul Aziz Bachchu's 'Surbani Music School' in Rajshahi. In 1962, he was listed on Rajshahi Betar as a child artist. And then the famous lyricist Mohammad Rafiquzzaman used to watch the children's section as the producer of Rajshahi Betar. <mask> has contributed to the national movement in his early life. During the 1969 Mass uprising

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texts: in East Pakistan, he and other contemporary artists used to visit different places of Rajshahi city and sing protest songs.During the Bangladesh Liberation War, <mask> took refuge in India with his family. He used to inspire the freedom fighters by singing in the refugee camps. After the war ended, he was enlisted in the radio in Nazrul, Tagore, modern, folk and patriotic songs categories. In academic life, <mask> did a Bachelor of Commerce from Rajshahi Government City College & Master of Commerce in Management from University of Rajshahi in 1977. After completing his studies, he concentrated on business by owning a grocery store in Rajshahi. However, in 1977, he moved to the house of his childhood friend living in Dhaka. In the same year, he participated in a talent hunt project initiated by Shahidul Islam, the then director of Transcription Service of Bangladesh Betar.On the programme, he rendered the song Soheli O Soheli, composed by Debu Bhattacherjee and he was able to catch the attention of well known music directors. <mask> debuted in playback singing in the film Mail Train (1977) where he sang Ochinpurer Rajkumari Nei Je Tar Keu, composed by Alam Khan. Introduced by A.H.M. Rafique, <mask> made his breakthrough with the song Ek Chor Jay Choley from the film Protikkha, composed by Alam Khan. In 1987, <mask> established an advertising agency called Probaho Media, for TV dramas, commercials and other productions. Later in memory of his late teacher, in 2011, he also established a cultural organisation “Ustad Abdul Aziz Bachchu Sriti Shongshod” in Rajshahi. <mask> had dominated the Bangla film industry over the last 40 to 42 years.He also earned acclaim for Hindi and Urdu playbacks. He is the only Bangladeshi artist to sang to the tune of R. D. Burman in an Indo-Bangladeshi venture film Shatru (1986). He has also sung in Urdu film Ranjish (1993) to the tune of Robin Ghosh. TV and stage

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<mask> sang on Bangladesh Television in the pre-1985 years of his career. But for more than a decade, he played behind the scenes in numerous Bengali film playbacks, but did not appear on the TV screen. After a long 15 years, this talented artist came back to the TV screen in 1999 with the song "Poddo Patar Pani". Since then, he had been a regular artist at Ityadi aired on Bangladesh Television.He has also been a judge on a music reality show. He was a regular judge of Bangladeshi Idol, a reality television song contest aired on SA TV in 2013. In addition, he has been seen singing or giving interviews at various times on various channels whose videos exist on YouTube. In the Wind of Change (Bangladeshi TV program) aired on Gaan Bangla music channel, <mask> sang his famous "Haire Manush Rongin Fanush" and "Beder Meye Josna Amay Kotha Diyeche" in a re-composition by music director Kaushik Hossain Taposh, which was once again widely acclaimed by the new generation of listeners. He has also did numerous concerts at different times in the country and abroad. <mask>'s last musical TV show was "Koto Rongo Jano Re Manush" aired on Channel i. Personal life
<mask> was born on November 4, 1955, in Rajshahi, Bangladesh.He was born in a Bengali Christian family to parents Khitish Chandra Baroi and Minu Baroi. <mask>'s father was from Kotalipara Upazila and worked in Rajshahi. He was involved in the medical profession in Rajshahi and <mask> was born and raised in there. <mask>'s mother Minu Baroi was a teacher at Bolanpur Mission Girl's High School, Rajshahi and was a music devoted person. Her favorite singer was <mask> Kumar. That is why <mask> named '<mask> Kumar Baroi'. She wanted her son to name one day like <mask> Kumar.He started his first lesson in music with Ustad Abdul Aziz Bachchu of Rajshahi at the behest of his mother. Since a young age, <mask> had a passion for media which lead him

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 to stardom eventually. <mask> married Lipika <mask> (Eti) in 1988. They have a daughter, Minim <mask> (Songa), and a son, <mask> (Saptok). <mask> has two siblings, Shikha Biswas and Swapon Baroi. He was the youngest among them. Interview

Death
<mask> was diagnosed with Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma on 9 September 2019.He also suffered with kidney and hormone related diseases. His chemotherapy treatment started under Prof Dr. Lim Soon Thye at the Singapore General Hospital. He returned to Bangladesh on 11 June 2020. He had been shifted to the Intensive Care Unit of a clinic adjacent to his sister's house & run by his sister after his physical condition had significantly deteriorated. He died on 6 July, <mask>'s brother-in-law Dr Patrick Bipul Biswas confirmed the news to the press. His coffin was later brought from City Church to the Christian Cemetery of the Church of Bangladesh in Srirampur area of Rajshahi city on 15 July 2020 at 11am. He was buried at 11:30 pm.He was buried in front of the cemetery. This cemetery contains the graves of his parents. List of background music in the movie

List of some of his popular Bengali songs

List of songs in other languages

Single tracks

Filmography

Discography

Awards and nominations

Notes

References

External links

The story of the Playback King (in Bengali) on Bangla Movie Database (BMDb). Archived from the original on July 30, 2020. <mask> Discography on "Sur O Dhoni" author Sur O Dhoni. Archived from the original on July 30, 2020. <mask> discography on Deezer
<mask> discography on Napster
<mask> discography on KKBox

1955 births
2020 deaths
People from Rajshahi District
Bangladeshi playback singers
21st-century Bangladeshi male singers
Best Male Playback Singer National Film Award (Bangladesh) winners
Deaths from lymphoma
Deaths from cancer in Bangladesh
Best Male Singer Meril-Prothom Alo Award winners
20th-century Bangladeshi male

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