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 only run of the game going into the bottom of the ninth inning, needing three outs to win the series. Matty Alou led off with a single, however, and after two strikeouts, Mays doubled to put the tying run (Alou) at third with future Hall of Famer Willie McCovey coming to bat. If Mays scored, the Giants would win the series. McCovey hit a screaming line drive up the middle which likely would have scored both runs had it made it out of the infield.Hardly moving from his position, <mask> snared the ball for the third out, winning the Series for the Yankees. "People often suggest that I was out of position on that play," <mask> remembered later. "But McCovey hit two hard ground balls to me earlier in the Series, so I played where I thought he would hit the ball." McCovey still had bad memories of it years later. "I broke in with a 4-for-4 my rookie year against a Hall of Fame pitcher, Robin Roberts," he recalled. "I hit more grand slams [18] than anybody in National League history. I hit more home runs [521] than any lefthanded hitter in the National League.But that out is what many people remember about me....I would rather be remembered as the guy who hit the ball six inches over <mask>'s head." Sporting News ranked the catch the 13th most memorable moment in baseball history in 1999, and Charles Schulz famously referenced it in a Peanuts comic strip, where Charlie Brown yells, "Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?" 1963-66: Extending his streaks

On April 23, 1963, <mask> had three hits, two RBI, and two runs scored in a 7–6 victory over the Senators. His father suffered a stroke in May, then died on July 17. <mask> missed 11 games during the year visiting him and helping get his affairs in order. He had a season high of four hits in a game twice in quick succession, on July 4 in the first game of a doubleheader and on July 6. He again represented the Yankees in the All-Star Game.On September 5, he singled against Steve Ridzik, stole second base, and scored on a Roger Maris hit due to an error by shortstop Ed Brinkman to tie a game with the Senators at 2 in the sixth inning. The Yankees went on to win 3–2 in 12 innings. After setting a career high with eight home runs the year before, <mask> hit three in 1963, all in Yankee losses. In 151 games, <mask> batted .265 with 72 runs scored and 48 RBI. He led the league in at bats (630) for the second year in a row, finished seventh with 167 hits and tied three other players for seventh with 15 stolen bases. <mask> again garnered AL MVP votes, finishing tenth this time. He won the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award, given by Gehrig's Columbia University fraternity to the major leaguer who best demonstrates Gehrig's character.In Game 1 of the 1963 World Series, which the Los Angeles Dodgers swept in four games, <mask> struck out three times against Sandy Koufax—his only three-strikeout game in 1,448 regular-season/World Series games. (Koufax would finish with 15 strikeouts, then a World Series single-game record.) Just that regular season, <mask> had struck out only 22 times in 630 at-bats. He had a mere three hits in the World Series but played each game; <mask> had now played in 23 straight World Series games dating back to 1960. On May 10, 1964, <mask> had five hits and scored three runs in a 12–2 victory over the Indians. Less than a month later, he had five hits on June 4 in a 9–7 victory over the Twins. He picked up his 1,000th hit on June 12 with a line drive to left field against Frank Baumann in a 6–1 victory over the White Sox in the first game of a doubleheader.The hit had proved difficult to come by for <mask>, who had put the ball in play seven times in his last two games without reaching base safely. Once again, he was selected to the All-Star Game. In the first game of a doubleheader on July 26, he had three hits, including a two-RBI single against Mickey Lolich and a solo home run against Terry Fox in an 11–6 victory over the Tigers. In 159 games, he batted .267 with four home runs, 50 RBI, and 11 stolen bases. For the third year in the row, he led the AL in at bats with 679. He also led the league with 148 singles, ranked third in the league with 181 hits (behind Tony Oliva's 217 and B. Robinson's 294), and tied Bob Allison for ninth in the AL with 90 runs scored. He finished 17th in AL MVP voting after the season.In the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, <mask> set a World Series record with 13 hits; this record has since been tied by Lou Brock and Marty Barrett in the 1968 and 1986 World Series, respectively. However, batting against Cardinal ace Bob Gibson with the Yankees trailing 7–5 in the ninth inning of Game 7, he popped out to Dal Maxvill for the final out of the Series. <mask> also had the dubious distinction of committing errors that affected the outcome of two games in the Series. In the sixth inning of Game 4, he mishandled Dick Groat's ground ball for a double play that would have ended the inning with no runs scoring; the error was followed one batter later by Ken Boyer's grand slam—the four runs the Cardinals needed in defeating the Yankees 4–3. In the fifth inning of Game 5, he bobbled Curt Flood's double play ground ball, which also would have ended that inning without any damage. The Cardinals eventually scored twice in the inning, then won the game 5–2 on Tim McCarver's 10th inning, three-run home run. This was <mask>'s final (of seven) World Series; he played all 30 World Series games from 1960 through 1964.On May 24, 1965, he had three hits, drove in two runs, and scored two more times in a 15–5 victory over Cleveland. After hitting into a fielder's choice on June 15, <mask> stole second base, then scored on a Maris single to put the Yankees up 1–0; however, the Yankees would lose the game 2–1 in the 10th inning. He was selected to the All-Star Game once again. On July 17, he had four hits and scored twice in a 5–4 victory over Washington. Five days later, his home run against Gary Peters put the Yankees ahead to stay in a 2–1 victory over the White Sox. On August 8, Ray Barker and <mask> hit back-to-back home runs against Denny McLain in a 6–5 victory over the Tigers. In 160 games, <mask> batted .247 with 76 runs scored, 164 hits, 28 doubles, six home runs, and 47 RBI.He finished 20th in AL MVP voting. <mask> had three hits and scored three times on May 25 in an 11–6 victory over the Angels. He hit a three-run double against Tommy John on June 2 to turn a 3–2 deficit into a 5–3 lead for the Yankees, who defeated the White Sox. Five days later, he had three hits, three runs scored, and three RBI, including a home run against John O'Donoghue in a 7–2 victory over the Indians. On June 29, he had five hits, one of which was a home run against Rollie Sheldon and was followed by two more by Mantle and Joe Pepitone in a 6–5 victory over the Red Sox. <mask> made the All-Star Game for the fifth year in a row, his seventh and final selection. He had four hits on August 15, including a home run against Lolich, as the Yankees defeated the Tigers 6–5.On September 11, he hit his last major league home run against John Wyatt in the 10th inning of a 4–2 victory over the Red Sox. He played in his final game on October 2, recording a hit and an RBI in a 2–0 victory over the White Sox. In 149 games, he batted .251 with 71 runs scored, 153 hits, 21 doubles, seven home runs, and 42 RBI. Though he was just 31 following the 1966 season, <mask> retired following the year. He had decided to retire after the 1965 season, but the Yankees convinced him to play one more season since Kubek had to retire due to injuries after the 1965 season. “I wanted to take the kids to school, help them with homework and watch or help coach their teams,” he explained. The Yankees honored him by declaring September 17 "Bobby Richardson Day," making <mask> the tenth Yankee to be honored at the stadium with a special day.“How lucky it has been for me to have been a Yankee. To God be the glory," he said to the fans. Legacy
<mask> racked up 1,432 hits in his career, with a lifetime batting average of .266, 34 home runs and 390 RBIs. Over his 12-year major league career, he scored 643 runs and stole 73 stolen bases. He also had 196 doubles and 37 triples. Defensively, he had an all-time fielding percentage of .979 at second base, and six seasons with 100 or more double plays turned. From 1961 to 1965, <mask> won five straight Gold Gloves at second base (not until Robinson Canó in 2010 would another Yankee second baseman win a Gold Glove) while forming a top double play combination with shortstop and roommate Kubek.With the light-hitting but superb-fielding Yankee third baseman Clete Boyer, <mask> and Kubek gave the Yankees arguably the best defensive infield in baseball in the early 1960s. <mask> was also known for his ability to make contact. He struck out just 243 times, less than 5% of his plate appearances. A leadoff hitter who rarely missed a game, <mask> led the league in at bats three times. Following Martin's trade, he wore the uniform number 1 for the majority of his career (1958–1966). He led the league in at bats per strikeout three times during his career, 1964–1966. A skilled bunter, he led the league in sacrifice hits in 1962 and 1964.Despite the raw totals, <mask> was a poor offensive player when measured by sabermetrics. Since he rarely walked, his career OBP was .299, and since he had little power, his career slugging percentage was only .335. Every year from 1961-1966 he finished in the top five in the American League in outs made, leading the league four of those six years. As Bill James remarked, "<mask>, frankly, was a horrible leadoff man. He rarely got on base and almost never got into scoring position. Leading off for the 1961 Yankees, playing 162 games and batting 662 times, with 237 home runs coming up behind him, <mask> scored only 80 runs. 80.Eight-zero...Plus <mask> used up a zillion outs while he was not scoring runs." Only once, in 1962, which was <mask>'s best year, was his OPS+ over 100, and his career OPS+ was only 77. Coaching
In the late 1960s, Paul Dietzel asked <mask> if he would become the head baseball coach for the University of South Carolina Gamecocks. <mask> told him no twice, as he was under a personal services contract with the Yankees. However, after Dietzel asked him a third time, <mask> secured permission from the Yankees to take the job, assuming the role in 1970. He would often pitch batting practice and drive the team bus for events. <mask> also tried to perform recruiting for the school but delegated the responsibility to others after he figured out "I wasn't going after the good players."Under <mask>, Larry Keith of Sports Illustrated wrote, "South Carolina rarely bunts, often hits-and-runs and is always looking for the big inning." <mask> led the Gamecocks to their first National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Tournament appearance in 1974, which set the stage for what would happen a year later in 1975 when South Carolina posted a 51–6–1 record and made the College World Series for the first time ever. They advanced all the way to the national championship game against Texas before losing 5–1 to the Longhorns. <mask> left South Carolina after the 1976 season, finishing his tenure with a 221–92–1 record and three NCAA Tournament appearances. Dennis Brunson of The Item said of <mask>'s contributions, "<mask> had laid the groundwork for a program that would participate in the regionals in nine of the first 13 years under [new head coach [June] Raines and would play in the CWS four times." In the 1980s, <mask> served as the baseball coach for two seasons (1985–86) at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, where he compiled a record of (61–38) and led the team to the Big South Conference championship in 1986. After the 1986 season, he resigned as head coach at Coastal Carolina to replace Al Worthington as the baseball coach at Liberty University."I came here as athletic director under a different administration and [Chancellor] Ron [Eaglin] felt I should resign as athletic director and focus on baseball," <mask> explained the decision to resign, with Eaglin saying the two had disagreed on a budget for the next season. Worthington, who had become Liberty's athletic director, served as pitching coach under <mask>, who coached the Flames for the next four seasons before retiring in 1990. Head coaching record

1976 political campaign
In 1974, Nixon tried to convince <mask> to run as a Republican for the United States House of Representatives in South Carolina's 5th congressional district. Later, a private poll indicated he would have been the favorite had he run. Two years later, President Gerald Ford convinced <mask> to resign from his coaching position at the University of South Carolina to run for the seat. <mask> lost to incumbent Democrat Kenneth Holland by a narrow margin. Holland was aided by the strength of Jimmy Carter's winning campaign in South Carolina to hold off <mask> by a tally of 66,073 (51.4%) to 62,095 (48.3%).His campaign was supported by former baseball players Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Bob Feller, and Wilmer "Vinegar Bend" Mizell among others, though former roommate Kubek declined to campaign for him because Kubek was a Democrat. Personal life
Betsy Dobson, <mask>'s future spouse, met him at Grace Baptist Church of Sumter. In 1954, they went to a miniature golf course on their first date. Two years later, they were married. In an unusual move, Houk granted <mask> permission to leave the Denver Bears midseason to get married. The couple had three sons–Robbie (born 7/2/57), Ron (7/13/58), and Rich (8/27/68)–and two daughters–Christie (12/30/60) and Jeannie (1/21/64). In 1960, the <mask>s were renting a house in Ridgewood, New Jersey.They lived in Sumter during the offseason, where <mask> was a general secretary for the local Young Men's Christian Association and host for a radio sports show. Hunting is one of his favorite hobbies. He and teammate <mask> went gun shopping together in Kansas City in 1959, and fellow major-leaguer Billy O'Dell used to hunt with him in the offseason. His roommates when travelling with the Yankees at various times included Kubek and Shantz. <mask> is a Christian. During his time with the Yankees, he would organize church services for the team when they were travelling. Friend and teammate Mickey Mantle described him as a "clean-living, practicing Christian."He was involved with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) and the American Tract Society (ATS) during his career, as well as many charities. After his career, he continued to be involved with those organizations. He served as the president of the Baseball Chapel for 10 years, served on the President's Council for Physical Fitness, and earned the Golden Gavel Award from Toastmasters International. President Richard Nixon, who hosted church services at the White House each week of his presidency, invited the FCA to speak on October 18, 1970. One of four representatives, <mask> spoke on Jesus and the rich young man from Mark, Chapter 10. Concerning the young man's search for guidance, <mask> said, "He didn't go to India and ask a guru; he didn't get caught up in the younger generation, but he went to God's son, Jesus Christ, the Messiah, with his question.” He has spoken at five Billy Graham Crusades, as well as at various churches. <mask> is a speaker with Christian Speakers 360, available to appear at events.Several of his Yankee teammates requested that he preside at their funerals, most notably Mickey Mantle. Speaking to an audience of 2,000 (plus television viewers) at Mantle's interment, <mask> said there were two types of people in this world, those who said yes to Christ and those who said no. Shortly before Mantle's death, as <mask> had visited Mantle in a Dallas hospital, Mantle had told <mask> that he had become a Christian. In 1965, <mask> released his autobiography, The <mask> Story. The story became a movie in 1968. Excerpts from the film's audio track were available on an LP record titled: The <mask> Story: The Exciting First-Person Account of His Own Life, By the Yankees' Famous Second Baseman. He released a new autobiography in 2012 called Impact Player.See also
List of Major League Baseball players who spent their entire career with one franchise

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South Carolina Republicans
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Liberty Flames baseball coaches
Coastal Carolina Chanticleers baseball coaches
American athlete-politicians
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title: Rose Pizzo

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<mask> (born Easter 1932) is an Italian American author. She wrote the autobiography Growing Up Deaf with the help of her friend Judy Jonas, which tells her the story of her life as a Deaf woman. This book was self-published through Xlibris. She is a prominent member of the Deaf Community and has won many awards for her efforts including the Fred Schreiber Golden Hands award. Early life
<mask> was born in Queens, New York, in 1932 during the Great Depression. She has an older sister by 13 months named Frances and a younger brother named Vincent. After her birth, her family moved from Queens to New Dorp, Staten Island because her parents could no longer afford to live in the city.However, her father had a shoemaking business in Queens and because the commute became too difficult, the family moved back to Queens for a short time. They moved to Corona and eventually settled in East Elmhurst. She was born to a hearing family and though she did not become Deaf until age three, she has no recollection of hearing. She was sent to a mainstream kindergarten where she had no means of communication and was held back for two years. Then at age 8, she attended a public school for the deaf in Manhattan called P.S. 47. It was there that <mask> first learned American Sign Language although the curriculum taught at P.S.47 focused on writing and lip-reading skills and discouraged sign language, she picked it up from her peers. After P.S. 47, she attended Mabel Deaf Vocational High School, which was a mainstream program. No services were provided for <mask> in the form of an interpreter or note taker so she was forced to lip-read in all her classes. She was able to pass by studying hard but eventually focused her studies in the vocational part of the school and studied sewing and dress-making. <mask>'s first job out of high school was as a sewing machine operator where she worked for two years although she hated the job. She then worked as a Data Entry Operator for many years.In 1978 she was one of the first students to attend the Adult Basic Education Program for the Deaf in Fair Lawn and received her high school equivalency diploma. After she graduated, she became a teacher's aide at the same school and held the position for over twenty years. She has also taught American Sign Language to hearing adults at the Fair Lawn Community School since the mid 80's. <mask> has been an active member of the North Jersey Community Center for the Deaf (NJCCD) and served on their Women's Auxiliary Group. She was appointed by the Governor to serve on the NJ Division of the Deaf Advisory Council. <mask> also became very involved with the Union County College interpreting program and helped many students improve their interpreting skills. As a result, she was present with the Claudia Parson's Award by UCC for involvement in the Deaf community.She is also the recipient of the Fred Schreiber Golden Hands award. Personal life
<mask> first met her husband <mask> when she was 7 years old on the bus going to their school for the Deaf P.S. 47. Their first date was not until 1950 when she was 18 and he was 24 and they were married on June 8, 1952. Vincent also was raised by hearing parents but unlike <mask>, many of his siblings are also Deaf. They raised 3 children in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. Their oldest child Nancy was born in Barnet Hospital in 1956.Their daughter Karen was born in 1958 and their son Paul was born in 1962. They also have three grandchildren named Michelle, Vinnie, and Dominic. Growing Up Deaf (autobiography)
<mask> was encouraged to write a book about her life by her daughter-in-law Linda, who was fascinated with <mask>'s life as well as Deaf Culture. She originally struggled while writing the book in English because American Sign Language is her native language. To solve this problem, she asked her friend and founder of the Adult Basic Education Program for the Deaf in Fair Lawn, Judy Jonas for help. <mask> told her story to Judy who interpreted it onto an audio tape. The tape was them transcribed and Judy edited and translated it into English.The book begins by talking about <mask>'s life growing up and childhood memory such as the story her Aunt away told about her birth, vacations her family took, and holidays. The book also describes her education growing up and her lack of language until she attended a school for the Deaf. In fact
<mask> did not even know her own name until she attended this school at age 8. When she was attending a hearing kinder garden, <mask> describes how she had no communication and was picked on by other students. She goes into detail about the communication issues she faced throughout her entire life. Such as asking a family member question about what was going on and either getting a summary of the information or told nothing at all; like when one of her favorite cousins died. When she began her education at a Deaf school <mask> described the experience as “the beginning of my life as a Deaf Person” (Pizzo).American Sign Language was forbidden at this school and hands were slapped for signing but she learned from other students and from the first time had access to real communication. The book also includes several stories of her friend's family's rejections of ASL. <mask>'s parents never had a problem with ASL although they were ignorant of the Deaf world and she was forced to wear hearing aids. The book also provides cultural information about Deaf people, such as the importance of name signs and how they are chosen as well as explaining the benefits TTY's and captioning had on the Deaf community. References
 McCain, Michael. (2009)Self Published Release Reveals an Author's Struggle Deafness in a Hearing World. Lee Stringer: Writing Resources and Tips.Miscia, Anthony. (2004)“Deaf Presenter Shares Story of her Life”. The Signal. <mask>, <mask>. (2002)Growing up Deaf: Issues of Communication in a Hearing World. 2011 ASDC Conference Presenters. 1932 births
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title: Maxx Payne

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Darryl Peterson (born October 3, 1961) is an American musician, actor and retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his time in World Championship Wrestling as <mask>, and in the World Wrestling Federation as Man Mountain Rock. Career
Peterson became involved in wrestling in grade school when he transferred from football to amateur wrestling as result of a personality clash with the football coach. His amateur career was halted by a motorcycle accident in his junior year of high school. After playing a high school wrestler in the film Take Down with Lorenzo Lamas, Peterson married and had a child. He began working in the construction industry, but decided after two years to return to amateur wrestling. Peterson earned wrestling scholarships to junior college and then to Iowa State University, competing in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).In 1985 he was an All-American, placed fifth in the NCAA competition and also won the Gorriarian award for having the most falls in the least amount of time at the tournament. Every match he won that year at the NCAA's, he won by fall. It was his best and only NCAA finish. Then he relocated to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. While working as a security guard, he was introduced to professional wrestler Red Bastien by his boss, and decided to train with him. Early career
Peterson worked for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in March 1986, and put together the steel cage used in the main event of WrestleMania 2. With his training complete, he debuted in June 1987 and soon after traveled to Japan to work for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he trained in the New Japan Dojo alongside fellow gaijin Chris Benoit for five months.In 1988, Peterson developed the character Max Pain (short for "Maximum Pain"), a sinister, grungy, Jimi Hendrix-loving heavy metal guitarist. His original idea was <mask>, but he felt that this was too foreboding. He used the name <mask>, hailing from Hell's Kitchen, New York nationally in the United States as well as in Europe and Japan. Following a short stint with the Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF), Pain debuted in the Tennessee-based Continental Wrestling Association (CWA). He quickly began pursuing the CWA Heavyweight Championship, and on February 8, 1988 in Memphis he defeated Jerry Lawler to win the championship. He then went after Lawler's AWA World Heavyweight Championship, but was unable to win the title. He forfeited the CWA Championship to Brickhouse Brown on May 23, but won the title once more on June 27.His second reign ended on July 10 when he was defeated by Phil Hickerson. Pain left the CWA after a year before returning to Utah, where he opened his own promotion, featuring wrestlers such as Louie Spicolli. He also made an appearance under his real name as a jobber on a February 1989 episode of WWF Prime Time Wrestling, losing to Bret Hart. After his employees began to leave the territory, Peterson applied for a job with WordPerfect. Soon after, he received a phone call from Benoit, who invited him to join an upcoming tour of Germany. Peterson received his plane ticket to Germany half an hour before he received a job offer from WordPerfect, so decided to join the tour. He spent six months in the German Catch Wrestling Association as Heavy Metal Buffalo, and won the vacant CWA Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship on October 25, 1992, defeating Giant Haystacks.He then successfully defended the title against The Warlord at Euro Catch Festival on December 19. He vacated the title the following year when he returned to the United States. World Championship Wrestling (1993–1994)
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) booker Bill Watts was impressed by Peterson's amateur credentials, and hired him in 1993, with Peterson relocating to Marietta, Georgia. Peterson made his televised debut in WCW as the villain <mask> <mask> on the January 30, 1993 episode of Worldwide by defeating local competitor Scott Allen. Peterson's first pay-per-view match was at SuperBrawl III, where he played Taps on his guitar before challenging Dustin Rhodes for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship, substituting for the injured Ron Simmons. After Rhodes locked him in an abdominal stretch from which he was unable to escape, <mask> pushed the referee over rather than submit and was subsequently disqualified. At the June 17 Clash of the Champions XXIII, <mask> shot Johnny B. Badd in the face with a confetti gun, (kayfabe) scarring him so badly that he had to wear a mask and forcing him to forfeit their scheduled match.This led to a match at Beach Blast on July 18, which <mask> lost. They faced one another again at the August 18 Clash of the Champions XXIV in a mask versus guitar match, with <mask> putting his guitar on the line in order to unmask and therefore humiliate the mutilated Badd. Badd won once more and took <mask>'s guitar. <mask> took part in WCW's Jesse "The Body" Ventura Strong-Arm Tournament in late 1993, but was eliminated in the first round by Sid Vicious. On November 20, <mask> entered the Battlebowl, a tournament which saw randomly assigned tag team partners work together in order to progress to a battle royal. He was partnered with 2 Cold Scorpio, with whom he lost in the first round to Stunning Steve Austin and Ric Flair. <mask> later turned face and formed a tag team with Cactus Jack towards the end of the year.At Starrcade 1993 they defeated Tex Slazenger and Shanghai Pierce, and at the January 27, 1994 Clash of the Champions XXVI, they defeated The Nasty Boys. They faced the Nasty Boys once more, this time for the WCW World Tag Team Championships, in a Chicago Street Fight at Spring Stampede 1994, but were defeated. During his and Jack's feud with The Nasty Boys, <mask> had become increasingly unhappy with their stiffness and insistence on controlling the match. During their brawl at SuperBrawl IV, Brian Knobbs and <mask> did not cooperate on a fall, and Knobbs broke his shoulder as a result. After the match, WCW President Eric Bischoff shouted at <mask> for hurting Knobbs, and <mask> responded in kind. As a result, he was subsequently buried. He was fired from WCW soon after, although he did help Jack and his new partner, Kevin Sullivan, defeat The Nasty Boys with a guitar shot.World Wrestling Federation (1995)
The morning after he was released by WCW, Peterson was contacted by wrestler Rick Rude, who convinced WWF owner Vince McMahon to hire him. Renamed Man Mountain Rock in honor of early-20th century wrestler Man Mountain Dean, his WWF character was considerably more upbeat and less gritty than the popular <mask> <mask> character, and did not achieve the same success. Debuting in February 1995 on an episode of WWF Superstars of Wrestling, Man Mountain Rock played a large electric guitar shaped like the WWF logo. He would come to the ring during a commercial, with the arena going pitch black and ring announcer Manny Garcia saying "Ladies and Gentleman, Man Mountain Rock!" He would then play his "axe" (electric guitar) while pyro went off. He would frequently state, "If it's too loud, then you're too old!" Vince McMahon, then a commentator, would often comment that Rock "rocked the house".In the latter part of his WWF tenure, his music incurred the wrath of veteran Bob Backlund, then playing the part of a cantankerous heel crusading against the younger generation, who objected to the music Man Mountain Rock was playing. Man Mountain Rock had suffered several injuries during his amateur career, and had hoped to secure a backstage position with WCW. When he moved to the WWF, he asked to be made an announcer, but his request was denied. His career in the WWF met with several disruptions, including a serious hernia, an addiction to pain pills and downers and a marijuana habit, which ultimately led to his release in October 1995. While working for the WWF, Peterson filmed several hours of behind-the-scenes footage with a video camera which he often carried and claimed that he would release a documentary called The Thing that Should Not Be or The Real Maxx Payne based on the footage, but never did. The footage reportedly contained scenes showing substance abuse and solicitation. <mask> lawsuit
In July 2003, Peterson filed a $10 million lawsuit in the United States district court for Utah against Rockstar Games, 3D Realms, Gathering of Developers, and Remedy Entertainment, accusing them of stealing his ring name <mask> <mask> and his neo-noir theme for the protagonist of the video game <mask>.The case was settled out of court. Retirement
On April 17, 2004, Peterson addressed an audience in the Schubert Theater at the Western States College for the Performing Arts in Gooding, Idaho, talking about professional wrestling. Movies and television appearances
Take Down (1979) as "Ted Yacabobich"
Touched by an Angel (February 1, 1998) as "Cato"
A Town Has Turned to Dust (1998) as "Pig Iron"
Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012 (1998)
The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All (1999) as "Muscle"
Touched by an Angel (January 9, 2000) as "Man #2"
Nobody's Baby (2001) as "Truck Driver"
Paradise (2004) as "XL"

Championships and accomplishments
Catch Wrestling Association
CWA Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Continental Wrestling Association
CWA Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
CWA Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Gary Young
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
Ranked No. 73 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1993

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, nicknamed "Shotime", is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher, designated hitter and outfielder for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) Pacific League. <mask> was the first pick of the Fighters in the 2012 draft. He played in NPB for the Fighters from 2013 through 2017 as a pitcher and an outfielder. <mask> recorded the fastest pitch by a Japanese pitcher and in NPB history at . The Fighters posted <mask> to MLB after the 2017 season, and he signed with the Angels. He won the 2018 American League Rookie of the Year Award and the 2021 American League Most Valuable Player Award.On January 31, 2022, it was announced that <mask> Will be on the cover of MLB the Show 22. In 2021, <mask>'s season was formally recognized as "historically significant" and a "major impact on the sport" by Commissioner Rob Manfred, as he became the first two-way player in the history of Major League Baseball with 10+ home runs and 20+ stolen bases as a hitter and 100+ strikeouts and 10+ pitching appearances as a pitcher in the same season while also holding at least a share of the major league lead in home runs in fourteen starts, as well as being the first player in MLB history to be an All-Star as both a pitcher and a hitter in the 2021 All-Star Game, where he was a starter in both capacities, as the American League's manager-selected starting pitcher (who earned the win) and fan-elected starting designated hitter (who was also the leadoff hitter). Early career
<mask> <mask> attended Hanamaki Higashi High School in Iwate Prefecture, Northern Japan. He pitched a  fastball as an 18-year-old high school pitcher. He threw the pitch in the Japanese national high school baseball championship tournament, commonly called Summer Koshien. In the 2012 18U Baseball World Championship, <mask> had an 0–1 win–loss record with 16 strikeouts, eight walks, five hits, five runs, and a 4.35 earned run average in 10⅓ innings pitched. <mask> expressed a desire to move directly to the major leagues after high school and received interest from numerous teams including the Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers.On October 21, 2012, he announced that he would pursue a career in Major League Baseball rather than turn professional in Japan. The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters decided to draft him anyway, knowing that there was a high likelihood he would not play for them. But after an exclusive negotiating window between him and the Fighters, <mask> announced that he would sign with the Fighters and spend some years in Japan before a possible MLB move. Hokkaido said it would allow <mask> to serve as a pitcher and position player; the Los Angeles Dodgers, who had become <mask>'s top-choice MLB team, were not prepared to let him play both ways. He was assigned the jersey number 11, previously worn by Yu Darvish. Professional career

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

Rookie year (2013)
<mask> made his debut at age 18 in the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters' season-opening game on March 29, 2013, playing as a right fielder. He was selected for a Pacific League roster spot for the 2013 All-Star Game.As a pitcher, he finished the season with a 3–0 record in 11 starts. <mask> was used as a rookie in both the outfield (leading the Fighters with 51 games in right) and as a pitcher. He was the second Nippon Pro Baseball rookie drafted out of high school the previous year to be used as both a pitcher and position player, following Kikuo Tokunaga in 1951; <mask> was the first to start in both roles. He was the first NPB pitcher since Takao Kajimoto in 1963 to bat 3rd, 4th or 5th and the first rookie hurler to do so since Junzo Sekine in 1950. He was the second player, following Osamu Takechi (also 1950), to start a game at pitcher, bat in the heart of the order (3rd through 5th) and get a hit and a run batted in (RBI) in that game. He missed time during the year with a right ankle sprain and right cheekbone fracture. For the season, he was 3–0 with a 4.23 ERA, 33 walks, and 46 strikeouts (K) in  innings.and hit .238/.284/.376 in 204 plate appearances. He had seven outfield assists to one error. His 8 hit batsmen tied Manabu Mima, Tadashi Settsu, Hideaki Wakui and Ryoma Nogami for 5th in the 2013 Pacific League. <mask> got 4 of the 233 votes for the 2013 Nippon Professional Baseball Rookie of the Year Award (Pacific League), tying Tatsuya Sato for a distant second behind Takahiro Norimoto. Second NPB All-Star selection (2014)

Throughout the entire season, <mask> performed double-duty as a pitcher and outfielder, utilizing his strong throwing arm as well as his impressive batting skills. As a hitter, he batted .274, with 28 extra-base hits (including 10 home runs), 31 RBIs and a .842 on-base plus slugging percentage in 212 at-bats. As a pitcher, he was 11–4 with a 2.61 ERA in 24 starts and struck out 179 (third in NPB) in 155.1 innings.His 10.4 K/9 was the best in the league and opponents hit just .223 against him. In a September 7 game against the Orix Buffaloes, he homered to straightaway center at Kyocera Dome to become the first Japanese player to reach double digits in both home runs and wins. He tossed a 1–0 shutout against Orix on September 13 and became the first pitcher out of high school to record a 1–0 shutout victory within his first two years for the Fighters since Toshiaki Moriyasu in 1967. He also became the first pitcher out of high school to notch two shutout victories within his first two years in the NPB since Yu Darvish. During the July 2014 Mazda All-Star Game, he threw a  fastball in the bottom of the 1st inning, setting a new record for the fastest official pitch thrown by a Japanese pitcher, beating the record set by the Yakult Swallows' Yoshinori Sato in 2010 (). The jersey he wore during the game sold for 1,752,000 yen ($), making it the top-seller at the All-Star 2014 Charity Auction. The proceeds were donated to three Tohoku earthquake children's relief funds.On October 5 against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, <mask> recorded the fastest pitch by a Japanese pitcher in an official game, tying Marc Kroon's all-time record for NPB pitchers. The pitch came against lead-off hitter Akaminai Ginji in the 1st inning. With the count 0–1, <mask> threw a fastball that registered  on the stadium radar gun and shattered Ginji's bat in half. He also hit 162 km/h twice against the second hitter, Aoi Enomoto. Of the 15 pitches he threw in the 1st inning, eight were in the 160s; 99s in MPH. During the postseason, <mask> was chosen to become a member of the national team, dubbed Samurai Japan, and participated in the Suzuki All-Star Series, a five-game friendly competition with a squad of major leaguers. In game 1, he pitched one shutout inning in relief, retiring three consecutive batters.He started game 5 at the Sapporo Dome and, although his team ultimately lost (3–1), he wasn't charged with an earned run (he gave up two unearned), and of the 12 outs he recorded in four innings, he got seven via strikeout. He threw mostly fastballs, even clocked one at , occasional curveballs, and a few forkballs in the mid-140s, including one he threw perfectly in the second inning to strike out Tampa Bay Rays star Ben Zobrist. In December, he became the 2nd player out of high school in NPB history to reach 100M yen in salary in his third year, after Daisuke Matsuzaka in 2001. His new contract more than tripled his previous salary estimated at 30M yen. Pacific League Pitcher Best Nine and ERA leader (2015)
2015 marked <mask>'s third professional season (and second full season). Though his offensive production declined somewhat (5 home runs), his performance on the mound was among the best in the league, earning him the starter role in the 2015 All-Star Game and the pitching spot in the end-of-year Pacific League Best Nine awards. <mask> started 2015 NPB All-Star Game 1 for the PL.He went two innings and fanned two, allowing one run (on a double by Yoshitomo Tsutsugo and a single by Jose Lopez), relieved by Nishi with a 1–0 deficit. The PL would lose 8–6 but he got a no-decision. He finished the season 15–5 with a 2.24 ERA, 196 strikeouts and only 100 hits in  innings. He led the PL in ERA (.14 over Nishi), tied Wakui for the most wins and was second in strikeouts (19 behind Norimoto, though he threw 34 fewer innings). He rarely played the field but did see some action at DH, hitting .202/.252/.376 with 5 home runs in 109 at bats. He made the Best Nine as the PL's top hurler. He finished third in MVP voting again, placing behind Yanagita and Shogo Akiyama for the 2015 Pacific League MVP.<mask> placed third in MVP voting (first among pitchers) and was one of three candidates considered for the 2015 Sawamura Award, given annually to the top pitcher in either league. <mask> led the league in wins and winning percentage with a 15–5 record in just 22 starts, and his 2.24 ERA, 5 complete games, and 3 shutouts were also best in the league. All these stats were career bests, as were his 196 strikeouts, 0.909 WHIP, and 11 strikeouts per nine innings. <mask> was dominant for the Japanese national team in the 2015 Premier 12. He hit 100 mph while blowing away eventual champion South Korea (10 K, 2 H, 2 BB, 0 R in 6 IP) before Norimoto relieved. Facing South Korea again in the semifinals, he was even sharper (11 K, 0 BB, 1 HB, 1 H in 7 IP). He did not give up a hit until Keun-woo Jeong singled in the 7th and had the most whiffs in a game for the first Premier 12 ever.Norimoto relieved with a 3–0 lead but he and two other relievers combined to allow four in the 9th to blow it as Japan fell in a shocking defeat. He led the event in ERA (Scott Diamond had 12 innings with a 0.00 ERA to <mask>'s 13) and strikeouts (one ahead of Chun-Lin Kuo) while allowing the lowest average by a starting pitcher. He was named the All-Star SP for the event (Sho Nakata was the only other member of Samurai Japan to be picked for the All-Star team). Pacific League Most Valuable Player and first Japan Professional Sports Grand Prize (2016)
In 104 games and 382 plate appearances in 2016, <mask> hit 22 home runs. He also hit 18 doubles, 67 RBI, batted .322 with an OBP of .416, scored 65 runs and had 7 stolen bases. He won the Best Nine award as the designated hitter. <mask> was the same dominant pitcher on the mound.In 21 games pitched, he had a career low in ERA at 1.86. He had a 10–4 record, struck out 174 batters in 140 innings with 4 complete games and one shutout. He also won the Best Nine award as a pitcher and won the Pacific League MVP. He got nearly double as many votes as any other pitcher for the PL for the 2016 NPB All-Star Game; he had 300,025 while #2 Shota Takeda had 158,008. He could not pitch in the event due to a blister on his finger but wound up starring as a designated hitter (DH). In Game 1, he batted for DH Yuya Hasegawa and lined out in the 8th against Scott Mathieson. Starting at DH and hitting 5th in Game 2, he homered off Shoichi Ino in the 5th to start the PL comeback from a 3–0 deficit.He singled against Ryo Akiyoshi in the 7th and scored on a hit by Kenta Imamiya for a 4–3 lead. Coming up with a 5–4 deficit in the 8th, he singled off Shinji Tajima to bring in Shogo Akiyama with the tying run. He thus produced three of the PL's five runs in the 5–5 tie, earning him game MVP honors. He hit 165 km/h (102.5 mph) on the radar gun during the year, setting a new NPB record. He finished the year at .322/.416/.588 with 22 home runs in 382 plate appearances on offense and a 10–4 record and 1.86 ERA on the mound with 174 strikeouts in 140 innings. He tied for 8th in the PL in wins and was third in strikeouts (behind Norimoto and Kodai Senga). He led Nippon Ham to the 2016 Japan Series, but lost the opener to the Hiroshima Carp; he fanned 11 in 6 innings but allowed 3 runs, two on a homer by Brad Eldred and one on a steal of home by Seiya Suzuki.Down 2 games to 0, he came up big as the DH in game 3, getting 3 hits, a run and a RBI. In the bottom of the 10th, he singled off Daichi Osera score Nishikawa with the winner; Nippon Ham would take the next three games to win their second Japan Series title. Teammate Brandon Laird would win the Series MVP. <mask> hit .375/.412/.625 with four doubles, doing more on offense than on the mound for the Series. He made the Best Nine as the top pitcher and top DH in the PL. He became the first player to received the awards as both a pitcher and a hitter. He topped 4-time Cuban MVP Alfredo Despaigne easily at DH (190 votes to 47; 3 others combined for 8 votes) but the vote at pitcher was closer (he had 111 of 245 votes, Ishikawa 69 and Tsuyoshi Wada 61).He was the run-away winner of the 2016 Pacific League Most Valuable Player Award, getting 253 of 254 first-place votes (Naoki Miyanishi got the other one) and one second-place vote. He had 1,268 vote points, to 298 for runner-up Laird. 2017
In 2017, he played in 65 games, hitting .332 with 8 homers and 31 RBIs while posting a 3–2 record, a 3.20 ERA, and 29 strikeouts as a pitcher. In September, it was revealed that <mask> would ask to be posted at the end of the season in order to play in Major League Baseball in 2018. However, before that could happen, he had surgery on his right ankle in early October. The injury had originally occurred in the 2016 Japan Series, and had cost him a chance to play in the 2017 World Baseball Classic in addition to restricting his playing time during the season. On November 21, 2017, MLB and NPB came to a posting agreement for <mask>.Because he was under 25 years old, <mask> was subjected to international signing rules. This capped his bonus at $3.557 million and limited him to a rookie salary scale, while the signing team also had to pay a $20 million posting fee to the Fighters. <mask> narrowed his finalists to seven teams, signing with the Angels for a $2.315 million bonus. Los Angeles Angels

On December 8, 2017, <mask> agreed to a deal with the Los Angeles Angels. The deal was finalized the next day. On December 13, it was

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 revealed that <mask> was diagnosed with a first-degree UCL sprain in his right elbow. He received a platelet-rich plasma injection to treat the injury.2018: AL Rookie of the Year

Prior to the start of the season, the Angels announced that they would continue to use <mask> as both a hitter and a pitcher. <mask> started as the designated hitter on Opening Day, March 29, against the Oakland Athletics, singling in his first at bat. On April 1, he made his pitching debut, striking out six batters in six innings while allowing three runs, to pick up his first MLB win. On April 3, <mask> hit his first MLB home run, a 397-foot three-run homer against Josh Tomlin. On April 6, he hit his third home run in three days, becoming the first Angels rookie to do so. In only his second start on the mound on April 8, <mask> took a perfect game through 6⅓ innings before allowing a hit. Overall, <mask> pitched seven scoreless innings while striking out 12.Making his third start pitching on April 18 against the Boston Red Sox, <mask> exited after two innings due to a blister on his right middle finger. On June 7, <mask> left the game after a blister on the same finger. The next day, he was placed on the disabled list for the first time in his MLB career due to a Grade 2 UCL sprain in his right elbow. He received platelet-rich plasma and stem-cell injections to treat the injury. <mask> was activated from the disabled list as a hitter on July 2, and went 0-for-4 against the Seattle Mariners. On August 3, <mask> hit two home runs against the Cleveland Indians, marking his first career multiple-home run game and his first two home runs in a road game. After <mask> had not pitched for 11 weeks, Angels manager Mike Scioscia announced that <mask> would start the game against the Houston Astros on September 2.On September 7, <mask> broke the MLB home run record by a Japanese rookie when he hit his 19th home run for the season. <mask> ended his first major league season with a batting average of .285, a .361 on-base-percentage, 22 home runs, 61 RBIs, and 10 stolen bases. In 10 starts on the mound, he notched a 4–2 record with a 3.31 ERA, 1.16 walks plus hits per inning pitched (WHIP) and 63 strikeouts. His .564 slugging percentage ranked seventh overall among MLB players with at least 350 plate appearances for this season. He became the second-fastest Angels rookie to reach 20 home runs, and he joined Babe Ruth as the only MLB players with 10 pitching appearances and 20 homers in a season. He also won the American League Rookie of the Month award twice; in April and in September. On September 3, 2018, ESPN announced  that doctors recommended that Ohtani undergo Tommy John surgery, after an MRI showed new damage to his UCL.The Angels announced on September 25 that <mask> had agreed to the procedure, which would keep him off the mound until 2020. On October 1, Angels general manager Billy Eppler announced that <mask> underwent successful Tommy John surgery. On November 12, he was named the American League Rookie of the Year. 2019

On May 7, 2019, <mask> played in his first game with the Angels since undergoing Tommy John surgery, batting as a designated hitter against the Detroit Tigers. In a June 13 game against the Tampa Bay Rays, <mask> became the first Japanese-born player to hit for the cycle in MLB history. On September 12, <mask>'s 2019 season prematurely ended after it was revealed that he needed surgery to repair a bipartite patella. He finished the season batting .286/.343/.505 with 18 home runs, 62 RBIs, and 12 stolen bases in 106 games.2020

The 2020 MLB season did not start until July 24 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On July 24, 2020, <mask> was the first ever automatic player on second base in an official MLB game at the start of the 10th inning as part of one of the new 2020 MLB season rules in a game against the Oakland Athletics. He was thrown out in a rundown. On July 26, 2020, <mask> returned to the mound against the Oakland Athletics, making his first pitching appearance since September 2018. He allowed 5 runs and was removed from the mound without recording an out, starting his season with a loss and an infinite ERA. After his second start of the season against the Houston Astros, <mask> began to experience discomfort in his right arm, and it was eventually revealed that he had a flexor strain in his right elbow after undergoing an MRI. Angels manager Joe Maddon later stated that <mask> would not pitch for the rest of the season.On the offensive side, <mask> finished the season batting .190/.291/.366 with 7 home runs, 24 RBIs, and 7 stolen bases in 43 games. The culmination of experiencing injuries in his 2019 and 2020 campaigns led to <mask> describing feeling "frustrated" and "useless." He went on to say that while his 2019 had been disappointing, his 2020 had been "more like pathetic," because he could not pitch or hit the way he wanted to. <mask> said, "[Until 2019], I could more or less do the things I wanted to do. I'd pretty much never experienced the feeling of wanting to do something but being completely unable to do it." 2021: AL MVP

After the results of the 2019 and 2020 seasons, <mask> spent the offseason overhauling himself. He adjusted his diet based on blood-sample analysis and started squatting heavy again, focusing on strengthening his lower half and bulking up to 225 pounds.He threw bullpen sessions earlier than usual and took batting practice against live pitching, an offseason first for him. <mask> also embraced data and technology to optimize his training and recovery by visiting Driveline Baseball, a popular player-development destination for underperforming pitchers, where he also tinkered with a changeup. Furthermore, in spring training, the Angels general manager Perry Minasian, manager Joe Maddon, and <mask> agreed to allow <mask> to play without limitations or restrictions and drop the "Ohtani Rules", a plan the Angels mirrored from <mask>'s schedule in Japan and had implemented since his 2018 rookie season that restricted his usage to a schedule of pitching once a week and hitting only three to four times between starts. Free of the "Ohtani Rules", <mask> would be in charge of his own daily diagnostics with Maddon to determine his pitching and hitting schedule. On February 8, <mask> agreed to a two-year $8.5 million contract with the Angels, avoiding arbitration. In his first pitching start against the Chicago White Sox on  Sunday Night Baseball on April 4, 2021, he threw 4⅔ innings,  allowing one earned run and two unearned runs. During that start, he struck out seven batters.Additionally, <mask> batted 2nd in the lineup. He went 1 for 3, hitting a 450-foot solo home run on the first pitch he faced. After skipping a scheduled start against the Toronto Blue Jays due to a blister, <mask> made his second start of the season on April 20, against the Texas Rangers. Under a 75-pitch limit, he threw 4 scoreless innings, striking out 7 batters and allowing 1 hit. In his third start on April 26,  once again against the Texas Rangers, <mask> collected his first win of the season. He pitched 5 innings, allowing 4 runs in the first inning and striking out 9. Offensively, he went 2 for 3 with 2 RBIs.<mask> also became the first player in nearly 100 years to start a game on the mound while also entering the day leading the Majors in home runs. Such an event had not occurred since Babe Ruth took the mound as starting pitcher for the Yankees on June 13, 1921, leading the AL with 19 home runs. All-Star debut
On June 18, <mask> was elected to the 2021 Home Run Derby, becoming both the first pitcher and the first Japanese player to do so. Three days later, <mask> was named AL Player of the Week for the third time in his career after hitting six home runs and picking up a win as starting pitcher. Two weeks later, he was again named AL Player of the Week for the fourth in his career after hitting six home runs and recording a 1.543 OPS with eight RBIs in six games to help the Angels go 5–1. On June 23, he made history yet again as he hit for himself as a pitcher and the second batter in the lineup against the Giants with designated hitter rules in place, making it the first time in MLB history that an American League team chose not to use a DH while a National League team utilized one. For the first time in his career, <mask> was named the American League Player of the Month for June, as he hit .309/.423/.889 with 13 home runs and a 1.312 OPS as a hitter and earned two wins as a pitcher.On July 3 against the Baltimore Orioles, <mask> became the first player in American League history to reach 30 home runs and 10 stolen bases in the first 81 games of the season. On July 4, <mask> made history by becoming the first player to be selected as an All-Star as both a position player and a pitcher. He had already been selected as the starting designated hitter by the fans for the 2021 All-Star Game on July 1, while being voted by the players as one of five starting pitchers to make the American League roster on July 4. On July 7, <mask> hit his 32nd home run of the year, a solo shot off of Boston Red Sox starter Eduardo Rodríguez, passing Hideki Matsui's mark in 2004, for the most home runs hit during a season by a Japanese-born player in MLB. Additionally, <mask> won the Best Major League Baseball Player ESPY Award, becoming the first Japanese player to win the award. <mask> participated in the Home Run Derby on July 12. In the first round, he hit 22 home runs, tying him with opponent Juan Soto.A tiebreaker round saw <mask> and Soto tied again at 28 home runs. While Soto won the round after a second tiebreaker, <mask> set a record for the most home runs in the Derby of at least 500 feet with six. For participating in the Derby, <mask> received $150,000, which he proceeded to donate his earnings to approximately 30 Angels support employees to thank them for their work, which included trainers, clubhouse workers and media relations staffers. <mask> had decided that he was going to use the money in this manner no matter what his Derby outcome was. On July 13, <mask> made All-Star Game history again as the starting pitcher and leadoff designated hitter for the American League. After pitching a perfect first inning, he also became the first player in major league history to compete in the Home Run Derby and earn a win as the starting pitcher in the All-Star Game. Additionally, he became the first leadoff man to throw a 100-mph fastball in the All-Star Game.Two-way season

On July 26, in his 15th pitching start of the season against the Colorado Rockies, <mask> became the first pitcher in league history to register 100 strikeouts while holding a major-league-leading 35 home runs before the end of July, as no pitcher had ever recorded triple-digit strikeouts and added more than nine home runs in the same season. Additionally, in the same game, <mask> became the first pitcher to throw a scoreless top half and record a hit, a RBI, a stolen base and a scored run while playing in an AL ballpark since Luis Tiant did so for the Minnesota Twins on April 26, 1970. <mask> would finish the month of July as the first player in Major League history to ever have at least 37 home runs and 15 stolen bases before the end of July. And for the second straight month, <mask> also earned his second American League Player of the Month Award, becoming the first back-to-back Player of the Month Award winner in either league since Chase Headley in August and September 2012, and the first in the AL since Josh Hamilton in 2012. For the month of July, he produced nine home runs, 19 RBIs, 16 walks and a .282/.396/.671 slash line in 23 games at the plate, and a 1.35 ERA with 17 strikeouts and one walk in 20 innings. On August 18, <mask> pitched a dominant 8 innings against the Detroit Tigers, setting a career high by throwing 90 pitches to record 24 outs in eight innings while also hitting a solo homer for his 40th of the year in the eighth inning to lead the Angels to a 3–1 win. He became the first left-handed batter in Angels history to reach 40 home runs, surpassing lefty Reggie Jackson's 1982 record of 39.He also became just the fourth AL pitcher to throw at least eight innings and hit a homer in a game since the DH was instituted in 1973, joining Jon Garland in June 2006, Kris Benson in June 2006, and Bobby Witt in June 1997. <mask> would cap off the month of August by stealing his 20th base in a game on August 28 against the San Diego Padres, becoming the first Japanese-born player and the first player in Angels history to hit 40 home runs and have 20 stolen bases in the same season. He joined Alex Rodriguez in 2007 and Ken Griffey Jr. in 1999 as the 3rd AL player to accomplish this feat before September. He also became the first AL player to reach both of those totals in a season since Curtis Granderson in 2011. On September 21, after hitting his 45th home run of the season, <mask> became the first player to hit at least 45 homers and steal 20 bases in a season since Alex Rodriguez in 2007. And on September 25, <mask> joined Willie Mays as the only players with at least 45 home runs, 20 stolen bases and six triples in a season, when he hit two triples in consecutive plate appearances, becoming the first Angels player to do so since Peter Bourjos in April 2011. From September 22 to September 25, <mask> drew 13 walks in a 4-game span, tying an AL/NL record set by Babe Ruth in 1930, Bryce Harper in 2016, and Yasmani Grandal in 2021.He drew a career-high four walks on September 22 and three walks on September 23, against the Houston Astros, followed by four more walks on September 24 and two walks on September 25 against the Seattle Mariners. His 11 walks drawn in the three game span also tied the MLB record set by Harper in 2016. MVP award and other honors

The Angels announced on September 25 that <mask> was named as both the team's Los Angeles Angels Player of the Year of 2021 and the team's Nick Adenhart Pitcher of the Year Award, as voted by his teammates. On September 26, <mask> reached the 150-strikeout milestone against the

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 Seattle Mariners and finished the year unbeaten at home, going 6–0 with a 1.95 ERA in 13 starts. <mask>'s home ERA was the lowest by an Angels starter since Jered Weaver in 2011. He also became the sixth starter in AL or NL history to make at least 13 home starts without a losing decision and an ERA below 2.00 in a season. In the last game of the season against the Seattle Mariners, <mask> passed teammate Mike Trout's 45 home runs in a single season to finish with the second-most home runs in a season in Angels history at 46, trailing only Troy Glaus' 47 home runs in 2000.For the year, <mask> finished his pitching campaign by making 23 starts on the mound, going 9–2 with a 3.18 ERA, 156 strikeouts, 1.09 WHIP and 44 walks in 130 1/3 innings. On the hitting side, <mask> finished with an American League-leading 20 intentional walks, which was the most by an AL player since Mike Trout in 2018. <mask>, who batted .257/.372/.592, including 46 home runs – runner-up for the MLB lead in homers, 100 RBI, 103 runs and 26 steals in 155 games and 639 plate appearances, hit several milestones to close his season, reaching both 100 RBIs and 100 runs for the first time in his career. He also tied for the MLB lead with eight triples to go along with 26 stolen bases. <mask> became the first player in MLB history to have at least 45 homers, 25 stolen bases, 100 RBIs, 100 runs, and eight triples in a season and the second player in AL history to record at least 45 homers and 25 stolen bases in a season, joining Jose Canseco in 1998. According to Baseball-Reference.com, <mask> led the league with a wins above replacement (WAR) value of 9.1 and finished third in home runs (46), fourth in slugging percentage (.592), fifth in OPS (.965), first in triples (8), fifth in drawing walks (96), eight in stolen bases (26), second in extra base hits (80), second in intentional walks (20), fifth in OPS+ (158), and first in power-speed number (33.2). <mask> was unanimously voted the American League Most Valuable Player, becoming the 23rd pitcher and first designated hitter to win the award.For the 2021 All-MLB Team, <mask> is the only player to be named to both teams, first team and second team, in the same season (as a designated hitter and starting pitcher respectively). He became the first pitcher, the first Japanese player and the first Angels player to win the Edgar Martínez Outstanding Designated Hitter Award. <mask> was also awarded the Silver Slugger Award for being the best offensive player at the designated hitter position in the American League, and was named to Time 100's list of most influential people of 2021, which culminated to many end-of-the-season-accolades. He was named Associated Press AP Athlete of the Year, Sporting News Athlete of the Year, Baseball Digest Player of the Year and Baseball America Major League Player of the Year. From his MLB peers he was given Sporting News Player of the Year Award, Players Choice Player of the Year Award, and Players Choice American League Outstanding Player Award. Additionally, <mask>'s 2021 season was recognized for two Guinness World Records titles: (1) the first MLB player to achieve 100+ innings and record 100+ strikeouts as a pitcher, and 100+ RBIs, hits and runs as a batter in a single season and (2) the first player to start the MLB All-Star Game as a pitcher and a designated hitter. He also became the 16th recipient of the Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award, awarded by Commissioner Rob Manfred, who formally recognized <mask>'s 2021 season as "historically significant" and "unprecedented", calling it "so special that it was important to recognize the historic achievement that took place in 2021 with an award just about 2021."<mask> was offered Japan's national honor, the People's Honour Award, by the Prime Minister of Japan in recognition of his accomplishments, but <mask> rejected it, saying it was "still too early" for such an award. On December 22, 2021, Sporting News released the article "The 50 greatest seasons in sports history, ranked." In it, <mask>'s 2021 season was ranked No.1, topping great seasons by athletes such as Babe Ruth, Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Wayne Gretzky, and Lionel Messi. International career

2012 WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup
<mask> was selected to Japan's Under-18 National Team that eventually finished in sixth place at the 18U Baseball World Championship in Seoul, Korea. 2015 WBSC Premier12
In the 2015 Premier12, <mask> earned a bronze medal with the Samurai Japan National Baseball Team. He was the ace of Japan's pitching staff, which featured Kenta Maeda. As the number one starter, <mask> made two pitching appearances for Japan, both against the Republic of Korea, winning Game 1 of the opening round and getting a no-decision in the semifinals.<mask> was subsequently named to the 2015 World Baseball Softball Confederation All-World Team and was named the 2015 WBSC Baseball Player of the Year. 2017 World Baseball Classic
<mask> was on the 28-man roster for the Japan National Baseball Team of the 2017 World Baseball Classic, but was forced to withdraw due to an ankle injury. Awards and achievements

Awards and exhibition team selections

 MLB
 American League Most Valuable Player (2021)
 Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award (2021)
 2× American League Player of the Month (June 2021, July 2021)
 4× American League Player of the Week (April 8, 2018; September 9, 2018; June 20, 2021; July 4, 2021)
 Major League Baseball All-Star Game selection (2021)
 American League Rookie of the Year (2018)
 Silver Slugger Award at Designated Hitter (2021)
 Edgar Martínez Outstanding Designated Hitter Award (2021)
 Los Angeles Angels Player of the Year (2021)
 Nick Adenhart Pitcher of the Year Award (2021)
 Players Choice Award for Player of the Year (2021)
 Players Choice Award for American League Outstanding Player (2021)

 Media
 Associated Press AP Athlete of the Year (2021)
 Baseball America Major League Player of the Year (2021)
 Baseball America Rookie of the Year Award (2018)
 Baseball Digest Player of the Year (2021)
 Sporting News Athlete of the Year (2021)
 Sporting News MLB Player of the Year Award (2021)
  Sporting News Rookie of the Year Award (2018)
 ESPY Award for Best Major League Baseball Player (2021)
 Topps All-Star Rookie team (2018)

Statistical achievements

Playing style

Pitching
<mask> is a ,  right-handed starting pitcher. With an overhand delivery, he throws a four-seam fastball averaging  topping out at 102.5 mph (165 km/h), an  forkball with late diving action, an occasional curveball, and a solid slider at . He posted a walks per nine innings rate of 3.3 across his NPB career. Ohtani has been compared to Justin Verlander by some MLB scouts with his ability and affinity to throwing harder in high-leverage spots and later in games. Whereas most pitchers throw only a little harder in big spots than they do in normal ones and most pitchers lose speed as the game goes on, Ohtani, like Verlander, are both able to reserve power and staying power in order to conserve energy without throwing max effort on every offering.Batting and fielding
<mask> is a left-handed batter. He is a designated hitter and occasional outfielder known for being able to hit with home-run power. As a baserunner, <mask>'s sprint speed and feet-first sliding technique have allowed him to be a league leader in stolen bases, bunt hits and infield-hit rate. Scouts have timed <mask> running from the batter's box to first base in as little as 3.8 seconds. For the 2021 season, his 28.8 feet-per-second sprint speed ranked in the 92nd percentile of all players, as did his 3.51 second 80-foot split and he also recorded the fastest home to first average sprint time in the Majors at 4.09 seconds, while recording a career-high 26 stolen bases. Personal life
<mask> was born to Kayoko and Toru Otani in Ōshū, Iwate, Japan, on July 5, 1994. His mother, Kayoko, was a national-level badminton player in high school and his father worked at a local automobile manufacturing plant and was an amateur baseball player who played in the Japanese Industrial League.The youngest of three children, he has one older sister, Yuka, and one older brother Ryuta, who is also an amateur baseball player in the Japanese Industrial League. In Japan, <mask> was known as a "" ()—a kid who lives, eats and breathes baseball. Coached by his father, he displayed an aptitude for the game at an early age. He began playing baseball in his second year of elementary school and as a seventh-grader, <mask> recorded all but one of 18 outs in a six-inning regional championship game. As a teenager, <mask> could have played baseball for any powerhouse high school team in big cities such as Osaka or Yokohama. Instead, he opted to stay local, selecting Hanamaki Higashi High School in Iwate Prefecture, the same high school as pitcher Yusei Kikuchi, whom he admired, where he competed as a swimmer and played baseball. His high school baseball coach, Hiroshi Sasaki, said that <mask> was a fast swimmer who "could have made the Olympics."Under Sasaki's guidance, Hanamaki Higashi's players lived on campus, returning home for only six days a year. Sasaki would assign toilet cleaning chores to <mask>, to teach the youth pitcher humility. Once <mask> transitioned to playing professional baseball in the Nippon Professional Baseball league with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, he opted to live in the Fighters' provided dormitories for his five-year tenure with the team, while his parents oversaw his personal finances. Since gaining national and international attention as a high school phenom, <mask>  is Japan's most celebrated athlete and has faced intense media pressure scrutiny with the Japanese press his whole adult life. Due to the high-profile nature of his two-way efforts, the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters protected <mask> from some of the media onslaught, while <mask> tended to keep to the team dormitory and the gym, and didn't obtain a driver's license until 2020, leading a semi-monastic, baseball-centric existence, a byproduct for holding down two jobs in the big leagues and doing both at an elite level. While not fluent, <mask> can speak English and knows Spanish, and prefers to speak to the media through an interpreter, translating his native Japanese to English. Ippei Mizuhara is <mask>'s personal interpreter with the Los Angeles Angels and has known him since <mask> was 18, starting in 2013 during <mask>'s days with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.Mizuhara's role as <mask>'s personal interpreter ranges from confidante to conditioning coach and throwing partner, to making sure <mask> understands, and is understood. The interpreter steps into any number of sub-duties, including <mask>'s agenda—preparation, play, recovery, media availability, breaking down advanced analytics and recovery timetables between <mask> and the Angels organization. After <mask> joined the Los Angeles Angels, Mizuhara suggested to <mask>, as an icebreaker, to combine his hobby of playing video games, by downloading Clash Royale, with the rest of the clubhouse. When <mask> announced in September 2017 that he wanted to pursue a career in Major League Baseball, he signed with CAA Sports for representation. <mask> is represented by agent Nez Balelo of CAA Sports since 2017. <mask> was then listed in Forbes 30 under 30 Asia class of 2018 in the field of Entertainment & Sports. For his historic campaign in 2021, <mask> was named to Time 100's list of most influential people of 2021  and awarded the Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award by Commissioner Rob Manfred.Additionally, <mask>'s 2021 season was recognized for two Guinness World Records titles: (1) the first MLB player to achieve 100+ innings and record 100+ strikeouts as a pitcher, and 100+ RBIs, hits and runs as a batter in a single season and (2) the first player to start the MLB All-Star Game as a pitcher and a designated hitter. <mask> was also offered Japan's national honor, the People's Honour Award, by the Prime Minister of Japan in recognition of his accomplishments, but <mask> rejected it, saying it was "still too early" for such an award. <mask> is the cover athlete of MLB The Show 22 and is the first Asian player to be featured as the cover star of MLB: The Show, as well as the first Asian athlete to be featured on the cover of a video game in the United States centered around the four major sports. Endorsements
On July 20, 2021, <mask> signed an exclusive multiyear memorabilia deal with Fanatics. , <mask> has an estimated MLB league-leading $6 million in annual endorsement deals. His endorsement deals include Asics, Descente, Japan Airlines, Nishikawa Co., and Seiko Watch in Japan and Hugo Boss, New Era, Panini, Fanatics, Oakley and Topps in the United States. On November 16, 2021, it was announced that <mask> joined cryptocurrency exchange FTX as a global ambassador, partnering on various animal charitable initiatives.See also

 List of Major League Baseball annual home run leaders
 List of Major League Baseball annual triples leaders
 List of Major League Baseball players from Japan
 Major League Baseball Player of the Week Award
 Major League Baseball Rookie of the Month Award
 Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award
 Sporting News Rookie of the Year Award
 List of Major League Baseball players to hit for the cycle
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American League All-Stars
American League Most Valuable Player Award winners
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters players
Japanese expatriate baseball players in the United States
Los Angeles Angels players
Major League Baseball designated hitters
Major League Baseball pitchers
Major League Baseball players from Japan
Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award winners
Nippon Professional Baseball designated hitters
Nippon Professional Baseball MVP Award winners
Nippon Professional Baseball outfielders
Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers
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<mask>  (; March 4, 1951 – November 5, 1982) was an American novelist, producer, director, and artist of South Korean origin, best known for her 1982 novel, Dictee. Considered an avant-garde artist, <mask> was fluent in Korean, English, and French. In her works, <mask> took language apart and experimented with it. <mask>'s interdisciplinary background was clearly evident in Dictee, which experiments with juxtaposition and hypertext of both print and visual media. <mask>'s Dictee is taught in contemporary literature classes including women's literature. A week after her novel Dictee was published, <mask> was raped and murdered by a security guard at the Puck Building in New York City, on November 5, 1982. Early life
<mask> was born in Busan, South Korea during the Korean War.She was the middle child of five to Hyung <mask>, her father, and Hyung <mask>, her mother. <mask> and her family emigrated to the United States in 1962, first settling in Hawaii and then relocating in 1964 to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she attended Convent of the Sacred Heart High School. During her time there, <mask> studied French. She was fluent in French, English and Korean. Education
At Sacred Heart, <mask> studied Western classics and language. She also studied French, Greek, and Roman classics. During her time at Sacred Heart, she sang in the choir.By the time she graduated <mask> had earned many scholastic awards, including a poetry contest prize at the age of fourteen, two years after she started learning English. Before committing to Berkeley, <mask> attended University of San Francisco for a semester. She transferred to University of California, Berkeley the following year, where she completed her studies in art and writing. There, she also studied ceramics with Peter Voulkos and James Melchert, who encouraged her to work in performance. One of her classmates at Berkeley was artist Yong Soon Min. As a student, she became close friends with Dennis Love, another student, and Bertrand Augst, a professor of French and comparative literature. Her classes with Augst inspired <mask> to study comparative literature, in which she later earned degrees.Teachers and friends have stated that <mask> enjoyed reading broadly, anything from Korean poetry to European modernist and postmodern literature. She received her B.A. in comparative literature in 1973 and a B.A. in art in 1975, both from Berkeley. She worked as a student employee of the Pacific Film Archive for three years between 1974 and 1977 while earning two graduate degrees in art (M.A., 1977; M.F.A., 1978). As a graduate student, she became close friends with Mechert and even became his teaching assistant in 1976. During this time, <mask> connected with fellow artists Stephen Laub, Reese Williams, Young Soon Min, and Mark Thompson.As <mask>'s interest in film grew, she studied at Berkeley under Bertrand Augst, who recalls her interest in poetry written by Stéphane Mallarmé and plays by Samuel Beckett. According to Augst, <mask> felt an affinity with Mallarmé's associative and restrained use of language. It is likely these artists introduced her to unconventional typographic design which become a constant feature of her works. Beckett's highly reductive style of theater found echoes in the spare setting of <mask>'s performances. More than the stylistic influence of Beckett or Mallarmé, <mask>'s studies of film theory with Augst had perhaps the greatest effect on her development. Augst taught his students structural and semiological film analysis, frequently using an Athena projector, which can slow a film to a single frame. This frame-by-frame study greatly inspired <mask>'s own films and use of video stills.In 1976 <mask> decided to pursue a degree in film theory at the UC Education Abroad Program, Centre d'Etudes Americain du Cinema, in Paris. During her stay she studied under Jean-Louis Baudry, Raymond Bellour, Monique Wittig, and Christian Metz. Career and personal life

<mask> began her career as a performance artist, producer, director, and writer in 1974. She also worked as an usher and cashier from 1974 to 1977 at the Pacific Film Archive, with friends. In 1979 <mask> traveled back to Korea for the first time in seventeen years. She had long expressed great anticipation to return in her book Exilée, where she describes the flight in terms of the sixteen time zones that separate San Francisco from Seoul. It was a sorrowful but memorable trip.The excitement of finally returning to her homeland was diminished by the cool reception she received from her own people, to whom she was just another foreigner. "...she visited Korea with her brother in the midst of massive student demonstrations, only to learn that she was a stranger at home." <mask> performed "Other Things Seen, Other Things Heard" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1979, attracting the attention of Robert Atkins, art critic for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In August 1980, <mask> moved to New York City, working as an editor and writer for Tanam Press. Earlier that year, she also traveled to Japan and then back to Korea, this time working on the film White Dust From Mongolia from May to July 1980 with her brother. They were never able to finish the film due to the dangerous political situation in Korea at the time. South Korea President Park Chung Hee had just been assassinated that previous May and restrictive new laws had been declared.The <mask>s were harassed by South Korean officials who thought they might be North Korean spies. In 1981, <mask> began teaching video art at Elizabeth Seton College while working in the design department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was awarded an artist's residence at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1982. While some authors have described <mask>'s character as ambitious and disciplined, others have described her as undisciplined, tragic, pure, and intelligent. She married the photographer Richard Barnes in May 1982; the two had met in a drawing class in 1975, during her time at UC Berkeley. Style

Themes

From 1910 to 1945, the Korean language was forbidden to be communicated in Korea under Japanese rule. <mask> linked her own process of learning language – whether that be in her Korean first language, English, French or Latin – to the extraordinary cultural oppression experienced in Korea during this nearly 40-year period.In the body of <mask>'s art, language functions as fluid binary systems of contemporaneous displacement and reunification, repression and freedom, detachment and engagement, and the ineffable and communication. The main body of <mask>'s work is "looking for the roots of language before it is born on the tip of the tongue". Much of <mask>'s work demonstrates an interaction and interplay between languages with her primary focus on "grammatical structures of a language, syntax, how words and meaning are constructed in the language system itself, by function or usage, and how transformation is brought about through manipulation, processes as changing the syntax, isolation, removing from context, repetition, and reduction to minimal units". Since language unified <mask>'s aesthetic approach, establishing an intimate dialogue with the audience was a deliberate consideration in her art. The audience held a "privileged place in that She/He is the receptor and or activator central to an exchange or dialogue". For <mask>, the audience is the "Other" whose presence establishes, or completes, any form of communication. As she writes in "audience distant relative":

There was no firm delineation between <mask>'s visual and linguistic approaches to literature and art.Her visual and performance work often involved words and letters manipulated such as changing the sizes and placement of letters. These words are often imposed on or near images as a form of communication, another theme in <mask>'s work. Dictee heavily features French and English, along with others, often together on the same page. Commonly, the languages are used in repetitive, "broken" phrases and frequent code-switching, similar to the communication of an individual learning the languages. According to Hyun Yi Kang, this style causes readers to "[reconsider] the arbitrary and ideologically colored prescriptions on language and writing, challenging the requirements of good speech and correct grammar." Other common themes in <mask>'s work include diaspora, the mother tongue, and the narrative device of stream of consciousness. Influences
<mask> was influenced by a variety of sources.Her friends say that she was inspired by the art activity around her, but there has been little analysis of this aspect of her development as an artist. <mask> was inspired by artist Terry Fox, a fellow artist and performer. She met him in 1973, during one of his solo exhibitions at the UAM, now Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UCSB. <mask> came to his performances and watched Fox and his brother Larry interact with various materials and objects, such as metal and a mirror. Fox's exhibit involved a variety of media and formats, including performance, sculpture, and drawing. <mask> drew her inspiration from Fox's slow, ritualistic performances. The translucent veil employed by Fox to demarcate and isolate his performance space was a device <mask> used in her performances ″A Ble Wail″ (1975) and Pause Still (1979; performed with her sister Bernadette).<mask> also used props—candles, bamboo sticks, flour—in some of her performance, which Fox had previously used in his own. <mask> and Fox have been compared in similar slow, deliberate, almost trance-like paces they employed in their performance work. Fox had witnessed a few of <mask>'s performances and commented on the way she moved in the space, barefoot, not making a sound. During her time as an usher <mask> became interested in the work of Marguerite Duras, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Yasujirō Ozu, and many other film theorists and artists. Carl Dreyer was a particularly recurrent influence, particularly his film The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), which was quoted in <mask>'s super-8 and video installation Exilée (1980) among other instances in her work. In the visual arts, her work has been included in the expanded account of conceptual art initiated by the exhibition Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s–1980s, in addition her work usually features in the San Francisco Bay-area accounts of conceptual art, the dates of which are later than the  East Coast accounts. Lawrence Rinder notes that San Francisco Bay-area conceptualism of the 1970s also "tended to invest conceptual forms with personal and physical qualities."Death
On November 5, 1982, <mask> was raped and murdered by Joey Sanza, a security guard at the Puck Building on Lafayette Street in lower Manhattan. She had gone there to meet her husband Richard Barnes, who was documenting the renovation of the building and had an office there. Sanza raped, strangled, and then bludgeoned her to death, removing a ring from her finger. Her death occurred just one week after the publication of Dictee. Sanza, who had already been imprisoned in Florida for 12 counts of sexual battery committed between January and June of 1982, was indicted for the rape and murder of <mask> in 1983, and, after three separate trials, eventually convicted on those charges in 1987. Shortly before her death, <mask> had been working on an artistic piece for a group show at Artists Space in SoHo. The Artists Space exhibit ultimately became a memorial for her, showcasing images and text from Dictee.Additional work left incomplete at the time of her death included another film, a book, a critique of advertising, and a piece on the representation of hands in Western painting. Legacy
In 1991, nine years following <mask>'s murder, her brother and director of the Theresa <mask> Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation, <mask>, asked if the University of California Berkeley Art Museum would be able to set up safe-keeping of <mask>'s videos, artwork, and archives. The gift was accepted by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) in 1992. Some of <mask>'s work is available through the Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). In 1994, a collection of critical essays on Dictee edited by Elaine Kim and Norma Alarcón, Writing Self, Writing Nation, was released by Third Woman Press. Today Dictee is widely studied in contemporary literature classes, including classes on avant-garde writing, feminist and Asian American literature. Elvan Zabunyan wrote the first monograph of <mask>'s work and published it in 2013.Exhibitions
<mask>'s first professional exhibition was part of a group show in 1980 at the San Francisco Art Institute Annual. A posthumous showing of <mask>'s work was organized by her friend Judith Barry and exhibited at Artists Space a month after her death. Her first solo exhibition was held at the Whitney Museum in 1993 with little publicity. Catalogued in the book of the same name, an exhibition of <mask>'s work entitled The Dream of the Audience: <mask> <mask> <mask> (1951-1982) was organized and shown in 2001 at the University of California Berkeley Art Museum by senior curator Constance Lewallen. This exhibition, building off the work of two previously organized by former curator Lawrence Rinder, aimed to display lesser known work by <mask> including other published works, videos, performances, works on paper, and mail art. The exhibit later went on tour, including stops in Irvine (Beall Center for Art and Technology), New York City (Bronx Museum of the Arts), Illinois (Krannert Art Museum), and Seattle (Henry Art Gallery), with a final stop in Seoul. The exhibition continued to Vienna (Generali Foundation) and Barcelona (Fundació Antoni Tàpies).<mask>'s work was exhibited again in Paris (group exhibition Fais un effort pour te souvenir. Ou, à défaut, invente., at the ) and London (A Portrait in Fragments, sponsored and hosted by The Korean Cultural Centre UK; and with a showing of her films at the Institute of Contemporary Arts) in 2013. In 2018, BAMPFA staged an exhibition based on <mask>'s book Dictee entitled <mask> <mask> <mask>: Avant Dictee, organized by assistant curator Stephanie Cannizzo. The Cleveland Museum of Art also staged <mask>'s video work in a show entitled <mask>k Kyung <mask>: Displacements in 2018. Online public portraits
According to Cathy Park Hong in Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, many online photos under <mask>'s name depict the artist's younger sister, Bernadette <mask>-Eun <mask>:

Hong states,  When you google <mask>, the first author photo that comes up is the film still of her sister Bernadette from her video PERMUTATIONS. This still of Bernadette is often confused for <mask> herself...

Only one real photo of <mask> circulates online. <mask> has long hair and wears a black turtleneck and tight jeans.She is in profile, staring out the window of her Berkeley apartment in a studied pose. While this picture is used as her official photo, most readers imagine Bernadette when they think they're imagining <mask>." Published works

Filmography and videography
Selected works distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc., New York

 Secret Spill (1974) 27 min., b&w, sound
 Mouth to Mouth (1975) 8 min., b&w, sound
 Permutations (1976) 10 min., b&w, sound
 Vidéoème (1976) 3 min., b&w, sound
 Re Dis Appearing (1977) 3 min., b&w, sound
 White Dust From Mongolia (1980) 30 min., b&w (uncompleted)

Performances
 Barren Cave Mute (1974), at the University of California, Berkeley. Aveugle Voix (1975), at 63 Bluxome Street, San Francisco. A Ble Wail (1975), at Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley. Life Mixing (1975), at University Art Museum, Berkeley. From Vampyr (1976), at Centre des etudes americains du cinema, Paris, inspired by the film Vampyr
 Reveille dans la Brume (1977), at La Mamelle Arts Center and Fort Mason Arts Center, San Francisco.Monologue (1977), KPFA Radio Station, Berkeley. Other Things Seen. Other Things Heard (1978), at Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Pause Still (1979), 80 Langton Street, San Francisco. Exliee (1980), San Francisco Art Institute, SFMOMA, The Queens Museum (1981)

References

Further reading
 Best, Susan, "The Dream of the Audience: The Moving Images of <mask>k Kyung <mask>." Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-Garde. London: I.B.Tauris, 2011

External links
"The Dream of the Audience: <mask> <mask> <mask> (1951–1982)" Exhibition Review
Voices From the Gaps biography
<mask> <mask> <mask>: Bronx Museum of the Arts - Reviews: New York
<mask> <mask> <mask> at SF Cinematheque: To See, Empty
The Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Archive at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, University of California Berkeley
Guide to the <mask>k Kyung <mask> Collection 1971-1991
The Dream of the Audience: <mask> Kyung <mask> documentary film project
 Art Collection Highlights - <mask> <mask> <mask>
 A Portrait in Fragments: <mask> <mask> <mask> 1951–1982 (15 Jan 2014)

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South Korean emigrants to the United States
University of California, Berkeley alumni
20th-century American novelists
American women novelists
Schools of the Sacred Heart alumni
20th-century American women writers
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Violence against women in the United States
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