Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien) is a best-selling American author of gothic, supernatural, historical, erotica, and later religious themed books.
Johnny Lipon Stats. Johnny Lipon was born on Friday, November 10, 1922, in Martins Ferry, Ohio. Lipon was 19 years old when he broke into the big leagues on August 16, 1942, with the Detroit Tigers.
1958 saw the Tigers become the 15th of the then 16 MLB teams to field an African-American player. In the Tigers' case, it was an Afro-Caribbean player, Ozzie Virgil, Sr. who finally broke the team's color barrier. Only the Boston Red Sox trailed the Tigers in integrating their roster.