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Ira Smith (other)
Ira Smith may refer to: * Ira Smith (baseball) (born 1967), American baseball player * Ira Smith (announcer), American public address announcer * Ira E. Smith (1864-1948), Wisconsin state politician * Ira Harvey Smith (1815-1883), Kansas state politician * Ira P. Smith (1832-1904), Wisconsin State politician {{hndis, Smith, Ira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ira Smith (baseball)
Ira Lamonte Smith (born August 4, 1967) is an American former college and minor league baseball player from Chestertown, Maryland. While playing collegiately at University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Smith was the first player to win two NCAA batting titles as well as the first to win the award in consecutive seasons. College baseball In 1989, Smith finished the season with a .488 batting average and was named team MVP. In 1990, Smith repeated the feat by batting .519, ranking the sixth all-time highest Division 1 batting average and again earning team MVP honors. Ira's career batting average of .431 ranks as the 14th highest in Division 1 history. Professional baseball In the 1990 MLB Draft the Los Angeles Dodgers selected Smith in the 37th round. In 14 years playing Minor league and Independent league baseball, Smith had a career .292 batting average. Despite several seasons in Triple-A, Smith did not appear in any games for a Major League Baseball team. In 1997, it was rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ira Smith (announcer)
Ira C. Smith is an American public address announcer who has worked for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association. Since 1976, Smith has been called the ''Voice of Napa Valley Sports ''for KVON and KVYN, covering many local sports. Early life and military service Smith was born and raised in Plum Tree, Indiana. He grew up listening to sportscasters Hilliard Gates and Chris Schenkel. He graduated from Hanover College with a degree in business administration. He was then drafted into the Army. A major assigned him to the Army Public Information Office as a Broadcast Specialist because of the sound of his voice. Career After leaving the military, Ira started his civilian career in radio management and sportscasting. In the 1960s, he was the University of Cincinnati's sports director of their radio station, broadcasting Cincinnati Royals' games. Along the way Ira worked at WHLT in Columbia City, Indiana (4 years), WMRI AM and FM in Marion, Indiana (2 years) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ira E
Ira or IRA may refer to: *Ira (name), a Hebrew, Sanskrit, Russian or Finnish language personal name * Ira (surname), a rare Estonian and some other language family name *Iran, UNDP code IRA Law *Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, US, on status of Native Americans *Individual retirement account, in the US, giving tax benefits *Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, a US budget reconciliation bill *Internal Revenue Allotment, a local share of Philippines government revenue Music *Ira (Polish band), a Polish heavy metal band *Ira!, a Brazilian rock band * I.R.A. (band), a Colombian punk band *One part of an Andean wind instrument, the siku Organizations * Indian Reunification Association * Indian Rationalist Association * Indian Rights Association, US, for Native Americans * Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA), a Mauritania anti-slavery group * Insurance Regulatory Authority (Kenya), the authority charged with regulation and supervision of Kenya's insurance i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ira Harvey Smith
Ira Harvey Smith (August 20, 1815 – April 18, 1883) was a Kansas state politician. Smith, son of Ira and Rachel (Riggs) Smith, was born in that part of Derby which is now Seymour, Conn, August 20, 1815. He was for nearly two years a member of the class of Yale College which graduated in 1841, but graduated in 1842. After having studied for three years in the Yale Divinity School, he was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in North Haven, Conn., February 11, 1846. His health failing him, he was dismissed from this charge in March, 1848. After five months' residence in the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, he undertook the supply of the pulpit in Prospect, Conn, but was very shortly obliged again to relinquish his profession for outdoor occupations. From the spring of 1853 till the summer of 1854 he resided in California, and in the fall of 1854 joined the tide of free emigration to Kansas, where he remained for the rest of his life. There he was at first engag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |