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Milt (name)
Milt is a masculine given name, nearly always a short form ( hypocorism) of Milton. People named Milt include: * Milt Bernhart (1926–2004), American jazz trombonist * Milt Bocek (1912–2007), American Major League Baseball player * Milt Drewer (1923-2012), American college football head coach and CEO of First American Bank of Virginia * Milt Franklyn (1897–1962), American musical composer and arranger who worked on the Looney Tunes animated cartoons * Milt Gabler (1911–2001), American record producer, responsible for many innovations in the recording industry * Milt Harradence (1922–2008), controversial Canadian criminal lawyer, pilot, politician and judge * Milt Hinton (1910–2000), American jazz double bassist and photographer * Milt Jackson (1923–1999), American jazz vibraphonist * Milt Jackson (American football) (1943–2005), American football coach * Milt Larkin (1910-1996), American jazz trumpeter, bandleader and singer * Milt McColl (born 1959), American reti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' for Robert, or it may be unrelated. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often Clipping (morphology), clipped down to a closed monosyllable and then suffixed with ''-y/-ie'' (phonologically /i/). Sometimes the suffix ''-o'' is included as well as other forms or templates. Hypocoristics are often affective in meaning and are particularly common in Australian English, but can be used for various purposes in different semantic fields, including personal names, place names and nouns. Hypocorisms are usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milt McColl
Milton Bird McColl (born August 28, 1959) is an American physician and former football linebacker. He played college football at Stanford University and in the National Football League (NFL) from 1981 to 1988, during which he played for the San Francisco 49ers from 1981 to 1987 and Los Angeles Raiders in 1988. With the 49ers, McColl appeared in Super Bowl XVI and Super Bowl XIX. He is the son of former Stanford and NFL end Bill McColl. Early life Born in Oak Park, Illinois, McColl graduated from South Hills High School in West Covina, California in 1977. College career Following in the footsteps of his father and brother, McColl attended Stanford University and played at linebacker for the Stanford Cardinal from 1977 to 1980. On the 1978 team that won the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, McColl led the team in sacks with seven. As a senior in 1980, McColl led Stanford in sacks (four) and tackles for loss (eight). Pro football career Signing with the San Francisco 49ers as an undrafted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milt Woodard
Milton P. Woodard (June 4, 1911 – March 3, 1996) was an American sports writer and sport executive. He was the President of the American Football League until it merged with the NFL in 1970. Woodard served from July 1966 to March 1970, succeeding Commissioner Al Davis as chief executive of the League. Background Woodard was born in Tacoma, Washington, where he attended Stadium High School and ran track and played football. His father was railroad worker. He attended the College of Puget Sound (now the University of Puget Sound) in Washington, where he played baseball. He graduated in 1933. He subsequently went to the University of Minnesota. Woodard had a distinguished career as a sportswriter for the Tacoma News Tribune and at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he served as the beat writer for the Chicago White Sox. He also covered boxing at Chicago Stadium. In 1951, he published a book under the American-based sports magazine The Sporting News (now Sporting News, or TSN) entitle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milt Wagner
Milton Wagner Jr. (born February 20, 1963) is an American basketball coach. After playing college basketball at Louisville, Wagner played in the NBA. He served as assistant coach for the UTEP Miners and the Auburn Tigers. Biography Wagner played high school basketball at Camden High School. A 6' 5" point guard/shooting guard he led the Louisville Cardinals to the 1986 NCAA Championship along with three Final Four berths (1982, 1983, 1986) as well as to the 1984 Sweet Sixteen. He helped the Cardinals to a 113–32 record, three Metro Conference regular season titles and two Metro Conference Tournament crowns during his college career. He redshirted the 1985 season with a broken foot. A three-time All-Metro Conference selection, Wagner ranks fifth (was fourth after finishing collegiate career) in Cardinal history with 1,836 career points, with a 12.7 career scoring average while also averaging 3.0 assists and 2.5 rebounds. He played in 144 career games, second all-time at Louis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milt Thompson (baseball)
Milton Bernard Thompson (born January 5, 1959), is an American former professional baseball outfielder, pinch hitter, and coach, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Astros, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Colorado Rockies. He returned as the Cincinnati Reds’ minor league hitting instructor, for the season. Over his MLB career, Thompson compiled a batting average of .274. Major league career The Atlanta Braves drafted Thompson in the 2nd round (29th overall) of the 1979 draft, out of Howard University. He made his big league debut, five years later, in . After two years in Atlanta, as a part-time left fielder, the Braves traded Thompson, along with Steve Bedrosian, to the Phillies, for Ozzie Virgil and Pete Smith. Thompson continued to impress, batting .251, .302, and .288, respectively, in his three seasons in Philadelphia. On December 16, 1988, Thompson was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals, for Ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milt Sunde
Milton John Sunde (February 1, 1942 – April 21, 2020) was an American football player. He played professionally as a Guard (gridiron football), guard in the National Football League (NFL) for the Minnesota Vikings from 1964 to 1974. Sunde attended Abraham Lincoln High School (Minnesota), Bloomington High School and the University of Minnesota. He played with the Vikings in two of their losing Super Bowl efforts (Super Bowl IV, IV and Super Bowl IX, IX). He missed playing for the Vikings in Super Bowl VIII due to an injury suffered in the NFC championship game two weeks earlier. Sunde died on April 22, 2020 at the age of 78. References 1942 births 2020 deaths American football offensive linemen Minnesota Golden Gophers football players Minnesota Vikings players Western Conference Pro Bowl players Sportspeople from Bloomington, Minnesota Players of American football from Minneapolis {{offensive-lineman-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milt Rehnquist
Milton Rehnquist (April 3, 1892 – December 1971) was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for the Kansas City Blues, Cleveland Bulldogs, Kansas City Cowboys, Providence Steam Roller, New York Giants, and the Boston Braves The Atlanta Braves, a current Major League Baseball franchise, originated in Boston, Massachusetts. This article details the history of the Boston Braves, from 1871 to 1952, after which they moved to Milwaukee, and then to Atlanta. During it .... He attended Bethany College. 1892 births 1971 deaths American football offensive linemen Kansas City Blues (NFL) players Cleveland Bulldogs players Kansas City Cowboys (NFL) players Providence Steam Roller players New York Giants players Boston Braves (NFL) players Players of American football from Minnesota {{offensive-lineman-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milt Raskin
Milt Raskin (January 27, 1916 – October 16, 1977) was an American swing jazz pianist. Born in Boston, Mass., Raskin played saxophone as a child before switching to piano at age 11. In the 1930s he attended the New England Conservatory of Music. He worked on local Boston-area radio before moving to New York City, where he played with Wingy Manone in 1937 at the Famous Door and Gene Krupa in 1938-39. He then played with Teddy Powell and Alvino Rey before joining Krupa again for a short time, then joined the orchestra of Tommy Dorsey from 1942 to 1944, replacing Joe Bushkin. He moved to Los Angeles in 1944, where he occasionally worked in jazz (including on recordings by Artie Shaw, Billie Holiday, and Georgie Auld), but concentrated on work as a studio musician and musical director. Much of his studio work from the 1940s on was uncredited, and he never led his own jazz recording session. Discography As leader * ''Kapu (Forbidden)'' (Crown, 1959) As sideman * Count Basie, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milt Ramírez
Milton Ramírez Barboza (April 2, 1950 – August 18, 2022) was a Puerto Rican Major League Baseball infielder. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals during the and seasons and the Oakland Athletics during the season. Ramírez signed with the Baltimore Orioles as an amateur free agent in 1968. The St. Louis Cardinals selected him from the Orioles organization in the Rule 5 draft after the 1969 season. He batted .190 in 87 plate appearances across 62 games played for the Cardinals in the 1970 season. Ramírez appeared in four games for the Cardinals in the 1971 season. The Cardinals traded Ramírez along with Skip Jutze to the Houston Astros for Ray Busse and Bobby Fenwick on November 29, 1972. Ramírez played for the Oakland Athletics The Oakland Athletics (often referred to as the A's) are an American professional baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West divisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milt Plum
Milton Ross Plum (born January 20, 1935) is a former American football quarterback who played for the Cleveland Browns (1957–61), Detroit Lions (1962–67), Los Angeles Rams (1968) and New York Giants (1969) of the National Football League (NFL). Professional career Plum played quarterback, defensive back, punter and placekicker at Penn State following his prep years playing for Woodbury High School. After using their first-round pick in the 1957 NFL Draft on Jim Brown, the Browns chose Plum in the second round. Plum got onto the field at quarterback in the fourth game of the 1957 season when starter Tommy O'Connell got hurt against the Philadelphia Eagles. Plum and O'Connell split time throughout the rest of the 1957 season, in which the Browns went 9-2-1 and won the Eastern Conference. O'Connell left the NFL after the 1957 season, and over the next four years, Plum was a consistent part of an offense built around the running of Jim Brown and Bobby Mitchell. Plum's passer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milt Larkin
Milt Larkin (October 10, 1910, Navasota, Texas, Navasota, Texas – August 31, 1996) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader and singer.Campbell, Robert L. and Leonard J. Bukowski, and Armin Büttner "The Tom Archia Discography" Retrieved 3 July 2013. Biography Early career Larkin was an autodidact on the trumpet, and got his start playing in Texas in the 1930s with Chester Boone and Giles Mitchell. Between 1936 and 1943 he led his own band, touring the southwest United States, with gigs in Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City, and at the Apollo Theater in New York City, as well as a 9-month residency at the Rhumboogie Café in Chicago, on occasions coinciding there with, and backing, T-Bone Walker.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton (given Name)
Milton is a given name, and may refer to: People: *Milton Acorn (1923–1986), Canadian poet, writer, and playwright *Milton Ager (1893–1979), American composer *Milton Avery (1885–1965), American modern painter *Milton Babbitt (1916–2011), American composer *Milton Bagby, American voice actor and author *Milton Balkany (born 1946), American Orthodox rabbi and convicted extortionist *Milton Barney (born 1963), American football player *Mílton Barros (born 1984), Angolan basketball player *Milton Bearden (born 1940), retired Central Intelligence Agency officer, author, and film consultant *Milton Becerra (born 1951), Venezuelan artist *Milton Earl Beebe (1840–1923), American architect *Milton Bell (born 1970), American basketball player *Milton Berle (1908–2002), American comedian *Milton Blanco (born 1984), American soccer player *Milton Bradley (1836–1911), American toymaker *Milton Bradley (baseball) (born 1978), American baseball player *Milton Brown (1903–1936), A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
