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Tal Smith
Talbot Merton Smith (born September 27, 1933) is an American former professional baseball executive who has served in high baseball operations positions—including general manager and club president—as well as the founder of a firm that advises Major League Baseball teams on salary arbitration cases. A veteran of 54 years in baseball, he most recently served as president of baseball operations for the Houston Astros from November 22, 1994, through November 27, 2011—completing his 35th season with the Astros over three separate terms; he received a lifetime achievement award in 2005. He is the father of baseball executive Randy Smith. Early Colt .45s/Astros career Tal Smith was born in Framingham, Massachusetts. After attending Culver Military Academy and Duke University, serving in the United States Air Force, and a brief time as a sportswriter, he began his baseball career in the front office of the Cincinnati Reds as a protégé of Gabe Paul, their general manager from 1951 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Framingham, Massachusetts
Framingham () is a city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. Incorporated in 1700, it is located in Middlesex County and the MetroWest subregion of the Greater Boston metropolitan area. The city proper covers with a population of 72,362 in 2020, making it the 14th most populous municipality in Massachusetts. Residents voted in favor of adopting a charter to transition from a representative town meeting system to a mayor–council government in April 2017, and the municipality transitioned to city status on January 1, 2018. History Framingham, sited on the ancient trail known as the Old Connecticut Path, was first settled by a European when John Stone settled on the west bank of the Sudbury River in 1647. Native American leader Tantamous lived in the Nobscot Hill area of Framingham prior to King Philip's War in 1676. In 1660, Thomas Danforth, an official of the Bay Colony, formerly of Framlingham, Suffolk, received a grant of land at "Danforth's Farms" an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1965 In Baseball
Champions Major League Baseball *World Series: Los Angeles Dodgers over Minnesota Twins (4–3); Sandy Koufax, MVP *All-Star Game, July 13 at Metropolitan Stadium: National League, 6–5; Juan Marichal, MVP Other champions *College World Series: Arizona State *Japan Series: Yomiuri Giants over Nankai Hawks (4–1) *1965 Little League World Series, Little League World Series: Windsor Locks, Connecticut *1965 Senior League World Series, Senior League World Series: Monterrey, Mexico Awards and honors *Baseball Hall of Fame **Pud Galvin *MLB Most Valuable Player Award, Most Valuable Player **Zoilo Versalles, Minnesota Twins, SS (AL) **Willie Mays, San Francisco Giants, OF (NL) *Cy Young Award **Sandy Koufax, Los Angeles Dodgers *MLB Rookie of the Year Award, Rookie of the Year **Curt Blefary, Baltimore Orioles, OF (AL) **Jim Lefebvre, Los Angeles Dodgers, 2B (NL) *Gold Glove Award **Joe Pepitone (1B) (AL) **Bobby Richardson (2B) (AL) **Brooks Robinson (3B) (AL) **Zoilo Versalles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minute Maid Park
Minute Maid Park is a retractable roof stadium in Houston, Texas, United States. It opened in 2000 as the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Houston Astros. It has a seating capacity of 41,168, which includes 5,197 club seats and 63 luxury suites. The stadium has a natural grass playing field. It was built as a replacement for the Astrodome, the first domed sports stadium ever built, which opened in 1965. History Union Station and pre-ballpark era In 1909, during the time when West End Park was Houston's premier residential area, the Houston Belt and Terminal Railway Company commissioned the design of a new union station for the city from New York City-based architects Warren and Wetmore. The location called for the demolition of several structures of Houston prominence. Horace Baldwin Rice's residence and Adath Yeshurun Congregation's synagogue among other structures were removed. With an original estimated cost of US$1 million, Union Station was constructed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Crane
James Robert Crane (born January 17, 1954) is an American businessman from Houston, Texas. Crane is chairman and chief executive of Crane Capital Group, Crane Worldwide Logistics, and Crane Freight and Shipping. He is also the owner and chairman of the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball - which under his ownership has won two World Series championships (2017, 2022). Early life and education Crane, who grew up in the north St. Louis suburb of Dellwood, Missouri, attended Lutheran High School North and graduated in 1972. He gave the school a donation of $1 million to improve their athletic facilities and enlarge the size of the campus from 40 acres to 67 in 2004. The school named the James R. Crane Athletic Complex for his contribution. Crane earned a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial safety from Central Missouri State University (CMSU) (now the University of Central Missouri) in 1976, where he became a member of the fraternity, Tau Kappa Epsilon. Crane pitched for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Wade
Ed Wade (born January 31, 1956) is an American former professional baseball executive, who served as general manager of the Houston Astros and the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB). Early career in baseball After graduating from Temple University in 1977, Wade started his baseball career as an intern in the Philadelphia Phillies’ public relations department. In October 1977, Wade was named public relations assistant for the Houston Astros and was promoted to public relations director in 1979; he suggested once that J.R. Richard could hold eight baseballs in his hand to celebrate back to back 300 strikeout seasons, which Richard did for a photo. In May 1981, Wade left Houston to become the public relations director for the Pittsburgh Pirates, and remained with that club for five seasons. In 1986, Wade returned to Houston to work as an associate for Tal Smith Enterprises, a firm which has provided consulting services to 26 of the 30 MLB clubs, with the most r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Purpura
Timothy Gerard Purpura (born March 19, 1958 in Oak Lawn, Illinois) is an American baseball executive and former lawyer. He is the former General Manager of the Houston Astros Major League Baseball team. He was with the club from 2005 to 2007. Biography He graduated from Oak Lawn Community High School in Illinois in 1976. Purpura received a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Loyola University of Chicago in 1983 and earned a Juris Doctor degree from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 1992. He was inducted into the Oak Lawn Community High School (Illinois) Hall of Fame in November 2005. He worked as an assistant in player development for the California Angels during spring training from 1990 to 1992 and headed special projects for the San Diego Padres minor league department in 1991. Purpura was the Houston Astros assistant farm director in 1994 and the Director of Major and Minor League Player Relations from 1995 to 1996. He was the assistant GM/Director of Player De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drayton McLane, Jr
Drayton may refer to: People * Drayton (surname) Legal cases * ''United States v. Drayton'', 536 U.S. 194 (2002) Places Australia *Drayton, Queensland, a locality in the Toowoomba Region *Shire of Drayton, a former local government area in Queensland Canada * Drayton, Ontario United Kingdom * Drayton, Hampshire, a close suburb of Portsmouth * Drayton, Leicestershire * Drayton, Norfolk, a satellite village of Norwich * Drayton, Northamptonshire, a suburb of Daventry * Drayton, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, a satellite village of Banbury * Drayton, Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, a satellite village of Abingdon * Drayton St. Leonard, Oxfordshire, locally abbreviated sometimes to Drayton * Drayton, Somerset * Drayton Beauchamp, Buckinghamshire *Drayton, a former hamlet, later known as Drayton Green, now part of West Ealing, Greater London ** Drayton Green railway station ** Drayton Manor High School * Drayton, the south-east of the parish of Swineshead, Lincolnshire * Drayton, a re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980 Houston Astros Season
The 1980 Houston Astros season was the 19th season for the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise in Houston, Texas. After a late collapse in 1979, the Astros finished in a tie for first place in the National League West with a record of 92–70 with the Los Angeles Dodgers, having lost three in a row in Los Angeles on the final series of the season. The teams played a one-game playoff on October 6 to determine the division champion, which the Astros won, marking the first time in franchise history that the team qualified for the postseason. They went on to face the Philadelphia Phillies in the NLCS, losing three games to two. Offseason * October 26, 1979: Keith Drumright was sent by the Astros to the Kansas City Royals to complete an earlier deal (the Astros sent a player to be named later to the Royals for George Throop) made on April 27, 1979. * November 19, 1979: Nolan Ryan was signed as a free agent by the Astros. * January 31, 1980: Joe Morgan was signed as a free agent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McMullen (engineer)
John J. McMullen, Ph.D (May 10, 1918 – September 16, 2005) was an American naval architect, businessman, and marine engineer, and former owner of the New Jersey Devils and Houston Astros. He founded the engineering firm John J. McMullen & Associates, and was the owner of Norton Lilly International a shipping agent now based out of Mobile, Alabama, from 1972 until 2002. Personal life McMullen was born in 1918 in Jersey City, New Jersey. He grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, where he attended Montclair High School, graduating in 1936. He later graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1940 and rose to the rank of commander during a 15-year naval career. The Naval Academy honored his naval and ice hockey backgrounds by naming their hockey team's rink after him. He received a master's degree in naval architecture and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a doctorate in mechanical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980 In Baseball
Champions Major League Baseball World Series: Philadelphia Phillies over Kansas City Royals (4–2); Mike Schmidt, MVP *American League Championship Series: Frank White, MVP *National League Championship Series Manny Trillo, MVP *All-Star Game, July 8 at Dodger Stadium: National League, 4–2; Ken Griffey, MVP Other champions *Amateur World Series: Cuba *College World Series: Arizona *Japan Series: Hiroshima Toyo Carp over Kintetsu Buffaloes (4–3) * Big League World Series: Buena Park, California *Little League World Series: Long Kuong, Hua Lian, Taiwan *Senior League World Series: Pingtung, Taiwan Winter Leagues * 1980 Caribbean Series: Tigres del Licey * Dominican Republic League: Tigres del Licey *Mexican Pacific League: Naranjeros de Hermosillo *Puerto Rican League: Vaqueros de Bayamón *Venezuelan League: Leones del Caracas Awards and honors *Baseball Hall of Fame **Al Kaline **Chuck Klein **Duke Snider **Tom Yawkey *Most Valuable Player **George Brett (AL) Kansas Cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National League West Division
The National League West is one of Major League Baseball's six divisions. This division was formed for the 1969 season when the National League expanded to 12 teams by adding the San Diego Padres and the Montreal Expos. For purpose of keeping a regular-season of 162 games, half of the teams were put into the new East Division and half into the new West Division. Within each division, the teams played 18 games each against their five division mates (90 games), and also 12 games against the teams in the opposite division (72 games), totaling 162 games. Geography Despite the geography, the owners of the Chicago Cubs insisted that their team be placed into the East Division along with the teams in New York City, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. Also, the owners of the St. Louis Cardinals wanted that team to be in the same division with their natural rivals of the Cubs. The league could have insisted on a purely geographical alignment like the American League did. But the owners were also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 In Baseball
Champions Major League Baseball *World Series: Cincinnati Reds over Boston Red Sox (4–3); Pete Rose, MVP *All-Star Game, July 15 at County Stadium: National League, 6–3; Bill Madlock and Jon Matlack, MVPs Other champions *College World Series: Texas *Japan Series: Hankyu Braves over Hiroshima Toyo Carp (4-0-1) *Big League World Series: Taipei, Taiwan *Little League World Series: Lakewood, New Jersey * Senior League World Series: Pingtung, Taiwan *Pan American Games: Cuba over United States Winter Leagues *1975 Caribbean Series: Vaqueros de Bayamón * Dominican Republic League: Águilas Cibaeñas *Mexican Pacific League: Naranjeros de Hermosillo * Puerto Rican League: Vaqueros de Bayamón *Venezuelan League: Tigres de Aragua Awards and honors *Baseball Hall of Fame **Earl Averill ** Bucky Harris **Billy Herman **Judy Johnson **Ralph Kiner *Most Valuable Player **Fred Lynn (AL) Boston Red Sox **Joe Morgan (NL) Cincinnati Reds *Cy Young Award ** Jim Palmer (AL) Baltimore Orio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
