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Sabtu, 08 Januari 2011

Derek Jeter - baseball player

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Derek Jeter is an American professional baseball player who is at present with the New York Yankees. He is a Major League Baseball (MLB) shortstop who has played his whole career for the New York Yankees. He has serve as the Yankees' team leader since 2003. Jeter's presence in the Yankees' lineup, tinted by his hitting prowess, played an active role in the team's late 1990s dynasty. Jeter debuted in the main Leagues in 1995, and the subsequent year he won the Rookie of the Year Award and help the Yankees win the 1996 World Series.

In 2000, Jeter become the only player in history to win together the All Star Game MVP Award and the World Series MVP Award in the similar year. He has been selected as an All-Star eleven times, won the Silver Slugger award four times, and he has won the Gold Glove award on five time. He is the all-time hits head among shortstops and his .317 career batting average during the 2009 season ranks as the fifth highest with active players. He has been among the American League (AL) leaders in hits and runs scored for the past ten years. He is the every time Yankees hit leader, transitory Hall of Fame member Lou Gehrig in 2009.

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Date Of Birth

June 26, 1974

Place Of Birth

Pequannock, New Jersey

Bats

Right

Throws

Right

Batting average

.314

Hits

2,926

Runs

1,685

Home runs

234

Runs batted in

1,135

On-base plus slugging

.837

Teams

New York Yankees

Kamis, 11 November 2010

Aaron Carter - American singer, advocate

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Aaron Carter is one of the American singer. He is the younger brother of singer Nick Carter, from the boy group Backstreet Boys. He came to celebrity as a pop and hip hop singer in the late-1990s. He has also start an acting career. He began his the stage career at the age of seven, as the guide singer of a local band, Dead End. He left the band after two years because they were receptiveness towards alternative music and he wanted to do pop. He completed his first solo appearance, singing a cover of The Jets' "Crush on You", when opportunity for the Backstreet Boys in Berlin in March 1997.

He is active in sports, including water sports, soccer, baseball, golf, etc. He is also an avid basketball player. He team up with athlete Shaquille O'Neal for the music video to "That's How I Beat Shaq". At the age of fourteen, he takes up weightlifting and boosted his body weight from 120 lb to 140 lb. He is also a passionate advocate for the defense of the Everglades habitat in his native Florida. At the age of fifteen he appears in a United States Coast Guard video promote the use of life jackets among boaters and anglers.

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Birth name

Aaron Charles Carter

Date of Birth

December 7, 1987

Place of Birth

Tampa, Florida, United States

Genres

Pop, hip hop, dance-pop

Occupations

Singer, rapper, actor, songwriter, dancer

Instruments

Vocals

Selasa, 02 November 2010

Alex Rodriguez - Baseball player

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Alex Rodriguez is a American Major League Baseball third baseman for the New York Yankees. He earlier played shortstop for the Seattle Mariners and the Texas Rangers. Rodriguez is measured one of the best all around baseball players of all time. He is the youngest player still to hit 500 home runs, breaking the record Jimmie Foxx set in 1939, and the youngest to hit 600, besting Babe Ruth's proof by over a year. Rodriguez has fourteen 100-RBI season in his occupation, more than any player in history. On September 24th, 2010, Rodriguez hit two home runs, surpasses Sammy Sosa's mark of 609 HRs, and become the all-time head in home runs by a player of Hispanic descent.

In December 2007, Rodriguez and the Yankees decided to a 10-year, $275 million contract. This contract was the richest agreement in baseball history. In February 2009, after previously denying use of presentation enhancing drugs, including during a 2007 interview with Katie Couric on 60 Minutes, Rodriguez admit to using steroids, saying he use them from 2001 to 2003 when playing for the Texas warden due to what he called "an enormous amount of pressure" to perform.

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Date of Birth

July 27, 1975

Place of Birth

New York, New York

Bats

Right

Throws

Right

Batting average

.303

Home runs

612

Runs batted in

1,825

Awards

10× Silver Slugger Award winner,

4× AL Hank Aaron Award winner,

3× AL MVP,

2× Gold Glove Award winner,

World Series champion