April 4
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Events, births and deaths that occurred on April 4.
Events[edit]
- 1911 - Automobile maker Hugh Chalmers introduces the concept of a Most Valuable Player in major league baseball. Chalmers announces that he will award a new car to the player in each league who is selected MVP by a vote of baseball writers.
- 1948 - Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack, who is 84 years old, challenges Washington Senators owner Clark Griffith, who is 78, to a foot race from home plate to first base. The contest ends in a photo finish tie.
- 1974 - Atlanta Braves slugger Hank Aaron blasts a historic three-run home run against Cincinnati Reds pitcher Jack Billingham on Opening Day. The home run is the 714th of Aaron's career, tying him with the great Babe Ruth for the most in major league history.
- 1977 - The Pittsburgh Pirates make a seemingly minor trade that will pay major dividends when they acquire outfielder Mike Easler from the California Angels for a minor league pitcher, Randy Sealy. Easler will contribute to the Pirates' World Championship in 1979, then will emerge as one of baseball's most dangerous hitters in the early 1980s.
- 1988:
- At Kauffman Stadium, George Bell of the Toronto Blue Jays becomes the first major leaguer to hit three home runs on Opening Day. Bell's homers, all coming against Kansas City Royals ace Bret Saberhagen, help the Jays to a 5 - 3 victory.
- At Olympic Stadium, the New York Mets set an Opening Day record by clouting six home runs in a 10 - 6 win over the Montreal Expos. Kevin McReynolds and Darryl Strawberry each hit a pair of homers and Lenny Dykstra and Kevin Elster both hit one apiece. One of Strawberry's blasts is a monster as he propulses a Randy St. Claire fastball into the ether, smashing on the rim 160 feet above the playing field and 300 feet away in right field.
- 1989 - On Opening Day, New York Yankees pitcher Tommy John ties a major league record by playing in 26 seasons. John beats the Minnesota Twins, 4 - 2, for his 287th win putting him 19th overall in career wins.
- 1993 - At Camden Yards, William Jefferson Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to throw the first pitch of the season from the pitcher's mound.
- 1994:
- At Wrigley Field, Chicago Cubs outfielder Tuffy Rhodes blasts three home runs on Opening Day victimizing New York Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden. Rhodes, who hit three home runs in all of 1993, becomes the first player in major league history to hit home runs in his first three at-bats of the season. In spite of Rhodes' unexpected home run barrage, the Cubs lose the game, 12 - 8.
- The Cleveland Indians inaugurate Jacobs Field with a 4 - 3 victory over the Seattle Mariners. Eddie Murray hits a home run for the Indians, who played their last game at Cleveland Stadium in 1993. Playing his 2,403rd game at first base, Murray becomes major league's all-time leader in games played at that position.
- In New York, a total of 56,706 fans attend Opening Day, making it the largest crowd since Yankee Stadium was renovated.
- 1998 - Mark McGwire hits a home run in his fourth consecutive game to start the season to tie the mark set by Willie Mays in 1971. McGwire's home run helps lead the Cardinals past the Padres, 8 - 6, and also ties another league mark as it is his seventh long ball in a six-game stretch, dating back to 1997.
- 1999:
- Opening Day takes place in Mexico, making it the first time that the major league season's first pitch comes outside the United States or Canada, as the Colorado Rockies defeat the National League defending champs, the San Diego Padres.
- Hall of Fame pitcher Early Wynn dies in Venice, Florida at the age of 79, from complications caused by a stroke. Known as one of the tough pitchers in the game, the highly-competitive Wynn won an even 300 games over a 23-year career with the Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox.
- 2001 - At Camden Yards, Hideo Nomo hurls a 3 - 0 no-hitter against the Baltimore Orioles in his Boston Red Sox debut. It is Nomo's second career no-hitter, making him the fourth pitcher in major league history to pitch one in both the National League and the American League, joining Jim Bunning, Nolan Ryan, and Cy Young in exclusive company. It is also the earliest no-hitter, by date, in major league history, something that will not be topped until 2024 when Ronel Blanco spins one on April 1st.
- 2003 - At Great American Ball Park, Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs hits his 500th career home run off Cincinnati Reds pitcher Scott Sullivan in the 7th inning, becoming only the 18th player in major league history to reach the mark, as well as the first Hispanic player to do so. Despite Sosa's highlight, Cincinnati edges the Cubs, 10 - 9.
- 2004 - Korea Baseball Organization home run record holder Seung-yeop Lee hits his first home run in Nippon Pro Baseball in dramatic fashion. Lee hammers a pitch from Nagisa Arakaki out of Chiba Marine Stadium, becoming just the third player to have done so.
- 2005:
- Opening Day highlights include the Baltimore Orioles' Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro who become the first pair of teammates to have at least 500 career home runs apiece. Sosa opens the season with 574 career HR and Palmeiro 551.
- Detroit Tigers designated hitter Dmitri Young hits three home runs to lead his team to an 11 - 2 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
- Mark Buehrle yields two hits in eight shutout innings and Shingo Takatsu works a perfect 9th inning as the Chicago White Sox defeat the Cleveland Indians, 1 - 0, in a game that takes only an hour and 51 minutes to complete.
- Brad Wilkerson has the honor of being the first batter in Washington Nationals history, and he promptly responds with the first hit for his team. Nevertheless, Kenny Lofton hits a three-run homer and Jon Lieber pitches 5 2/3 effective innings, leading the home team Philadelphia Phillies to an 8 - 4 victory over the Nationals.
- 2010:
- Dee Brown of the Seibu Lions homers twice off Masaru Takeda in a 4 - 0 win over the Nippon Ham Fighters. His second circuit clout is the 90,000th in the history of Nippon Pro Baseball.
- The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox stage a classic battle to open the major league season at Fenway Park, with the Red Sox winning, 9 - 7, after trailing 5 - 1 and 7 - 5. Jorge Posada and Curtis Granderson hit back-to-back homers in the 2nd and Brett Gardner steals home as the Yanks build an early lead against Josh Beckett, but a homer by Dustin Pedroia and three extra-base hits by Kevin Youkilis highlight the Sox's comeback. Chan Ho Park takes the loss in his Yankee debut, while Hideki Okajima is the winner.
- 2011:
- Rangers RF Nelson Cruz ties a mark set by Willie Mays in 1971 and Mark McGwire in 1998 by becoming the third player to homer in his team's first four games to start the season. SS Elvis Andrus joins in the fun, ending a 705 at-bat home run drought dating back to 2009 when he connects in the 1st inning. Texas defeats Seattle, 6 - 4, to move to 4-0 on the year. For the Mariners, Erik Bedard is the loser in his first major league start since undergoing shoulder surgery on August 14, 2009.
- The Orioles are also 4-0 after beating the Tigers, 5 - 1, in their home opener at Camden Yards. Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver throws the ceremonial first pitch, then Jake Arrieta takes over with six strong innings, the fourth straight outstanding performance by an Oriole starting pitcher. Brian Roberts hits a three-run homer off Rick Porcello to put the Birds ahead to stay.
- 2012 - The Miami Marlins inaugurate a new name and a new ballpark, Marlins Park, but lose, 4 - 1, to the St. Louis Cardinals in the opener of the National League season. Boxing legend Muhammad Ali delivers the ceremonial first pitch. Kyle Lohse dowses the home fans' enthusiasm by holding the Marlins hitless until the 7th to earn the win, while World Series hero David Freese drives in two runs with a single in the top of the 1st.
- 2013:
- The Rangers sign SS Elvis Andrus to an eight-year contract extension that will pay him $120 million through 2022, continuing a recent trend of teams signing their star players over the long term in order to ensure cost certainty.
- The Tigers bring back maligned closer Jose Valverde with a minor league contract, as neither of their back-up plans going into the season - rookie Bruce Rondon and a closer-by-committee led by Phil Coke - seems to be working.
- The Yankees record their first win of the season by turning to their storied past. Andy Pettitte picks up the win and Mariano Rivera gets the save in his first appearance following a serious knee injury that almost ended his career as they defeat the Red Sox, 4 - 2. It is Rivera's record 19th season as a Yankee, although Derek Jeter will join him when he is activated from the disabled list later this season.
- 2014:
- P Masahiro Tanaka makes his much anticipated debut for the Yankees, defeating Toronto, 7 - 3, in front of dozens of Japanese journalists on hand for the occasion. Tanaka gives up a homer to the first batter he faces, Melky Cabrera, but then settles down to pitch seven solid innings. 1B Mark Teixeira has to leave the game in the 2nd inning with a hamstring injury, a flashback to last year's plague of pinstripe injuries.
- CF Charlie Blackmon ties a Rockies team record by going 6 for 6 and also drives in five runs in a 12 - 2 win over the Diamondbacks. Arizona 1B Paul Goldschmidt extends his hitting streak, dating back to last season, to 26 games, but at 1-6, his team is off to the worst start in its history, tied with the expansion 1998 edition.
- The Italian Baseball League season opens. Willie Vasquez gets the first hit, for T&A San Marino against Padova BSC, while Jairo Ramos Gizzi drives in Giovanni Pantaleoni with the first run in a 5 - 1 San Marino win. New imports square off on the mound, Junior Guerra beating Ronald Uviedo.
- The German Bundesliga-1 season also begins; Evan LeBlanc's grand slam is the big blow to lift the Regensburg Legionäre over the Haar Disciples, 13 - 6.
- 2015 - Isla de la Juventud wins its first game ever in the Cuban Serie Nacional finals. Having dropped Game 1, 4 - 0, they trail Ciego de Ávila entering the 7th, but Jorge Luis Barcelán hits a two-run jack off Vladimir García to put them ahead and they don't look back. Jesús Amador gets the historic win and Héctor Mendoza the save.
- 2016:
- SS Trevor Story becomes the first player to hit two homers in his debut on Opening Day as the Rockies spoil Zack Greinke's first start in a Diamondbacks uniform. Greinke allows seven runs, the most for him in four years, and three homers, something he had not done since 2009. Story is also the first National Leaguer to hit a pair of homers in his debut game; four players have done so in the American League.
- Two teams pull off lopsided wins in their opening game. The Dodgers romp over the Padres, 16 - 0, behind the pitching of Clayton Kershaw, for the biggest opening day shutout in major league history. The Dodgers rack up 17 hits as Adrian Gonzalez and A.J. Ellis both drive in three runs. The Cubs also get off to a good start as they shut out the Angels, 9 - 0. Jake Arrieta is the winner while Miguel Montero homers and drives in three.
- At the opposite end of the scale, the Rangers manage just one hit against Felix Hernandez and the Mariners, but three walks and two errors, combined with Prince Fielder's bloop single, lead to three runs in the 5th inning and a 3 - 2 win for Cole Hamels, negating a pair of solo homers by Robinson Cano and Kyle Seager.
- Former C Mike Sandlock, the Oldest Living MLB Player, passes away at the age of 100.
- 2017 - OF Stephen Piscotty has a painful run around the bases in the 5th inning of the Cardinals' game against the Cubs. First, he reaches base when plunked on the left elbow by Jake Arrieta, then gets hit on the other elbow by C Willson Contreras when he advances to second on a wild pitch. He comes in to score when the Cubs misplay a ground ball near first base, but in the process is whacked in the head by 2B Javier Baez's throw home and has to leave the game with a possible concussion. His is the only run in a 2 - 1 loss by the Cards.
- 2018 - Major League Baseball experiments with a new medium as today's game between the Phillies and Mets is broadcast live exclusively on "Facebook Watch", a new application recently launched by the social media giant. Reviews are mixed, as viewers complain about the size of the graphics relative to that of most laptop or tablet screens and the invasive nature of streaming comments by users (which can be turned off, although this possibility is not readily apparent to many viewers, it seems). This is clearly an attempt to interest some younger viewers who have tuned out traditional media in watching a live game. But some of the kinks will need to be worked out before it can dethrone the well-regarded MLB.TV, which already provides live and delayed game coverage on a huge variety of connected devices.
- 2019 - Trevor Bauer of the Indians pitches seven no-hit innings before being removed from a start against the Blue Jays, having thrown 117 pitches. Jon Edwards and Brad Hand succeed him and keep the no-no going until the 9th, when Freddy Galvis singles to lead off the inning. Cleveland wins, 4 - 1. It is already the third time this season that the Blue Jays have gone hitless into the 7th inning of a game.
- 2021:
- For the first time since his debut in Major League Baseball in 2018, Shohei Ohtani is in the batting order in a game in which he is also the starting pitcher. Even more remarkable, he bats second in the order, the first pitcher to do so since 1903, and in his first at-bat crushes a long homer against Dylan Cease of the White Sox. The Angels have a 3 - 0 lead entering the 5th, but Ohtani begins to show signs of fatigue and his night ends on a strange play on which the White Sox score twice on a dropped third strike to tie the game, while he collides at home plate with Jose Abreu. The Angels eventually win the game, 7 - 4, on a three-run walk-off homer by Jared Walsh.
- The Alazanes de Granma win the 2020-2021 Cuban Serie Nacional, defeating the defending champion Cocodrilos de Matanzas, four games to two. Today's Game 6 goes to the final at-bat, just like yesterday's game. Matanzas bursts to a 5 - 1 lead in the 5th, but Granma scores in the 6th, 7th and 8th (twice) to tie it. In the bottom of the 9th, Guillermo García (4 for 4 today) singles off Jonder Martínez to score Raico Santos. Roel Santos also does his share, going 3 for 4 with a homer and a steal. Joel Montejo gets the win.
- 2022 - A few days before the start of the season, the Rays trade OF Austin Meadows, an All-Star in 2019, to the Tigers in return for IF Isaac Paredes and a Competitive Balance Round B pick in the 2022 amateur draft.
- 2023:
- Sandy Alcantara, the major league leader in complete games last year, tosses the first one of the season in a masterful shutout against the Twins that requires only 100 pitches and 1 hour and 57 minutes. Avisail Garcia's solo shot off Kenta Maeda in the 2nd accounts for the lone run in a 1 - 0 Marlins win.
- The Brewers go back-to-back-to back against Mets ace Max Scherzer in a 9 - 0 win. Rowdy Tellez, Brian Anderson and Garrett Mitchell all go deep in the 6th, and, for good measure, Anderson and Mitchell again hit consecutive homers in the 7th, in support of Wade Miley, who notches career win number 100 with six scoreless innings.
Births[edit]
- 1859 - Joe Brown, pitcher (d. 1888)
- 1862 - John McCloskey, manager (d. 1940)
- 1866 - John Schulze, catcher (d. 1941)
- 1866 - Harry Taylor, infielder (d. 1955)
- 1878 - Jake Volz, pitcher (d. 1962)
- 1881 - Bill Jackson, infielder (d. 1958)
- 1883 - Bill Hinchman, outfielder (d. 1963)
- 1883 - John Hummel, infielder (d. 1959)
- 1885 - Bill Dam, outfielder (d. 1930)
- 1888 - Tris Speaker, outfielder, manager; Hall of Famer (d. 1958)
- 1888 - Bill Upham, pitcher (d. 1959)
- 1889 - Dutch Lerchen, infielder (d. 1962)
- 1893 - Pete Kilduff, infielder (d. 1930)
- 1894 - Monk Johnson, outfielder (d. 1973)
- 1897 - Ray Miner, pitcher (d. 1963)
- 1900 - Jule Mallonee, outfielder (d. 1934)
- 1901 - Ed Greer, minor league pitcher (d. 1955)
- 1903 - Les Bartholomew, pitcher (d. 1972)
- 1905 - Fred Corcoran, agent (d. 1977)
- 1910 - Joe Bokina, pitcher (d. 1991)
- 1910 - Joe Vosmik, outfielder; All-Star (d. 1962)
- 1915 - Yukio Eguchi, NPB infielder (d. ????)
- 1916 - Mickey Owen, catcher; All-Star (d. 2005)
- 1916 - Willie Ramsdell, pitcher (d. 1969)
- 1918 - Carlos Ascanio, infielder (d. 1998)
- 1923 - Ching-Chuan Chen, Taiwan Baseball Hall of Famerr (d. 2003)
- 1924 - Gil Hodges, infielder, manager; All-Star, Hall of Fame (d. 1972)
- 1926 - J.R. Miner, minor league manager
- 1927 - Wille Brown, Negro League infielder (d. 1996)
- 1927 - Don Hasenmayer, infielder (d. 2020)
- 1927 - Sal Zunno, minor league outfielder (d. 2000)
- 1928 - Luciano Maoloni, Serie A1 infielder
- 1928 - Frank Smith, pitcher (d. 2005)
- 1929 - Tookie Gilbert, infielder (d. 1967)
- 1932 - John Filor, college coach (d. 2015)
- 1932 - Charlie Powell, minor league player (d. 2014)
- 1933 - Ted Wieand, pitcher (d. 2021)
- 1934 - Robert White, minor league outfielder
- 1936 - S. Lee Ross, owner (d. 2015)
- 1936 - Harold Shade, Negro League infielder (d. 2017)
- 1937 - Gary Geiger, outfielder (d. 1996)
- 1937 - Al Kenders, catcher (d. 2013)
- 1938 - A. Bart Giamatti, commissioner (d. 1989)
- 1939 - Hiroyasu Tanaka, NPB infielder-outfielder
- 1941 - Eddie Watt, pitcher
- 1942 - Tom Fisher, pitcher (d. 2016)
- 1942 - Jim Fregosi, infielder, manager; All-Star (d. 2014)
- 1942 - Ron Locke, pitcher
- 1943 - Mike Epstein, infielder
- 1945 - Nick Bremigan, umpire (d. 1989)
- 1945 - Katsuya Sugawara, NPB pitcher
- 1947 - Ray Fosse, catcher; All-Star (d. 2021)
- 1947 - Fred Nelson, scout
- 1947 - Bill Seinsoth, minor league infielder (d. 1969)
- 1948 - Leon Hooten, pitcher
- 1950 - Kuo-Ming Liu, Chinese Taipei national team infielder
- 1952 - Herm Schneider, trainer
- 1955 - Nick Giaquinto, college coach
- 1956 - Tom Herr, infielder; All-Star
- 1957 - Martin Ronnenbergh, minor league pitcher
- 1958 - Marty Mason, coach
- 1959 - Pedro Hernandez, designated hitter
- 1960 - John Lickert, catcher
- 1961 - Brad Komminsk, outfielder
- 1962 - Myong-lok Oh, KBO pitcher
- 1963 - Jack Del Rio, minor league infielder
- 1965 - Mike Farr, minor league pitcher
- 1968 - Jim Dedrick, pitcher
- 1969 - Carlos Reyes, pitcher
- 1969 - Mark Strittmatter, catcher
- 1972 - Guillermo Garcia, catcher
- 1972 - Jeff Sparks, pitcher
- 1972 - Matt Wagner, pitcher
- 1973 - Dusty Dellinger, umpire
- 1974 - Osamu Nogami, Japanese national team infielder
- 1975 - Johan Lopez, minor league pitcher
- 1975 - Scott Rolen, infielder; All-Star
- 1977 - Eric Valent, outfielder
- 1978 - Jason Ellison, outfielder
- 1978 - Junhui Li, China Baseball League pitcher
- 1979 - Adnan Butt, Pakistani national team outfielder
- 1979 - Saddam Hussain, Pakistani national team outfielder
- 1980 - Casey Hoorelbeke, minor league pitcher
- 1981 - Casey Daigle, pitcher
- 1983 - Gianpierre Reaño, Peruvian national team pitcher
- 1985 - Larry Infante, minor league infielder
- 1985 - Akira Matsumoto, Japanese national team outfielder
- 1986 - Raul Barron, minor league infielder-pitcher
- 1986 - Anthony Carter, NPB pitcher
- 1986 - Louis Coleman, pitcher
- 1986 - Grant Desme, minor league outfielder
- 1986 - Mitch Einertson, minor league outfielder
- 1986 - Matt Ryan, minor league infielder
- 1987 - Odrisamer Despaigne, pitcher
- 1987 - Cameron Maybin, outfielder
- 1987 - Alwin Pérez, minor league infielder
- 1987 - Michelle Snyder, US women's national team infielder
- 1987 - Ming-Chueh Tsai, CPBL infielder
- 1988 - Steven Bumbry, minor league outfielder
- 1988 - Tomas Francisco, coach
- 1988 - Moegamat-Zaid Hendricks, South African national team outfielder
- 1988 - Kelvin Kondo, scout
- 1988 - Marcos Molina, minor league pitcher
- 1988 - Masashi Nohara, NPB infielder
- 1988 - Matt Sweeney, minor league infielder
- 1989 - Wade Kirkland, minor league infielder
- 1989 - Loudelis Moreno, Venezuelan women's national team pitcher
- 1991 - Yury Bakalets, Russian national team infielder
- 1991 - Martín Pérez, pitcher; All-Star
- 1991 - Carlos Sanchez, minor league infielder
- 1991 - Ya-Ling Tsai, Taiwanese women's national team infielder
- 1991 - Anouk Vergunst, Dutch women's national team pitcher-outfielder
- 1993 - Miguel Almonte, pitcher
- 1993 - John Bormann, catcher
- 1994 - Kiara Hernández, Puerto Rican women's national team pitcher
- 1994 - Rabia Liaqat, Pakistani women's national team infielder
- 1994 - Renato Nunez, infielder
- 1995 - Douglas Charchal, Guatemalan national team pitcher
- 1995 - J.P. France, pitcher
- 1995 - Conner Greene, pitcher
- 1995 - Eduardo Jimenez, pitcher
- 1996 - Mitch Keller, pitcher; All-Star
- 1997 - Gilmael Troya, minor league pitcher
- 2000 - Shosei Togo, NPB pitcher
- 2001 - Orion Kerkering, pitcher
- 2001 - Ronny Mauricio, infielder
- 2002 - Bruno Tartaglia, Argentinian national team pitcher
- 2003 - Ying-Chieh Mao, CPBL catcher
- 2003 - Chase Petty, minor league pitcher
Deaths[edit]
- 1917 - Alex Skinner, outfielder; umpire (b. 1850)
- 1921 - Pop Corkhill, outfielder (b. 1858)
- 1924 - George Wood, outfielder, manager, umpire (b. 1858)
- 1934 - Dick Johnston, outfielder (b. 1863)
- 1941 - Alex Jones, pitcher (b. 1869)
- 1945 - Dick Cotter, catcher (b. 1889)
- 1947 - Jot Goar, pitcher (b. 1870)
- 1949 - George Suggs, pitcher (b. 1882)
- 1956 - Dolly Gray, pitcher (b. 1878)
- 1956 - Clay Roe, pitcher (b. 1904)
- 1961 - Henry Wetzel, minor league player, manager and scout (b. 1882)
- 1962 - Snooks Dowd, infielder (b. 1897)
- 1966 - Herb McQuaid, pitcher (b. 1899)
- 1969 - Chuck Ward, infielder (b. 1894)
- 1969 - Les Wilson, outfielder (b. 1885)
- 1971 - Carl Mays, pitcher (b. 1891)
- 1974 - Danny Silva, infielder (b. 1896)
- 1977 - Sam Hill, outfielder (b. 1926)
- 1978 - Joe McDermott, minor league catcher, scout, and minor league owner (b. 1894)
- 1982 - Eli Chism, outfielder (b. 1916)
- 1982 - Mel Queen, pitcher (b. 1918)
- 1988 - Jack Aragon, pinch runner (b. 1915)
- 1988 - Charlie Snell, catcher (b. 1893)
- 1989 - Manuel Magallón, minor league infielder and manager (b. 1926)
- 1991 - Johnny Moore, outfielder (b. 1902)
- 1995 - Minoru Yamashita, Japanese Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1907)
- 1996 - Don Ross, infielder (b. 1914)
- 1999 - Early Wynn, pitcher; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1920)
- 2001 - Bob Lightbody, minor league pitcher (b. 1932)
- 2004 - George Bamberger, pitcher, manager (b. 1923)
- 2006 - Walt Rabb, college coach (b. 1914)
- 2008 - Jerry Crider, pitcher (b. 1941)
- 2009 - Rochell Broome, Negro League player (b. 1938)
- 2011 - Tim Costello, minor league pitcher (b. 1956)
- 2011 - Donald Spencer, minor league infielder (b. 1927)
- 2012 - Ken Cluley, minor league outfielder (b. 1928)
- 2016 - Mike Sandlock, catcher (b. 1915)
- 2020 - Shan Deniston, umpire (b. 1919)
- 2021 - Tazuru Kakino, Japanese national team manager (b. 1951)
- 2024 - Pat Zachry, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1952)
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