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Elton P. "<mask>" <mask> (November 5, 1867September 22, 1929) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher from  to . In several seasons, <mask> finished in his league's top ten in a number of pitching categories, including wins, earned run average, strikeouts, and shutouts. During one of his best seasons, the 1888 St. Louis Browns won the American Association pennant with a 92–43 record. Although a righthanded pitcher, <mask> pitched the last two innings of an 1888 game with his left hand. <mask> finished his major league career with 264 complete games out of his 301 games started. After his playing days, he was hired as a baseball umpire and later announced that he was becoming a boxer, but neither venture seems to have worked out.Not much is known about <mask>'s later life. He died in Baltimore in 1929. Early life and career
<mask> was born on November 5, 1867, in Warsaw, New York. He was one of six children born to veterinary surgeon <mask> and his wife Carrie. Moving to Buffalo as a child, <mask> began to play organized baseball as a teenager. His early professional career included stints with a minor league team in Hamilton, Ontario, and with a Southern League team in Macon, Georgia. As a 17-year-old pitcher with Hamilton, he earned 18 wins and led the league in strikeouts.<mask> made his major league debut with the Louisville Colonels of the American Association on September 13, 1886. In early October, <mask> was pitching in a game against the Baltimore Orioles when Louisville players began to complain that opposing pitcher Matt Kilroy was leaving the pitcher's box when he threw the ball. When the umpire did not respond to Louisville's complaints, <mask>'s manager told him to run forward out of the box when he let go of his pitches. The move "scared the Baltimore batters out of their wits" and Kilroy did not deliver any more questionable pitches. In 1887, <mask> won 18 games for Louisville. The right-hander, who stood  and weighed 168 lbs., earned the nickname "Ice Box". Some sources attribute the nickname to his ability to remain cool when facing tough opposition, but at least one source links the nickname to chronic laziness.On May 9, 1888, while pitching against the Kansas City Cowboys, <mask> pitched righthanded for the first seven innings and lefthanded for the last two innings. Louisville won the game by a score of 18–6. He was the third major league pitcher to throw with both his left and right hands during the same game. The feat was not repeated in the major leagues until Greg Harris switched arms for the ninth inning of a 1995 game. <mask> was traded to the St. Louis Browns in August 1888, having already registered 14 wins for the Colonels that year. He earned 11 more wins in the last six weeks of the season. He struck out 176 batters and registered a 2.19 earned run average that season, good for fifth among the league's pitchers.The Browns finished 1888 with a fourth consecutive league pennant. However, not long after <mask> joined the club, pitcher Nat Hudson left the team to get married. In the World Series, the Browns had only <mask> and pitcher Silver King to face a trio of New York Giants pitchers that included future Hall of Famer Tim Keefe. After <mask> pitched a shutout in the second game of the 1888 World Series, he lost the fourth, sixth and eighth games. <mask> gave up 11 runs in the eighth game. Though the Giants clinched the series after that game, they played a full ten games, with <mask> winning the last game. The series was <mask>'s last major league postseason playing appearance.Middle career

The Cincinnati Reds talked to St. Louis about acquiring <mask> in 1889, but Cincinnati balked when St. Louis asked $8,000 for him. That year, <mask> pitched in a career-high 53 games and finished with 32 wins; his win total was the third highest in the league. Following the 1889 season, a new major league was forming known as the Players' League. A players association known as the Brotherhood of Professional Ball Players had served as a union and bargaining agent since the mid-1880s; now the group's new league was attempting to compete with established baseball. Browns owner Chris von der Ahe was afraid that <mask> would jump to the Chicago team in the new league; the manager of the Browns from the previous season, Charles Comiskey, had been hired there. Von der Ahe agreed to match the $800 pay increase that <mask> would have gotten in Chicago. <mask> had returned to Buffalo by May 1890, where he was reported to be hanging out in pool rooms.Rumors held that <mask> wanted to join the Brotherhood and that he was "playing for his release." He was sold to the Columbus Solons (also of the American Association) the next month. <mask> had appeared in five games for St. Louis and pitched in 25 more for Columbus by the end of the season. He finished the year with a league-leading six shutouts. In February 1891, <mask> pleaded guilty to a charge of aiding and abetting a prize fight. He received a $50 fine and the Columbus team declared that they would not retain him for the 1891 season. The Philadelphia Athletics indicated immediate interest in <mask>, hoping that he would pitch most of the team's games.<mask> earned a 22–23 win-loss record in 1891. He was the losing pitcher in the last of 485 shutouts recorded in the few seasons of American Association play. In August, he gave up the longest home run that had been hit at Boston's Congress Street Grounds. <mask> pitched for the NL's Cincinnati Reds in 1892, compiling a 19–23 record. In May of that season, <mask> pitched in an unusual game that was suspended due to sunlight; the scoreless game was in extra innings when umpire Jack Sheridan ruled that the sun was too bright for players to see the ball. The 1892 Reds finished with an overall record of 82–68. League officials split the season into two halves and the Reds finished fourth and eighth in the respective halves.Before the 1893 season, <mask> indicated his displeasure with the climate in Cincinnati and said that he hoped to pitch for New York or Philadelphia in the coming year. He also said that he would be happy to pitch in Buffalo if the city received a major league expansion team. <mask> stayed in Cincinnati for that season and the next one, earning 16–12 and 10–9 records. On May 30, 1894, <mask> was the pitcher when Bobby Lowe became the first major league player to hit four home runs in one game. Two of Lowe's home runs came in the same inning. Lowe hit only 70 career home runs in an 18-year career. Later career and life
<mask> had agreed to play for the Cleveland Spiders in 1895, but instead he joined a Class D baseball team out of Warren, Ohio in the Iron and Oil League.Future Baseball Hall of Fame member Honus Wagner played on the team. Years later, Wagner recalled <mask> as an experienced pitcher who shared his baseball knowledge with his young teammates. He reported to the Spiders in 1896. The team featured Cy Young and young pitchers such as Cy Swaim and Zeke Wilson. <mask> was released after appearing in two games. <mask> finished his major league career with a 157–120 win-loss record and a 3.57 earned run average. Though he only finished among the top ten in complete games in two of his seasons, <mask> completed 264 of his 301 games started.His complete game total was ranked 64th on the all-time major league list after the 2013 season. <mask> also hit nine home runs, including a grand slam, during his major league career. In early 1898, The Montreal Gazette reported that NL president Nicholas Young signed <mask> as an umpire for the coming season. <mask> did not ultimately work for the NL because he was unhappy with the salary that he was offered. He played local semi-amateur baseball in Buffalo and then announced that he was leaving baseball to become a boxer. He challenged Jack Baty, a black fighter, to a boxing match and posted a $500 bet on the fight. There is no record of <mask> boxing against Baty or anyone else, and little is known about his life after the major leagues.<mask> briefly played minor league baseball for the 1899 Buffalo Bisons in the Western League. He did not win any games for Buffalo. In 1904, Sporting Life reported that the pitcher had a brother, F. Earl <mask>, who was named a Pacific Coast League umpire. Elton died of colon cancer at the age of 61. He was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland. See also

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<mask> (born October 25, 1998), nicknamed "Childish Bambino", is a Dominican professional baseball outfielder for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball (MLB). <mask> signed with the Nationals as an international free agent in 2015. He made his MLB debut in 2018 and was the runner-up for the NL Rookie of the Year Award. In 2019, he was a key part of the Nationals' first World Series championship. In 2020, he won the National League batting title with a .351 average. Early life and family
<mask> was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to <mask>, Sr. and Belkis Pacheco. He has an older sister and younger brother.His father, a salesman, was a catcher in a local men's league and encouraged his son to make baseball his passion. Career

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<mask> signed with the Washington Nationals as an international free agent in July 2015. He made his professional debut in 2016 with the Gulf Coast League Nationals in the rookie-level Gulf Coast League and was named the Gulf Coast League MVP after hitting .368 with five home runs and 32 runs batted in (RBIs). In September 2016 he was promoted to the Auburn Doubledays of the Class A-Short Season New York-Penn League for the final few games of the 2016 season. Appearing in six games for the Doubledays, he went 9-for-21 (.429) with three doubles and an RBI. He finished the 2016 season with an overall batting average of .368, five home runs, and 32 RBIs. Promoted to play with the Hagerstown Suns of the Class A South Atlantic League in 2017, <mask> got off to a hot start before injuring his ankle while sliding into home in a game on May 2 and landing on the disabled list.At the time of his injury, he was batting .360 with three home runs in 23 games with the Suns. In July 2017, MLB Pipeline ranked <mask> the Nationals' second-best prospect and the 42nd-best among all prospects. <mask> did not return to the Suns in 2017, but he had two rehabilitation stints with the Gulf Coast Nationals, one of five games in July 2017 and a second one of four games in September 2017 before injuring his hamstring and finally being shut down for the season. In those nine games with the Gulf Coast League Nationals, he went 8-for-25 (.320) with a double, a triple, and four RBIs, and finished the 2017 season with a batting average of .351, three home runs, and 18 RBIs. <mask> entered 2018 as one of the minor leagues' top prospects. He started the season with the Hagerstown Suns, hitting .373 in 16 games with five home runs and 24 RBIs, before being promoted early in the season to the Potomac Nationals in the Class A-Advanced Carolina League. After 15 games with Potomac, in which he hit .371 with seven home runs and 18 RBIs, he was promoted to play with the Harrisburg Senators in the Class AA Eastern League.He had appeared in eight games for the Senators, going 10-for-31 (.323) with two doubles, two home runs, and 10 RBIs, when on May 20, 2018, the Washington Nationals called him up to the major leagues for the first time to reinforce their outfield after an injury to second baseman and outfielder Howie Kendrick. Washington Nationals

2018 season: Historic rookie campaign
<mask> made his major-league debut on May 20, 2018, becoming the youngest player in the major leagues at 19 years, 207 days, and the first player born in 1998 to appear in a major-league game. He came on as a pinch-hitter in the 8th inning of a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., and struck out swinging against right-handed relief pitcher Erik Goeddel. <mask> made his first major-league start the next day, playing left field in a game against the San Diego Padres at Nationals Park, and on the first pitch of his first plate appearance of the game, got his first major-league hit, a  opposite-field three-run homer off of Robbie Erlin. After rounding the bases and returning to the dugout, <mask> stepped back out for a curtain call from the crowd. He became the youngest player in franchise history to hit a home run and the first teenager to homer in a major-league game since Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper did it at age 19 in 2012. "He's a special player," Harper said of <mask> after the game.<mask> became the youngest major league player since Ken Griffey Jr. in 1989 to be intentionally walked in a game when Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter elected to do so rather than give him an opportunity to drive in a run on May 29. In June 2018, shortly after being called up to the major leagues, Baseball America listed <mask> as the Nationals' top prospect, overtaking fellow outfielder Víctor Robles, and the fourth-best overall prospect in baseball. <mask> contributed to a notable oddity when he hit a home run against the New York Yankees on June 18, 2018. The contest began on May 15, 2018, but was suspended until June 18 due to inclement weather with the score at 3–3. Since the stoppage occurred in the fifth inning, a team would have been awarded the win if they were ahead, which implied that he had technically hit a home run before his MLB debut. To prevent confusion, it was added in sequence to his already accrued home run total as his sixth home run. He had hit three home runs in his first five plate appearances against the Yankees.On June 21, he started as the cleanup hitter for the first time in the major leagues, against the Baltimore Orioles. He doubled home the winning run in a 4–2 victory. <mask>'s first multi-home run game came on June 13, 2018, against the New York Yankees, and he repeated the feat on June 29, 2018, at Citizens Bank Park against the Philadelphia Phillies, tallying two home runs, four hits, and five RBIs as the Nationals defeated the Phillies 17–7. <mask> had another multi-home run game against the Phillies on September 11, 2018, going 3-for-4 with four RBIs in the second game of a doubleheader. On September 16, <mask> became the youngest player to steal 3 bases in a game, breaking Rickey Henderson's mark of 20 years, 241 days by accomplishing the feat at 19 years, 326 days. In 2018, <mask> slashed .292/.406/.517 with 79 walks (10th in the NL), 22 home runs, and 70 RBIs in 414 at-bats, and was the youngest player in the NL. He was named NL Rookie of the Month in June, July, and September, becoming the 6th player to win the award 3 or more times.<mask> set many MLB teenage records during the season, including the most walks by a teenager (79), most multi-homer games by a teenager (3), highest OBP by a teenager (.406), and highest OPS by a teenager (.923). His 22 homers tied him with then-teammate Bryce Harper for 2nd most home runs by a teenager and he became the only teenager to walk more than 60 times in a season and post an on-base percentage over .400. He finished second in voting for NL Rookie of the Year to Braves outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr., becoming the only 3-time Rookie of the Month winner to not win the Rookie of the Year award. 2019 season: World Series Champion

On August 19, 2019, <mask> became only the fourth player in MLB history to record 100 extra-base hits before his 21st birthday, joining Mel Ott, Tony Conigliaro, and his former teammate, Bryce Harper. He later became the seventh MLB player in history to reach 30 home runs before their 21st birthday. In 2019, he batted .282/.401/.548 with 110 runs (7th), 108 walks (3rd), 34 home runs, and 110 RBIs (9th) and he stole 12 bases in 13 attempts. With the Nationals trailing the Milwaukee Brewers 3–1 in the bottom of the eighth during the NL Wild Card Game, <mask> hit a bases-clearing single off of Brewers closer Josh Hader to give the Nationals a 4-3 lead.They would later hang on to the lead and advance to the National League Division Series. In Game 3 of the NLDS, <mask> hit his first career postseason home run off Hyun-jin Ryu. In in the decisive Game 5 of the NLDS, <mask> hit an RBI single and a game-tying home run in the top of the 8th off Clayton Kershaw. The Nationals eventually won the game (7–3) and series against the Dodgers, advancing to the National League Championship Series for the first time in franchise history. <mask> went 3-16 (.188) with a double and an RBI in the NLCS against the St. Louis Cardinals and the Nationals advanced to the World Series. In Game 1 of the World Series, <mask> hit a home run off of Astros' ace Gerrit Cole to start the fourth inning and became the fourth youngest player in MLB history to ever hit a home run in a World Series. Game 3 of the World Series fell on October 25, <mask>'s 21st birthday, fulfilling an approximately 10 year old prediction made by <mask>'s father who had said that <mask> would play in the World Series on his birthday.In Game 5 of the series, <mask> hit another home run off Cole, providing the lone Nationals' run in a 7-1 loss which put the Nationals down 3 games to 2 in the best-of-seven series. In Game 6, <mask> hit his third home run of the series off Justin Verlander, a go-ahead solo run home run, to help force a decisive Game 7. The Nationals would go on to win the World Series, their first in franchise history, and <mask> batted .277/.373/.554 with 5 home runs and 14 RBIs in the postseason (.333/.438/.741 with 3 HR, 7 RBIs in the World Series). For the series, he led the Nationals in home runs, hits, walks and runs scored. <mask> was later named the co-winner (with Stephen Strasburg) of the 2019 Babe Ruth Award. <mask> was named to the All-MLB Second Team in the first edition of the annual award. 2020 season: Batting Champion
On July 23, 2020, just before the opening game of a shortened 2020 season, it was announced that <mask> had tested positive for COVID-19.<mask> returned to action on August 4 after multiple negative tests; he told The Washington Post that he had been following team rules for social distancing before the positive test, never experienced COVID-19 symptoms, received negative results on three rapid-result tests the day he learned of the positive test result through the official MLB testing program, and believed the result that caused him to miss time was a false positive. In a series at Citi Field against the division-rival New York Mets, <mask> first hit a home run  on August 10, the longest of his career, then another home run measured at  on August 12 to set a new personal best. He was named National League Player of the Week on August 17, his first such honor. Despite losing the first week of play to the positive COVID-19 test and missing some time in September with an elbow injury, <mask> qualified for the batting title and became the youngest player in National League history to win, hitting .351 during the regular season. <mask> also led all qualified hitters in MLB in on-base percentage (.490), slugging percentage (.695), and on-base plus slugging (1.185), posting the highest marks in those three categories for any major league hitter with at least 195 plate appearances in a season since Barry Bonds in the 2004 season. <mask> won his first career Silver Slugger Award and was also named to the All-MLB First Team for the first time in his career. In spite of <mask>'s exceptional play, the Nationals were unable to capitalize, missing the playoffs even with an expanded format.2021 season: First All-Star season and NL MVP runner-up
In the Nationals' first game of the season on April 6, <mask> hit a walk-off single off of Will Smith of the Atlanta Braves for his first career walk-off hit. On April 20, <mask> was put on the 10-Day IL for a left shoulder strain and was reinstated to the active roster on May 4. <mask> was named a reserve to the National League All Star Team for the 2021 All Star Game, receiving his first All-Star selection. <mask> also participated in the Home Run Derby for the first time, where he upset top-seeded Los Angeles Angels pitcher/designated hitter Shohei Ohtani in double-overtime before losing in the semifinal to eventual repeat winner Pete Alonso of the New York Mets. In 2021, <mask> batted .313/.465/.534 with 29 home runs, 95 RBIs, and 111 runs scored. He reinforced his reputation as the most disciplined hitter in baseball by swinging at an MLB-low 15.1% of pitches outside the strike zone, leading the next closest player, Dodgers infielder Max Muncy, by 4.0 percentage points. <mask> joined Ted Williams as the only players in MLB history to have led the major leagues in on base percentage multiple times by age 22.His total of 145 walks was the highest in a single season since Barry Bonds set the major league record with 232 in 2004. <mask>'s former teammate Bryce Harper of the Philadelphia Phillies ranked second in the league with 100 walks, making <mask> only the 6th player in the live ball era to have led his league in walks by a margin of 40 or more. He led the major leagues in walk percentage, at 22.2%, and intentional walks, with 23. He had the best walk/strikeout ratio in the majors, at 1.56. He swung at the lowest percentage of pitches of all major leaguers, at 35.0%. Following the season, <mask> was named to the All-MLB First Team and won the National League Silver Slugger Award for the outfield, receiving both honors for the second straight season. <mask> was the runner up in National League Most Valuable Player Award (NL MVP) voting, losing out to Harper.<mask> became the sixth player in MLB history to finish as runner-up in both MVP and Rookie of the Year voting. Playing style

<mask> is known for his exceptional plate discipline, ranking 5th all time in walk rate and 10th all time in career on-base percentage among hitters with least 2000 plate appearances at the conclusion of the 2021 season. During his 2018 rookie season, <mask> became known for his movements in the batter's box after he successfully takes a pitch for a ball. Dubbed the "<mask> Shuffle," the routine often includes <mask> swinging his hips, wiping the dirt with a wide arc of his leg, tapping his leg, hopping, or lowering himself into a squat and staring at the pitcher. As an ESPN writer described it: "He'll swing his hips or spread his legs or sweep his feet or shimmy his shoulders or lick his lips or squeeze his, um, junk, sometimes all at once". <mask> says he started the routine in the minor leagues "to get in the minds of the pitchers, because sometimes they get scared". In Game 1 of the 2019 National League Championship Series, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Miles Mikolas responded to <mask>'s antics by grabbing his own crotch after retiring <mask> on a ground out.<mask> responded later by saying, "He got me out, he can do whatever he wants." In subsequent seasons, <mask> eliminated crotch-grabbing from the routine. <mask> employs a "two-strike approach" in which he raises his grip along the bat handle and adopts a wider, lower stance, sometimes described as a crouch, in the batter's box. He is noted for his ability to drive the ball to all fields, even on a two-strike count. At the conclusion of his 2020 season, <mask> had hit 69 career home runs in MLB and divided them evenly by direction: 23 to left field, 23 to center field, and 23 to right field. Although he was a finalist for a Gold Glove Award as a left fielder after the 2019 season, <mask> has indicated a preference for playing right field, his main position during his brief minor league career. The Nationals began deploying him as their starting right fielder late in the 2020 season and he became the Nationals everyday right fielder in 2021.<mask> is statistically a significantly better defender in right field than in left field: in left field he has produced −3.8 UZR per 150 games while in right field he has produced +1.5 UZR per 150 games. International career
On October 29, 2018, he was selected to the MLB All-Stars Team for the 2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series. See also

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 List of Washington Nationals team records

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<mask> (born 13 May 1987) is an Irish recording artist, musician and producer. She won the RTÉ 2fm song contest while still in secondary school. She went on to win an award at the 2006 Meteor Music Awards. She also performed at that year's Electric Picnic music festival and Music Ireland 2007. <mask> has opened for Aretha Franklin, India Arie, Estelle, Maxwell, and John Legend on tour. Her debut album, Let the Truth Be Told, was released in Ireland on 8 May 2009. <mask> has appeared in The CW television show, One Tree Hill, where she plays Erin Macree.Life and career

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<mask> Arabosa <mask> was born on 13 May 1987 in Dublin, Ireland. She is the fourth of five children born to Irish mother Trish and Nigerian father Saul. After singing "When You Believe", a duet by Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston, in her drama class, she discovered her interest for music; she began writing songs at age 13 and taught herself how to play the piano at 14. At age 15, public service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) held a song competition by radio station RTÉ 2fm, which <mask> won. Her winning song, "Compatible", received constant airplay after she won the competition;<mask> met her manager Edison Waters of Vibe Music Management. RTÉ also filmed a documentary of <mask> after winning the competition. 2004–present: Let the Truth Be Told
At age 17, <mask> was signed to Jive Records and dropped out of school to record her debut album.After a dispute with the label, she signed with Atlantic Records and subsequently moved to New York after her mentor, Steve Lunt, was offered a job at the label. She won an award at the 2006 Meteor Music Award and became the first unsigned recording artist to receive a nomination. <mask>'s debut album, Let the Truth Be Told, was released in May 2009. The album debuted at number two on the Irish Albums Chart. The album debuted on the U.K Album Chart at 100 and number 27 on the U.S Billboard 200. Her single "From My Heart to Yours" had been released six months earlier, on 10 November 2008 and peaked at number twenty-five on the U.S Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. Her second single 'Shine' was released on 16 March 2009 and peaked at number twenty-one on the Irish Singles Chart.It remained in the charts for four weeks. The song had originally been written for the film The Nanny Diaries but was eventually added to the album. It featured on many television adverts, as well as television dramas. A third single "Don't Stay" was released on 11 May 2009 and peaked at number fifty-eight on the U.S Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. 'If Tonight Is My Last' was announced as the album's fourth single but was never released. The song, however, featured on a commercial for U.S hit T.V show One Tree Hill and is considered one of <mask>'s best songs. She was nominated for 'Best U.K Newcomer'at the MOBO Awards 2009 and 'Best Female Act' at the 2010 Meteor Awards, as well as 'Best Irish Pop Act'.She performed at Bestival 2009 on 11 September 2009 and at the Electric Picnic 2009 on
4 September 2009. She performed a new single 'Gracefully' at the Jazz Cafe in London, on 12 September. A little over a year later, on 19 October 2010, <mask> debuted her new single "Can't Be Loved" in the sixth episode of One Tree Hill's eighth season. The track was rumoured to be the lead single on <mask>'s new album but she neither confirmed nor denied this. In an interview with music website Metromix, on 29 July 2011, <mask> revealed that the name of her second album would be Love, Learn, Live and would hopefully be released soon. However, by summer 2012, no album had been released. However, <mask> did release an EP on 7 August 2012, called  The Brooklyn Sessions Vol.1, which continued three songs: "Gracefully", "He'll Never Know" and "Ring". Film and television
 Her song "From My Heart to Yours" featured in an episode of Grey's Anatomy and the Vh1 reality series Tough Love. Her single Shine was the lead track for the movie Nanny Diaries, is currently used in the Hibernian Aviva commercial in the Republic of Ireland and in the Norwich Union (soon to be Aviva) commercial in the United Kingdom. Withfirst-week sales in the United States.The CD's first-week chart position is 27 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums. Diana Ross is rumoured to have recorded a duet with <mask> for the European edition of her upcoming album. Her song "Mmm..." is featured in Step Up 2: The Streets, Why Did I Get Married?,The Practice, One Tree Hill and Seven Pounds starring Will Smith. Her song "Carousel" is featured on the P.S.I Love You soundtrack. Her song "If Tonight is my Last" was used as America's Best Dance Crew Season 4 elimination song. A video of her performing her song "Mmm..." was featured in an episode of Bones called 'The Parts in the Sum of the Whole' as murder victim Gemma Arrington

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Izibor cites James Brown, Aretha Franklin and Carole King as her inspirations. Izibor music has been compared to recording artists Aretha Franklin, Corinne Bailey Rae and Alicia Keys. Nicole Frehsée of Rolling Stone magazine described Izibor's debut album, Let the Truth Be Told, as "a sunny, chick-flick-worthy take on vintage soul".Noted UK R&B writer Pete Lewis of 'Blues & Soul' described the album as "Anchored firmly in classic R&B and effectively combining a reverence for the traditions of vintage, warm piano-driven soul with a fresh twist of modern sensibility". While Pete Daniel Smith of Sunday Mercury described the album as a "dazzling R&B debut", noting "a remarkable soul vocal that'll send shivers down your spine".

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<mask> (born July 24, 1976) is an American farmer and entrepreneur. She is the CEO and owner of Frey Farms, which she founded at age sixteen. Frey Farms is the largest H-2A visa employer in Illinois as well as the largest grower of pumpkins in the United States. Early life and education
<mask> was born July 24, 1976, to Harold and <mask>. Both had been previously married. Her father was a steelworker and a farmer and for a time part owner of the Dixie Feed franchise in St. Louis, but her parents fled to Tennessee to escape what <mask> calls "a perfect storm" of bad decision-making by her father, who staged an accident to make it look as if he'd died. The couple's first child, a girl, was killed as a toddler in a farm accident; the couple left Tennessee for Illinois shortly thereafter.<mask> has four older full brothers, thirteen half-siblings from her father's first marriage, and two from her mother's first marriage; counting her half siblings she is the youngest of 21. The family's original 80-acre farm, which they called the Hill, is five miles from Orchardville and thirty miles from Mount Vernon in southern Illinois. The family's home did not have indoor plumbing until <mask> was five years old. It was heated by a woodstove. The family survived mostly on food raised on the farm or hunted and fished for, sometimes resorting to poaching. <mask> wrote in her memoir, The Growing Season, that "I never remember going to bed without eating anything, but sometimes our meals were just a bowl of mush." In her memoir she describes learning to drive by the age of five, writing, "There were vehicles everywhere with the keys in the ignition.Starting when I was four or five, whenever my parents took the truck into town and left me alone at the farm, I'd hop into their old two-door Mercury Grand Marquis. I would hot-lap around the farm, driving in circles". In her memoir <mask> wrote that at age seven she was sexually abused by a farmhand, and when she told her father, he told her mother to keep a closer eye on <mask>. She wrote that only after she'd discovered a peephole the farmhand had drilled between her bedroom and his and showed it to her mother did her parents send him away. Her mother had a "melon route", purchasing melons from neighboring farms and delivering them to local grocery stores, which <mask> helped with from the time she was 8. At 15, she moved out of her parents' house. <mask> attended Frontier Community College while also attending high school.Career
At 16, she borrowed $10,000 to buy a used truck and took over distribution of the melon route, quickly increasing the farm's client list from 12 to 150. Her parents' financial situation had become dire. Her parents, who had falsely presented themselves as married for thirty year, were separating. The farm was being foreclosed on. In her youth, <mask> had wanted to follow her brothers off the farm and move to a city, but following the threat of the farm's repossession, she decided to help save it. She purchased the farm outright at age 18. At the time it was in two parcels, the original 80 acres and another parcel of 20.She decided to use the land to grow pumpkins, a fall crop that would be ready for harvest after the melon season ended and thereby extend her earnings period. She  worked at the local Walmart distribution center business in 1997, while still in high school. <mask> has been described as "the Pumpkin Queen of America". She grows more pumpkins than any other farmer in the United States. In 2016, <mask> sold around five million pumpkins. Most of her pumpkin crop is not suitable for eating, but is very popular for Halloween lantern carving. The family business now owns about  of farms, spanning Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, and West Virginia.Although pumpkins are the most popular produce, the business also farms watermelons, cantaloupes, sweet corn, and hard squash. In 2018, Frey Farms launched Sarah’s Homegrown. <mask>’s Homegrown is focused on agua frescas and fresh produce. Frey Farms is a Certified Women Owned Business. She created Tsamma Watermelon Juice as a way to use the "ugly fruit" that would otherwise be discarded or tilled back into the fields. <mask>'s business negotiations with Walmart have been featured in a Harvard Business School study. <mask> serves on the United Fresh Government Relations Council and the National Watermelon Promotion Board.She is also a member of the Illinois Agriculture Coalition committee. <mask> is currently on the steering committee for the IBIC. Her second book, The Growing Season (2020), was reviewed by Publishers Weekly and the Boston Globe, The New York Times, Kirkus Reviews and The Library Journal. Politics
In 2019, <mask> was recruited by congressional Republicans looking for a female candidate to replace Republican Representative John Shimkus after he announced his retirement but decided not to run. Reception
The Boston Globe called her "a woman with a potent sense of self and an unmatched ability for inventing and selling herself in a business world often skeptical of or hostile to women, especially those without pedigree or connections." Published works
For the Love of Pumpkins: A Visual Guide to Fall Decorating with Pumpkins and Ornamentals (2007)
The Growing Season: How I Built a New Life--and Saved an American Farm (2020)

Awards and recognition

 PMA "Eight Women Leaders You Should Know"
 2015 Jan Fleming Award
 Frey Farms won the United States Advocate of the Year Award in 2015
 2020 Women in Produce Award

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<mask> is divorced with two sons. References

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<mask> (; born 23 March 1983) is a German former professional footballer who played as a right-back. In addition to playing in the right back position, <mask> has also played in defensive midfield, center back and right midfield positions throughout his whole career. His then U19 manager Uli Stielike described him in his early career as "very disciplined, versatile player, strong on the right side." During his playing career, <mask> was known for his high commitment during the match and was considered a very passable player, who was more inclined to horizontal passes instead of creating chances with long passes. After announcing his retirement from professional football, he was appointed as Schalke 04's first coordinator for the licensed players department and worked for the role for two years before being relieved of duties in February 2021. Club career

SC Freiburg
Born in Lahr, West Germany, <mask> came from a football family, where his father and older brother and started playing football when he was four years old. <mask> then started his football career at B-youth of SC Freiburg before he joined the side in July 1998.<mask> previously was at the youth teams of FV Kuhbach (now SC Kuhbach-Reichenbach) and Offenburger FV. After progressing through the ranks at SC Freiburg for the next four years including some matches for the reserve team in 2001/02 at the 4th level, <mask>'s reward was earned when he signed his first professional contract with the club. <mask> started his professional club career in the 2. Bundesliga ahead of the 2002–03 season. He made his SC Freiburg debut in the opening game of the season, starting the whole game, in a 1–0 win over Alemannia Aachen. Two weeks later on 25 August 2002 after making his debut, he set up a goal for Fabian Gerber in the last minute of the game, in a 3–1 win over Rot Weiss Ahlen. <mask> helped the club keep three consecutive clean sheets in three matches between 16 September 2002 and 30 September 2002.Since making his debut for SC Freiburg, he quickly established himself in the first team for the club, quickly dispatching Tobias Willi in the right–back position. Over the season, <mask> was praised for his good performance in number of matches. However, during a 4–0 win against Rot Weiss Ahlen on 9 February 2003, he suffered a "suffered a thick foot with a bruise" despite playing the whole game. After the match, it was announced that <mask> was sidelined for two months. But he made his return on 25 April 2003, coming on as a second–half substitute, in a 4–0 loss against SpVgg Greuther Fürth. His return later contributed Freiburg become champions and secure promotion back into the Bundesliga. At the end of the 2002–03 season, <mask> he appeared in 23 league games (26 appearances in all competitions) in his first season at the club.In the 2003–04 season, <mask> started the season well when he scored in the opening game of the season, in a 4–1 loss against Bayer Leverkusen. <mask> started the start of the season, rotating in playing either the right–back position and defensive midfield position. <mask> also an ever-present for the side until he missed one match, due to suspension. After serving a one match suspension, <mask> returned to the starting line–up against 1. FC Köln on 27 March 2004 and scored his second goal of the season, in a 3–0 win. He then scored his third goal of the season, scoring from a header, in a 4–1 win against Hannover 96 on 1 May 2004. <mask> went on to become the club's top performers and helped the side survive in the Bundesliga, finishing 13th place.At the end of the 2003–04 season, he went on to make 36 appearances and scoring three times in all competitions. Shortly after the end of the season, <mask> signed a contract extension with SC Freiburg. At the start of the 2004–05 season, <mask> continued to feature in the defensive–midfield position for the side. He then scored in the second round of DFB-Pokal, in a 3–2 win over VfL Bochum after the game went extra–time. <mask> then rotated in playing in different positions, such as, centre–back and then right–back position, which he did for the rest of the season. He then scored his second goal of the season, on 6 February 2005, in a 3–2 loss against Borussia Mönchengladbach. However, during a 1–0 loss against Bayern Munich on 26 February 2005, <mask> suffered a knee injury and was substituted in the 28th minute.After the match, it was announced that he was sidelined for two months. <mask> previously suffered an injury during the season, but quickly made a recovery. While on the sidelines, the club were relegated back to 2. Bundesliga after losing 3–1 against Arminia Bielefeld on 22 April 2005. But he made his return to the first team against Werder Bremen on 14 May 2005, coming on as a 77th-minute substitute, in a 4–1 loss. At the end of the 2004–05 season, <mask> finished the season, making the twenty–seven appearances and scoring two times in all competitions. At the start of the 2005–06 season, <mask> set up a goal for Aleksandr Iashvili to score the only goal of the game, in a 1–0 win against Sportfreunde Siegen in the first round of the DFB–Pokal.He resumed his first team place in the midfield position, playing in the first five league matches. In a match against Karlsruher SC on 11 September 2005, however, he suffered an injury and was substituted in the 11th minute, as SC Freiburg drew 0–0. But <mask> made his return to the starting line–up against Eintracht Braunschweig on 2 October 2005 and played the whole game, as the club drew 0–0. However, his return was short–lived when he suffered another injury and was substituted in the 21st minute, as SC Freiburg won 3–1 against 1. FC Saarbrücken on 16 October 2005. But <mask> made his return to the starting line–up against Energie Cottbus on 30 October 2005 and played 82 minutes before substituted, in a 4–1 win. By December, <mask> began to play in different positions, rotating in playing either in centre–back position, right–back positions and back to defensive midfield position for the rest of the 2005–06 season.However, the club failed to bounce back to Bundesliga after finishing fourth place in the league. Despite being sidelined two more times later in the 2005–06 season, he finished the season, making 31 appearances in all competition. Ahead of the 2006–07 season, <mask> signed a contract with the club, keeping his contract running until 2009. He started the season, rotating in playing either the right–back position and then in midfield position. After missing one match, <mask> made his return to the starting line–up, in a 1–1 draw against MSV Duisburg on 13 October 2006. Following his return from absent, he continued to regain his first team place, playing in either defensive midfield position and centre–back position. Once again, SC Freiburg failed to secure promotion to Bundesliga after finishing fourth place in the league.Despite missing two matches later in the 2006–07 season, <mask> went on to make thirty–one appearances in all competitions. During his five seasons with the club, <mask>her stayed with Freiburg until July 2007 when he was signed by Bundesliga side VfL Wolfsburg for €500,000 and signing a three–year contract. Manager Felix Magath said he saw the player signing as "an alternative for the back right." <mask> made his debut for Wolfsburg, starting the whole game, in the right–back position, in a 3–1 loss against Arminia Bielefeld in the opening game of the season. Since making his debut for the club, he quickly established himself in the first team, playing in the right–back position. At times, <mask> rotated into playing different position at either midfield position and centre–back position.After missing two matches due to a thigh injury, he returned to the starting line–up against Bayer Leverkusen on 27 April 2008 and started the whole game, as Wolfsburg drew 2–2. In the last game of the season, <mask> scored his first goal for the club, in a 4–2 win over Borussia Dortmund, a win that saw Wolfsburg qualify for the UEFA Cup for next season. At the end of the 2007–08 season, he went on to make thirty–two appearances and scoring once in all competitions at his first season at the club. Ahead of the 2008–09 season, <mask> was expected to compete with Cristian Zaccardo over the right–back position, though he stated his preference to play in the midfield position. In the opening game of the season against 1. FC Köln, <mask> came on as a second-half substitute for Zaccardo and set up a goal for Christian Gentner, who scored an equaliser, as Wolfsburg went on to win 2–1 at the end of the game. Since the start of the 2008–09 season, he regained his first team place in the right–back position, putting Zaccardo on the substitute bench at the start of the season.It wasn't until on 13 September 2008 when <mask> scored his first goal of the season, when he scored in injury time, in a 2–2 draw against Hertha BSC. Five days later, on 18 September 2008, he made his UEFA Cup debut, starting the whole game, in a 1–0 win over Rapid București; the club went on to go through to the group stage after drawing 1–1 in the return leg. However, <mask> soon suffered injuries on two separate occasions between November and March. After returning from injury, he made his first appearance on 21 March 2009, in a 3–0 win over Arminia Bielefeld. Due to Zaccardo's playing time in the right–back position, <mask> occasionally played in the midfield position, which he later played more active role later in the season. <mask> was instrumental in the campaign, featuring in 28 league games as part of a solid defense helping his side record 10 straight Bundesliga victories, including a memorable 5–1 thrashing of Bayern Munich. He also helped on the attacking side of the undefeated run, scoring the game winner against Borussia Mönchengladbach on 11 April 2009.<mask> went on to help the club achieve their first Bundesliga title in 2008–09 season after beating Werder Bremen 5–1 in the last game of the season. At the end of the 2008–09 season, he went on to make 37 appearances and scoring two times in all competitions. Shortly after the end of the season, <mask> signed a contract extension, keeping him until 2012. In the 2009–10 season, <mask> started the season well when he set up two goals in two matches, both were a win against VfB Stuttgart and 1. FC Köln. He continued to regain his first team place at the club, playing in the right–back position following Zaccardo's departure back to Italy. <mask> then made his UEFA Champions League debut on Matchday 1 Group Stage, in a 3–1 win over CSKA Moscow.He went on to make six Champions League appearances, as they were eliminated in the Group Stage. A week later on 23 September 2009, <mask> scored his first goal for the club, in a 3–2 loss against 1. FC Köln in the second round of DFB-Pokal. In the second half of the season, he began rotating in playing either the right–back position, centre–back position and right–midfield position. After missing one match against Borussia Dortmund on 1 May 2010, <mask> returned to the starting line–up in the last game of the season against Eintracht Frankfurt and scored his second goal of the season, in a 3–1 win. At the end of the 2009–10 season, he went on to make a total of forty–two appearances and scoring two times in all competitions. At the start of the 2010–11 season, <mask> was featured for the first three matches before being sidelined with an injury that he sustained at training.After missing one match, <mask> returned to the starting line–up against Hannover 96 on 18 September 2010, only to suffer a thigh injury that saw him being substituted in the 39th minute, as Wolfsburg won 2–0. After the match, he was sidelined for the rest of September. But <mask> made his return from injury against Borussia Mönchengladbach on 2 October 2010 and helped the club draw 1–1. However, he was sidelined once again after suffering a knee injury that saw him miss one match. But <mask> returned to the starting line–up against St. Pauli on 21 November 2010 and helped Wolfsburg draw 1–1, It wasn't until on 15 January 2011 when he scored his first goal of the season, in a 1–1 draw against Bayern Munich. However, in a match against Borussia Dortmund on 29 January 2011, <mask> suffered a knee injury and was substituted in the 21st minute, as the club lost 3–0. After the match, it was announced that the player was sidelined for three weeks.But he made his return to the starting line–up against his former club, SC Freiburg on 19 February 2011, as Wolfsburg lost 2–1. Despite suffering injuries during the 2010–11 season, <mask> continued to remain in the first team regular, rotating in playing either right–back position, centre–back position, right–midfield position, defensive midfield position and centre–midfield position. He then scored his second goal of the season, in a 1–0 win against Werder Bremen on 28 April 2011. At the end of the 2010–11 season, <mask> went on to make thirty–one appearances and scoring two times in all competitions. In the summer transfer window of 2011, <mask> was linked a move away from Wolfsburg, putting his future in doubt. It came after when he rejected a new contract from the club despite having a one–year contract left. One club interested was 1.FC Köln and eventually, the agreement was reached on 3 July 2011. During his time at Wolfsburg, <mask> was the club's fan favourite. 1. FC Köln

It was confirmed on 8 July 2011 that <mask> was transferred to Bundesliga rivals 1. FC Köln for €2.8 million. Ahead of the 2011–12 season, Manager Ståle Solbakken wanted <mask> to be captain, but he declined

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 the offer, leading Pedro Geromel to be appointed instead. Nevertheless, <mask> was given a vice–captain role instead.He made his debut for the club, starting the whole game in the defensive midfield position, in a 3–0 against his former club, Wolfsburg in the opening game of the season. Since making his debut for 1. FC Köln, <mask> quickly established himself in the midfield position, where he usually next to Martin Lanig and Adam Matuszczyk. In the absence of captain Geromel, <mask> captained the side for the first time on 25 September 2011, in a 2–0 win over 1899 Hoffenheim. He went on captain for the next five matches before Geromel return. It wasn't until on 25 February 2012 when <mask> captained the side once again, in a 2–0 loss against Bayer Leverkusen. A month later on 25 March 2012 against Borussia Dortmund, he made his 200th Bundesliga appearances, as they went on to lose 6–1.However, towards the end of the season, the club was eventually relegated to the 2. Bundesliga. Despite suffering setback during the 2011–12 season, <mask> finished his first season, making 35 appearances (33 out of which were league fixtures) in all competitions. At the end of the 2011–12 season, <mask>'s future at 1. FC Köln became increasingly uncertain after he was advised to find a new club. As a result, <mask> was linked a move away from 1. FC Köln, with clubs from abroad and his native clubs, both VfB Stuttgart and SC Freiburg, were among interested.Fulham
On 6 July 2012, <mask> moved to Premier League side Fulham on a season-long loan deal from parent club 1. FC Köln, after they were relegated to the 2. Bundesliga, reuniting with his former Wolfsburg teammate Ashkan Dejagah. The move also have an option to acquire the player at the end of the loan period. After securing the move to his new club, <mask> spoke of his delight for being able to suit up at Craven Cottage, "I remember Craven Cottage being a great stadium with great fans, and I hope I can go on to have a great season here." <mask> made his Fulham debut on the first day of the season against Norwich City, a 5–0 thumping of the Canaries at Craven Cottage. Since making his debut, he quickly established himself in the starting eleven for the side, beating out Stephen Kelly over the right–back position.On 10 November, <mask> was adjudged to have handled the ball inside the area and referee Phil Dowd awarded a 93rd-minute penalty to Arsenal with the game tied 3–3; Mikel Arteta's spot-kick was saved by Mark Schwarzer and Fulham escaped the Emirates with a point. <mask> scored his first goal in the Premier League for Fulham in a 2–2 draw at Sunderland on 2 March 2013. Despite missing out three matches during the 2012–13 season, he went on to make 39 appearances and scoring once in all competitions. Following a successful debut season in England, <mask> was voted as the club's Player of the Season by his fellow players, beating out the likes of top scorer Dimitar Berbatov and Greek midfielder Giorgos Karagounis. On 16 May 2013, <mask> agreed a permanent deal with Fulham for an undisclosed fee. He said "I am pleased after a first season in England and am focused on my other tasks in Fulham." Ahead of the 2013–14 season, he signed a contract extension with the club, keeping him until 2016.<mask> continued to regain his first team place, in the right–back position despite facing competition from new signing, Elsad Zverotić. On 5 October 2013, <mask> twice cleared shots off the line from fellow countryman Robert Huth as Fulham beat Stoke City 1–0 at home. <mask> received much praise for his play and was recognized by Sky Sports as the game's "Man of the Match" for his endeavors. On 4 November 2013, <mask> was charged with violent conduct by The FA after video evidence showed that he stamped on Manchester United player Adnan Januzaj in stoppage time of Fulham's 3–1 loss to United two days before. The club later found themselves in the relegation zone following the club's string of losses, which he described it as "desperate to avoid another survival scrap after experience with Cologne". Even after the reuniting with Manager Magath, the club were later relegated to the Championship after losing 4–1 to Stoke City. <mask>'s form was dropped, as Metro reflected on his performance: "<mask>'s demise, however, was so stark and speedy it was almost upsetting.He was slow and turgid last season and began to resemble a player more fitting to his age." Despite this, <mask> finished the 2013–14 season, making 33 appearances and scoring once in all competitions. Initially remaining coy about his future at Fulham until the end of the season, <mask> were among several players expecting to leave Fulham following their relegation. During his time at Fulham, <mask> was a subject of a football chant from Fulham supporters in his honour by singing: "Sascha Riether Baby – Sascha Riether ohohohoho!" Return to Freiburg
On 26 June 2014, <mask> left relegated Fulham and rejoined his first club SC Freiburg for an undisclosed fee. However, at the start of the season, <mask> suffered a knee injury that saw him miss the first four matches. But he made his second debut for the club, coming on as a second–half substitute, in a 3–3 draw against TSG Hoffeinheim on 23 September 2014.Expected to feature in the midfield position, <mask> played in the right–back position, where he found himself in the competition with Oliver Sorg instead. In the absence of captain of Miso Brecko and Julian Schuster, who lost his first team place, <mask> captained the side on four occasions throughout the first half of the season. However, he suffered a muscle injury in late–November and missed the next three matches as a result. But <mask> returned from injury against Hamburger SV on 13 December 2014 and started the whole game as captain, helping SC Freiburg keep a clean sheet, in a 0–0 draw. Following his returning from injury, he regained his first team place, playing in the right–back position. <mask> helped the club keep three consecutive clean sheets between 21 March 2015 and 11 April 2015. However, towards the end of the 2014–15 season, he lost his first team place and was demoted to the substitute bench, as the club were relegated from the Bundesliga.At the end of the 2014–15 season, <mask> went on to make twenty–one appearances in all competitions. Schalke 04

Following Freiburg's relegation from the Bundesliga, <mask> signed for Schalke 04 on 23 July 2015, signing a one–year contract and an option of extending for another season. Upon joining the club, he was given a number 27 shirt ahead of the new season. <mask> made his Schalke 04 debut, where he started the whole game, in a 3–1 win over Werder Bremen in the opening game of the season. Since making his Schalke 04 debut, <mask> appeared in and out of the first team, due to facing strong competition with Júnior Caiçara over the right–back position. As a result, he often rotate with Caiçara over the right–back position throughout the 2015–16 season. Despite this, <mask> played a role in the UEFA Europa League in two separate matches, which he assisted two times, both a win against Asteras Tripoli and APOEL; and ultimately helped the club reach the knockout stage.Later in the 2015–16 season, <mask> later played in the centre–back position on two occasions, coming against Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich. At the end of the 2015–16 season, he went on to make twenty appearances (16 of which were in the starting eleven) in all competitions. Following this, the club opted to take up their option of a contract extension that would ensure <mask> remained under contract for the 2016–17 season. However, at the start of the 2016–17 season, <mask> continued to find himself in competition over the right-back position, with Caiçara and new signing, Coke. He made his first appearance of the season, coming on as a 77th-minute substitute, in a 4–1 win against FC 08 Villingen in the first round of the DFB–Pokal. <mask> then started twice for Schalke 04, playing in the right–back position against 1. FC Köln and Hoffenheim.After the club qualified for the UEFA Europa League, he started two matches in the UEFA Europa League against Nice and Red Bull Salzburg. Throughout most of the 2016–17 season, <mask> struggled to regain his first team place, due to Benedikt Höwedes being preferred instead as a right–back and was placed on the substitute bench. By late–April, he appeared four matches, including two starts against Ajax in the UEFA Europa League and FC Ingolstadt. At the end of the 2016–17 season, making 9 appearances in all competitions, <mask> was released by the club. Return to Schalke 04 and retirement
After four months since being a free agent, <mask> trained with Schalke 04 with Manager Domenico Tedesco. Several weeks after training with them, it was announced on 6 October 2017 that the player signed a contract with the club for the remainder of the 2017–18 season. However, he struggled to receive playing time throughout the 2017–18 season and made no appearances for Schalke 04.Following this, <mask> extended his contract to one more year to stay at Schalke 04. However throughout the 2018–19 season, <mask> continued struggled to receive playing time throughout the season, due to competitions and his own injury concern. But the only game he played for Schalke 04 in the 2018–19 season was in the last game of the season in which Schalke 04 tied 0–0 against VfB Stuttgart. After that <mask> retired from professional football. Post playing career
<mask> said on an interview on three separate occasions that he would be interested in coaching once his playing career comes to an end. Following his retirement from professional football, <mask> was appointed as Schalke 04's first coordinator for the licensed players department. He spoke about his role and was assigned to analyse the players' performances.In November 2020, the club deny reports on their website that <mask> was appointed as their new sports director. Three months later, however, Schalke 04 announced that he was relieved of duties following the club's poor results in the league. International career

Youth career
<mask> previously represented Germany youth teams early in his career. Later in 2002, <mask> was called up by Germany U-20 and made his debut for the side on 23 October 2002. He went on to make two appearances for the U20 side. In August 2003, <mask> was called up by Germany U-21 for the first time. It wasn't until on 9 September 2003 when he made his debut for the U21 side, in a 1–0 loss against Scotland U21.<mask> captained the U21 side on five occasions. In the UEFA European Under-21 Championship, <mask> made one appearances during the tournament and were eliminated in the Group Stage. <mask> went on to make thirteen appearances for the U21 side. Senior career
Due to his good performance at Wolfsburg, <mask> was considered to be called up by the national team. However, in May 2010, he was cut from being short–listed for the FIFA World Cup squad for the side. Three months later, he was finally called up by the senior team. <mask> made his debut with the German national team on 11 August 2010, in a friendly against Denmark and played 34 minutes coming on as substitute for Andreas Beck, as the match finished in a 2–2 draw.After the match, he said about his debut, quoting: "It was very special for me, the first international match, but unfortunately we did not win, but I'm really happy to get a taste of it." To date, <mask>'s only other appearance with the national side was on 7 September 2010, playing the full 90 minutes of a 6–1 thumping of Azerbaijan in a UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying match. He have been since being called up by the national team on two occasions. Two years after moving to Fulham, <mask> hopes his move would have benefited his international career, which never happened. So his two full caps came in a period of less than a month in 2010. Personal life
Born in Lahr, West Germany, <mask> grew up in Kühbach and excelled in wrestling. However, he had no interest in freestyle or Greco-Roman, leading him to change his interests to football.His interest in endurance racer earned him a nicknamed "Herbie". Growing up, he supported Borussia Dortmund and idolised Matthias Sammer. In his early football career, <mask> developed a reputation as "a good schoolboy, who always does his work without corners and edges, never attracts attention and therefore sometimes receives too little attention." He left school "at least 2-Abi" in 2002. In addition to speaking German, <mask> speaks Spanish, French, English and some Portuguese. During his time at Wolfsburg, <mask> developed a friendship with his then teammates, Gentner and Marcel Schäfer. <mask> is married to his wife Susana, a law student.In June 2020, he became a first time father when his wife gave birth to a baby girl, Sarah. Career statistics

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<mask> (born February 21, 1990), is an American professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is the current FTW World Champion in his first reign. He also serves on the commentary team for AEW's Friday night program, Rampage. Starks is also known for his time with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), where he was the inaugural winner of the revived NWA World Television Championship. Professional wrestling career

Early career (2012–2019)
Starks idolized wrestlers including The Undertaker, The Rock, and Mankind, among many others, while growing up watching professional wrestling. Around the age of seven, Starks decided he would pursue his dream of becoming a professional wrestler. Starks made his debut in WWE as enhancement talent, jobbing to Jinder Mahal, before debuting for the National Wrestling Alliance's (NWA) Velocity Pro Wrestling on October 14, 2012 at the NWA Velocity Haunted Havoc event in Austin, Texas. There, he wrestled in a triple threat match against Jaykus Plisken and <mask>.Since 2012, Starks became a regular talent featured across numerous promotions in the state of Texas, like Anarchy Championship Wrestling and Inspire Pro Wrestling. During the following years, he would have four other matches for WWE as an enhancement talent, losing against wrestlers like Jinder Mahal, Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady, Kane and The Revival (Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder). On the July 29, 2013 episode of Raw, he appeared in a backstage video where he was bullied, mocked, and slammed through a table by Ryback. Starks again made an appearance on the March 19, 2018 episode of Raw as a US Marshal, arresting Roman Reigns, only for Starks to be attacked by Reigns. National Wrestling Alliance (2018–2020)
Starks made his debut for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) at the NWA 70th Anniversary Show on October 21, 2018, competing in a four-way elimination match against Jay Bradley, Mike Parrow and Willie Mack, which Mack won. He returned on the October 15, 2019 episode of Power, defeating Trevor Murdoch. At the Into the Fire pay-per-view event on December 14, Starks competed in a three-way match against Colt Cabana and Aron Stevens for the NWA National Championship, a match which Stevens won.Soon after, Starks was entered into a tournament to determine the inaugural holder of the NWA World Television Championship. At the Hard Times event on January 24, 2020, he defeated Eddie Kingston in the first round, Matt Cross in the second round, Tim Storm in the semi-finals and Trevor Murdoch in the finals to become the new NWA World Television Champion. Starks lost the title to Zicky Dice on the March 3 episode of Power. On May 18, it was announced that Starks was no longer with the NWA as his contract had expired. All Elite Wrestling (2020–present)
On the June 17 episode of Dynamite, <mask> made his unannounced debut for All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as he answered Cody's open challenge for the AEW TNT Championship in a losing effort. After the match, All Elite Wrestling's CEO Tony Khan announced that Starks had signed with AEW. On the June 30 episode of Dark, Starks picked up his first victory in AEW by defeating Griff Garrison while quickly establishing himself as a heel.On the July 21 episode of Dark, after defeating Will Hobbs, Starks aided Brian Cage in attacking Robert Anthony and Darby Allin after their match, creating an alliance between the two. The team, managed by Taz and now known as Team Taz, began feuding with Allin as they faced Allin and Jon Moxley on the July 29 episode of Dynamite where they were defeated. At the All Out pay-per-view on September 5, Starks participated in the Casino Battle Royale, but he was eliminated by Allin. On the September 30 episode of Dynamite, Starks was defeated by Allin in a singles match. On the November 18, 2020 episode of Dynamite, Will Hobbs would join Starks, Taz, and Cage's alliance after he struck Cody with Cage's FTW Championship belt and then assisted them in attacking both Allin and Cody as well. On the December 2, 2020 special Winter Is Coming, Starks and Hobbs, the latter now known as Powerhouse Hobbs, would lose a tag team match to Cody and Allin, after which, Sting made his AEW debut and ran Team Taz off after a post-match attack. On the January 20 episode of Dynamite, it was announced that <mask> and Brian Cage would be facing Allin and Sting in a street fight at Revolution, which was a cinematic match that Starks and Cage lost.On July 14, 2021, on night one of Fyter Fest, Starks won the FTW World Championship from Brian Cage, winning his first championship in AEW, although the FTW title is not an officially sanctioned championship in AEW. On an episode of Rampage, Starks defeated Cage in a Philly street fight. In September 2021, in addition to still being a wrestler on the show, Starks joined the Rampage commentary team, replacing Mark Henry. Professional wrestling style and persona
Starks referred to his style as a "pastiche" of other wrestlers, most notably The Undertaker's selling and Shinjiro Otani. Filmography

Television

Championships and accomplishments
All Elite Wrestling
FTW Championship (1 time, current)
Anarchy Championship Wrestling
ACW Hardcore Championship (1 time)
ACW Televised Championship (1 time)
ACW Unified Championship (1 time)
Dojo Pro Wrestling
Dojo Pro White Belt Championship (1 time)
Imperial Wrestling Revolution
IWR Revolutionary Championship (1 time)
Inspire Pro Wrestling
Inspire Pro Championship (1 time)
Inspire Pro Junior Championship (1 time)
Inspire Pro Pure Prestige Championship (1 time)
National Wrestling Alliance
NWA World Television Championship (1 time, inaugural)
NWA World Television Championship Tournament (2020)
NWA Houston
NWA Lone Star Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
 Ranked No. 92 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2020
VIP Wrestling
VIP Tag Team Championships (1 time) - with Carson
VIP Tag Team Championship Tournament (2015)
WrestleCircus
WC Big Top Tag Team Championships (1 time) - with Aaron Solow
Xtreme Championship Wrestling
XCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time, current)

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External links

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All Elite Wrestling personnel
American male professional wrestlers
Living people
Professional wrestlers from Louisiana
Sportspeople from New Orleans
Professional wrestling announcers

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<mask> (September 25, 1850 – March 9, 1913) was an American scout and bison hunter active in the Texas Panhandle. He helped found Adobe Walls, fired a buffalo rifle shot at the Second Battle of Adobe Walls, and for his actions at the "Buffalo Wallow Fight" became one of eight civilians ever to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor. Early life
<mask> was born in Ohio County in the panhandle region of West Virginia, on September 25, 1850. Of European descent, he was orphaned at age 12 and lived with an uncle in Missouri for a year before setting out on his own. He worked in woodcutters' camps along the Missouri River until he started working at age 14 as an ox driver and a muleskinner for a government contractor in Leavenworth, Kansas. He was a skilled marksman and occasionally scouted for eastern excursionists brought by the railroads. In 1869 he joined a venture in hunting and trapping on the Saline River northwest of Fort Hays in Kansas.He scouted Texas as far south as the Salt Fork of the Red River when the bison hunters moved into the Texas Panhandle in 1874. He and his group hunted along the Canadian River and its tributaries. Second Battle of Adobe Walls

<mask> led the founders of Adobe Walls to the Texas Plains, where he knew bison were in abundance. The group of 28 men and one woman occupied the outpost of five buildings 15 miles northeast of Stinnett. The outpost was attacked on June 27, 1874, by a band of 700-1200 Natives. The stand-off continued into a third day, when a group of Natives were noticed less than a mile east of Adobe Walls. It is said that <mask> took aim with a quickly borrowed .50-90 Sharps buffalo rifle (as, according to his biography, he only had a .45-90 Sharps and felt it could not reach).He knocked the Native man off his horse, killing him. Understanding how far the guns could fire, the Natives then withdrew and left the settlement alone. <mask>’s shot was measured at over 1,500 yards, earning him a position on the list of longest recorded sniper kills. <mask> stated in his biography that it was a "scratch shot". Battle of Buffalo Wallow

On 12 September 1874, <mask> and another civilian scout, Amos Chapman, were carrying dispatches from McClellan Creek to Fort Supply with Sergeant Zachariah T. Woodall, Private Peter Roth, Private John Harrington, and Private George W. Smith, as part of General Nelson A. Miles Sixth Cavalry when they were encircled at sunrise by a "large band of Kiowa and Comanche warriors" near the Washita River. Dismounting, George Smith was mortally wounded.Soon, Woodall, Harrington, <mask> and Chapman were wounded. All except Smith and Chapman had by noon made their way to a nearby bison wallow ten feet in diameter, where they used their hands and knives to throw up the sandy dirt all around the sides. Sitting upright, each man "fired deliberately, taking good aim, and were picking off an indian at almost every round." <mask> eventually ran for Chapman, whose left knee had been shattered, and carried him back to the wallow. By 3 PM, a thunderstorm brought rain and relief from their thirst, but when the wind "shifted to the north", the cold brought discomfort to all parties, especially the Natives who sat on their horses out of rifle range "with their blankets drawn tightly around them." Roth went for Smith's gun and ammunition, but when Smith was discovered still alive, Roth and <mask> brought Smith back to the wallow where he died during the night. At daylight, <mask> went for help, soon encountering troops under the command of Major Price.For their participation in what became known as the Battle of Buffalo Wallow or the Buffalo Wallow Fight, Woodall and the five men under his command were awarded the Medal of Honor. The medal is presently on display at the Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas. His medal along with that of Amos Chapman was revoked after a records review that was conducted from 1916-1917 found that they were ineligible because they were civilian scouts. In 1989 an Army Board of Correction of Records reinstated the awards. A Texas Historical Marker documents the battle site. Later years and death

In 1883 <mask> returned to civilian life and built a home near the Adobe Walls site. He was postmaster there for 20 years and also the first sheriff of newly formed Hutchinson County, Texas.He served as state land commissioner and a justice of the peace. In 1894 he married Olive King <mask> of Virginia, who for nearly three years was the only woman in Hutchinson County. They had seven children. In 1902 the family moved to Plemons for schooling for their children. In 1906 they moved to Oklahoma. <mask> died from pneumonia at his Cimarron County homestead in 1913 and was buried in Adobe Walls battle site in Hutchinson County, Texas. On his deathbed he told Olive his complete life story, which she penned and later published.In 1929 his body was reinterred at Adobe Walls. Dixon Creek in southern Hutchinson County was named for him, as is the <mask> Masonic Lodge in Fritch. A plaque commemorating his Medal of Honor was formally dedicated in 1992. The Historical Breechloading Smallarms Association, England, holds a shooting competition to commemorate his incredible long-distance shot. Known as the Vintage Rifle Open Long Range Championships, it is shot at a distance of 1,000 yards using black-powder cartridge rifles of that era, and is strongly contested from shooters all over the United Kingdom. See also

List of snipers
List of Medal of Honor recipients
List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Indian Wars

Sources

Life of <mask> - Author: Olive K<mask>
Gilbert, Miles; Remiger, Leo; Cunningham, Sharon. Encyclopedia of Buffalo Hunters and Skinners.Vol. 1: A-D; (2003) Pioneer Press, TN; . Remiger, Leo; Gilbert, Miles; Cunningham, Sharon. Encyclopedia of Buffalo Hunters and Skinners. Vol. 2: E-K; (2006) Pioneer Press, TN; . John L. McCarty.Adobe Walls Bride: The Story of <mask> and <mask> San Antonio, TX: Naylor, 1955. References

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<mask> (born Pattee; June 22, 1960) is an American legal clerk, consumer advocate, and environmental activist, who, despite her lack of education in the law, was instrumental in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) involving groundwater contamination in a town in California with the help of attorney Ed Masry in 1993. Their successful lawsuit was the subject of the Oscar-winning film, <mask>ovich (2000), starring Julia Roberts as <mask> and Albert Finney as Masry. Since then, <mask> has become a media personality as well, hosting the TV series Challenge America with <mask> on ABC and Final Justice on Zone Reality. She is the president of Brockovich Research & Consulting. She also works as a consultant for the New York law firm of Weitz & Luxenberg, which has a focus on personal injury claims for asbestos exposure, and Shine Lawyers in Australia. She worked as a consultant for the now-defunct California law firm Girardi & Keese. Early life
<mask> was born <mask> in Lawrence, Kansas, the daughter of Betty Jo (born O'Neal;  1923–2008), a journalist, and Frank Pattee (1924–2011), an industrial engineer and football player.She has two brothers, Frank Jr. and Thomas (1954–1992), and a sister, Jodie. She graduated from Lawrence High School, then attended Kansas State University, in Manhattan, Kansas, and graduated with an Associate in Applied Arts Degree from Wade College in Dallas, Texas. She worked as a management trainee for Kmart in 1981, but quit after a few months and entered a beauty pageant. She won Miss Pacific Coast in 1981, and left the world of beauty pageants after the win. Pacific Gas & Electric litigation

The case (Anderson, et al. v. Pacific Gas & Electric, file BCV 00300) alleged contamination of drinking water with hexavalent chromium (also written as "chromium VI", "Cr-VI" or "Cr-6") in the town of Hinkley, near Barstow in southern California. At the center of the case was a facility, the Hinkley compressor station, built in 1952 as a part of a natural-gas pipeline connecting to the San Francisco Bay Area.Between 1952 and 1966, PG&E used hexavalent chromium in a cooling tower system to fight corrosion. The waste water was discharged to unlined ponds at the site, and some of the waste water percolated into the groundwater, affecting an area of approximately  near the plant. The Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) put the PG&E site under its regulations in 1968. The case was settled in 1996 for (US) $333 million, the largest settlement ever paid in a direct-action lawsuit in United States history to that date. Masry & Vititoe, the law firm for which <mask> was a legal clerk, received $133.6 million of that settlement, and <mask> received $2.5 million as part of her fee. A study released in 2010 by the California Cancer Registry showed that cancer rates in Hinkley "remained unremarkable from 1988 to 2008". An epidemiologist involved in the study said that the 196 cases of cancer reported during the most recent survey of 1996 through 2008 were fewer than what he would expect based on demographics and the regional rate of cancer.However, in June 2013, Mother Jones magazine featured a critique from the Center for Public Integrity of the author's work on the later epidemiological studies. , average Cr-6 levels in Hinkley were recorded as 1.19 ppb with a peak of 3.09 ppb. For comparison, the PG&E Topock Compressor Station on the California-Arizona border averaged 7.8 ppb with peaks of 31.8 ppb based on a PG&E Background Study. Other litigation
Working with Edward L. Masry, a lawyer based in Thousand Oaks, California, <mask> went on to participate in other anti-pollution lawsuits. One suit accused the Whitman Corporation of chromium contamination in Willits, California. Another, which listed 1,200 plaintiffs, alleged contamination near PG&E's Kettleman Hills compressor station in Kings County, California, along the same pipeline as the Hinkley site. The Kettleman suit was settled for $335 million in 2006.In 2003, after experiencing problems with mold contamination in her own home in the Conejo Valley, <mask> received settlements of $430,000 from two parties, and an undisclosed amount from a third party, to settle her lawsuit alleging toxic mold in her Agoura Hills, California, home. <mask> then became a prominent activist and educator in the area as well. <mask> and Masry filed suit against the Beverly Hills Unified School District in 2003, in which the district was accused of harming the health and safety of its students by allowing a contractor to operate a cluster of oil wells on campus. <mask> and Masry alleged that 300 cancer cases were linked to the oil wells. Subsequent testing and epidemiological investigation failed to corroborate a substantial link, and Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Wendell Mortimer granted summary judgment against the plaintiffs. In May 2007, the School District announced that it was to be paid $450,000 as reimbursement for legal expenses. <mask> assisted in the filing of a lawsuit against Prime Tanning Corp. of St. Joseph, Missouri in April 2009.The lawsuit claims that waste sludge from the production of leather, containing high levels of hexavalent chromium, was distributed to farmers in northwest Missouri to use as fertilizer on their fields. It is believed to be a potential cause of an abnormally high number of brain tumors (70 since 1996) around the town of Cameron, Missouri. The site was investigated by the EPA and the agency found "no detections of total chromium" and further stated that the 70 brain tumors were not abnormally high for the population size. In June 2009, <mask> began investigating a case of contaminated water in Midland, Texas. "Significant amounts" of hexavalent chromium were found in the water of more than 40 homes in the area, some of which have now been fitted with state-monitored filters on their water supply. <mask> said: "The only difference between here and Hinkley is that I saw higher levels here than I saw in Hinkley." In 2012, <mask> became involved in the mysterious case of 14 students from LeRoy, New York, who began reporting perplexing medical symptoms, including tics and speech difficulties.<mask> believed environmental pollution from the 1970 Lehigh Valley Railroad derailment was the cause, and conducted testing in the area. <mask> was supposed to return to LeRoy to present her findings, but never did; in the meantime, the students' doctors determined the cause was mass psychogenic illness, and that the media exposure was exacerbating the symptoms. No environmental causes were found after repeat testing, and the students improved once the media attention died down. In early 2016, <mask> became involved in potential litigation against Southern California Gas for a large methane leak from its underground storage facility near the community of Porter Ranch north of Los Angeles. Awards
 Honorary Doctor of Laws and commencement speaker at Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon, in May 2005
 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters and commencement speaker at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, on May 5, 2007
 Honorary Master of Arts, Business Communication, from Jones International University, Centennial, Colorado

Movies and television
<mask>'s work in bringing litigation against Pacific Gas & Electric was the focus of the 2000 feature film, <mask>, starring Julia Roberts in the title role. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing in a Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. Roberts won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of <mask>.<mask> herself had a cameo role as a waitress named Julia R.

<mask> originally recorded a cameo role in the 2007 animated film The Simpsons Movie, based on the long-running animated sitcom The Simpsons. However, <mask>'s role was ultimately cut from the film. <mask> had a more extensive role in the 2012 documentary Last Call at the Oasis, which focused on not only water pollution but also the overall state of water scarcity as it relates to water policy in the United States. On April 8, 2021, Rebel, a television series which creator Krista Vernoff loosely based on <mask>'s life, premiered on ABC. Books and articles
<mask>'s first book, Take It from Me: Life's a Struggle But You Can Win (), was published in 2001. A second book, Superman's Not Coming, was released on August 25, 2020. In 2021, <mask> wrote about hormone-disrupting chemicals (such as PFAS) decimating human fertility at an alarming rate.On February 8, 2022, Brokovich wrote an article talking about the case of Steven Donziger, a lawyer who won a $18 billion judgment against Chevron before being jailed for contempt of court after refusing to turn his phone and computer over to Chevron's legal team. Personal life
Brockovich has three children: a son Matthew and a daughter Katie from her first marriage to Shawn Brown, and a daughter Elizabeth "Beth" from her second marriage to <mask>. Her third husband was an actor and country music DJ, Eric L. Ellis. As of 2016, <mask> resides in Agoura Hills, California, in a house she purchased in 1996 with her US$2.5 million bonus after the Hinkley settlement. References

External links

 Official website of <mask>
 The Brockovich Report  BrockovichBlog.com
 Brockovich Village
 Official MySpace of <mask>
 <mask> biography on the Biography Channel

  Evening with <mask> in Sydney, hosted by the Climate Change Coalition 2007
 Detail about Hinkley case at AwesomeStories.com
 Did Hinkley Residents Really Win? at salon.com
 Weitz & Luxenberg PC
 Shine Lawyers Australia
 Environmental Justice Society
 <mask>ovich video produced by Makers: Women Who Make America

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Living people
American environmentalists
Kansas State University alumni
People from Lawrence, Kansas
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company
American women activists
Activists from California
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