American baseball player and coach

Craig Biggio

Craig Alan Biggio is an American former baseball second baseman, outfielder, and catcher who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Houston Astros, from 1988 to 2007. A seven-time National League (NL) All-Star often regarded as the greatest all-around player in Astros history, he is the only player ever to be named an All-Star and to be awarded Silver Slugger Award at both catcher and second base. With longtime teammates Jeff Bagwell and Lance Berkman, he formed the core of the "Killer B's" who led Houston to six playoff appearances from 1997 to 2005, culminating in the franchise's first World Series appearance in 2005. At the end of his career, he ranked sixth in NL history in games played (2,850), fifth in at bats (10,876), 21st in hits (3,060), and seventh in runs scored (1,844).

Born

1965

December 14

Died

Living

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1960s

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Craig, in brief

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Key dates

1965 Born

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557 Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake, which cracks the dome of Hagia Sophia.
835 Sweet Dew Incident: Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspires to kill the powerful eunuchs of the Tang court, but the plot is foiled.
872 Pope John VIII is elected following the death of Hadrian II.
1287 St. Lucia's flood: The Zuiderzee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.

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The world in 1965

When Craig arrived

april 11 The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-five tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states of the United States, killing 266 people.
april 21 The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
april 24 Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
april 28 United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate US Army troops.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on December 14

Alan Kulwicki 1954–1993 American race car driver (born 1954) B. K. S. Iyengar 1918–2014 Indian yoga instructor and author, founded Iyengar Yoga (born 1918) Bill Ranford 1966– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Daniel De Leon 1852– Curaçaoan-American journalist and politician (died 1914) David A. Cherry 1949– American artist and illustrator DeFord Bailey 1899– American Hall of Fame country and blues musician (died 1982) Hans von Ohain 1911–1998 German-American physicist and engineer (died 1998) Karan Armstrong 1941– American soprano and actress (died 2021) Louis Marshall 1856– American lawyer and activist (died 1929)

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