American baseball player

Jason Grilli

Jason Michael Grilli is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Florida Marlins, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Atlanta Braves, Toronto Blue Jays, and Texas Rangers. Taken as the fourth overall selection of the 1997 MLB draft by the San Francisco Giants, Grilli was one of the top starting pitcher prospects in all of Minor League Baseball, ranked 54th in 1998 and 44th in 1999. The Giants traded him to the Florida Marlins in 1999, for whom he debuted on May 11, 2000.

Born

1976

November 11

Died

Living

Era

1970s

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1976 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

308 At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian confers with Galerius, Augustus of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to end the civil wars of the Tetrarchy.
1028 Constantine VIII dies, ending his uninterrupted reign as emperor or co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire of 66 years.
1100 Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland and a direct descendant of the Saxon king Edmund Ironside; Matilda is crowned on the same day.
1215 The Fourth Council of the Lateran meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.

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The world in 1976

When Jason arrived

april 1 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, Inc.
april 11 The Apple I is created.
april 13 The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
april 13 Forty workers die in the Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion, the deadliest industrial accident in modern Finnish history.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Adam Beach 1972– Canadian actor Andy Partridge 1953– English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer Calista Flockhart 1964– American actress Carl Peter Thunberg 1743–1828 Swedish botanist and psychologist (born 1743) Carlos Fuentes 1928–2012 Mexican novelist and essayist (born 1928) Daniel Ortega 1945– Nicaraguan politician, President of Nicaragua Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821– Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher (died 1881) J. B. Kripalani 1888–1982 Indian lawyer and politician (born 1888) Mildred Dresselhaus 1930–2017 American physicist (born 1930)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1976

Alan Carr 1976– English comedian, actor, and screenwriter Alan Faneca 1976– American football player Anna Friel 1976– English actress Antoine Walker 1976– American basketball player Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira 1976– Brazilian mixed martial artist and boxer Brett Kimmorley 1976– Australian rugby league player and sportscaster Chauncey Billups 1976– American basketball player Dan Cloutier 1976– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Daniel Whiston 1976– English figure skater

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