American baseball player and manager

Jason Varitek

Jason Andrew Varitek, nicknamed "Tek", is an American professional baseball coach and former catcher. He was most recently the game planning coordinator, a uniformed coaching position, for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). After being traded as a minor league prospect by the Seattle Mariners, Varitek played his entire 15-year career for the Red Sox. A three-time All-Star and Gold Glove Award winner at catcher, as well as a Silver Slugger Award winner, Varitek was part of the 2004 World Series and 2007 World Series Championship teams, and widely viewed as one of the team's leaders.

Born

1972

April 11

Died

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1970s

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1972 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

491 Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
672 Consecration of Pope Adeodatus II following the death of Pope Vitalian.
1241 Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.
1512 War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferrarese forces led by Gaston de Foix and Alfonso I d'Este win the Battle of Ravenna against the Papal-Spanish forces.

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The world in 1972

When Jason arrived

april 10 Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
april 10 Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
april 13 The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.
april 13 Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.

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Andronikos IV Palaiologos 1348– Byzantine Emperor (died 1385) António de Spínola 1910–1996 Portuguese general and politician, 14th President of Portugal (died 1996) Gustav Vigeland 1869–1943 Norwegian sculptor, designed the Nobel Peace Prize medal (died 1943) Joss Stone 1987– English singer-songwriter and actress[citation needed] Mark Teixeira 1980– American baseball player Percy Lavon Julian 1899–1975 African-American chemist and academic (died 1975) Roger Mortimer 1374–1360 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (died 1398) Steve Azar 1964– American singer-songwriter and guitarist Summer Walker 1996– American singer-songwriter

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Eminem 1972– American rapper, producer, and actor Adam Beach 1972– Canadian actor Archie Panjabi 1972– British actress Billie Joe Armstrong 1972– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and producer Brian Wood 1972– American writer, illustrator and graphic designer Chilly Gonzales 1972– Canadian-German singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer Chris Candido 1972–2005 American wrestler (born 1971) Chris Osgood 1972– Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster Christophe Beck 1972– Canadian television and film score composer and conductor

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