Iván RodríguezIván Rodríguez Torres (born November 30, 1971 in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico), nicknamed "Pudge", "Pud-rod" or "I-Rod", is a professional baseball player. He has a career batting average of .304 and has won eleven Gold Glove Awards as a catcher, as well as the American League Most Valuable Player Award in 1999. When Rodríguez made his major league debut with the Texas Rangers in 1992, he became the youngest person to play catcher in a major league game. He immediately established himself as an excellent hitter who was also proficient in throwing out would-be base-stealers. Although he had the nickname "Pudge" since his youth, Rodríguez was often compared early on to the veteran catcher Carlton Fisk, who was also called "Pudge." Fisk retired early in Rodríguez's career, and fans and sportswriters viewed it as the passing of the torch from one Pudge to another. When his contract with Texas ran out following the 2002 season, Rodríguez signed with the Florida Marlins for one year. By then a major-league veteran of over a decade, he helped lead a team of talented youngsters to victory in the World Series. In the off-season, he left Florida to sign with the Detroit Tigers. This page about Ivan Rodriguez includes information from a Wikipedia article. Additional articles about Ivan Rodriguez News stories about Ivan Rodriguez External links for Ivan Rodriguez Videos for Ivan Rodriguez Wikis about Ivan Rodriguez Discussion Groups about Ivan Rodriguez Blogs about Ivan Rodriguez Images of Ivan Rodriguez |
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In the off-season, he left Florida to sign with the Detroit Tigers. Most notably, Giannini was one of the first bankers to offer banking services to middle-class Americans, rather than simply the upper class.
Iván Rodríguez Torres (born November 30, 1971 in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico), nicknamed "Pudge", "Pud-rod" or "I-Rod", is a professional baseball player. Deposits on that first day totaled $8,780. Giannini opened the Bank of Italy in a former San Francisco, California saloon on 17 October 1904. Giannini's parents were Italian immigrants to the United States. Amadeo Peter Giannini (1870-1949), born in San Jose, California, was the founder of the Bank of America. |