Iván Rodríguez

In the off-season, he left Florida to sign with the Detroit Tigers. He is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California. By then a major-league veteran of over a decade, he helped lead a team of talented youngsters to victory in the World Series. Stephen Bechtel died in 1989. When his contract with Texas ran out following the 2002 season, Rodríguez signed with the Florida Marlins for one year. In 1980, the school completed construction of the Bechtel Engineering Center, which was named in his honor. 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. Stephen was awarded an honorary degree by UC Berkeley in 1954.

. in 1960, but stayed on as the chairman until 1969. He immediately established himself as an excellent hitter who was also proficient in throwing out would-be base-stealers. Stephen handing the presidency of the company over to his son, Stephen Jr. 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. Over the next thirty years, he expanded Bechtel into a huge and successful engineering company with operations all over the world. 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. Stephen became president and saw the company through the construction of the Hoover Dam.

Iván Rodríguez Torres (born November 30, 1971 in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico), nicknamed "Pudge", "Pud-rod" or "I-Rod", is a professional baseball player. His father's death came at a critical time for the company: concrete was being poured for the Hoover Dam, Bechtel's largest project up til that point. He became vice-president of Bechtel in 1925 and became president in 1933, when Warren Bechtel died suddenly while traveling abroad. After the war, in 1919, he attended the University of California, Berkeley for one year to work for his father's company full time. Stephen served with the 20th Engineers, part of the American Expeditionary Force sent to assist France in World War I.

Bechtel, the founder of the Bechtel Corporation and the president of the company from 1933 through 1960. Stephen Davison Bechtel (September 24, 1900 - March 14, 1989) was the son of Warren A.