Iván Rodríguez

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.
. By then a major-league veteran of over a decade, he helped lead a team of talented youngsters to victory in the World Series. Giannini is credited as the inventor of many modern banking practices. When his contract with Texas ran out following the 2002 season, Rodríguez signed with the Florida Marlins for one year. By expanding to many regions, Giannini created a banking network that was able to easily handle local economic crises. 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. Prior to Giannini's creation of the Bank of America network, most banks were limited to a single city or region.

. It became the Bank of America in 1928 and continued under Giannini's chairmanship until his retirement in 1945. He immediately established himself as an excellent hitter who was also proficient in throwing out would-be base-stealers. By 1916 Giannini had expanded and opened several other branches. 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. Giannini was forced to run his bank from a plank across two barrels in the street for a time. 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. An early difficulty to overcome was the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

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.