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Joe Carter

Former MLBAll-Star Outfielder


Career Highlights: Joe Carter, a 16-year major league baseball veteran, is most famous for hitting a walk-off home run to win the 1993 World Series with the Toronto Blue Jays trailing 6-5 to the Philadelphia Phillies in the bottom of the ninth inning...Carter helped the Blue Jays win their first World Series title a year earlier in 1992 when he hit two home runs…In his career, Carter hit 396 home runs and drove in 1,445 RBIs…He drove in 100 runs in a season 10 times, including the 1994 year, which was cut short due to the strike…Carter was the first player to record 100 RBIs for three different teams in three consecutive seasons…Carter first reached the major leagues with the Chicago Cubs in 1983 and then was traded to the Cleveland Indians a year later…While with Cleveland (1984-89), he emerged as a prolific power hitter, hitting as many as 35 home runs in a season and regularly driving in 100 or more runs…In 1989 he spent one year with the San Diego Padres before being traded to Toronto. ..Carter spent seven years with the Blue Jays (1991-97) and during that time, in addition to the two World Series rings, he was named a five-time All-Star and a two-time Silver Slugger Award winner…He led the Blue Jays in homeruns and RBIs in 1994 and 1995…After the 1997 season Carter became a free agent and played briefly in 1998 for the Baltimore Orioles and the San Francisco Giants before retiring…Carter served as an announcer for the Toronto Blue Jays on CTV Sportsnet from 1999-2000 and then joined the Chicago Cubs broadcasting team as a color commentator, alongside play-by-play announcer Chip Carey for two seasons…He was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, Missouri Valley Hall of Fame and the Kansas Baseball Hall of Fame…Carter also was awarded the MLB Hometown Heroes Award as the former or current player who best represents the legacy of his franchise’s history, as voted by the fans.

Chris Chandler

Former All-Pro NFL Quarterback


Career Highlights: Chris Chandler won the 2007 American Century Celebrity Championship firing a final round five-under-par 67 scoring 31 points in the Stableford format…He set both single day and a tournament record for points with his final round play…Chandler has had recent success at Edgewood Tahoe posting six top-10 finishes including a win, fourth place and two sixth place finishes in four of the past seven years...An intelligent and wily veteran quarterback, Chris Chandler played 17 seasons in the National Football League with the Colts, Buccaneers, Cardinals, Rams, Oilers, Falcons and Bears...Chandler started with all seven teams, including twice with the Rams in different cities (St. Louis and Los Angeles)…Chandler completed his 10th consecutive season of more than 1,000 passing yards in 2003 with the Chicago Bears where he threw for 28,484 career yards with 2,328 receptions and 170 touchdowns...Chandler played with the Atlanta Falcons for five seasons before signing with the Bears in early 2002…He led Atlanta to a 14-2 regular-season record, the NFC Championship and an appearance in Super Bowl XXXII…He threw for a career-high 3,154 yards and 25 touchdowns in 1998…Chandler enjoyed career years in his first two seasons in Atlanta with 20 and 25 passing touchdowns, respectively, earning two consecutive Pro Bowl trips in 1997 and 1998…He established a new Atlanta record by throwing at least one touchdown pass in 27 straight games from 1998-99…In college at the University of Washington, he started 26 consecutive games and finished third in school history in total offense with 4,462 yards and touchdown passes with 32…Chandler was a three-sport star (football, basketball, baseball) at Everett (Washington) High School.

Vince Coleman

Former Major League All-Star Outfielder


Career Highlights:Vince Coleman, a former record-setting Major League outfielder with the St. Louis Cardinals, led the National League in steals in his first six seasons in the league with 549 total steals from 1985 to 1990…He is sixth all-time for career stolen bases with 752 and is the only player in history to steal 100 bases in three straight years...Coleman holds a Major League Baseball record with 50 consecutive stolen bases without being caught stealing (September 18, 1988 through July 26, 1989)…Coleman also holds three of the top six stolen base seasons #3 (110 in 1985), #4 (109 in 1987) and #6 (107 in 1986) as the seasons were all consecutive…A two-time All-Star, he also won three Gold Gloves for his defensive prowess in the outfield…A 13-year veteran, Coleman played for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, Kansas City Royals, Seattle Mariners, Cincinnati Reds and Detroit Tigers…Coleman played on two World Series bound teams with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1985 and 1987…He was also named the 1985 National League Rookie of the Year…Coleman posted the most stolen bases in a season by a rookie with 110 in 1985…In college, he played football and baseball at Florida A&M University where he led the NCAA in stolen bases twice, including 65 in his junior year…Coleman also earned an invitation to the Freedom Bowl All-Star game as a punter for the football team his senior year.

Mason Crosby

Kicker, Green Bay Packers


Career Highlights: Mason Crosby is starting his fifth season as the kicker for the Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers…Known for his strong leg and level head, Crosby, in the first game of the 2010 season, kicked a 56-yard field goal in the last seconds of the first half against Philadelphia, his career long and a Packers franchise record...Picked in the sixth round of the 2007 NFL Draft, Crosby converted all three field goals in his first NFL game, including a 53-yarder and a 42-yarder with two seconds left to beat Philadelphia…Crosby was the first player in NFL history to kick a 50-yard field goal and a game-winning field goal with under a minute remaining in his NFL debut…Crosby was awarded the NFC Special Teams Player of the Month for November 2007…He led all NFL kickers with 54 points and tied for the lead with 12 field goals as the Packers posted a 4-1 mark...He finished the season just three points shy of tying Chicago’s Kevin Butler’s NFL record for points in a season by a rookie kicker (144)...Crosby also set franchise records for points in a season by a kicker, surpassing Ryan Longwell’s 131 points in 2000, and for points by a rookie, joining Chester Marcol (1972), Chris Jacke (1989) and Longwell (1997) as the only kickers in Packers history to score more than 100 points as a rookie...For the 2007 season, Crosby led the NFL with 130 points scored and his 24 field goals ranked first in the NFC...Crosby finished 2007 with the highest-scoring season by a kicker in franchise history and third-highest season point total by any Packers player…In his second season, he played in every game, tied for sixth in the NFC and tied for seventh in the NFL among kickers with 127 points...Crosby also tied for third in the NFC and tied for sixth in the NFL with 17 touchbacks, the most by a Packers kicker since 1972 (Marcol, 28) and since kickoffs were moved back to the 30-yard line in 1994…In 2009, he managed to score 129 points to push his three-year total to 397, an NFL record for a player in his first three seasons and the second-most in the league from 2007-09 behind New England’s Stephen Gostkowski (410)...That scoring total also ranks as the most in franchise history by a kicker for a three-year span and second in the team’s record books for any player, trailing only Paul Hornung, who posted 416 points from 1959-61 as a kicker and running back...Crosby connected on 27-of-36 field goal attempts (75.0 percent) and 48-of-49 PATs while ranking fourth among NFL kickers in scoring and tied for sixth in field goals made...Crosby needed 117 points in 2010 to break Gostkowski’s mark (513) for the most points in a player’s first four seasons, but he fell just four points short with a total of 509…At the University of Colorado, Crosby established a total of 31 game, season and career records, where he holds the all-time records for points scored (307), field goals made (66) and attempted (88), extra points made (109) and attempted (117), field goal percentage (75.0) and longest field goal made (60 yards)...His field goals made, attempted and percentage also set Big 12 Conference career marks...Crosby earned various first-team All-American honors his final two seasons and was a semifinalist for the Lou Groza Award his final three years…In his senior season in 2006, he was an All-American first-team selection by The NFL Draft Report, Pro Football Weekly and the Walter Camp Foundation, adding third-team honors from The Associated Press...Crosby was also an All-Big 12 Conference first-team choice for the third consecutive year, only the seventh player in school history to achieve that honor.


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