Career Highlights: Major league pitcher Jamie Moyer, the oldest player in the major leagues at 48, has the most wins, losses and strikeouts of any active MLB pitcher…Moyer, who recently underwent Tommy John surgery, at this time hopes to come back in the 2012 season...He has served as a part-time commentator on ESPN’s “Baseball Tonight” show this season…In his 24-year career, Moyer has played for seven different teams including: Chicago Cubs (1986-88), Texas (1989-90), St. Louis (1991), Baltimore (1993-95), Boston (1996), Seattle (1996-2006) and Philadelphia (2006-2010)…Moyer has a 267-204 career mark with a 4.24 ERA and 2,405 strikeouts…He became the only MLB pitcher to throw a shutout in four different decades…On October 25, 2008, Moyer made his first World Series start against Tampa Bay pitching 6 1/3 innings, giving up three runs, and receiving a no-decision…The Phillies won the World Series the following night…While with the Phillies for four seasons (2006-10), Moyer went 9-9 with a 4.84 ERA in 2010…Moyer had some of his best years during his 10 seasons with the Seattle Mariners…In 2001 he won 20 games, tying him for second in the American League, and his 3.43 ERA was sixth…He became only the second Mariner in history, along with Randy Johnson, to win 20 games…Moyer went 3-0 with a 1.89 ERA in the post-season…In 2003 he won a career-high 21 games, and had a career low 3.27 ERA and again tied for second in the American League for wins…Moyer was voted to his first All-Star Game in 2003, and was named for the third time the Seattle Pitcher of the Year…Also in 2003, Moyer was the winner of the Roberto Clemente Award, given annually to the big leaguer whose success on the field is mirrored by his impact in community service…He also received The Hutch Award given to an MLB player displaying “honor, courage and dedication to baseball, both on and off the field,” and The Lou Gehrig Award for exemplifying the character of Lou Gehrig both on and off the field.
Kevin Nealon
Comedian and Actor
Career Highlights: Kevin Nealon sets himself apart from other performers with his sense of humor, dry wit and likable demeanor…Nealon is one of this generation’s premier television, theatrical and stand-up comedians...A regular cast member on the Showtime dark comedy series “Weeds,” he was nominated as part of its ensemble cast for a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2007…. As the longest-running cast member of “Saturday Night Live” (1986-95), Nealon is best remembered for his well-known characters “The Subliminal Man,” Franz of “Hans and Franz” and “Weekend Update Anchorman”…Nealon was nominated for an Emmy in 1986 as part of the Saturday Night Live writing team…Since making his film debut in the 1987 romantic comedy, “Roxanne” with Steve Martin, he recently has starred in “Just Go With It,” with Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, and Nicole Kidman, “Aliens in the Attic,” “Get Smart” with Steve Carell and “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” again with Adam Sandler…His other film credits include “Anger Management,” “Good Boy,” “Daddy Day Care,” John Waters’ film “Cecil B. Demented,” Adam Sandler’s “Eight Crazy Nights,” “Little Nicky,” “Happy Gilmore” and “The Wedding Singer”…Nealon also provides the voice for Glenn Martin DDS on “Nick at Nite,” currently in its second season…Nealon’s first one-hour stand up special, “Now Hear Me Out,” is airing on Showtime…He has also hosted the poker show “Poker Royale: The WPPA Championship” and appeared on Crank Yankers on Comedy Central…Some of Nealon’s television credits include “The Larry Sanders Show,” “Dharma and Greg,” “Third Rock From the Sun” and “The Outer Limits”...He also had guest roles in episodes of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Monk”…Nealon wrote his first book in 2008 titled “Yes, You’re Pregnant but What About Me?”...Nealon began performing as a standup comedian in the late ‘70s while working as a bartender at the Hollywood Improvisation.
John O’Hurley
Actor
Career Highlights: Popular television personality and a true Renaissance man John O’Hurley is best known for his portrayal of the dashing clothing cataloguer J. Peterman on the former NBC hit series “Seinfeld”…O’Hurley financed the re-launch of The J. Peterman Company with the (real) John Peterman and thus became a joint owner of the reincarnated/real J. Peterman Company in 2001…O’Hurley also is recognized as the runner-up celebrity dancer in the first season of “Dancing with the Stars” (summer of 2005)…After fans complained O’Hurley was superior to ABC soap opera star Kelly Monaco, ABC broadcast the “grudge rematch” in September 2005 which O’Hurley and his dance partner won...O’Hurley became the fifth host of the popular game show “Family Feud” which he hosted from 2006-2010…He has served as the on-air host for NBC’s Thanksgiving Day special “The National Dog Show” since 2002…O’Hurley actively does voice work for popular children’s shows and videos including “SpongeBob Square Pants,” “Hey Arnold,” “The Mullets,” “Tarzan & Jane,” “Kim Possible,” Disney’s “The Legend of Tarzan” and “Buzz Lightyear of Star Command”…He served as host of The Great American Celebrity Spelling Bee and the Family Network series “Incredible Animals”…He also hosted the revival of “To Tell The Truth” in syndication…O’Hurley has starred in a popular series of commercials for Xerox, GCI and Progressive and has appeared on the ABC comedy “A Whole New Ball Game” and on the CBS show “Scorch”…His guest star appearances include “Murder She Wrote,” “Frasier,” “Living Single” and “Melrose Place”…He has also starred in several daytime dramas and television movies…O’Hurley is a self-taught pianist and classically trained vocalist who has been composing since his teen years…In 2004 he released a two-album project entitled “Peace of Our Minds” a compilation of his original piano compositions in tandem with famed cellist Marston Smith…O’Hurley has written two books including the New York Times bestseller “It’s Okay to Miss the Bed on the First Jump” in 2006…He also wrote “Before your Dog Can Eat Your Homework, First You Have to Do It” in 2007.