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Andy PettitteFormer MLB All-Star PitcherCareer Highlights:Andy Pettitte is known as one of the New York Yankees “Core Four,” along with Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, and Jorge Posada, who were teammates for the Yankees five World Series titles…A premier major league pitcher, Pettitte compiled a 240-138 record with a 3.88 ERA and 2,251 strikeouts in 3,055 1/3 innings in 13 seasons with the Yankees (1995-2003 & 2007-2010) and three with the Houston Astros (2004-06)…A three-time All-Star and two-time 20 game winner, Pettitte was a part of seven American League pennant-winning teams and one National League pennant-winning squad and a member of five Yankees world championship teams…He appeared in two other World Series with the Yankees as well and another with the Astros…Pettitte has won 19 post-season games, more than any other pitcher in post-season history…He is the only MLB pitcher since 1930 to win at least 12 games in each of his first nine seasons...In 1996, his second year in the major leagues, he made the All-Star team and finished second to Pat Hentgen for the American League Cy Young Award…He also led the league in wins with 21…During the period from 1995-2010, no major league pitcher accumulated more victories…His 148 wins from 2000 to 2009 were the most in the decade…Prior to his retirement, Pettitte got off to his best start of his career in 2010, going 11-2 with a 2.38 ERA before a groin strain in mid-July robbed him of two months of the season…He finished his final season 11-3 with a 3.28 ERA and went 1-1 in postseason, beating the Minnesota Twins in Game 2 of the ALDS before losing Game 3 of the ALCS to the Rangers and Cliff Lee despite allowing just two runs in seven innings. Digger PhelpsFormer Notre Dame Basketball Head Coach,ESPN College Basketball AnalystCareer Highlights:Digger Phelps is known as much for his insightful commentary as an ESPN analyst as the tremendous success he had for two decades as Notre Dame’s head basketball coach...From 1972 to 1991, Phelps won more games (393) than any coach in Irish history…His teams advanced to the NCAA Championship on 14 occasions – including six of his last seven seasons – and reached the Final Four in 1978…One of his career highlights was snapping UCLA’s historic 88-game winning streak in 1974...Phelps joined ESPN as a college basketball studio and game analyst in November 1993…Currently, he works in the studio, contributes to College Hoops Tonight and calls select games…He also works as the main studio analyst for ABC Sports’ college basketball coverage and teams with Dick Vitale to provide studio and on-site analysis during ESPN’s Championship Week, the NCAA Championship and the NCAA Final Four…Before joining ESPN, Phelps served as a college basketball analyst for CBS Sports during the 1992 and 1993 NCAA Championships…Prior to coaching at Notre Dame, Phelps was the head basketball coach at Fordham University during the 1970-71 season, where his team compiled a 26-3 record and advanced to the NCAA Championship…After resigning from Notre Dame, he was appointed as a special assistant to the Executive Office of the President for National Drug Policy (1992-93) during President Bush’s administration…He also served as head of the United States delegation to the January 1993 Inauguration of President Rawlings of Ghana, Africa, and was part of the United Nations observer team for the 1993 elections in Cambodia...Phelps has authored four books, including a biography released in 2007, entitled “Undertaker’s Son:Life Lessons from a Coach”…The book details Phelps’ upbringing as the son of a father who owned a funeral service (thus the nickname “Digger”), professional success and life principles. Stone PhillipsFormer Dateline NBC News AnchorCareer Highlights:Stone Phillips is the former co-anchor of the award-winning news magazine television show Dateline NBC…He also served as a substitute anchor on NBC Nightly News and Today, and as a substitute moderator on Meet the Press…He earned several honors for his work on Dateline….Some examples of his work include Phillips anchoring live from the Gulf Coast region to report on one of the nation’s worst natural disasters, Hurricane Katrina...Phillips also was first to interview five of the former U.S. POW’s from the Army’s 507th Maintenance Company in Iraq, as well as former Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose about the sniper shootings in the Washington D.C. area...Before joining NBC in 1992, Phillips had been a correspondent for ABC News’ 20/20 since 1986…He also served as a substitute host on Good Morning America and as sports anchor on ABC’s World News Sunday…Phillips was a general assignment correspondent for ABC News from 1982-86…From 1979-81, he was an assignment editor at the ABC News Washington bureau…Phillips has received numerous awards for his work, including a 1997 Emmy for outstanding coverage of a continuing news story, a 1996 Emmy for outstanding achievement in an interview, an Investigative Reports and Editors (IRE) Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, three National Headliner Awards and many more…Phillips graduated from Yale University, where he majored in philosophy…He was the starting quarterback on Yale’s 1976 Ivy League Champion football team and won the University’s F. Gordon Brown Award for outstanding academic and athletic leadership. Dan QuayleFormer Vice President of the United StatesCareer Highlights:Dan Quayle served as the 44th Vice President of the United States with President Herbert Walker Bush from 1989 to 1993...Quayle’s son Ben ran for a seat representing Arizona’s 3rd congressional district, and was elected to the House of Representatives in 2010...Quayle started his political career at a very young age as he was elected to Congress in Indiana at the age of 29…He was later elected to the United States Senate at age 33 and became Vice President of the United States at age 41…Quayle is widely considered to be one of the most active vice presidents in history…During his tenure he made official visits to 47 countries, was chairman of the President’s Council on Competitiveness and the National Space Council, and served as President Bush’s point man on Capitol Hill…Since leaving office in 1993, Quayle has written three books:“Standing Firm” (which became a bestseller), “The American Family” and “Worth Fighting For”…He has served as Chairman of the international division of Cerberus Capital Management, a multi-billion dollar private equity fund, and also as president of Quayle and Associates…Quayle is an honorary Trustee Emeritus of the Hudson Institute…He has also written a nationally syndicated newspaper column, serves on a number of corporate boards and chairs several business ventures...Quayle also was chairman of Campaign America, a national political action committee...Quayle is the only Vice President to have a museum, The Dan Quayle Museum in Huntington, Indiana, which features information on Quayle and all U.S. Vice Presidents. 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