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Pete (nickname)
Pete is a nickname of: * Russell "Pete" Ashbaugh (1921–2009), American football player * Pedro Pete Astudillo (born 1963), Mexican American songwriter * Darrel Pete Brewster (1930–2020), American former National Football League player and coach * Wilson Pete Burness (1904–1969), American animator and animation director, two-time Academy Award winner * Clarence Pete Carpenter (1914–1987), American jazz trombonist, musical arranger and composer for television shows * Charles Pete Conrad, "Pete" Conrad (1930–1999), American naval aviator and astronaut * Richard Pete Cooper (golfer) (1914–1993), American PGA golfer * Ulise Joseph Pete Desjardins (1907–1985), American diver, double gold medalist at the 1928 Olympics * Pietro Pete Domenici (1932–2017), American politician and six-term senator from New Mexico * Pierre S. du Pont IV (1935–2021), American lawyer, politician and former Governor of Delaware * Dee Pete Hart (American football) (born 1933), American football pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell "Pete" Ashbaugh
Russell G. "Pete" Ashbaugh Jr. (May 23, 1921 – August 16, 2009) was an American football standout at the University of Notre Dame who went on to play for the Chicago Rockets in the late 1940s.''The Youngstown Vindicator'', Youngstown, Ohio, November 13, 1977. Ashbaugh gained early recognition as an All-City Gridder at Youngstown's South High School, in 1938, where he quarterbacked under his father, former Brown University gridder Busty Ashbaugh. He went on to play varsity football at Notre Dame both before and after World War II, distinguishing himself as a member of Fighting Irish national championship teams of 1946 and 1947. Ashbaugh's subsequent professional career with the Chicago Rockets was cut short by a knee injury. At the close of his sports career, he joined the Elkhart Brass Company, in Elkhart, Indiana, and eventually rose to the position of chief executive officer. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ashbaugh, Russell 1921 births 2009 deaths American football quart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Morrison
George D. "Pete" Morrison (August 8, 1890 – February 5, 1973) was an American silent western film actor born in Westminster, Colorado. During his childhood he lived in Morrison, Colorado (named for his grandfather George Morrison) and Idaho Springs, and got his early tastes of horsemanship riding with his father Thomas during the summer. They drove cattle and sheep from the summer ranges in Middle Park and Fall River in Colorado to supply beef and mutton to the mining camps of Georgetown, Idaho Springs, Nevadaville, Black Hawk and Central City. During his mid-teens Pete worked in the mining industry, with his older brothers driving in sections of the Argo Tunnel where Pete was a motorman, hoist operator, topside helper, teamster hauler, assisting several of the larger miners in the Idaho Springs area. In the summer of 1910 Pete Morrison was an engine fireman for the Colorado and Southern Railway when he was lured away by the early western movies. Pete began working as a stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Yorn
Peter Joseph Yorn (born July 27, 1974) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He first gained international recognition after his debut record, '' Musicforthemorningafter'', was released to critical and commercial acclaim in 2001. He is known for playing the bulk of the instruments on his records. ''Spin'' magazine, in a career retrospective article dated March 26, 2021, recognized Yorn as one of his generation's best songwriters. Yorn’s 11th full length album, The Hard Way, was released on August 23, 2024. Early life Yorn was born in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, and raised Jewish in Montville, New Jersey, the son of Joan, a former school teacher and real estate agent, and Lawrence K. Yorn, a retired dentist and former Captain in the United States Army. Yorn attended Montville Township High School. Yorn graduated from Syracuse University in 1996. His brother Rick is a major talent manager in Hollywood and was responsible for teaching nine-year-old Pete to play the dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Wentz
Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III (born June 5, 1979) is an American musician who is the bassist and lyricist for the rock band Fall Out Boy. Before the band's formation in 2001, Wentz was a fixture of the Chicago hardcore scene and was the lead singer and songwriter for Arma Angelus, a metalcore band. During Fall Out Boy's hiatus from 2009 to 2012, Wentz formed the Experimental music, experimental, electropop and dubstep group Black Cards. He owns a record label, DCD2 Records, which has signed bands including Panic! at the Disco and Gym Class Heroes. Fall Out Boy returned from hiatus in February 2013, and have since released four albums: ''Save Rock and Roll'', ''American Beauty/American Psycho'', ''Mania (Fall Out Boy album), Mania'', and ''So Much (for) Stardust''. Wentz has also ventured into other non-musical projects, including writing, acting, and fashion; in 2005 he founded a clothing company called Clandestine Industries (Fashion), Clandestine Industries. He hosted season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Tillman
Alonzo Monroe Tillman (May 9, 1922 – March 31, 1998), better known as Pete Tillman, was an American football player and coach. He played college football at the University of Oklahoma from 1946 to 1948 and professionally in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) with the Baltimore Colts in 1949. Tillman served as the head football coach at the Municipal University of Wichita—now Wichita State University —from 1955 to 1956, compiling a record of 11–8–1. Tillman's team won a share of the Missouri Valley Conference championship in 1955 with a record of 7–2–1. Tillman served briefly as an assistant coach at the University of Washington in the spring of 1957. He resigned in April to go into private business in Wichita, Kansas Wichita ( ) is the List of cities in Kansas, most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County, Kansas, Sedgwick County. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Shaw (American Football)
Kenneth Edward "Pete" Shaw (born August 25, 1954) is an American former professional football player who was a safety for eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the San Diego Chargers and the New York Giants. He played college football for the Northwestern Wildcats and was selected in the sixth round of the 1977 NFL draft. Shaw attended Barringer High School.Litsky, Frank"GIANTS' SHAW EAGER TO WORK" ''The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...'', November 27, 1983. Accessed May 19, 2016. "Shaw has had few breakdowns like that, in or out of football. He was born and raised in Newark, where he played for Barringer High School." References External linksNFL.com player page 1954 births Living people Barringer High School alumni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Sampras
Pete Sampras (born August 12, 1971) is an American former professional tennis player. One of the most successful tennis players of all time, he was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 286 weeks (List of ATP number 1 ranked singles players#Weeks at No. 1, third-most of all time), and finished as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles players#Year-end No. 1 players, year-end No. 1 six consecutive times. Sampras won 64 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including 14 men's singles Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors, which was an all-time record at the time of his retirement: seven Wimbledon Championships, two Australian Opens and an Open Era joint-record five US Open (tennis), US Opens. He also won five ATP Finals, Tour Finals, two Grand Slam Cups, eleven ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, Masters events, and was part of the winning United States Davis Cup teams in 1992 Davis Cup, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Runnels
James Edward "Pete" Runnels (January 28, 1928 – May 20, 1991) was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as an infielder for the Washington Senators (1951–57), Boston Red Sox (1958–62) and Houston Colt .45s (1963–64). Runnels was a five-time All-Star player during his tenure with the Red Sox and, is notable for being a two-time American League batting champion. He was inducted into the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2004. Major League playing and coaching career Born in Lufkin, Texas, the , Runnels batted left-handed and threw right-handed. A master at handling the bat, he was a notorious singles hitter who had one of the best eyes in the game, compiling an outstanding 1.35 walk-to-strikeout ratio (844-to-627). Altogether, he batted over .300 six times, once with the Senators, five with the Red Sox. Despite winning the batting title in 1960, he drove in just 35 runs, a record low for a batting title winner. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Rozelle
Alvin Ray "Pete" Rozelle (; March 1, 1926 – December 6, 1996) was an American professional football executive. Rozelle served as the commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) for nearly thirty years, from January 1960 until his retirement in November 1989. He became the youngest commissioner in NFL history at the age of just 33. He is credited with making the NFL into one of the most successful sports leagues in the world. During his tenure, Rozelle saw the NFL grow from 12 teams to 28, oversaw the creation of large television-rights deals and the creation of '' Monday Night Football'' in 1970, oversaw the 1970 AFL–NFL merger and the creation of the Super Bowl, and helped the NFL move from a twelve-game schedule to a sixteen-game schedule. By the time of his retirement, many people considered him the most powerful commissioner in sports. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985. Early life Born in South Gate, California, Rozelle grew up in neighbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Reiser
Harold Patrick Reiser (March 17, 1919 – October 25, 1981), nicknamed "Pistol Pete", was an American professional baseball outfielder and coach, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB), during the 1940s and early 1950s. While known primarily for his time with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Reiser later played for the Boston Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Cleveland Indians. Early career A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Reiser signed with his hometown Cardinals, but at age 19 he was among a group of minor league players declared free agents by Commissioner of Baseball Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Reportedly, Cardinal general manager Branch Rickey—mortified at losing a player of Reiser's caliber—arranged for the Dodgers to sign Reiser, hide him in the minors, then trade him back to St. Louis at a later date. But Reiser's stellar performances in spring training in both 1939 and 1940 forced the Dodgers to keep him. (Rickey would become GM of the Dodgers after the 1942 season and witness ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Rademacher
Thomas Peter Rademacher (November 20, 1928 – June 4, 2020) was an American heavyweight boxer. As an amateur, he was a gold medalist at the 1956 Olympics. Rademacher became the only person to challenge for the world heavyweight championship in his first professional bout when he faced Floyd Patterson in Seattle on August 22, 1957. He compiled a 15-7-1 record over 23 professional bouts. A former college football player at Washington State, Rademacher took up boxing as a form of rehabilitation during his recovery from rheumatic fever, which he contracted in military school. Amateur career In his amateur career, Rademacher won 72 bouts and lost 7. He won a series of tournaments, including the 1949 and 1951–1953 Seattle Golden Gloves (he lost in 1950 to Zora Folley, who was his frequent opponent throughout his boxing career), and the US Amateur Championship as a heavyweight in 1953—avenging his earlier loss to Folley. He captured the Chicago Golden Gloves, the All-Army ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Peterson (baseball)
Harding William "Pete" Peterson (October 17, 1929 – April 16, 2019) was an American professional baseball player and general manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher from 1955 to 1959. During his playing days, he was more commonly known as Hardy Peterson. Biography A graduate of Rutgers University, where he was a full-season starter on the third-place College World Series team in 1950 and second-team College All American that same year, Peterson spent the first three-plus decades of his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates as a minor and MLB player, minor league manager, farm system director and general manager. Playing career A right-handed batter and thrower, he appeared in 65 major league games over four seasons (1955; 1957–59) and batted .273 with three home runs in limited service, due to a two-year stint in Korea with the U.S. Army. Peterson and is also noted for appearing in the historic last games played at both the Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field in Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
