Derrek Lee
Lee during his tenure with the Orioles
Free agent
First Baseman
Born: (1975-09-06) September 6, 1975 (age 36) Sacramento, California
Bats: Right	Throws: Right
MLB debut
April 28, 1997 for the San Diego Padres
Career statistics (through 2011 Season)
Batting average	.281
Home runs	331
Runs batted in	1,078
Runs	1,081
Hits	1,959
Teams
San Diego Padres (1997) Florida Marlins (1998–2003) Chicago Cubs (2004–2010) Atlanta Braves (2010) Baltimore Orioles (2011) Pittsburgh Pirates (2011)
Career highlights and awards
World Series Champion (2003) 2× All-Star selection (2005, 2007) 2005 National League batting champion 3× Gold Glove Award winner (2003, 2005, 2007)

Derrek Leon Lee (born September 6, 1975), or "D-Lee", is a Major League Baseball first baseman. Lee has played with the San Diego Padres (1997), the Florida Marlins (1998–2003), Chicago Cubs (2004–2010), Atlanta Braves (2010), Baltimore Orioles (2011) and Pittsburgh Pirates (2011) . He batted and threw right-handed.

Lee was a World Series Champion with Florida in 2003, and he won the National League batting title in 2005. He was a two-time All-Star selection, and won the Gold Glove Award three times.

Early life[link]

Lee was born on September 6, 1975. Leon Lee is his father and Leron Lee is his uncle. Each of them played professional baseball in Japan. During his elementary years Lee lived in Japan, and during his high school years he often lived there during his summer breaks. Lee was born in Sacramento, California. Lee played Little League Baseball at Whitney Little League and graduated from El Camino High School in 1993.

Professional career[link]

San Diego Padres[link]

Lee was drafted in the first round (14th overall) of the 1993 Major League Baseball Draft by the San Diego Padres, and made his major league debut on April 28, 1997.

Florida Marlins[link]

Traded, along with prospects, to the Florida Marlins a year later for Kevin Brown, Lee was a member of the 2003 World Series Marlins championship team. Lee won his first Gold Glove during the 2003 championship season and his spectacular grab and unassisted putout on a hard hit Hideki Matsui one-hop line drive snuffed out a Yankees rally and ended Game 5 of the World Series with a Marlins victory. The Marlins went on the win the World Series in Game 6.

Chicago Cubs[link]

Lee was traded to the Cubs for Hee-seop Choi. He hit .278 with 32 home runs and 98 RBIs in his first year with the Cubs. In 2005, Lee had a career first half of the season, with a MLB-leading .376 batting average, 72 RBIs, and a tie for the major league lead in home runs with 27.

The Cubs had traded superstar Sammy Sosa, who had previously been one of their best hitters, before the 2005 season. Lee showed early on that he could more than compensate for the loss, and while Sosa had a disappointing 2005 season with the Baltimore Orioles, Lee had a career year. By midseason, he was among MLB's leaders in each of the triple crown categories: batting average, home runs, and RBIs. Lee hit his 200th career home run on August 28, 2005, off Florida Marlins starter Josh Beckett. He finished the year with a career-best 46 HR. His .335 batting average was the highest by a Cub since Bill Madlock's .339 in 1976 and made him the first Cub since Bill Buckner in 1980 to win a National League batting title.

Lee was named to the U.S. roster for the 2006 World Baseball Classic, where he was the first player to hit a home run for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic.

On April 10, 2006, Lee signed a five-year, $65 million extension with the Chicago Cubs.^[1] The deal replaced his contract for the 2006 season and extended him as the Cubs' first baseman through the 2010 season and included a no-trade clause. He broke his wrist less than two weeks later, in a collision involving baserunner Rafael Furcal, and he missed 59 games due to the injury. The Cubs posted a 19–40 record during Lee's stint on the disabled list. Later, Lee went back on the disabled list with a post-traumatic inflammation in the outer bone of the medial side of the wrist.

Lee takes the field.

In 2008, Lee hit 20 home runs, 90 RBIs and had a .291 batting average as the Cubs had the best regular-season record in the National League. In 2009, Lee ranked ninth in the voting for NL MVP, as he had a .306 batting average, and hit for 35 home runs and 111 RBIs, though the Cubs did not qualify for the NL playoffs.

On June 9, 2010, Lee hit his 300th career home run in a game against the Milwaukee Brewers.

On June 25, 2010, Lee was involved in a dugout altercation with Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano after the pitcher gave up four runs in the first inning and apparently blamed Lee for failing to field a sharply-hit lead-off double. Zambrano was suspended for his behavior.

Atlanta Braves[link]

Lee playing for the Braves.

In late July 2010 Lee used his ten and five rights to veto a trade to the Los Angeles Angels.^[2] On August 18, 2010, Lee, with his approval, was traded to the Atlanta Braves for minor league pitching prospects Robinson Lopez, Tyrelle Harris, and Jeffrey Lorick.^[3] Lee began to serve as the Braves' starting first baseman on August 20, 2010, including postseason play in the NLDS.

Baltimore Orioles[link]

Lee was signed from free agency to a one year contract with the Baltimore Orioles for the 2011 season.^[4] He played in 85 games with the struggling Orioles, batting .246 with 12 home runs and 41 runs batted in.

Pittsburgh Pirates[link]

On July 30, 2011, Lee was traded to the Pirates for minor league Class A first baseman Aaron Baker and cash considerations.^[5] Lee hit two home runs in his first game as a Pirate. He was hit by a pitch and broke a bone in his left wrist on August 3, and missed most of the next month, but then finished the season productively as the Pittsburgh first baseman. Playing in 28 games as a Pirate in 2011, Lee batted .337 with 7 home runs and 18 RBIs.

Personal life[link]

Lee is the son of Leon Lee. Leon never played in the Major League, but did play professionally in Japan. Today, he is a scout for Major League Baseball and, coincidentally, he was the scout who "found" Hee-Seop Choi who was later traded for his son. Lee is the nephew of former Major League outfielder Leron Lee, who played eight seasons with the St.Louis Cardinals, Dodgers, Indians, and Padres. Currently, he works with the Cincinnati Reds as an advising batting coach to scouted players.

Project 3000[link]

In September 2006, Lee's three-year-old daughter Jada was diagnosed with Leber's congenital amaurosis, a rare genetic disease resulting in loss of vision. Lee and Boston Celtics co-owner and CEO Wyc Grousbeck with the University of Iowa established Project 3000 in an effort to eradicate the disease, which affects both their families. Lee guest starred in an episode of NBC's drama series ER, "Gravity", which was first broadcast in October 2007. Lee agreed to the brief appearance because the producers of ER aired an episode in January 2008 that deals with Leber's congenital amaurosis. Lee's efforts to raise awareness and funds for research into the condition have helped to raise over $1,000,000 of additional research funds. An eventual cure for the disease depends greatly on getting data on patients and Lee's support has had a significant impact both in fundraising and testing patients who have the disease.

In 2009 Lee revealed that Jada had been misdiagnosed and does not have the disease, but Lee continues to be active in raising money for Project 3000.^[6]

1st Touch Foundation[link]

The 1st Touch Foundation was established in 2005 by Lee and his wife as a vehicle to encourage and support the educational aspirations of the community's young people. The initial vision was to build The 1st Touch Academic Youth Center in Sacramento, CA. In 2009, Lee unveiled a cabernet wine called CaberLee through Charity Wines where 100% of the proceeds will benefit the 1st Touch Foundation.^[7]

See also[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Derrek Lee

• List of top 300 Major League Baseball home run hitters
• List of Major League Baseball batting champions
• List of Major League Baseball doubles champions

References[link]

External links[link]

• Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
• Derrek Lee stolen base, home run photos 08/28/2005

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Entertainment[link]

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Derek Lee Ragin (born June 17, 1958) is an American countertenor.^[1]

Early life[link]

Derek Ragin was born in West Point, New York and grew up in Newark, New Jersey. He began his formal voice training with the Newark Boys Chorus, and studied as a piano and music education major at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. While at Oberlin, he also took secondary voice lessons with Richard Anderson, and began his operatic career at Oberlin in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream as Oberon.^[1] After leaving Oberlin, Ragin worked with singer Max van Egmond for a summer session at BPI and went to Europe to pursue his career in Baroque opera.^[2]

Career[link]

Derek Lee Ragin made his London recital debut at Wigmore Hall in 1984. This was followed by a debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1988 in George Frideric Handel's Giulio Cesare, a recital at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1991, and a performance at the Salzburg Festival in Christoph Willibald Gluck's Orfeo with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra in 1990.

For the soundtrack of the 1994 film Farinelli, his voice was electronically blended with that of soprano Ewa Malas-Godlewska to recreate the famous castrato's voice.^[3]

Discography[link]

Derek Lee Ragin has recorded extensively for the Telarc, Philips, EMI, Erato and Capriccio labels, including Italian lute songs, G.F. Handel cantatas, and a disc of spirituals entitled Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit. His recording of Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and the world premiere of the composer's Missa Brevis with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Robert Shaw won a Grammy Award, and his recording of Giulio Cesare with Concerto Köln received a Gramophone Award in 1992. Farinelli, the film about the 18th century castrato won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film in 1995, and the soundtrack won the Golden Record award the following year in Cannes.^[4]

Awards[link]

Ragin won the 1983 Purcell-Britten Prize for Concert Singers in England, the Prix Spécial du Jury du Grand Prix Lyrique de Monte Carlo in 1988, and First Prize at the 35th International Music Competition in Munich in 1986.^[4]

References[link]

External links[link]

• The official site
• Derek Lee Ragin sings "A dispetto d'un volto ingrato," from Handel's Tamerlano
• Excerpt from Farinelli

Isaac Lidsky (born July 30, 1979) is a lawyer and former child actor. As a law clerk for Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2008-09, he became the first blind US Supreme Court clerk.^[1]

Lidsky came to fame acting in the role of Weasel on Saved by the Bell: The New Class. He later was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa. After he gave up acting, he studied Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Harvard College, graduating with honors in June 1999. In July that year he founded Poindexter Systems, an Internet advertising company, with his brother-in-law Joe Zawadzki and his friend Ted Shergalis.^[2] Lidsky left Poindexter in June 2001 and started studying law at Harvard Law School in Fall 2001. Lidsky was the first student to be named a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law. He graduated magna cum laude in 2004. After law school, Isaac clerked for Judge Thomas Ambro on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He then joined the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division of the Justice Department. In 2.5 years in that position, Isaac argued more than 12 cases on behalf of the U.S. government in federal courts of appeal.

In May 2009, he was named one of four "Temple Bar Scholars" by the American Inns of Court. In that capacity, he will spend a month in London representing the American legal profession as he is exposed to the British legal system and community.

He is currently the CEO of an up and coming construction firm that focuses on the Central Florida area.

Lidsky is the head of Hope For Vision ^[3]

Lidsky lives with his wife, Dorothy (Johnston) Lidsky, whom he married in 2004.^[3][4] In September 2010, they had triplets, two boys and one girl.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Isaac Lidsky at the Internet Movie Database
• Former Child Star Now a SCOTUS Clerk (MSNBC)

Theoharis interviewing former Baltimore Oriole Aubrey Huff in 2009.

Amber Theoharis (born September 13, 1978) is a reporter for MASN, a sports talk radio host for WHFS, and since late 2011 is a sports reporter for WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland.^[1]

Theoharis's duties for MASN include hosting Ravens Xtra with Wally Williams and Bruce Laird and Playmakers, and reporting during Orioles telecasts. In 2011, instead of covering the Baltimore Orioles team on a day-to-day basis and providing live reports during and after games, she'll be focusing on interviews and features for the network's "Mid-Atlantic Sports Report," blogging regularly and filling in for sportscaster Jim Hunter alongside Rick Dempsey on the "O's Extra" pre- and post-game shows when Hunter shifts into the booth for play-by-play.

She also hosts a sports talk show called The A-List on WHFS 105.7 Baltimore and is a columnist for PressBox.^[2]

Theoharis was named Baltimore's most eligible bachelorette by Forbes.^[3]

Theoharis started her media career in Salisbury, Maryland at WBOC news.^{[citation needed]}

References[link]

External links[link]

• Orioles broadcasters

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