Ian M. Desmond (born September 20, 1985 in Sarasota, Florida) is a shortstop for the Washington Nationals . He was selected by the Montreal Expos in the third round of the 2004 Major League Baseball Draft and signed on June 16.

Desmond was named the 19th best prospect and the best defensive shortstop in the South Atlantic League by Baseball America at the end of 2005.

Desmond batted .227 with one home run and 27 RBIs for the Gulf Coast League Expos in 2004. He was second in the Gulf Coast League with 216 at-bats and fifth in stolen bases with 13. He had a .250 batting average with one home run and one RBI in four games for Class-A Short-Season Vermont Expos.

In 2005 Desmond batted .247 with four home runs and 23 RBIs in 73 games for Class-A Savannah Sand Gnats. He added a career-high 20 stolen bases. Desmond had a .256 batting average with three home runs and 15 RBIs in 55 games for the Class-A Advanced Potomac Nationals. At seasons end was named the best defensive shortstop in the South Atlantic League in Baseball America's top tools survey of league managers. He ranked 19th best prospect in the SAL by Baseball America.

Bryce Aron Max Harper (born October 16, 1992) is an American professional baseball outfielder with the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball. Harper was selected by the Nationals with the first overall pick in the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft. He stands at 6 feet 3 inches and weighs 225 lbs.

Harper won the 2010 Golden Spikes Award, awarded annually to the best amateur baseball player. Going into the 2012 season, baseball prospect-watchers, including Baseball America, MLB.com, and Baseball Prospectus routinely ranked Harper as a top #3 prospect. He made his MLB debut with the Nationals on April 28, 2012.

Harper earned his General Educational Development after his sophomore year at Las Vegas High School in December 2009, making him eligible for the June 2010 amateur draft in order to begin his professional baseball career earlier. For the 2010 college season, 17-year-old Harper enrolled at the College of Southern Nevada of the Scenic West Athletic Conference (SWAC) in National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA). An advantage for Harper in his eventual transition to his professional career was that the SWAC, like MLB, uses wooden bats in conference play. In 66 games, he hit 31 home runs, 98 RBI, hitting .443/.526/.987 (AVG/OBP/SLG). His 31 home runs shattered the school's previous record of 12. He was named the 2010 SWAC Player of the Year. The next day, in a doubleheader, he went 2-for-5 with a three-run double in the first game, and in the second game went 6-for-6 with 4 home runs, a triple, and a double.

Tyler Lee Clippard (born February 14, 1985) is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Washington Nationals.

Clippard was drafted in the 9th round of the 2003 MLB Draft by the New York Yankees out of J. W. Mitchell High School. He was playing for the Central Florida Renegades Connie Mack team in Florida when he was drafted.

From 2003-2006, in the minor leagues, he averaged 7.5 hits, 2 walks, and 10 strikeouts per 9 innings for Yankees' farm teams. While playing for the Trenton Thunder in 2006, Clippard threw the franchise's first no-hitter.

Clippard was called up from the Yankees minor league team the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees on May 20, 2007, and made his debut that day. It was an interleague game against the New York Mets, and he pitched 6 innings, giving up 1 run off the bat of David Wright and 3 hits. He struck out his first major league batter, José Reyes, on three pitches. He recorded his first career hit in his second at-bat off Mets pitcher Scott Schoeneweis, a double to right center in the 6th inning.

Johnny Holliday is an American radio sportscaster and a former top 40 radio disc jockey. He has been the "voice" of the Maryland Terrapins football and basketball teams since 1979. He has previously worked as a radio disc jockey in Cleveland, New York City, and San Francisco. He was born John Holliday Bobbitt on October 15, 1937.

During his time at top 40 giant KYA in San Francisco in the late 1960s, Holliday also broadcast local college athletics on radio and television.

Holliday was the announcer of the NBC musical variety shows Hullabaloo and The Roger Miller Show in the 1960s. He was the announcer on ABC's This Week with David Brinkley, Sam Donaldson, and Cokie Roberts. Holliday was featured on the CBS series Good Morning, World. He has also starred in more than thirty stage performances and was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for best actor in a Washington, D.C. musical for his role in Me and My Girl. In 1965 he was named America's number one disc jockey by the Bill Gavin Radio "Gavin Report." In 2010, The Maryland Daily Record named Holliday one of its "60 Influential Marylanders."The Washington Post columnist Leonard Shapiro named Holliday as his all-time best Washington sports radio broadcaster since 1970. Johnny is currently co-host of the syndicated "Catholic Radio Weekly" with Carol Lehan.

Anthony Michael Rendon (born June 6, 1990) is an American baseball infielder for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball. Rendon played college baseball for the Rice University Owls, where he won the 2010 Dick Howser Trophy. Rendon was selected sixth overall in the 2011 Major League Baseball Draft by the Nationals.

Rendon is the second son of Rene and Bridget Rendon. His parents say Rendon started playing baseball at a very early age; hitting pine cones with sticks as early as the age of three. Rendon grew up on the southwest side of Houston and excelled academically and in sports. He was a star basketball player, track athlete and baseball player at Hodges Bend Middle School. For the first two and a half years of high school, Rendon attended George Bush High School, before transferring to Lamar High School. As a senior he was a first team 5A all-state shortstop and an All-Greater Houston selection by the Houston Chronicle after he hit .570 with eight home runs, 17 doubles, 56 Runs batted in, 56 runs scored and 13 stolen bases. Out of high school, Rendon was drafted in the 27th round of the Major League Baseball Draft by the Atlanta Braves. He turned down their signing bonus to play for Rice University and head coach Wayne Graham.