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Edwin Douglas Charles was born on April 29, 1933, in Daytona Beach, Florida. Charles grew up in a poor house in a family of nine children in the segregated south. He suffered the serious conditions of racism but overcame his hardships. Ed was once a school dropout who later educated himself to earning a college degree later in life. His childhood hero was Jackie Robinson whose Brooklyn Dodgers played Spring Training in Charles childhood town. He would follow Robinson out of the ballpark onto the team bus with the other black children in awe of their hero. Quotes-  E d Charles: On seeing the Brooklyn Dodgers train pulling away- “So now we’re walking down the platform, looking in the windows trying to see where Jackie was seated. Finally, we come to the right coach, and there is Jackie, playing cards. We waved and, you know, he waved back to us. Then the train starts pulling out, and we start slowly walking with it, just waving to Jackie. The train picked up speed. We kept

Brent Danem Mayne was born on April 19, 1968, in Loma Linda, California.  Mayne attended Cal State Fullerton where he was an All-American & eventually was inducted in the Orange Coast College Hall of fame. In 1989 the tall six-foot catcher was the Kansas City Royals first round draft pick (13th pick overall) out of California State University. As a catcher he was known as a fine defensive player, with a strong throwing arm who handled pitchers well. MLB Debut: The next season he was brought up to the Royals big league squad for nine games. Mayne would spend six seasons in Kansas City sharing time behind the plate with Mike Macfarlane. Overall, he hit .244 for the Royals with 20 HRs & 205 RBIs in 664 games. In 1991 he batted .251 in 85 games with the Royals  coming in eighth in the Rookie of the Year voting. On August 26th, he was behind the plate for Bret Saberhagen's no hitter against the Chicago White Sox. In 1992 behind the plate, Brent threw out a career best 40% o

Dillon Kyle Gee was born April 28th, 1986, in Cleburne, Texas.  Dillon pitched two no hitters in high school & then went on to a successful college career. The six-foot one right hander attended the University of Texas at Arlington, getting drafted by the New York Mets in the 22nd round in 2007. Gee was 3-1 at Brooklyn in 2007 for the A ball Cyclones getting promoted to St. Lucie in 2008. After going 8-6 there with a 2.92 ERA (5th in the league) he was given the Sterling Award & named to the All-Star team.  That year he also led the Florida State League with the lowest walk rate in the league. He was pushed up to AA Binghamton where he went 2-0 allowing four runs in 18 innings pitched (1.33 ERA). In 2009 he was limited to just nine games due to a torn labrum in his right shoulder. He recuperated well in 2010 going 13-8 for the Bisons with 165 strike outs in 161 innings although he posted a 4.96 ERA. MLB Debut: On September 7th 2010, he made his first major le