What actor played Lucas McCain and also played in both Major League Baseball and in the National Basketball Association?
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Lucas McCain Lucas McCain is a fictional character in the Western television series, "The Rifleman", which ran on ABC from 1958 to 1963. A rancher and widowed father with a penchant for using his Winchester firearm as a last resort, the part was portrayed by former athlete-turned-actor Chuck Connors.
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Chuck Connors Kevin Joseph Aloysius “Chuck” Connors (April 10, 1921 – November 10, 1992) was an American actor, writer and professional basketball and baseball player. He is one of only 12 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played both Major League Baseball and in the National Basketball Association. With a 40-year film and television career, he is best known for his five-year role as Lucas McCain in the highly rated ABC series "The Rifleman" (1958–63).
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Sam Bowie Samuel Paul Bowie (born March 17, 1961) is a former American professional basketball player. A national sensation in high school and outstanding collegian, Bowie's professional promise was undermined by repeated injuries to his legs and feet. In spite of the setbacks, the 7 ft and 235 lb center played ten seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Sean Maloney (baseball) Sean Patrick Maloney (born May 25, 1971) was a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers from 1997-1998.
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Patriot Field Patriot Field is a baseball field located in Dallas, Texas, United States and was home to the Dallas Baptist Patriots baseball team from 1983-2012. The venue was finished in the summer of 1983 and has had many improvements done through the years since its inception. The field has also made a cameo appearance in Chuck Norris' "The President's Man," a made-for-TV movie, for CBS in 2001. The Texas Longhorns baseball team, featured in the film, used it as their fictitious "home field."
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Lucas Grabeel Lucas Stephen Grabeel ( ; born November 23, 1984) is an American actor, director, producer, singer and songwriter. He is best known for roles such as Ryan Evans in the "High School Musical" film series, as Ezra Chase in The Adventures of Food Boy (2008) and as Ethan Dalloway in the third and fourth installments of the Halloweentown series: "Halloweentown High" (2004) and "Return to Halloweentown" (2006). He also appeared as a young Lex Luthor and Conner Kent in the television series "Smallville". He played Toby Kennish in the ABC Family/Freeform drama "Switched at Birth". He provides the voice of Deputy Peck in the Disney Junior TV series "Sheriff Callie's Wild West".
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Johnny Edwards (baseball) John Alban Edwards (born June 10, 1938) is an American former professional baseball player. He played as a catcher in Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Reds (1961–67), St. Louis Cardinals (1968) and Houston Astros (1969–74). Known for his excellent defensive skills, Edwards was a three-time All-Star and a two-time National League Gold Glove Award winner.
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John Simmons (baseball) John Earl "Johnny" Simmons (July 7, 1924 – August 1, 2008) was a professional baseball and basketball player. In baseball, he was an outfielder in Major League Baseball and played for the Washington Senators in 1949. In basketball, he played for the Boston Celtics (BAA), Troy Celtics (ABL), and Schenectady Packers (NYSPL). He was the brother of professional basketball player Connie Simmons.
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Josh A. Moore Josh Moore (born November 16, 1980 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American professional basketball player and actor. Moore played his professional basketball in the NBA for the Los Angeles Clippers, in China and Iran. He played college basketball for the Michigan Wolverines and is known for his scoring ability. Moore was listed at 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m), 317 lb (144 kg), and is a cousin of NBA Star Shaquille O'Neal.
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Bing Russell Bing Russell (May 5, 1926 – April 8, 2003) was an American actor and Class A minor league baseball club owner. He was the father of Golden Globe Award-nominated actor Kurt Russell and grandfather of ex-major league baseball player Matt Franco.
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Gary Holman (baseball) Gary Richard Holman (born January 25, 1944 in Long Beach, California) is a retired American professional baseball player. A first baseman and outfielder, he appeared in 116 games over two seasons (1968–69) in Major League Baseball for the Washington Senators. Holman threw and batted left-handed, stood 6 ft tall and weighed 200 lb .
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Little Big League Little Big League is a 1994 American family sports film about a 12-year-old who suddenly becomes the owner and then manager of the Minnesota Twins baseball team. It stars Luke Edwards, Timothy Busfield, and Dennis Farina. This film and Disney's "Angels in the Outfield" were both released just over a month before the 1994 MLB Baseball Players Strike, which forced the league to cancel the playoffs and the World Series. Both indeed feature fictional playoff races that never would have been played out in real life.
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Mike Donlin Michael Joseph Donlin (May 30, 1878 – September 24, 1933) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder and actor. As a professional baseball player, his MLB career spanned from 1899 to 1914 in which he played mainly in the National League for seven teams over 12 seasons. His most notable time was with the New York Giants, where he starred in the outfield for John McGraw's 1904 pennant winners and 1905 World Series champions. One of the finest hitters of the dead-ball era, his .333 career batting average ranks 28th all time and he finished in the top three in batting five times. In each of those same seasons, he also finished in the top ten in the league in on-base percentage, slugging percentage, and home runs.
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Cotton Knaupp Henry Antone "Cotton" Knaupp (August 13, 1889 – July 6, 1967) was a Major League Baseball player. A shortstop during his major league career, Knaupp batted from the right side and threw with his right hand. He had a listed height of 5 ft , and a listed weight of 165 pounds.
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Marco Lopez (actor) Marco Antonio Lopez (born September 10, 1935), also credited as Marco Antonio, Antonio Lopez, and Marco Lopez, is an American actor who was known for his roles in Irwin Allen's "The Poseidon Adventure", Jack Webb-produced television series, such as "Adam-12", where he played the recurring character of Officer Sanchez, "Emergency!" starring as himself, and "Dragnet", where he was credited as Marco Antonio, and was the stand in for Webb on long shots. His first Hollywood job was as a stand-in for Elvis Presley in the 1956 movie "Love Me Tender".
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John Kirby (baseball) John F. Kirby (January 13, 1865 in St. Louis, Missouri – October 6, 1931 in St. Louis, Missouri) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played all or part of five seasons in the majors, from 1884 -1888 , for the Kansas City Cowboys of the Union Association and St. Louis Maroons, Indianapolis Hoosiers, Cleveland Blues and Kansas City Cowboys of the American Association.
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Brian Jordan Brian O'Neal Jordan (born March 29, 1967) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and National Football League safety. In the NFL, he played for the Atlanta Falcons, while he played in the MLB for the St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Texas Rangers.
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Nate Freiman Nathan Samuel Freiman (born December 31, 1986) is an American professional baseball first baseman for the Pericos de Puebla of the Mexican Baseball League. He is 6 ft tall, weighs 250 lbs , and bats and throws right-handed. In 2013, baseball writer Tim Brown wrote, "Near as anyone can tell, there's never been a taller major-league position player than Freiman."
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Blue Edwards Theodore "Blue" Edwards (born October 31, 1965) is a retired American professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Edwards played ten years in the league.
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List of The Rifleman episodes "The Rifleman" is an American Western television program that starred Chuck Connors as homesteader Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. The series was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory and was filmed in black-and-white with a half hour running time. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television.
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George Crowe George Daniel Crowe (March 22, 1921 – January 18, 2011) was a Major League first baseman. He attended Franklin High School in Franklin, Indiana, graduated from Indiana Central College, now the University of Indianapolis, in 1943 and played baseball and basketball. He was the first Indiana "Mr. Basketball". He was a first baseman with a nine-year career from 1952–1953, 1955–1961 and played for the Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves, Cincinnati Redlegs and St. Louis Cardinals (all of the National League). Crowe hit 31 home runs in 1957, filling in most of the season for the injured Ted Kluszewski.
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Maurice Lucas Maurice Lucas (February 18, 1952 – October 31, 2010) was an American professional basketball player. The first two years of his postcollegiate career were spent in the American Basketball Association (ABA) with the Spirits of St. Louis and Kentucky Colonels. He then played twelve seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Portland Trail Blazers, New Jersey Nets, New York Knickerbockers, Phoenix Suns, Los Angeles Lakers and Seattle SuperSonics. The starting power forward on the Trail Blazers' 1976–77 NBA Championship team, he was nicknamed The Enforcer because of his primary role on the court which was best exemplified in Game 2 of the NBA Finals that season.