Ralph Terry

New York Yankees Pitcher

Career Highlights:

Played in the Majors for 12 seasons (1956-67) with the Yankees, Kansas City and Cleveland...Star pitcher for the Yankees from 1959 to 1964...Named the 1962 World Series MVP...Posted a 25-12 record in 1962, the most victories by a Yankee right-hander since 1904...Recorded an overall big-league record of 107-99 with 1,000 strike-outs...Played on seven pennant winning teams during his career ('56, '57, '60, '61, '62, ‘63, '64--all with the Yankees)...Played in several Senior PGA Tour events in the 1990's.

Mickey Tettleton

Major League All Star

Career Highlights:

This veteran of 14 years in the Majors played as an outfielder, catcher, and designated hitter...His distinguished career included stints with Oakland, Baltimore, Detroit and Texas...Two-time American League All-Star...Recorded four 30-homer seasons in a five-year span...Batted .241 during his career with 732 RBIs and 949 walks in 1,485 games...Finished his career ranked eighth in Major League history in career homers by a switch hitter with 245...Three times he switch-hit home runs in a single game...Recorded six career Major League grand slams...Elected to Oklahoma's All-Century Team.

Celebrity Golf Accomplishments:

Secured three top-20 finishes out of seven starts during 2003 season
Best finish was runner-up at the 2003 Mohegan Sun CPT Team Championship (with partner Davey Johnson)

Gorman Thomas

All Star Major Leaguer

Career Highlights:

Played 13 years in Major League Baseball as an outfielder, shortstop and designated hitter...Twice led the American League in home runs (1979 and 1982)...From 1978 to 1982, he hit more runs than anyone in baseball...Five times during his career he hit over 32 home runs in a season...Played on the American League champion Milwaukee Brewers in 1982...Was named the American League Comeback Player of the Year in 1985...Two-time American League All-Star...Originally planned to attend Florida State on a football scholarship but was drafted as a shortstop by the Seattle Pilots as their #1 pick in the June, 1969 draft...Named one of South Carolina's Athletes of the Century by Sports Illustrated...Elected to the South Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.

Celebrity Golf Accomplishments:
Winner of the 2004 Celebrity Champions Classic (with partner Al Del Greco)
Secured four top-20 finishes out of seven starts during 2003 season
Claimed his second career hole-in-one (and a $50,000 check from Maxfli) on the 16th hole of the 1999 CPT National Pro-Am Championship in Harbor Springs, Mich.

James Thornton

NFL Tight End

Drafted by the Chicago Bears in the fourth round in 1988...Started at tight end under Mike Ditka for five seasons...Also played with the New York Jets and the Houston Oilers...Won the Brian Piccolo Award during his rookie season with the Bears for exemplifying the courage, loyalty, teamwork, dedication and sense of humor displayed by Piccolo...Suffered an eye injury while with Houston Oilers and was forced to retire...Earned All-American honors at while attending Cal State-Fullerton...Named to the All-Strength Team in both college and the NFL with a bench press of almost 600 pounds.

Kelly Tripucka

NBA All Star Forward

Career Highlights:

Top NBA draft pick of the Detroit Pistons in 1981...Earned two All-Star selections (1982 an 1984)...Set Pistons' all-time single-game scoring record of 56 points...NBA career also included stints with the Utah Jazz and the Charlotte Hornets...Scored over 12,000 career points...Three-time All-American at Notre Dame...Current broadcaster for the New Jersey Nets and various college basketball games...Voted the New Jersey High School Basketball Player of the Century...Member of the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame.