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Brian Jordan
Brian Jordan is one of seven men who have played major-league baseball and NFL football since 1970.1 Although Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders are better known for having accomplished the feat, Jordan’s 1,456 MLB games played are the most by any NFL player. In addition, Jordan played outstanding outfield defense. His career mark of 163 Total Zone Runs as an outfielder is the seventh-best all time. Jordan was an All-Star for the Atlanta Braves in 1999 and made his only World Series appearance in the Braves’ loss to the Yankees that year. After retiring from baseball in 2006, Jordan earned an Emmy Award for his work as an analyst for Fox Sports South.2 Virginia, Georgia, and Missouri have inducted Jordan into their state Halls of Fame.3
Brian O’Neal Jordan was born on March 29, 1967, in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the third child (twin siblings Deric and Felicia are two years older) of Alvin and Betty (née Graves) Jordan.4 Alvin, who worked in a steel mill, and Betty, a teacher, instilled a strong moral code and work ethic in all three children. They provided an excelle
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Brian Jordan Alvarez
American actor and filmmaker (born 1987)
Brian Jordan Alvarez (born July 9, 1987)[1][2] is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is best known for creating and starring in the FX comedy series English Teacher.[3] He is also known for his original songs, recurring roles as Estéfan in Will & Grace (2018–2020) and Wesley in Jane the Virgin (2015–2016), appearances in such films as M3GAN and 80 for Brady, and his own self-produced films and series, most notably his 2016 web series The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo.[4]
Early life
Alvarez was born in Manhattan, New York City to Paul Jordan and Angela Jordan Alvarez, an electrical engineer and Spanish instructor, respectively.[5][6] He has a sister, Catalina.[6] He is of Colombian descent matrilineally and has roots from the American South from the other side of his family. He speaks Spanish fluently.[6][7]
He spent his childhood in Winchester, Tennessee,[7] where he began act
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He remembers it as if was yesterday: The clubhouse meeting called by the veteran catcher. The maddening spring of a club trying to adjust to a new manager. The sense that everything was going off the rails.
There Brian Jordan was in 1996, his fourth season in the big leagues with the St. Louis Cardinals, and wanting to do something to change the narrative.
No way had he given up his National Football League career to hang out in the middle of the National League standings. He had come too far for that – from the rough sandlots of Baltimore, from rejecting an offer to play NCAA Division I football and from using an exhibition between his college and the local Triple-A club to enhance his stock.
“I was one of those guys that played with emotion. So I decided I was going to get the fans pumped up – doing the unthinkable, like going first to third,” Jordan said. “After that meeting, I put it on myself to pick up the team.”
Jordan certainly helped power a turnaround that put the Cardinals on the brink of the World Series that season, kick-starting a 20-year golden era fo
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