Adam Kennedy

Adam Thomas Kennedy (born January 10, 1976) is an American former Major League Baseball second baseman. He played for the Oakland Athletics, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Washington Nationals, Seattle Mariners, Los Angeles Dodgers and had two stints with the St. Louis Cardinals.

Early years

Kennedy was born in Riverside, California. He attended J.W. North High School in Riverside, playing baseball and basketball. He is the son of Tom Kennedy, who teaches Health at North High School.

He attended Cal State Northridge, where he played shortstop for the Matador baseball squad. He set school records in career hits, RBI and batting average and was a three-time All-American. He led the nation in hits as a sophomore and junior.

Playing career

St. Louis Cardinals

Kennedy was drafted in the first round (twentieth overall) by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1997 MLB Draft. In 1999 with the Memphis Redbirds he hit .327 with 10 home runs and 63 RBI. He was selected as a Pacific Coast League All-Star, Baseball America first-team Minor League All-Star and Triple-A All-Star

Adam Kennedy (footballer)

Adam Kennedy (born 12 July 1992) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League (AFL).

He was recruited from the Western Jets in the TAC Cup prior to the 2011 AFL Draft as one of the new club's selections of players who had previously nominated for the draft. Kennedy made his AFL debut in Round 1 of the 2012 AFL season against Sydney.

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Adam Kennedy (disambiguation)

Adam Kennedy is a retired baseball player.

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Adam Kennedy (programmer)

Adam Kennedy is an Australian Perl programmer, and one of several CPAN administrators. Under his CPAN author id of ADAMK, he is the maintainer of over 200 module distributions on CPAN, which places him at the top of the CPAN contribution leaderboard. Kennedy is the first maintainer of more than 200 CPAN modules, many of which he has adopted from other authors and included in his Open Repository, which is available for use by any registered CPAN author. He is a frequent presenter at open source conferences such as OSDC, OSCON, and YAPC as well as the Perl QA hackathons.

Kennedy has developed some significant modules for the Perl programming language, particularly in the area of tools to improve the development and build toolchain such as PPI (a Perl parser), CPAN::Metrics (generate metrics on the 16 m+ lines of code in CPAN), Portable Perl (aka "Perl on a Stick") and Padre (a Perl IDE). He has also been a strong advocate of platform equality for Perl on Windows, and started both the Win32 Perl Wiki and the Strawberry Perl distribution for Windows.

Adam Kennedy (American football)

Adam Kennedy (born May 11, 1991) is an American football quarterback for the Tampa Bay Storm of the Arena Football League (AFL). He was invited to mini-camp with the Chicago Bears as an undrafted free agent in 2014. He played college football at Arkansas State University after transferring out of Utah State University and San Joaquin Delta College.

College career

College career statistics

Professional career

New Orleans VooDoo

After failing to make the Chicago Bears following their mini-camp, Kennedy was assigned to the New Orleans VooDoo of the Arena Football League. In his first week with the team, he beat out fellow rookie, Brian Hudson, to become the VooDoo starting quarterback. Kennedy started the final 7 games for the VooDoo, leading them to a 1–6 recording during that time. In September 2014, the VooDoo picked up Kennedy's rookie option to retain him for the 2015 season.

Tampa Bay Storm

On December 7, 2015, Kennedy was assigned to the Tampa Bay Storm.

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Adam Kennedy (actor)

Adam Kennedy (March 10, 1922 – October 16, 1997) was an American actor, screenwriter, novelist, and painter, who starred as the Irish-American newspaper editor Dion Patrick in thirty-seven episodes during the first season, 1957–1958, of NBC's western television series, The Californians. Set in the San Francisco, California, of the 1850s, Patrick in the story line works with the vigilantes to restore order from the unrest created by the miners, the Forty-Niners.

Early years

Originally from Otterbein near Lafayette, Indiana, Kennedy graduated from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. He studied acting under Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan.

Kennedy's first acting role, though uncredited was at the age of thirty-three as Yip Ryan, a United States Army pilot in the 1955 film, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell. The film also starred Gary Cooper as Billy Mitchell and Dayton Lummis as General Douglas MacArthur.

In 1956 and 1957, he appeared in three episodes of the religion anthology series, Crossroads: as Don in "God's Healing", as Ed Buckley in "Paratroop Padre", and as Art Jackson in the series finale, "Half Mile Down". During this same period of time, Kennedy was cast as Benton in the episode "In a Small Motel" on the Chevron Hall of Stars and in "Outpost" on the H.J. Heinz Company's Studio 57.

Adam (given name)

Adam is a common masculine given name.

The personal name Adam derives from the Hebrew noun ha adamah meaning "the ground" or "earth". It is still a Hebrew given name, and its Quranic and Biblical usage has ensured that it is also a common name in all countries which draw on these traditions. It is particularly common in Christian- and Muslim-majority countries. In most languages its spelling is the same, although the pronunciation varies somewhat. Adán is the Spanish form of this name.

Adam is also a surname in many countries, although it is not as common in English as its derivative Adams (sometimes spelled Addams). In other languages there are similar surnames derived from Adam, such as Adamo, Adamov, Adamowicz, Adamski etc.

In Arabic, Adam (آدم) means "made from the earth/mud/clay".

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