Jack Billingham

John Eugene (Jack) Billingham (born February 21, 1943) is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1968), Houston Astros (1969–1971), Cincinnati Reds (1972–1977), Detroit Tigers (1978–1980) and Boston Red Sox (1980). Nicknamed "Cactus Jack", the 6-foot-4 hurler won at least 10 games for 10 consecutive seasons, and he helped lead Cincinnati's legendary "Big Red Machine" to back-to-back World Series titles in 1975 and 1976. He batted and threw right-handed. Billingham is the cousin of Christy Mathewson.

Career

Billingham proved to be one of baseball's greatest World Series pitchers. In seven games (including three starts) for Cincinnati, he went 2–0 with a 0.36 earned run average (ERA), allowing just one earned run in 25¹⁄₃ innings pitched. Billingham came to the Reds in one of baseball's biggest trades. The Reds sent Lee May, Tommy Helms and Jimmy Stewart to the Astros for Billingham, Joe Morgan, Denis Menke, César Gerónimo, and (then minor leaguer) Ed Armbrister prior to the 1972 season.

Jack Billingham (footballer)

John "Jack" Billingham (3 December 1914 – 7 October 1981), was an English professional footballer who played as a centre forward. During his career he represented Northampton Town, Bristol City, Burnley, Carlisle United and Southport in the Football League, playing more than 300 matches in total. He also served with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

Career

Billingham started his football career in 1935 as an outside forward with Northampton Town, where he made three league appearances before joining Bristol City two years later. He spent one season with the club and played seven league matches as the team finished as runners-up in the Third Division South. In May 1938, Billingham signed for Second Division side Burnley on a free transfer. He made his debut for the Lancashire club in the 1–0 defeat away at Tottenham Hotspur on 27 December 1938. During his time at Burnley, he was converted from an outside right to a centre forward. He scored seven goals in fourteen matches for the club before play was suspended in England following the outbreak of the Second World War.

Billingham

Coordinates: 54°37′N 1°16′W / 54.61°N 1.27°W / 54.61; -1.27

Billingham is a town in Teesside in the unitary authority of Stockton on Tees, in North East England, with a population of 35,765 (2006),decreasing slightly to 35,165 at the 2011 Census. It was founded circa 650 by a group of Saxons known as Billa's people, which is where the name Billingham is thought to have originated. In modern history, the chemical industry, and in particular the company ICI, has played an important role in the growth of Billingham.

Today ICI no longer operates in Billingham, although other chemical companies are working in the area. Following the fragmentation and ultimate loss of the chemicals conglomerate, ICI, the Billingham Chemical Industrial park became a multi-company facility. The chemical,biotechnology and engineering companies that continue to operate at Billingham are members of the Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC). They include GrowHow, Johnson Matthey, FujiFilm Diosynth Biologics and Fruitarom. Other members of the NEPIC Cluster operate from the 62 acre Belasis Business Park in Billingham such as Cambridge Research Biochemicals, ABB Group and Biochemica. Growhow not only manufacture fertilisers & industrial chemicals in Bilingham they also capture the CO₂ for use in the food & drink industry. Tomatoes are grown in Billingham by North Bank Growers using the recoverable energy from the Billingham complex, which further reduces the area's carbon footprint.

Billingham (surname)

Billingham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: