Carlton Fisk, Hall of Fame baseball catcher who played for the Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox
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Iván Rodríguez, a Major League Baseball catcher for the Washington Nationals
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William Heffelfinger, considered the first recorded professional American football player
William Walter "Pudge" Heffelfinger (1867, Minneapolis, Minnesota - 1954, Blessing, Texas), an American football player
Friedrich's company grew into a small publishing house in Hayward, California, also called Star*Reach, that published the comic book series Quack; Imagine; and Lee Marrs' Pudge, Girl Blimp, along with a number of one-shot comics.