Mike Piazza

Michael Joseph Piazza (born September 4, 1968 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA) is a U.S. Major League Baseball player. He is generally recognized as the top-hitting catcher of all time. He is a ten time All-Star. On May 5, 2004, Piazza surpassed Carlton Fisk for most home runs by a catcher with the 352nd of his career.

Trivia

• Piazza appeared on the September 23, 2004 episode of the NBC television program The Apprentice. He was paid $20,000 for a half-hour of work pitching a vanilla-mint flavored Crest toothpaste.
• On January 29, 2005, at an evening wedding at St. Jude's Catholic Church in Miami with 120 guests that included former Mets pitcher Al Leiter and Detroit Tigers catcher Ivan Rodriguez, Piazza married his girlfriend of two years, Alicia Rickter, a Playboy model formerly of the TV show Baywatch.
• Mike was the subject --and source--of a hoax involving the movie Teen Wolf starring Michael J. Fox. Mike alleged in an interview with New York Sports Express that he had played the boyfriend of the beautiful blonde (whom Fox eventually sleeps with). It worked so well that it even fooled the Internet Movie Database who listed him as playing the part of Mick McAlister (in fact, played by Mark Arnold). IMDb went so far as to display a picture of Piazza.