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In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress. In 1972 she launched a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, breaking another political barrier.
MORE →Reflects the personal views, recollections, and perspective of the author, Mike Davis.
This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
| Evan Dempsey | |
|---|---|
| Detroit Tigers | |
| Pitcher | |
| Born: July 19, 2005 Tampa, Florida, U.S. | |
Bats: Left Throws: Right | |
| Stats at Baseball Reference |
Evan Francis Dempsey (born July 19, 2005) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Detroit Tigers organization. He played college baseball for the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles and won the John Olerud Award in 2025 and 2026.
Dempsey was born on July 19, 2005, in Tampa, Florida.[1] He started playing rec baseball at age five.[2] Dempsey attended Newsome High School in Lithia, Florida, where he played baseball for the Wolves under head coach Dick Rohrberg.[3][4] By his sophomore year, he was a starting pitcher and outfielder as well as the leadoff hitter.[2] As a senior, Dempsey batted .427 and recorded a 7–4 win–loss record with 84 strikeouts and a 1.45 earned run average (ERA).[5] He earned first-team all-county honors for both hitting and pitching.[6] Dempsey was also invited to play in the FACA All-Star Classic.[7] Outside of school, he played for Ostingers Baseball Academy.[8]
Dempsey was ranked the 418th-best high school prospect in the class of 2023 by Perfect Game.[9] On June 1, 2022,[a] he committed to playing college baseball at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU).[8] "Once I did some research into the school, I knew this was where I wanted to go", said Dempsey.[8] He signed a National Letter of Intent with the Eagles in November.[10]
As a freshman at FGCU, Dempsey started 46 of 50 games.[8] He finished second on the team with a .339 average,[6] to go along with 62 hits and 48 runs batted in (RBI).[1] Despite spending most of the year in the outfield due to the Eagles' deep pitching corps, Dempsey also made six appearances as a relief pitcher, recording a 10.13 ERA in 5+1⁄3 innings pitched.[8] He earned Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN) all-freshman honors,[6] and played with the Minot Hot Tots of the Northwoods League after the season.[1]
As a sophomore, Dempsey played in all 60 games (with 59 starts) in the outfield, batting .309 with a team-high 71 hits.[1][6] Additionally, he was moved from the bullpen into a starting pitcher role during conference play after the team lost three starting pitchers to injury.[8][11] Dempsey pitched in 15 games with 10 starts, compiling a 5–1 record with 75 strikeouts and a 1.97 ERA over 68+2⁄3 innings.[1] He was a consensus selection to the 2025 College Baseball All-America Team, earning first-team honors from Baseball America,[12] the College Baseball Foundation,[13] D1Baseball.com,[14] and Perfect Game.[15] Dempsey won the John Olerud Award, which is given to the best two-way player in the nation;[11] he also earned first-team All-ASUN honors as a pitcher and a second-team ASUN honors as an outfielder.[6] His head coach, Dave Tollett, said he was "a special kind of player that only comes around once or twice in a coach’s career".[11] That summer, Dempsey played for the Harwich Mariners of the Cape Cod Baseball League.[16][17] He also received an invite to the U.S. collegiate national team training camp in North Carolina,[18][19] becoming the first player in FGCU history to do so.[20]
Ahead of his junior season, Dempsey received "plenty of offers" from higher-profile programs to transfer out of FGCU, but decided to remain with the Eagles.[21] He also gained 20 lb (9.1 kg) of muscle during the offseason.[2]
In his junior year, Dempsey played and started in 58 games in the outfield, batting .333 with 10 home runs and 79 hits. He also pitched in 15 games (all starts), totaling a 7–2 record with 126 strikeouts, two complete game shutouts, and a 3.15 ERA over 88+2⁄3 innings, becoming the ace of the pitching staff at FGCU.[22] During the season, Dempsey was named the D1Baseball.com Midseason Player of the Year.[23][24] For the second straight year, he was a consensus (this time unanimous) selection to the College Baseball All-America Team as a utility player. The unanimous selection was the second in FGCU history after Chris Sale.[25] He won the Atlantic Sun Conference's Pitcher of the Year award.[26] He also repeated as the recipient of the John Olerud Award while advancing as a semifinalist for both the Golden Spikes Award and the Dick Howser Trophy.[27][28][29]
Dempsey was considered one of the top two-way prospects in the 2026 Major League Baseball draft.[30] He was invited to attend the 2026 MLB Draft Combine at Chase Field.[31]
Dempsey was drafted 69th overall in the 2026 Major League Baseball draft by the Detroit Tigers as a pitcher and signed for an under-slot signing bonus of $1.20 million.[32][33]
Dempsey grew up in the Tampa area in a blended family with two brothers, two stepbrothers, and two stepsisters.[2] After his childhood coach, legendary Tampa figure Rich Luppino, died in 2022, Dempsey said in a 2026 interview: "I've been playing for him since then."[2][8] He has a tattoo of one of Luppino's mottos: "Repetition is the mother of success".[2]
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Evan Francis Dempsey (born July 19, 2005) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Detroit Tigers organization. He played college baseball for the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles and won the John Olerud Award in 2025 and 2026.
Evan Griffith Dando (born March 4, 1967) is an American musician and the frontman of the rock band the Lemonheads. He has also embarked on a solo career and collaborated on songs with various artists. In December 2015, Dando was inducted into the Boston Music Awards Hall of Fame.
Paul Anthony Dempsey (born 25 May 1976) is an Australian musician. He is best known as the lead singer, guitarist and principal lyricist of rock group Something for Kate. Dempsey released his debut solo album, Everything Is True, on 20 August 2009, which peaked at No. 5 on the ARIA Albums Chart. He has also produced and co-written albums for other artists, including Mosman Alder. Dempsey has experienced bouts of clinical depression and periods of writer's block, both of which have been publicised. Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane noted that he "has the capacity to lay his soul bare through his music, there is little pretence or adherence to fashionable measures in the band's delivery". In 2006, Dempsey married Something for Kate's bass guitarist Stephanie Ashworth (formerly of Sandpit).
Evan Joe Ferguson (born 19 October 2004) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion and the Republic of Ireland national team.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
MORE →The Greenwood District.
