James Joseph Larry "Jim" Traber is an American former professional baseball player and current sports talk show host in Oklahoma City. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman for the Baltimore Orioles and then played for the Kintetsu Buffaloes of the Nippon Professional Baseball league. Traber was born in Columbus, Ohio, but grew up in Columbia, Maryland. While attending Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, Traber was an All American, playing Football, Baseball, and other sports. Jim also sang in the Chorus, and appeared in the 1979 Spring concert at Wilde Lake singing, "Three Times A Lady," with the Jazz Band. He attended Oklahoma State University in the early-1980s, where he played both baseball and football. He was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 1982 Major League Baseball Draft. and played parts of four seasons for the Orioles between 1984 and 1989, where his nickname was "The Hummer". During the biggest slump of his career for Baltimore, Traber switched to wearing a V-neck jersey and soon captured player of the week honors cranking out 3 homers and 11 RBIs in the early summer of 1987. 

December 26th, 1961 in Columbus (Age 62)