Dennis Mark Malaska is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2003 and the Boston Red Sox in 2004 in Major League Baseball. Malaska grew up on the crime filled south side of Youngstown, Ohio. He attended Cardinal Mooney High School where he earned three varsity letters in both baseball and basketball, earned All-Steel Valley honors in both sports, and was later inducted into the school's athletic Hall of Fame. Malaska was offered several athletic scholarships in both sports, but chose to continue his baseball career at The University of Akron. Malaska attended the University of Akron, where he set and still holds Akron single-game records for runs, doubles, and RBIs. He also garnered back-to-back Best Pro Prospect honors in the New England Collegiate Baseball League while playing center field for the Danbury Westerners He would later be inducted into the New England Collegiate Baseball League Hall of Fame in 2010 as part of its inaugural class and have his number retired by the Westerners in 2014. [More at Wikipedia]

January 17th, 1978 in Youngstown (Age 46)