Matthew Thomas Holliday is an American professional baseball left fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball. The Colorado Rockies selected him in the seventh round of the 1998 Major League Baseball Draft out of Stillwater High School in Oklahoma. Holliday made his major league debut with the Rockies in 2004, where he played until being traded to the Oakland Athletics after the 2008 season. He played part of the 2009 season for Oakland and was traded to the Cardinals that year. He re-signed with the Cardinals after becoming a free agent and is under contract through 2017. Holliday is a six-time All-Star selection and a four-time Silver Slugger Award winner. He was the runner-up in the National League Most Valuable Player Award voting in 2007 after leading the league in batting average, runs batted in, doubles and hits. That year, he won the NL Championship Series MVP as he helped guide the Rockies to their first-ever NL pennant and World Series appearance. In his career, Holliday has batted over .300 in seven different seasons. [More at Wikipedia]

January 15th, 1980 in Stillwater (Age 44)