Look who's turning 65 this month
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March 7 – Joe Carter, MLB outfielder and first baseman
Only one player in the history of Major League Baseball can claim to have ended a World Series with a home run at the bottom of the ninth when his team was trailing, and he turns 65 this month. Joe Carter’s triumphant walk-off home run won the 1993 World Series for the Toronto Blue Jays and has since been celebrated in popular culture (including the comedy Big Daddy and a Drake single). Over the course of his career, Oklahoma City native Carter played ball for the Chicago Cubs, the Cleveland Indians, the San Diego Padres, and the Baltimore Orioles, in addition to the Blue Jays.
In 2003, Carter was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, and fans voted him the winner of the MLB Hometown Heroes Award in 2006. These days, Carter continues to chair the annual Joe Carter Classic, a celebrity golf tournament benefiting the Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada. The 16th annual event will take place June 18, 2025.
Only one player in the history of Major League Baseball can claim to have ended a World Series with a home run at the bottom of the ninth when his team was trailing, and he turns 65 this month. Joe Carter’s triumphant walk-off home run won the 1993 World Series for the Toronto Blue Jays and has since been celebrated in popular culture (including the comedy Big Daddy and a Drake single). Over the course of his career, Oklahoma City native Carter played ball for the Chicago Cubs, the Cleveland Indians, the San Diego Padres, and the Baltimore Orioles, in addition to the Blue Jays. In 2003, Carter was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, and fans voted him the winner of the MLB Hometown Heroes Award in 2006. These days, Carter continues to chair the annual Joe Carter Classic, a celebrity golf tournament benefiting the Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada. The 16th annual event will take place June 18, 2025.
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March 13 – Adam Clayton, bass guitarist
If you had told teenage Adam Clayton, when he saw a post on his high school bulletin board advertising for bandmates and showed up to the first practice, that he’d just joined one of the biggest rock bands of all time–he might have nodded. Teenagers have big dreams, after all. But no one could have predicted that the group that first got together that 1976 afternoon in Ireland would become U2. As Clayton turns 65 this year, he’ll also celebrate 49 years as the band’s bass guitarist. Clayton was a self-taught musician, and only started studying bass with a teacher about 20 years into his career with U2. By that time, he’d already recorded 8 of the 15 albums he’s made with the band. His style has been called “harmonic syncopation,” and he’s known for developing basslines following his own musical instincts. With U2, he’s won 22 Grammys over the years, and many other awards. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the first year they were eligible, in 2005. In 1982, Clayton was Bono’s best man at his wedding to Alison Hewson. Clayton himself remained single for many years. He once dated the supermodel Naomi Campbell. After struggling with alcohol use disorder in his early career, Clayton started his sobriety in 1996, and has since been recognized for his work supporting others struggling with substance use.
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March 26 - Jennifer Grey, actor
“Nobody puts baby in the corner.” By the time Patrick Swayze’s character delivers this famous line at the climax of Dirty Dancing (1987), Jennfier Grey’s character has won his heart, and Grey herself had become a breakout star. By this point, she had already starred in the war film Red Dawn (1984) and played Matthew Broderick’s jealous sister in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986). But the surprise hit Dirty Dancing, where Grey played Frances “Baby” Houseman in the romantic coming-of-age drama, would become the movie that defined her career. Since then, Grey has continued to act in a number of TV shows and movies, including a stint on Dancing with the Stars. Last year, she appeared alongside Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin in the Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated A Real Pain, about Jewish American cousins on a journey to Poland to learn about their grandmother. Grey has talked about reconnecting with her own Jewish heritage in recent years. This year, catch Grey in Wish You Were Here, a romantic drama and Julia Stiles’ directorial debut.
