Roy Oswalt
Baseball Player
3-time All-Star pitcher for the Houston Astros who led the team to their first World Series appearance in 2005.
He played both pitcher and quarterback at at small high school in Mississippi.
Before he was a back-to-back 20-game winner in 2004 and 2005, he led the U.S. men's baseball team to gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
He inherited his love of baseball from his father, an avid Atlanta Braves fan.
He retired second among Astros pitchers on the all-time strikeouts list, behind Nolan Ryan.