Tyrone Woods

Baseball Player

Male

Born Aug 16, 1969

Age 43

Hometown Brooksville, Florida

Walter Tyrone Woods is a former professional baseball player. He played six seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball, primarily as a first baseman. Woods was the 5th pick of the Montreal Expos in the 1988 MLB draft as a high school third baseman. His debut… Read More

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Exclusive: Jailed Filmmaker Vows To Finish Film Wrongly Blamed For Benghazi Attack
Fox News - 4 days ago

' EXCLUSIVE: The controversial filmmaker whose crude Internet trailer was wrongly blamed by the White House for sparking last year''s deadly Benghazi attack vowed to finish his movie, which he said is aimed at fighting terrorism, not denigrating Islam. Breaking his silence from inside a facility under the authority of the federal Bureau of Prisons in southern California, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula told FoxNews.com in a series of phone interviews that his film "Innocence of Muslims" has been ...
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2 Victims Of Benghazi Attack To Be Honored With Plaques At California Veteran's Memorial
Fox News - May 27, 2013

' Two former Navy SEALs killed in the terror attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi will be honored with plaques at a San Diego veteran''s memorial Monday. 42-year-old Glen Doherty and 41-year-old Tyrone Woods, both from San Diego, will be remembered in a special ceremony at the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial, Fox 5 reports. Both of the men were serving as contractors in Libya when the Consulate was attacked on Sept 11, 2012. They were killed along ...
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Top Diplomat: U.S. Special Forces Team Stopped From Going To Benghazi
Huffington Post - May 06, 2013

' WASHINGTON — Four members of Army special forces ready to head to Benghazi, Libya, after the deadly assault on the American diplomatic mission had ended were told not to go, according to a former top diplomat. Gregory Hicks also argued in an interview with Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that if the U.S. military had flown aircraft over the Benghazi facility after it came under siege it might have prevented the second attack on the CIA annex th...
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Samuel M. Katz: One Of Our Own: The Death Of A U.S. Embassy Guard
Huffington Post - Feb 13, 2013

' The line was long outside the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey; it always was. Every day, with the exception of American and Turkish holidays, those with visa requests, consular issues, and other appointments stood patiently in line to await the security check near the consular gate on Paris Street, behind the main chancery facing Atatürk Boulevard inside Ankara''s diplomatic enclave. The line began to form early in the morning -- very early -- and long before the gates opened at 08:...
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1969 Birth Born on August 16, 1969.

TEENAGE

1988 18 Years Old Woods was the 5th pick of the Montreal Expos in the 1988 MLB draft as a high school third baseman. … Read More

1989 19 Years Old Woods was promoted to the Jamestown Expos in 1989. … Read More

TWENTIES

1990 20 Years Old In 1990, Woods regressed. … Read More

1991 21 Years Old Woods made it to High-A in 1991 and he hit just .220 for the West Palm Beach Expos, which was still tolerable in a pitching-friendly environment. … Read More

1992 22 Years Old 1992 was a busy year for Woods. … Read More

1993 23 Years Old In 1993, Woods returned to Harrisburg and at age 23 did fine for his age at Double-A, batting .252, playing a solid supporting role on one of the greatest Double-A teams in modern minor league history. … Read More

1995 25 Years Old Woods found a home with the Baltimore Orioles' Rochester Red Wings farm club in 1995 and hit .261 as a 1B/DH/OF. … Read More

1997 27 Years Old In 1997, Woods spent his 10th and final season in a US-based league. … Read More

1998 28 Years Old 1998 found Woods in the Korea Professional Baseball at the relatively young age of 28. … Read More

THIRTIES

2001 - 2004 4 More Events

2005 35 Years Old After the 2005 season was completed, Woods had hit 421 homers in his pro career.

2006 36 Years Old In 2006, Woods put together an MVP caliber season by batting .310 with a league-leading 47 homers and 144 RBI. … Read More

2008 38 Years Old He played for the Dragons until 2008. … Read More

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