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"Charles François d’Angennes, Marquis de Maintenon (5 December 1648 - before 2 April 1691) was a French nobleman who became a buccaneer in the Caribbean. He sold the Château de Maintenon, his ancestral estate, to Madame de Maintenon, the second wife of King Louis XIV of France. He was the oldest son of Louis d’Angennes de Rochefort de Salvert, Marquis de Maintenon et de Meslay, and Marie Le Clerc du Tremblay. Upon his father's death, he inherited the title of Marquis de Maintenon. He chose not to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors and joined the Navy in 1669 and arrived in the Caribbean on La Sybille. He took command of the ship after the death of her captain in 1672. He joined the expedition against Curaçao and attacked British ships near Saint-Domingue. He returned to France in 1673, and in 1674, he sold the Maintenon estate to Françoise d'Aubigné, who was granted the title of Marquise de Maintenon by King Louis in 1675. After the sale, d'Angennes returned to the West Indies. In October 1675, d'Angennes left Nantes as commander of the 24 gun ship Fontaine d'Or. He gathered a fleet of ten ships crewed by 800 buccaneers and in 1676 attacked Isla Margarita, Trinidad and Cumaná. He became a sugar planter and was appointed governor of the island of Marie-Galante (1679–1686). During this period, he hunted down his former buccaneer allies on the French naval ship La Sorcière. In 1681, Louis XIV granted him a monopoly on trade between Venezuela and the French colonies in the Caribbean. He married Catherine Girauld de Poincy, daughter of a St Kitts militia captain, and had four children. After 1686, he settled in Martinique with his family where he died in 1691. Footnotes Sources *Biographic data *La voile noir (French) In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670-1730 James Pritchard, Inc ebrary, ebrary, Inc. 1648 births 1691 deaths French sailors French privateers Angennes, Charles Francois of Governors of Marie-Galante "
"Gross production average (GPA) is a baseball statistic created in 2003 by Aaron Gleeman, as a refinement of on-base plus slugging (OPS). GPA attempts to solve two frequently cited problems with OPS. First, OPS gives equal weight to its two components, on-base percentage (OBP) and slugging percentage (SLG). In fact, OBP contributes significantly more to scoring runs than SLG does. Sabermetricians have calculated that OBP is about 80% more valuable than SLG. A second problem with OPS is that it generates numbers on a scale unfamiliar to most baseball fans. For all the problems with a traditional stat like batting average (AVG), baseball fans immediately know that a player batting .365 is significantly better than average, while a player batting .167 is significantly below average. But many fans do not immediately know how good a player with a 1.013 OPS is. The basic formula for GPA is: \frac{{(1.8)OBP} + SLG}{4} Unlike OPS, this formula both gives proper relative weight to its two component statistics and generates a number that falls on a scale similar to the familiar batting average scale. All-time leaders The all-time top 10 highest career gross production averages, among players with 3,000 or more plate appearances: # Babe Ruth .3858 # Ted Williams .3754 # Lou Gehrig .3592 # Barry Bonds .3516 # Jimmie Foxx .3449 # Rogers Hornsby .3396 # Hank Greenberg .3367 # Manny Ramirez .3312 # Mickey Mantle .3287 # Stan Musial .3274 See also *Weighted on-base average References External links *New Baseball Statistic, With a Nod to an Old Standard NYT Article of February 25, 2007 explaining GPA. Batting statistics "
"Lee Jackson (born 12 March 1969) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. He was a for the Great Britain, England, Hull F.C. (two spells), the Sheffield Eagles, the South Sydney Rabbitohs, the Newcastle Knights, the Leeds Rhinos and the York City Knights. Hull-born Jackson was arguably the most talented British hooker of his generation. He featured on the 1990 Lions tour and played in Hull FC's 14–4 victory over Widnes in the Premiership Final during the 1990–91 season at Old Trafford, Manchester on 12 May 1991. before joining Sheffield Eagles. He was selected to go on the 1992 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand. Lee Jackson scored the fastest ever try in either code of rugby, after 9-seconds for Hull F.C. in the 8–12 defeat by Sheffield Eagles in the 1992 Yorkshire County Cup semi-final during the 1992–93 season at the Don Valley Stadium on Tuesday 6 October 1992. In 1993, Sheffield Eagles paid Hull F.C. a fee of £83,000 for Lee Jackson (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £164,900 in 2013), this makes him the most expensive hooker in the history of rugby league. Jackson was selected to play for England in the 1995 World Cup Final at but Australia won the match and retained the Cup. He later joined the Newcastle Knights, helping them to Grand Final success in 1997. He returned to Britain and had spells with Leeds Rhinos and Hull F.C. He finished his career with York City Knights, appearing 74 times before retiring in 2005. Lee is widely renowned for changing the way in which hookers played and redefined the position as to how it is played to this day. An absolute pioneer for the position which is why he was so successful in Australia. References External links *Hull bounce back 1969 births England national rugby league team players English rugby league players Great Britain national rugby league team players Hull F.C. players Leeds Rhinos players Living people Newcastle Knights players Rugby league hookers Sheffield Eagles (1984) players South Sydney Rabbitohs captains South Sydney Rabbitohs players Sportspeople from Kingston upon Hull York City Knights players "