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catfish

(Encyclopedia) catfish, common name applied to members of the fish families constituting the order Siluriformes, found in fresh and coastal waters. Catfish are named for the barbels (“whiskers”)…

madtom

(Encyclopedia) madtom: see catfish.

sheatfish

(Encyclopedia) sheatfish: see catfish.

stonecat

(Encyclopedia) stonecat: see catfish.

wel

(Encyclopedia) wel: see catfish.

bullhead

(Encyclopedia) bullhead, common name for several species of fish. See catfish; sculpin.

Jim (Catfish) Hunter

Jim (Catfish) HunterBorn: Apr. 8, 1946Baseball RHP won 20 games or more 5 times (1971-75); played on 5 World Series winners with Oakland and NY Yankees; threw perfect game in 1968; won AL Cy…

Jim (Catfish) Hunter Biography

Jim (Catfish) HunterAge: 53 dominating right-handed pitcher of the early 1970s who was baseball's first big-money free agent; won five World Series rings with Oakland and the N.Y. Yankees;…

Yazoo City

(Encyclopedia) Yazoo City, city (1990 pop. 12,427), seat of Yazoo co., W central Miss., on the Yazoo River; inc. 1830. It is a trade, processing, and industrial center in a cotton, cattle, and…