Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chris O'Meara/AP Photo Billy Mays poses with some of his cleaning products at his Palm Harbor, Fla., home on Dec. 6, 2002 Billy ...

TAMPA, Fla. -- Television viewers knew him as the OxiClean guy: the bearded, boisterous pitchman on commercials airing hundreds of times a week nationwide. "Hi. Billy Mays here," he would begin, ...

Billy Mays — and his booming voice — was a fixture on television screens in the early 2000s, selling products like OxiClean and Kaboom. But his career as a pitchman was tragically cut short when he ...