Dave Winfield
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Winfield at his Hall of Fame induction in 2001
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| Right fielder | |||
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Born: October 3, 1951 St. Paul, Minnesota |
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| MLB debut | |||
| June 19, 1973, for the San Diego Padres | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| October 1, 1995, for the Cleveland Indians | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .283 | ||
| Hits | 3,110 | ||
| Home runs | 465 | ||
| Runs batted in | 1,833 | ||
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| Member of the National | |||
 Baseball Hall of Fame
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| Inducted | 2001 | ||
| Vote | 84.5% (first ballot) | ||
David Mark Winfield (born October 3, 1951) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder. He is currently special assistant to the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association. Over his 22-year career, he played for six teams: the San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, California Angels, Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Twins, and Cleveland Indians. He had the winning hit in the 1992 World Series with the Blue Jays over the Atlanta Braves.
Winfield is a 12-time MLB All-Star, a seven-time Gold Glove Award winner, and a six-time Silver Slugger Award winner. The Padres retired #31, Winfield's uniform number, in his honor. He also wore #31 while playing for the Yankees and Indians and wore #32 with the Angels, Blue Jays and Twins. In 2004, ESPN named him the third-best all-around athlete of all time in any sport. He is a member of both the Baseball Hall of Fame and the College Baseball Hall of Fame.
Winfield was born the same day Bobby Thomson hit his pennant-winning home run for the New York Giants, known as "the shot heard 'round the world". He grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. His parents divorced when he was three years old, leaving him and his older brother Stephen to be raised by their mother, Arline, and a large extended family of aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins.
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