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Ohtani was born to Kayoko and Toru Ohtani in Mizusawa (now part of Ōshū), Iwate, Japan, on July 5, 1994.His mother Kayoko was a national-level badminton player in high school and his father Tōru worked at a local automobile manufacturing plant and was an amateur baseball player who played in the Japanese Industrial League.
Through the elections for 2024, a total of 346 people will have been inducted, including 274 former professional players, 39 executives/pioneers, 23 managers, and 10 umpires. [2] Each is listed showing his primary position; that is, the position or role in which the player made his greatest contribution to baseball according to the Hall of Fame.
Joe DiMaggio. Joseph Paul DiMaggio (/ dəˈmɑːdʒioʊ /; born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈpaːolo diˈmaddʒo]; November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed " Joltin' Joe ", " the Yankee Clipper " and " Joe D. ", was an American baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball for ...
Michael Nelson Trout (born August 7, 1991) is an American professional baseball center fielder for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). Trout is an 11-time MLB All-Star, three-time American League (AL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) (winning the award in 2014, 2016, and 2019, while finishing second in 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2018), and nine-time winner of the Silver Slugger Award.
In 2019, Mike Trout signed a 12-year, $426 million contract with the Angels, the richest contract in the history of North American sports at the time. Alex Rodriguez earned the highest salary in MLB in 2013 at $28,000,000. He also has the highest career earnings in MLB history, as well as a record 13 years with the highest AAV.
Jewish players have played in Major League Baseball since the league came into existence, with Lip Pike being the first. With the surge of Jewish immigrants from Europe to the United States at the turn of the 20th century, baseball, then the most popular sport in the country and referred to as the "National Pastime", became a way for children of Jewish immigrants to assimilate into American ...
Baseball Hall of Fame. Induction. 2020. Vote. 99.7% (first ballot) Derek Sanderson Jeter (/ ˈdʒiːtər / JEE-tər; born June 26, 1974) (Nicknamed "The Captain") is an American former professional baseball shortstop, businessman, and baseball executive. As a player, Jeter spent his entire 20-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the New ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 November 2024. Dominican-American baseball player (born 1975) For the American politician, see David Ortiz (politician). In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ortiz and the second or maternal family name is Arias. Baseball player David Ortiz Ortiz with the Boston Red Sox in 2013 ...