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Who is Brett Butler?

星期二, 四月 29th, 2008

Brett Morgan Butler (born June 15, 1957 in Los Angeles, California) is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball who played for five different teams from 1981 to 1997.

Brett Morgan Butler(出生於1958年6月15日,加州洛杉磯),前大聯盟中外野手,在1981年至1997年間效力過五支不同球隊。

Career

Butler spent his teenaged years in Libertyville, Illinois, where he was a reserve on the Libertyville High School baseball team that finished second in the Illinois state tournament. Upon graduating, he announced plans to play baseball in college, and his Libertyville High School coach, Ernie Ritta, scoffed. Butler, who had explored walking on at baseball powerhouse Arizona State, did manage to make the team at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.

Butler青少年時期皆待在伊利諾州的Libertyville,他是曾在伊利諾州聯賽奪得第二名的Libertyville高中棒球隊的替補球員。即將畢業時,他計畫加入大學的棒球隊,但是他的高中教練Ernie Ritta卻嘲笑他。Butler奔走於亞利桑那州的棒球界有力人士之間,最後終於如願加入東南奧克拉荷馬州立大學。

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