Bucky Dent
| Bucky Dent | |||
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Dent in 2010.
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| Shortstop / Manager | |||
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Born: November 25, 1951 Savannah, Georgia |
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| MLB debut | |||
| June 1, 1973, for the Chicago White Sox | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| September 11, 1984, for the Kansas City Royals | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .247 | ||
| Home runs | 40 | ||
| Runs batted in | 423 | ||
| Managerial record | 36–53 | ||
| Winning % | .404 | ||
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Russell Earl "Bucky" Dent (born Russell Earl O'Dey; November 25, 1951) is a former American Major League Baseball player and manager. He earned two World Series rings as the starting shortstop for the New York Yankees in 1977 and 1978, both over the Los Angeles Dodgers, and he was voted the World Series MVP in 1978. Dent is most famous for his home run in a tie-breaker game against the Boston Red Sox at the end of the 1978 season.
Dent was born 25 November 1951, in Savannah, Georgia, to Dennis O'Dey and Russell "Shorty" Stanford. He went home from the hospital with his mother's brother James Earl Dent, and James' wife, Sarah. He and his half-brother were raised by the Dents, and they changed his last name to "Dent", but his mother would not allow them to legally adopt. He and his half-brother were led to believe the Dents were their biological parents, until he was ten years old. Dent was told the woman he knew as his aunt was in fact his mother. Later in life, he was told the name of his father, whom he then found, thus sparking and developing a relationship.
Dent grew up in Sylvania, Georgia, and Hialeah, Florida, graduating from Hialeah High School. The sixth pick in the 1970 major league draft, by the age of 21 he was playing shortstop for the Chicago White Sox, wearing uniform number 30. The pressure of succeeding Luis Aparicio at the position was problematic, however, and in 1977 the White Sox traded him to the Yankees for Oscar Gamble, LaMarr Hoyt, a minor leaguer and $200,000. The Yankees gave him uniform number 20.
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