Carl Crawford
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Crawford with the Dodgers in 2013
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Born: August 5, 1981 Houston, Texas |
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| MLB debut | |||
| July 20, 2002, for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays | |||
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| June 3, 2016, for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |||
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| Batting average | .290 | ||
| Hits | 1,931 | ||
| Home runs | 136 | ||
| Runs batted in | 766 | ||
| Stolen bases | 480 | ||
| Triples | 123 | ||
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| Men's baseball | ||
Representing  United States
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2001 Taipei | National team |
Carl Demonte Crawford (born August 5, 1981), nicknamed "The Perfect Storm", is an American retired professional baseball player. He bats and throws left-handed.
Crawford was drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the second round (52nd overall) of the 1999 Major League Baseball draft. He made his major league debut in 2002. At the time of his retirement, Crawford had more triples (123) than any other active baseball player.
Crawford is a native of the Fifth Ward area of Houston. He participated in the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities program, and attended Jefferson Davis High School in Houston, Texas, and was a letterman in football, basketball, and baseball. As a child, he was on the same little league team as Michael Bourn, who would become a star for the Houston Astros and the Atlanta Braves. In high school baseball, he began working with former #1 pick Willie Ansley after his sophomore year.He batted .638 as a senior. In the summer of his junior year in high school coach Ansley advised him to get on a team that played in the same tournaments that Josh Beckett played in so he could be seen by the pro scouts and Crawford joined the Pasadena Stars select baseball team. It was there that he gained his first real exposure to Major League Baseball scouts. So intent on capitalizing on this exposure, he was advised by coach Ansley to skip basketball his senior year to concentrate on baseball so that his knees would be fresh from the beginning of the season. Crawford was offered scholarships to play basketball as a point guard at UCLA. He also had an option to play college football as an option quarterback at Nebraska,USC, Oklahoma, Florida, and Tulsa. He had originally signed a letter of intent to play football for Nebraska but he turned down both offers in favor of a baseball career.
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