Dan Gladden

Gladden batting for the Giants in 1985

Left fielder / Center fielder

Born: July 7, 1957 (age 59)
San Jose, California

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

MLB debut

September 5, 1983, for the San Francisco Giants

Last MLB appearance

October 3, 1993, for the Detroit Tigers

MLB statistics

Batting average

.270

Home runs

Runs batted in

446

Teams

Career highlights and awards

2× World Series champion (1987, 1991)

Clinton Daniel Gladden III (born July 7, 1957) is an American former Major League Baseball player and current radio broadcaster.

Known as "The Dazzle Man", he attended California State University, Fresno and was signed by the San Francisco Giants as an amateur free agent in 1979. He made his debut with the Giants in 1983, and in 1984 he batted .351 with 31 stolen bases as the Giants' center fielder.

In 1987, Gladden was traded to the Minnesota Twins, and won a World Series championship with them in his first year. In Game 1, he hit the first grand slam in a World Series game in 17 years. He would earn another World Series ring with the Twins in 1991, when they beat the Atlanta Braves in what is sometimes called the greatest World Series ever played. In the intense and memorable Game 7 of the 1991 Series, Gladden stretched a bloop hit into a double before scoring the winning run on Gene Larkin's single off of Atlanta's Alejandro Peña, in the bottom of the 10th inning.

After the 1991 season, Gladden signed as a free agent with the Detroit Tigers, and played with them until 1993. He spent 1994 in Japan playing for the Yomiuri Giants, winning a Japan Series championship. Because of the 1994-95 MLBPA strike, Gladden's championship with the kyojin is regarded by some fans as a world championship, and he retired from the game as a player on top as a three-time world champion with the distinction of having won championships in two continents (as does teammate Hideki Matsui, who won the World Series in 2009 with the New York Yankees), and returned to the Twins as a scout (spring training, 1995), then the Colorado Rockies (advance, 1996–1998). He spent 1999 as a roving instructor for the San Francisco Giants.

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