Ed Sprague (third baseman)
| Ed Sprague, Jr. | |||
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| Third baseman | |||
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Born: July 25, 1967 Castro Valley, California |
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| MLB debut | |||
| May 8, 1991, for the Toronto Blue Jays | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| October 7, 2001, for the Seattle Mariners | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .247 | ||
| Home runs | 152 | ||
| Runs batted in | 558 | ||
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| Men's baseball | ||
Representing  United States
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| Olympic Games | ||
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1988 Seoul | Team competition |
| Baseball World Cup | ||
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1988 Rome | Team competition |
Edward Nelson Sprague, Jr. (born July 25, 1967) is a former Major League Baseball third baseman. He played 11 seasons in the major leagues from 1991 to 2001, with six different teams. He later served as the head baseball coach of the NCAA's Pacific Tigers for 12 seasons, from 2004 to 2015. He is now the Oakland Athletics Coordinator of Instruction.
Sprague was an NCAA standout where he played third base helping Stanford win College World Series championships in 1987 and 1988. He then collected an Olympic Gold Medal in the 1988 Olympics on the men's baseball team. (However, because baseball was a demonstration sport that year, the medals were unofficial and did not count towards respective countries' medal counts.) He is a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity.
Sprague was drafted in the first round of the 1988 Major League Baseball draft by the Toronto Blue Jays.
Sprague made his debut in 1991 for the Toronto Blue Jays and was a part of the 1992 and 1993 World Series championships. He is particularly remembered for hitting the game-winning home run in the ninth inning of Game 2 of the 1992 Series against the Atlanta Braves. His best individual year came in 1996 when he hit .247 with 36 home runs and 101 runs batted in.
Sprague was a regular with Toronto until 1998, when he was traded to the Oakland Athletics. He was granted free agency at the end of 1998, and then played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1999, for which he made his only All-Star game appearance. That year, he hit .267 with 22 homers, 81 RBI and a .352 on-base percentage, the best of his career as a regular player.
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