Lew Ford
| Lew Ford | |||
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Ford with the Baltimore Orioles
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| Long Island Ducks – No. 20 | |||
| Outfielder | |||
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Born: August 12, 1976 Beaumont, Texas |
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| MLB debut | |||
| May 29, 2003, for the Minnesota Twins | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .268 | ||
| Home runs | 35 | ||
| Runs batted in | 176 | ||
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Jon Lewis "Lew" Ford (born August 12, 1976) is an American professional baseball player for the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. An outfielder, Ford has played in Major League Baseball for the Minnesota Twins and Baltimore Orioles, in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Hanshin Tigers, in the Mexican League for the Guerreros de Oaxaca, in the Dominican Baseball league for the Tigres del Licey, and in the Atlantic League for the Long Island Ducks.
Ford is a 1994 graduate of Port Neches–Groves High School where he played football and baseball and a 1999 graduate of Dallas Baptist University. He also played college baseball at Texas A&M University and Seminole Junior College and Lee College.
In 1998, Ford was a first team All American at Dallas Baptist. He set their single school batting record, batting .507 over the course of more than 50 games. In spite of this, Ford was not chosen in the MLB draft. He came back the following year and had another season at Dallas Baptist, after which he was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 12th round of the 1999 amateur draft.
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