Mark Ellis (baseball)
| Mark Ellis | |||
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Ellis with the Los Angeles Dodgers
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| Second baseman | |||
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Born: June 6, 1977 Rapid City, South Dakota |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 9, 2002, for the Oakland Athletics | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| September 27, 2014, for the St. Louis Cardinals | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .262 | ||
| Home runs | 105 | ||
| Runs batted in | 550 | ||
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Mark William Ellis (born June 6, 1977) is an American former professional baseball second baseman. He played the majority of his Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the Oakland Athletics, and also appeared for the Colorado Rockies, Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals. Ellis posted a career .991 fielding percentage, the fifth-best all-time for a second baseman in MLB history at the time of his retirement.
Ellis was born in Rapid City, South Dakota. Ellis graduated from Stevens High School in Rapid City in 1995. Also in Ellis' graduating class was WNBA star Becky Hammon. They were voted by their peers as male and female "Class Athletes" of the '95 graduating class along with multi-sport athlete John Samuelsen.
Ellis is one of three players to have made it to the Major Leagues who played for the Rapid City Post 22 American Legion baseball program. As a 16-year-old, Ellis was the starting shortstop for the 1993 Rapid City Post 22 varsity "Hardhat" baseball team that touted a 70–5 record and won the national title in Roseburg, Oregon. In the back-to-back years (1994 & 1995), Ellis earned South Dakota American Legion Player of the Year honors. In 2012, American Legion Baseball named Ellis the program's Graduate of the Year.
He went on to play for the University of Florida Gators baseball program and was the MVP of the Gainesville regional at the 1998 College World Series. Although he has played his Major League career at second base, he was the starting third baseman at Florida, where that position was nicknamed "Ellis Island" due to Ellis' tremendous range and all-around fielding prowess.
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