Mike Blowers | |||
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Third baseman | |||
Born: Würzburg, West Germany |
April 24, 1965 |||
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MLB debut | |||
September 1, 1989, for the New York Yankees | |||
Last MLB appearance | |||
October 3, 1999, for the Seattle Mariners | |||
MLB statistics | |||
Batting average | .257 | ||
Home runs | 78 | ||
Runs batted in | 365 | ||
Teams | |||
Michael Roy "Mike" Blowers (/ˈblaʊ.ərz/; born April 24, 1965) is a former Major League Baseball player, a third baseman and first baseman for the New York Yankees, Seattle Mariners, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Oakland Athletics.
Born in Würzburg, West Germany, Blowers lived in Oklahoma and then West Germany until the seventh grade, when his U.S. Army stepfather was transferred to Fort Lewis, south of Tacoma, Washington. He is a 1983 graduate of Bethel High School in Spanaway and played college baseball at Tacoma Community College and the University of Washington in Seattle. Following his freshman year, Blowers was selected by the Mariners in the 1984 Major League Baseball Draft, but opted not to sign. During his junior year at Washington, his only season with the Huskies, he won the triple crown in the Pac-10 North Division, and was selected by the Montreal Expos in the tenth round of the 1986 MLB Draft.