Phil Bradley | |||
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Left fielder | |||
Born: Bloomington, Indiana |
March 11, 1959 |||
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MLB debut | |||
September 2, 1983, for the Seattle Mariners | |||
Last MLB appearance | |||
September 29, 1990, for the Chicago White Sox | |||
MLB statistics | |||
Batting average | .286 | ||
Home runs | 78 | ||
Runs batted in | 376 | ||
Teams | |||
Career highlights and awards | |||
Philip Poole Bradley (born March 11, 1959) is a retired Major League Baseball outfielder/designated hitter who played for the Seattle Mariners, Baltimore Orioles and Chicago White Sox of the American League and Philadelphia Phillies of the National League from 1983 to 1990.
Bradley played high school baseball and football in Macomb, Illinois for the Macomb High Bombers. Due to his success there, the Macomb High School baseball field was later dedicated in his name. Also a talented football player, he played college football at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri and was their starting quarterback from 1978 through 1980.
One of the most decorated athletes in MU annals, Bradley lettered in football at MU from 1977–81, and in baseball in 1979-80-81. Bradley quarterbacked the Tigers to three bowl games. He was a three-time Big Eight Conference "Offensive Player of the Year" and set the conference total offense record at 6,459 yards which stood for 10 years. In baseball, he starred as an outfielder on MU teams that won the Big Eight championship in 1980, and went to the NCAA Tournament in 1980 and '81.
He was drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the third round of the 1981 amateur draft and made his Major League debut on September 2, 1983, as a pinch hitter against the New York Yankees.