Rick Leach (baseball)
| Rick Leach | |||
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Leach from 1976 Michiganensian
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| Outfielder / First baseman | |||
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Born: May 4, 1957 Ann Arbor, Michigan |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 30, 1981, for the Detroit Tigers | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| August 5, 1990, for the San Francisco Giants | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .268 | ||
| Home runs | 18 | ||
| Runs batted in | 183 | ||
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Richard Max "Rick" Leach (born May 4, 1957) is a former college football player and professional baseball player.
Leach was an all-state quarterback at Flint Southwestern High School in 1974 before enrolling at the University of Michigan in 1975. He was Michigan's starting quarterback for four consecutive years from 1975 to 1978, leading the Wolverines to three consecutive Big Ten Conference championships and three appearances in the Rose Bowl. As a senior in 1978, he won the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy as the most valuable player in the Big Ten, was selected as a first-team All-American, and finished third in balloting for the Heisman Trophy.
After being drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the first round (13th overall pick) of the 1979 Major League Baseball Draft, Leach opted to play professional baseball. He played, primarily as a backup outfielder and first baseman for the Tigers and Toronto Blue Jays, from 1981 to 1990. He compiled a .268 batting average and .335 on-base percentage in 1,719 major league at bats.
Leach was born in 1957 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He attended Flint Southwestern High School in Flint, Michigan. He was selected as the first-team all-state quarterback by the Detroit Free Press in 1975. He broke every passing record in the Saginaw Valley League and was also an all-conference player in baseball and basketball. In 1998, a sports writer for the Detroit Free Press rated Leach as the fourth best quarterback to come out of a Michigan high school.
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