Travis Lee
| Travis Lee | |||
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| First baseman | |||
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Born: May 26, 1975 San Diego, California |
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| MLB debut | |||
| March 31, 1998, for the Arizona Diamondbacks | |||
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| September 1, 2006, for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .256 | ||
| Home runs | 115 | ||
| Runs batted in | 488 | ||
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| Men's baseball | ||
Representing  United States
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| Olympic Games | ||
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1996 Atlanta | Team |
Travis Lee (born May 26, 1975) is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielder.
Lee graduated from Capital High School in Olympia, Washington in 1993, where he also played football. Being ambidextrous Lee played as a lefty in baseball and as a QB for the Capital High football team threw with his right. While playing for San Diego State University in 1996, Lee won the Golden Spikes Award, annually given to the best amateur baseball player by USA Baseball. Lee was initially drafted as the second pick in the 1996 Major League Baseball Draft by the Minnesota Twins, but was declared a free agent by MLB after the Twins failed to tender him a contract within fifteen days of the end of the draft. He then signed a four-year, $10 million contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Lee played on the 1996 Olympic baseball team for the United States. The team went 7-2 with losses to Cuba in the preliminary round and Japan in the semifinals. The U.S. team won the Bronze medal by defeating Nicaragua.
Lee was the starting first baseman in the Diamondbacks' inaugural season of 1998, and he hit .269 with 71 runs scored, 22 home runs, and 72 RBI and finished 3rd in the voting for NL Rookie of the Year. Lee has the distinction of having the first hit (a single) as well as hitting the first home run in Diamondbacks history on March 31, 1998 in a home game against the Colorado Rockies, however the team lost the game 9-2 (Lee also had scored and drove in the first runs in D-Backs history with that blast). Lee was part of the Diamondbacks' trade for Curt Schilling from the Philadelphia Phillies, along with pitchers Vicente Padilla, Omar Daal, and Nelson Figueroa on July 26, 2000.
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