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Led Sylvan
Hills to the Arkansas Activities Association Class AA state championship
in 1978...was selected the tournament's most valuable player and was named
Arkansas High School Baseball Player of the Year....taken by the San Diego
Padres as the sixth overall pick in the 1981 draft...named Player of the
Year in his minor leagues in both 1982 and 1983...suffered a broken hand
in game 4 of the NLCS in 1984 and took most of 1985 to recover...traded
from San Diego to New York with P Gene Walker for 3B Kevin Mitchell, OF
Shawn Abner, OF Stanley Jefferson, P Kevin Armstrong and P Kevin Brown
on December 11, 1986...finished third in the voting for the NL MVP in
1988...hit for the cycle on August 1, 1989 (4-5, 4 runs, 6 RBI) against
St. Louis, the fifth cycle in the history of the New York Mets...Story:
In 1990, During a game between New York and Montreal, CBS broadcaster
Jack Buck jokingly offered a thousand dollars to any camera person who
could catch Mets outfielder Kevin McReynolds smiling; Deena Sheldon did,
and Buck wrote her the check on the air...selected to the 2011 class of
the National Federation of State High School Association's Hall of Fame
(hit .634 as a senior and had a 16-1 career pitching record). |
