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Title: Baseball profile: Johnny Damon--Boston Red Sox.(Interview)
Author: Rick Sorci
Publication: Baseball Digest (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2003
Publisher: Century Publishing
Volume: 62Issue: 7Page: 63(1)

Article Type: Interview

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Chapters: Johnny Damon, Brian Mcrae, Kevin Appier, Baseball City Royals, Jon Lieber, Jacob Brumfield. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Johnny David Damon (born November 5, 1973) is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Detroit Tigers. Between the 2000 and 2008 seasons he was third among active major leaguers in runs (589), and seventh in hits (912) and stolen bases (153). He was also the active leader in triples (95). Damon was born in Fort Riley, an army base in Kansas. His mother, Yome, is from Thailand and his father, Jimmy, is American of Croatian and Irish descent. They met while his father, a Staff Sergeant in the United States Army, was stationed in Thailand. Johnny spent much of his early childhood as an "army brat," moving to several bases from Okinawa, Japan, to West Germany before his father left the Army and settled the family in the Orlando area while Johnny was still a pre-schooler. Damon was a quiet child, largely on account of a stuttering problem. "My thoughts just raced ahead of my tongue," says Damon of his problem then. "Id sing songs as therapy, and I got better, but I just kept quiet most of the time." Damon attended Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, Florida when during his senior year in 1992, he was rated the top high school prospect in the country by Baseball America, was named to USA Today's High School All-America team, and was the Florida Gatorade Player of the Year. Damon also played football in high school, once getting hit by Warren Sapp and sustaining the first concussion in his life. Damon was selected by the Kansas City Royals in the first round (35th overall) of the 1992 amateur draft. He made his Major League debut on August 12, 1995. He played for the Royals from 1995 to 2000. His best season came in ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=608740 ... Read more

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