Did you know? Played in Japan for 11 seasons (1977-87), belting 283 home runs, driving in 912 runs, while batting .320 in 1,315 games ... he and his brother Leon hit a combined 551 homers in Japan and were teammates on the Lotte Orions for five seasons ... his nephew Derrek (Leon's son) played in the big leagues for 15 seasons and won a batting title with the Cubs in 2005.
Post-game: Worked as a minor league hitting coach for the A's and Reds, and was a co-founder of the Sacramento International Baseball Academy ... was inducted into the La Salle Club Baseball HOF in 2012 and the Sacramento Sports HOF in 2014.
Sources: Baseball Reference; sacculturalhub.com, accessed 1/1/2023; Sacramento Bee, 1/25/1996, 6/9/1998, 7/23/1998, 4/27/2012, 1/16/2014; San Francisco Examiner, 1/13/1989, 11/1/1990
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