Kirby Puckett
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Date of Birth: March 14, 1960
Date of Death: March 6, 2006
Biography: Born
in Chicago, Illinois Kirby Puckett was a well known
center fielder in Major League Baseball that played with the Minnesota Twins. Puckett was very
talented with 28 home runs in 1928 alone. The only baseball player during the 20th century to record 1,000 hits in
his first five full calendar years in Major League Baseball, Kirby was elected
into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2001. Retiring at the early age of 35 because
of loss of vision due to glaucoma, Kirby gained a lot of weight after leaving
the field, Recorded 310 lbs at his date of death. Puckett began his Minor
League career with the Tennesse Twins, in 1982. After years of outstanding
stats and a mass of fans, Kirby continued on to the 1991 world series.
Remembered as the high point
in Kirby’s career, his amazing walk off home run helped to keep his team alive.
His lifetime batting average of .318 was the highest of any right-handed batter
since Joe DiMaggio. Puckett brought about a lot of controversy in 2002 when he
was tried and aquitted for groping a woman in a bar restroom in Minnesota. Puckett began
to build a bad name for himself, doing things such as urinating in the
parking lot of a grocery store. March 5,
2006 Kirby suffered a massive hemorrhagic stroke at his home, in Arizona. He went through
emergancy surgery to relieve the pressure from his brain, the surgury failed
and he was pronounced dead after being removed from life support on March 6 at
5:30 PM.
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