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Dan Gladden Left fielder / Center fielder Born: July 7, 1957
San Jose, CaliforniaBatted: Right Threw: Right MLB debut September 5, 1983 for the San Francisco Giants Last MLB appearance October 3, 1993 for the Detroit Tigers Career statistics Batting average .270 Home runs 74 Runs batted in 446 Teams Career highlights and awards - 2× World Series winner (1987, 1991)
Clinton Daniel "Dan" Gladden III (born July 7, 1957 in San Jose, California) is an American former Major League Baseball player and current radio broadcaster.
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Baseball career
Gladden is a graduate of Westmont High School in Campbell, California. Known as "The Dazzle Man," he attended California State University, Fresno and was signed by the San Francisco Giants as an amateur free agent in 1979. He made his debut with the Giants in 1983, and in 1984 he batted .351 with 31 stolen bases as the Giants' center fielder.
In 1987, Gladden was traded to the Minnesota Twins, and won a World Series championship with them in his first year. He would earn another Series ring with the Twins in 1991, when they beat the Atlanta Braves in what is sometimes called the greatest World Series ever played.[1] In the intense and memorable Game 7 of the 1991 Series, Gladden stretched a bloop hit into a double before scoring the winning run on Gene Larkin's single off of Atlanta's Alejandro Pena, in the bottom of the 10th inning.
After the 1991 season, Gladden signed as a free agent with the Detroit Tigers, and played with them until 1993. He spent 1994 in Japan playing for the Yomiuri Giants, winning a Japan Series championship. Because of the 1994-95 MLBPA strike, Gladden's championship with the kyojin is regarded by some fans as a world championship, and he retired from the game as a player on top as a three-time world champion with the distinction of having won championships in two continents (as does teammate Hideki Matsui, who won the World Series in 2009 with the New York Yankees), and returned to the Twins as a scout (spring training, 1995), then the Colorado Rockies (advance, 1996-1998). He spent 1999 as a roving instructor for the San Francisco Giants.
Gladden was one of seven Twins to be part of both the 1987 and 1991 World Series teams. The other six were Randy Bush, Greg Gagne, Kirby Puckett, Al Newman, Gene Larkin, and Kent Hrbek.
Broadcasting career
In 2000, Gladden became the color commentator on the Twins' radio network broadcast, most notably on WCCO-AM through 2006 and on the Twins Radio Network and its Metro Affiliate KSTP starting in 2007. He worked alongside Frick award-winning commentator Herb Carneal and the Twins' play-by-play man, John Gordon; Carneal died on April 1, 2007, leaving Gladden to deliver color commentary full-time.
Personal
Gladden is an avid owner and rider of Harley Davidson motorcycles and sometimes takes time off to ride and attend famous bike rallies.
Gladden currently lives with his wife and two daughters in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
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References
- ^ "ESPN: World Series 100th Anniversary". ESPN. http://espn.go.com/swf/mlb/anniversary/worldseries_100.html. Retrieved 2010-02-25.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube
- Minnesota Twins Broadcasters - bio
Minnesota Twins 1987 World Series Champions 4 Steve Lombardozzi | 5 Roy Smalley | 7 Greg Gagne | 8 Gary Gaetti | 9 Gene Larkin | 14 Kent Hrbek | 15 Tim Laudner | 16 Frank Viola (World Series MVP) | 17 Les Straker | 18 Don Baylor | 21 George Frazier | 22 Keith Atherton | 24 Tom Brunansky | 25 Randy Bush | 26 Al Newman | 27 Mark Davidson | 28 Bert Blyleven | 31 Dan Schatzeder | 32 Dan Gladden | 33 Sal Butera | 34 Kirby Puckett | 36 Joe Niekro | 40 Juan Berenguer | 41 Jeff Reardon
Manager 10 Tom Kelly
Coach 6 Tony Oliva | 42 Dick Such | 43 Rick Stelmaszek | 44 Rick Renick | 45 Wayne TerwilligerRegular season • American League Championship Series Minnesota Twins 1991 World Series Champions 0 Junior Ortiz | 1 Jarvis Brown | 7 Greg Gagne | 9 Gene Larkin | 11 Chuck Knoblauch | 12 Brian Harper | 13 Mike Pagliarulo | 14 Kent Hrbek | 18 Paul Sorrento | 19 Scott Erickson | 24 Shane Mack | 25 Randy Bush | 26 Al Newman | 30 Terry Leach | 31 Scott Leius | 32 Dan Gladden | 34 Kirby Puckett | 36 Kevin Tapani | 38 Rick Aguilera | 39 David West | 40 Steve Bedrosian | 44 Chili Davis | 47 Jack Morris (World Series MVP) | 51 Carl Willis | 53 Mark Guthrie
Manager 10 Tom Kelly
Coach 6 Tony Oliva | 35 Ron Gardenhire | 42 Dick Such | 43 Rick Stelmaszek | 45 Wayne Terwilliger | 46 Terry CrowleyRegular season • American League Championship Series Categories:- 1957 births
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