David Justice
David Justice
Homo sapiens idaltu
Category="1966 births"Category="1993 National League All-Stars"Category="1994 National League All-Stars"Category="1997 National League All-Stars"Category="African American baseball players"Category="Atlanta Braves players"Category="Cleveland Indians players"Category="Major League Baseball announcers"Category="Major league right fielders"Category="Moneyball"Category="New York Yankees players"Category="Oakland Athletics players"David Justice (born April 14, 1966 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a former Major League Baseball Outfielder who played for the Atlanta Braves (1989-96), Cleveland Indians (1997-2000), New York Yankees (2000-01) and Oakland Athletics (2002).
Justice was a career .279 hitter with 305 home runs and 1017 RBI in 1610 games.
Highlights
Trivia
- Justice graduated from Covington Latin School at age 16 in 1982. He skipped the seventh and eighth grades.
- Justice was married to film actress Halle Berry between 1993 and 1996
- Justice hit a pivotal home run in Game 6 of the 1995 World Series. The run was so pivotal that it proved to be the only run to be scored in the game. Justice's Atlanta Braves wound up clinching the World Championship against the Cleveland Indians.
- For two years, Justice was a Color commentator for ESPN's baseball telecasts. Currently, he serves as a game and studio analyst for the YES Network's New York Yankees telecasts.
- From 1991 until his final year in 2002, David Justice never missed the postseason.
External link
- Baseball-Reference.com - career statistics and analysis