Leron Lee (born March 4, 1948 in Bakersfield, California) is a former left fielder in Major League Baseball who played 8 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians and San Diego Padres. Lee, the oldest of six children, graduated from Grant High School in Sacramento with 36 football scholarship offers from major 4-year universities. Instead, he began his major league career at 18 as the number one draft pick of th...
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Leron Lee (born March 4, 1948 in Bakersfield, California) is a former left fielder in Major League Baseball who played 8 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians and San Diego Padres. Lee, the oldest of six children, graduated from Grant High School in Sacramento with 36 football scholarship offers from major 4-year universities. Instead, he began his major league career at 18 as the number one draft pick of the St. Louis Cardinals. He then played for the Cardinals for three seasons, the Padres for three seasons, and the Indians and Dodgers for 1.5 seasons.
Following his major league career, he played for the Lotte Orions in Japan from 1977-1987. He currently holds the Japanese record for career batting average (players with more than 4,000 at bats). He led the league in home runs and runs batted in in his first season, and won the batting title in 1980. In 1978, he invited younger brother Leon Lee (the father of Chicago Cubs player Derrek Lee) to...
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