Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:59 pm Post subject: Piazza calls It Quits After 16 Years and 427 HR's
Mike Piazza who went from a 62nd-round draft pick to the best-hitting catcher in major league history and a near-certain Hall of Famer, declared his retreat from baseball on Tuesday.
Piazza, who receive not been communicative by a team for the 2008 season, complete his sixteen-yrcareer with a .308 batting medium and 427 home runs. His 396 homers as a catcher were the most at a position best-known for its physical request.
Afterwars talking over my options with my married woman, family and agent, I felt it was time to beginning a new part in my biography, Piazza, thirty-nine, said in a assertion. He else: I knew this day was back, and ended the last 2 years, I begin to make my peace with it. I furnish it my all, and left everything on the field.
Piazza was baseball's highest rags-to-riches story, as much as the son of a multimillionaire can be. His father, Vince, was a good friend of Tommy Lasorda, the longtime manager of the Dodgers. As the June 1988 amateur draft approached, Lasorda asked his organization to choose Mike Piazza, then at a Miami junior college, merely as a feel-good favour.
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