Robert John Valentine (born May 13, 1950 in Stamford, Connecticut) is a former Major League Baseball player and manager. He is currently an analyst for ESPN.
Valentine is considered to be among the best high school athletes in Connecticut history. He was widely recruited out of Rippowam High School in Stamford by the likes of the University of Nebraska, Duke University, the University of Notre Dame and the University of Southern California as a s...
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Robert John Valentine (born May 13, 1950 in Stamford, Connecticut) is a former Major League Baseball player and manager. He is currently an analyst for ESPN.
Valentine is considered to be among the best high school athletes in Connecticut history. He was widely recruited out of Rippowam High School in Stamford by the likes of the University of Nebraska, Duke University, the University of Notre Dame and the University of Southern California as a star in football and baseball. He attended USC where he became a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity and Arizona State University. The Los Angeles Dodgers drafted him number five overall in the 1968 Major League Baseball Draft.
After winning the Pioneer League's MVP award with the Ogden Dodgers in 1968, Valentine debuted with the Dodgers as a September call-up in 1969 at only 19 years old. Though he never recorded a major league at-bat that season, he did score three runs as a pinch runner.
Back in the Pacific Coast League for 1970, Valentine was...
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