Johnny David Damon (born November 5, 1973, in Fort Riley, Kansas) is a Major League Baseball outfielder and plays for the New York Yankees. Since the 2000 season, through 2008, he was 3rd among active major leaguers in runs (589), and 7th in hits (912) and stolen bases (153). He was also the active leader in triples (95).
Johnny Damon was born in Fort Riley, Kansas, though he spent most of his early years in Thailand. His mother, Yome, is from Th...
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Johnny David Damon (born November 5, 1973, in Fort Riley, Kansas) is a Major League Baseball outfielder and plays for the New York Yankees. Since the 2000 season, through 2008, he was 3rd among active major leaguers in runs (589), and 7th in hits (912) and stolen bases (153). He was also the active leader in triples (95).
Johnny Damon was born in Fort Riley, Kansas, though he spent most of his early years in Thailand. His mother, Yome, is from Thailand and his father, Jimmy, is American of Croatian and Irish descent. They met while his father, a staff sergeant in the United States Army, was stationed in Thailand. Johnny, their 2nd child (after James, Jr.), was born at Ft. Riley, an Army base in Kansas. Johnny spent much of his early childhood as an "Army brat," moving to several bases from Okinawa, Japan, to West Germany before his father left the Army and settled the family in the Orlando area while Johnny was still a pre-schooler.
Damon was a quiet child, largely on account of a...
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