Johnny David Damon (born November 5, 1973) is an American professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter for the Cleveland Indians. In his Major League Baseball career, Damon has played for the Kansas City Royals (1995–2000), Oakland Athletics (2001), Boston Red Sox (2002–2005), New York Yankees (2006–2009), Detroit Tigers (2010), and Tampa Bay Rays (2011).
From 2000–2008, he was third among active players in runs (1,008) and seventh in h...
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Johnny David Damon (born November 5, 1973) is an American professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter for the Cleveland Indians. In his Major League Baseball career, Damon has played for the Kansas City Royals (1995–2000), Oakland Athletics (2001), Boston Red Sox (2002–2005), New York Yankees (2006–2009), Detroit Tigers (2010), and Tampa Bay Rays (2011).
From 2000–2008, he was third among active players in runs (1,008) and seventh in hits (1,590) and stolen bases (392). He is currently second among active leaders in triples (109), one behind Carl Crawford. He is also fifth among active players in career hits with over 2,500.
Damon was born in Fort Riley, an army base in Kansas. His mother, Yome, is from Thailand, and his father, Jimmy, is American of Croatian descent. They met while his father, a Staff Sergeant in the United States Army, was stationed in Thailand. Damon spent much of his early childhood as an "army brat," moving to several bases from Okinawa, Japan, to West...
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