Curt Ford

Curt Ford
Curt Ford
	Outfielder
	Born: October 11, 1960; Jackson, Mississippi
Batted: Left	Threw: Right
MLB debut
	June 22, 1985, for the St. Louis Cardinals
Last MLB appearance
	May 27, 1990, for the Philadelphia Phillies
MLB statistics
Batting average	.245
Home runs	7
Runs batted in	89
Teams
	St. Louis Cardinals (1985–1988); Philadelphia Phillies (1989–1990);

Curtis Glenn Ford (born October 11, 1960), is an American former professional baseball outfielder, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies, from 1985 through 1990.

Career

Ford attended Murrah High School then Jackson State University and played college baseball for the Jackson State Tigers. The St. Louis Cardinals selected Ford in the fourth round of the 1981 Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft. He made his MLB debut with the Cardinals on June 22, 1985. He batted .308 in the 1987 World Series for the Cardinals versus the Minnesota Twins. After the 1988 season, the Cardinals traded Ford and Steve Lake to the Philadelphia Phillies for Milt Thompson.[1] In his MLB career, Ford had seven home runs, 89 runs batted in, and a batting average of .245.

On May 12, 2010, Ford was announced as the new manager of the Springfield Sliders, a wood-bat collegiate baseball team in the Prospect League. The team plays at Lanphier Park in Springfield, Illinois. Ford took over duties from former manager Jack Clark.[2]

Personal life

On March 25, 2015, Ford was punched at a St. Louis gas station by an attacker shouting racial slurs. The following day he said he may move away from the St. Louis area.[3]

gollark: A good video could be made on this but it might be better with an outside perspective.

gollark: Anyway, to summarise the rest of it, as I'm sure you've seen, eventually the reshuffling thing began actually happening in earnest, and today another thing happened (I forgot what), various people left, more of them joined new esolangs without leaving, and palaiologos pushed ahead with stricter rule updates in a rather authoritarian way.

gollark: Yes.

gollark: Anyway, at some point palaiologos seems to have decided that the server needed a substantial overhaul.(For video purposes you should of course find screenshots of all this stuff; I think much of it was in staff chat though)

gollark: The only person to actually *leave* due to the initial thing was cyan, who remains on the other esolangs.

References

"Phils Trade Thompson For 2 Cards". philly-archives. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
"Sliders move Clark to VP, hire former Cardinal Ford as manager". The State Journal. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
Byers, Christine (March 26, 2015). "Former Cardinals player punched at St. Louis County gas station after racial slur". stltoday.com. Retrieved March 26, 2015.

External links

Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball-Reference (Minors), or Retrosheet

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[1] "Phils Trade Thompson For 2 Cards". philly-archives. Retrieved March 26, 2015.

[2] "Sliders move Clark to VP, hire former Cardinal Ford as manager". The State Journal. Retrieved March 26, 2015.

[3] Byers, Christine (March 26, 2015). "Former Cardinals player punched at St. Louis County gas station after racial slur". stltoday.com. Retrieved March 26, 2015.