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FEATURING AUTOGRAPHs OF  2 MLB BASEBALL PLAYERS  :

SHAWON DUNSTON>CHICAGO CUBS & 

VINCE COLEMAN> ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 

DESCRIPTION COURTESY OF WIKIPEDIA:

Shawon Donnell Dunston  (born March 21, 1963 in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American retired professional baseball  player. A shortstop , Dunston played in Major League Baseball  (MLB) from 1985 through 2002.

Dunston was the first overall pick in the 1982 MLB draft by the Chicago Cubs , and played for the Cubs (1985–95, 1997), San Francisco Giants  (1996, 1998, 2001–02), Pittsburgh Pirates  (1997), Cleveland Indians  (1998), St. Louis Cardinals  (1999, 2000) and New York Mets  (1999). Dunston was named an All-Star  in 1988 and 1990.As a shortstop , Dunston was considered one of the best prospects available in the 1982 Major League Baseball Draft .[4]  The Chicago Cubs  selected Dunston with the first overall selection  of the draft out of Thomas Jefferson High School.[1]  He was the first player from the New York area to be chosen with the first overall pick in the draft.[3]  Opting to represent himself, Dunston signed a one-year contract with the Cubs for $100,000, and was assigned to the Cubs' Rookie-level  minor league baseball  affiliate in the Gulf Coast League .[2]

Dunston competed with Larry Bowa  for the role as the starting shortstop for the Cubs in spring training  in 1985. Dunston initially won the job over Bowa.[5]  He made his debut in the major leagues on April 9. However, Dunston struggled offensively and defensively, batting .194 and committing nine errors  in 23 games. As a result, he was sent back to the minor leagues,[6]  with Bowa regaining the starting role. After playing well for the Iowa Cubs , the Cubs recalled Dunston in August, and released Bowa.[5]

In 1988  and 1990  he joined double-play  partner Ryne Sandberg  as an All-Star  and was a key contributor to the Cubs' NL East division  title in 1989 , hitting .278 with 20 doubles, 6 triples, 9 home runs , 60 runs batted in  and 19 stolen bases . Due to become a free agent  after the 1991 season, Dunston instead signed a four-year, $12 million contract to remain with the Cubs without testing the open market.[7]  However, he injured his back that offseason, and required surgery to repair a herniated disk in May 1992.[8] [9]  The Cubs opted not to protect Dunston from being eligible to be selected in the 1992 Major League Baseball expansion draft ,[10]  but neither the Colorado Rockies  nor the Florida Marlins  selected him.

After the 1995 season, he was granted free agency. The Cubs wanted to move Dunston to third base , but he preferred to remain at shortstop. As a result, he signed with the San Francisco Giants  for the 1996 season, receiving a one-year contract worth $1.5 million.[11]  He signed with the Cubs for the 1997 season, receiving $2 million.[12]

On August 31, 1997, the Cubs traded Dunston to the Pittsburgh Pirates , who lost two shortstops, Kevin Elster  and Kevin Polcovich , to injuries.[13]  He hit two home runs in his first game with the Pirates,[14]  and three in his first three games.[13]  He became a free agent after the season, and signed a one-year contract with the Cleveland Indians  for $400,000.[15]  On July 23, 1998, the Indians traded Dunston, José Mesa , and Alvin Morman  to the Giants for Jacob Cruz  and Steve Reed . Dunston was batting .237 at the time of the trade.[16]  With the Giants, Dunston batted .176 in 51 at-bats. Dunston became a free agent after the season and signed with the St. Louis Cardinals  on a one-year contract worth $500,000.[17]

On July 31, 1999, the Cardinals traded Dunston to the New York Mets  for Craig Paquette . He replaced rookie Melvin Mora  on the Mets roster.[18]  Dunston became a free agent after the season and signed with the Cardinals for the 2000 season. He signed with the Giants that next offseason, playing with them in 2001 and 2002. He reached the 2002 World Series , his first, as a member of the Giants.[19]  He hit a home run  off Kevin Appier  of the Anaheim Angels  in game six, but the Angels won the game[20]  and the series.

Dunston was a career .269 hitter with 150 home runs and 668 RBI in 1814 games. He seldom walked, so in spite of his batting average, his on-base percentage was the second-worst among players with at least 4500 plate appearances during their careers.[21]  At the end of his career, he was used mainly as a fourth outfielder  and a role player off the bench.

Vincent Maurice Coleman  (born September 22, 1961) is an American  former Major League Baseball  player, best known for his years with the St. Louis Cardinals . Primarily a left fielder , Coleman played from 1985  to 1997  and set a number ofstolen base  records. He was a switch-hitter  and threw right-handed. He is currently the Outfield/Baserunning Development Specialist for the Quad City River Bandits in Davenport, Iowa.

Major League Baseball career [ edit ]

He chose to forgo an NFL career when he was drafted in the 10th round of the 1982 Major League Baseball Draft  by the St. Louis Cardinals . Coleman stole 145 bases in a single season with Macon of the South Atlantic League  in 1983 ; notably, Coleman did so despite missing a month of the season with a broken hand. He further demonstrated his speed and basestealing ability with 101 steals for the Louisville Redbirds  of the American Association  before being called up to the majors.

Coleman stole 110 bases in his debut season in 1985, easily setting a major league rookie record. Benny Kauff  had had 75 steals as a rookie in the Federal League  in 1914 ; Juan Samuel  was considered MLB's rookie record holder with 72 steals in 1984 . To date, the 110 steals are the third-highest in Major League history, after Rickey Henderson 's 130 in 1982  and Lou Brock 's 118 in 1974 . Coleman stole over 100 bases in each of the following two seasons as well, making him the only player in the 20th century to post three consecutive seasons of 100 or more steals and the first player in Major League history to steal 100 bases in the first three seasons of their career. By the end of only his second year, his 217 stolen bases were second in Cardinal history behind Lou Brock's 888, just ahead of the 203 by Jack Smith .[1]  Before signing as a free agent with New York, Coleman led the National League  in stolen bases in every season he played with the Cardinals (1985 -1990 ), becoming one of just four players ever to lead his league in six consecutive seasons. The other players to accomplish this feat are Henderson, Luis Aparicio , and Maury Wills . Coleman, Henderson, Wills and Brock are the only players to steal 100 bases in a season. Only Coleman and Henderson have three different 100-steal seasons to their credit, and only Coleman reached the total in three consecutive years.

As the leadoff hitter and baserunning sparkplug for St. Louis, Coleman helped the team reach the 1985 playoffs. But he suffered a freak injury prior to the fourth game of the National League Championship Series , when the automatic tarpaulin at Busch Stadium  rolled over his leg during routine stretching exercises. The injury sidelined him for the rest of the postseason, and the Cardinals eventually lost a seven-game World Series  to Kansas City .[2]  Following the season, Coleman became the fourth-ever unanimous selection for the NL Rookie of the Year  Award.

He offended many baseball fans, the press and many African Americans in 1985 when he declared "I don’t know nothin’ about him. Why are you asking me about Jackie Robinson ?"[3]  Responding to Coleman, Rachel Robinson, Jackie Robinson's widow said, "I hope somehow he'll learn and be embarrassed by his own ignorance."

Coleman compiled the best season of his major league career in 1987 , when he posted a .289 batting average and a .363 on base percentage while totaling 180 hits, 109 stolen bases, and 121 runs scored. He stole second and third base in the same inning 13 times that year. Coleman played in the World Series  that year, the only one he would appear in. In June, he recorded his 500th stolen base in just his 804th game, the fewest that any player has needed to reach that plateau.

In 1989, Coleman compiled a streak of 50 successful stolen bases without being caught stealing, before it was broken on July 28 when he was thrown out by Montreal Expos  catcher Nelson Santovenia  in a game at Olympic Stadium .[4]  The next night, July 29, 1989, Coleman was called out twice for interference on the base paths - first by using his hands to hit a ball foul, and then tugging at the uniform of Expos second baseman Damaso Garcia  to break up a double play.

Coleman left for the Mets after the 1990 season via free agency, signing a four-year, $11.95 million contract. However, his career took a quick downward spiral. He missed 215 games (out of a possible 486) due to numerous injuries and suspensions. Coleman was one of three Met players named in a complaint filed by a 31-year-old woman in Florida, although prosecutors did not pursue charges in the case. His base-stealing strategy became increasingly suspect; he often ignored or misinterpreted his coaches' signs on the basepaths. He was also very difficult to get along with. He got into an ugly argument with coach Mike Cubbage  at the tail end of his first season which was a factor in manager Bud Harrelson 's ouster. In September 1992, he got into a fight with Harrelson's successor, Jeff Torborg , and was suspended without pay for the rest of the season. The Mets seemingly had enough and tried to trade him, but there were no takers. In April 1993, Coleman injured Dwight Gooden 's arm by recklessly swinging a golf club in the clubhouse. Three months later, Coleman was charged with endangerment when he threw a lit firecracker  into a crowd of baseball fans waiting for autographs in the Dodger Stadium  parking lot. The explosion injured three children, including a two-year-old, Amanda Santos. He was sentenced to 200 hours of community service for the incident. The Mets placed him on paid administrative leave—in effect, a suspension with pay. On August 26, the Mets announced that as part of a general housecleaning of the clubhouse, Coleman would not return in 1994. Manager Dallas Green  said that while Coleman had played well (when he suited up), he didn't think Coleman had the "head and heart and belly" he wanted to see on the team.[5]

At the end of the season, the Mets traded him, with cash, to the Kansas City Royals  for Kevin McReynolds .

He recorded 76 steals in 179 games as a Royal before being traded to the Seattle Mariners  in mid-1995 . 1996  found Coleman with the Cincinnati Reds , where he was ineffective. Released by the team in June, he signed with the California Angels  but never played a game for the team. Coleman's final season in the major leagues came in 1997 with the Detroit Tigers, where he again received limited playing time and little success on the basepaths or elsewhere.

Coleman attempted a comeback with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1998 and hit over .300 in spring training, but did not earn a spot on the opening day roster. He was assigned to the AAA Memphis Redbirds, where he continued to play well, stealing eight bases and hitting .316 with an on-base percentage of .395 in 20 games as the club's regular left fielder and leadoff man. However, after failing to receive a promotion to St. Louis, Coleman elected to retire in May of 1998, finishing his professional career with 752 stolen bases.

Coleman currently ranks sixth in all-time career steals in the major leagues, with 752. He also ranks 40th all-time in career stolen base percentage among all players with 80 or more attempts, at 80.947%

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