Lee Jong-beom
South Korean baseball player and coach (born 1970) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lee Jong-beom (Korean: 이종범, Hanja: 李鍾範; born August 15, 1970) is a former South Korean professional baseball player who played for the Kia Tigers (formerly the Haitai Tigers) in the KBO League and the Chunichi Dragons in Japan from 1998 to 2001. He is nicknamed "Son of the Wind" (바람의 아들) for his speed.[1] (He was also known as "Baseball Genius"[2] and the "Korean Ichiro".)[citation needed] Lee is widely considered one of the best five-tool players in Korean baseball history, and the best all-around KBO player of the 1990s.[1]
Lee Jong-beom | |
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Shortstop, Outfielder | |
Born: (1970-08-15) August 15, 1970 (age 53) Gwangju, South Korea | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
Professional debut | |
KBO: April 10, 1993, for the Haitai Tigers | |
NPB: 1998, for the Chunichi Dragons | |
Last appearance | |
NPB: 2001, for the Chunichi Dragons | |
KBO: May 26, 2012, for the Kia Tigers | |
KBO statistics | |
Batting average | .297 |
Hits | 1,797 |
Home runs | 194 |
Runs batted in | 730 |
Stolen bases | 510 |
NPB statistics | |
Batting average | .261 |
Hits | 286 |
Home runs | 27 |
Runs batted in | 99 |
Teams | |
As player
As coach | |
Career highlights and awards | |
KBO
International
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Lee Jong-beom | |
Hangul | 이종범 |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | I Jongbeom |
McCune–Reischauer | Yi Chongbŏm |
Lee was the 1994 KBO League MVP, a 13-time KBO All Star, and a six-time winner of the KBO League Golden Glove Award. He holds the single-season stolen base record in the KBO, with 84, and once hit .393 in a season, second-best all-time. Lee also won the Korean Series Most Valuable Player Award twice (his Tigers won four Korean Series championships). Lee's number 7 was retired by the Kia Tigers in 2012.
He started his career at shortstop, where he played through 1997, and mainly played outfielder in later years.