Rick Leach (baseball)
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Richard Max Leach (born May 4, 1957) is an American former college football player and professional baseball player.
Rick Leach | |
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Outfielder / First baseman | |
Born: (1957-05-04) May 4, 1957 (age 66) Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. | |
Batted: Left Threw: Left | |
MLB debut | |
April 30, 1981, for the Detroit Tigers | |
Last MLB appearance | |
August 5, 1990, for the San Francisco Giants | |
MLB statistics | |
Batting average | .268 |
Home runs | 18 |
Runs batted in | 183 |
Teams | |
Leach was an all-state quarterback at Flint Southwestern High School in the fall of 1974 and the University of Michigan's starting quarterback for four consecutive seasons (1975–1978), leading the Wolverines to three consecutive Big Ten Conference championships and three appearances in the Rose Bowl. As a senior in 1978, he won the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy as the most valuable player in the Big Ten, was selected as a first-team All-American, and finished third in the balloting for the Heisman Trophy.
Selected by the Detroit Tigers in the first round (13th overall) of the 1979 Major League Baseball Draft,[1] Leach opted to play professional baseball. Primarily a backup outfielder and first baseman for the Tigers and Toronto Blue Jays, he played from 1981 to 1990; he had a .268 batting average and .335 on-base percentage in 1,719 major league at bats.