Dan Ford

Dan Ford
Outfielder
Born: May 19, 1952(1952-05-19) Los Angeles, California
Batted: Right	Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 12, 1975 for the Minnesota Twins
Last MLB appearance
May 31, 1985 for the Baltimore Orioles
Career statistics
Batting average	.270
Home runs	121
Runs batted in	566
Teams
Minnesota Twins (1975-1978) California Angels (1979 - 1981) Baltimore Orioles(1982-1985)
Career highlights and awards
World Series champion (1983)

Darnell "Disco Dan" Glenn Ford (born May 19, 1952 in Los Angeles, California), is a former professional baseball player who played in the Major Leagues primarily as an outfielder from 1975-1985. He was picked 1st overall in the 1970 June draft by the Athletics.

Career highlights

• Ford hit the first home run at the rebuilt Yankee Stadium on April 15, 1976.
• On August 10, 1979, Ford hit for the cycle for the Angels against the Seattle Mariners.
• Ford hit a home run for the Orioles in Game 3 of the 1983 World Series.
• Early in that Orioles championship season, on May 19, 1983, Ford had homered in the eighth inning at Baltimore, as the only hit in a 1-0 defeat of the White Sox, whom the Orioles would eventually face in the ALCS. In a coincidence of names, Ford's game-winning homer came off Richard Dotson (a homonym of "Datsun").^[1]

See also

• Hitting for the cycle

Notes

1. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07E6D81138F93AA25756C0A965948260&sec=&spon=

External links

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube
• Baseball Almanac

Persondata
Name	Ford, Dan
Alternative names
Short description	American baseball player
Date of birth	May 19, 1952
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California
Date of death
Place of death