American baseball player

Steve Finley

Steven Allen Finley is an American former center fielder in Major League Baseball who played for eight teams between 1989 and 2007, most notably the Houston Astros, San Diego Padres, and Arizona Diamondbacks. He is one of only two players, along with Matt Herges, to play for all five National League West teams. An outstanding all-around player with power, speed, and defensive skill, he is one of only four players since 1945 with 300 home runs and 100 triples, along with Stan Musial, Willie Mays, and George Brett. , to have 2,500 hits and win five Gold Glove Awards in center field.

Born

1965

March 12

Died

Living

Era

1960s

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Steve, in brief

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Key dates

1965 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

538 Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths, ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
1088 Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Catholic Church. He is best known for initiating the Crusades.
1158 German city Munich (München) is first mentioned as forum apud Munichen in the Augsburg arbitration by Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich I.
1391 Konrad von Wallenrode is elected the 24th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (date is O.S.).

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The world in 1965

When Steve arrived

april 11 The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-five tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states of the United States, killing 266 people.
april 21 The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
april 24 Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
april 28 United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate US Army troops.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on March 12

Chris Sanders 1962– American illustrator and voice actor Dale Murphy 1956– American baseball player Dave Eggers 1970– American author and screenwriter George Berkeley 1685–1753 Anglo-Irish philosopher and author (born 1685) John Aubrey 1626– English historian and philosopher (died 1697) Mary Karadja 1868–1943 Swedish writer, spiritualist and princess (died 1943) Pádraig Faulkner 1918–2012 Irish educator and politician, 19th Irish Minister of Defence (born 1918) Thomas Arne 1710–1778 English composer (died 1778) Tian Han 1898– Chinese playwright (died 1968)

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