Scott Sheldon
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Scott Patrick Sheldon (born November 20, 1968 in Hammond, Indiana) is a Major League Baseball third baseman/shortstop and right-handed batter who have played for the Oakland Athletics (1997) and Texas Rangers (1998-2001).
On September 6, 2000 Sheldon becomes the third player in MLB history to play all 9 positions in a single game, joining Bert Campaneris (Kansas City Athletics, September 8, 1965), Cesar Tovar (Minnesota Twins, September 22, 1968) and Shane Halter (Detroit Tigers, October 1, 2000), in the select list of nine-position players in the same game. No National League player has ever done it. Sheldon started in the 4th inning and amazingly performs the feat in just 5 frames.
In his 141-game career Sheldon batted .235, with 8 home runs and 33 runs batted in. Actually, he is playing for the Indianapolis Indians, a AAA affiliate team of the Milwaukee Brewers.
External links
- Complete statistics at Baseball Reference (http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sheldsc01.shtml)
- 2004 statistics at ESPN (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=5816)