MORE OF SHAWN GREEN! GO DOGERS!
Biography:
Shawn David Green...enters the fifth year of a six-year contract through the 2005 season...he and his wife, Lindsay, have one daughter Presley Taylor (12/22/02)...graduated from Tustin (CA) High School, where he was a baseball standout...donates $250,000 of his salary during each year of his contract to the Dodgers' Dream Foundation, totaling $1.5 million over the six years...his contributions have supported the development of four Dodger Dream Fields throughout the City of Los Angeles and the purchase of books for local elementary schools and youth community programs as part of the Dodgers Reading Dugout Program...was presented the Hank Greenberg Sportsmanship Award by the American Jewish Historical Society in 2004...was named as Baseball Man of the Year at the Cedars-Sinai Sports Spectacular on June 29, 2003 an event that helped raise money for the hospital's genetic defects unit....received a baseball scholarship offer from Stanford University, but signed with Toronto on Sept. 25, 1991 after he was the Blue Jays' first-round selection (16th overall) in the June 1991 First-Year Player Draft...donated a portion of his signing bonus with the Blue Jays to the Metropolitan Toronto Housing Authority Breakfast Club, which provided needy children with hearty meals on a daily basis throughout Toronto...named as a 2003 inductee into the Arizona Fall League Hall of Fame...honored at the Baseball Assistance Team's annual Going to Bat for BAT fundraising dinner as the recipient of the Bart Giamatti Award for his off the field involvement in the community in 2000...also named to the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in Los Angeles...was a first-team selection on the 1991 USA Today All-USA High School baseball team...signed by John Cole of the Toronto Blue Jays.
2003 Career Highlights:
By Year:
Battled through a shoulder injury while having his toughest offensive season since 1997...tied for fourth in the National League with 160 games played...tied for second in NL with 49 doubles, setting a Los Angeles Dodger record and putting him second on the all-time single season franchise list behind Brooklyn's Johnny Frederick (52) in 1929...led the Dodgers with 49 multi-hit games, including three four-hit games and eight three-hit games...from July 1 through the end of the year (80 games), batted .309 (93-for-301) with 11 homers and 46 RBI...batted .435 (10-for-23) with a runner on third base and less than two outs...tied for 10th in the National League with nine outfield assists...led the team with 21 multi-RBI games, including two four-RBI games...was 4-for-4 with a double, homer, walk and three RBI on April 2 at Arizona...went 4-for-5 with three runs and two RBI on April 20 vs. San Francisco in Dodgers' 16-4 victory...on first anniversary of his four-homer game in Milwaukee on May 23, went 3-for-5 with four RBI, including game-winning three-run homer in seventh inning...had a 10-game hitting streak from May 21- 31 during which he batted .375 (15-for-40)...had game-winning single with one out in the bottom of the 11th inning in Dodgers' 1-0 victory on July 24 vs. Colorado...left the Aug. 20 game vs. Montreal after the fourth inning with spasms in the left side of his neck...the same injury caused him to miss the Aug. 21 game vs. Montreal, the first game he missed all season...also missed the Aug. 22 game vs. New York...doubled on Aug. 29 vs. Colorado for his 44th two-bagger of the year, equaling his total in 2000, which ranked second on the all-time Los Angeles list...doubled on Sept. 2 vs. Houston for his 45th double of the year, tying his career high and moving him into sole possession of second place on the all-time Los Angeles single-season list...went 2-for-5 with a double, homer and a Dodgers' season-high five RBI on Sept. 6 at Colorado...the double set his career high with 46...hit his sixth career grand slam on Sept. 8 at Arizona off Stephen Randolph...homered in three straight games from Sept. 6-8, a Dodger season high...slugged his 250th career home run on Sept. 12 vs. San Diego's Kevin Jarvis, a solo shot...doubled on Sept. 19 vs. San Francisco to tie Wes Parker for the L.A. Dodger single-season record with 47 doubles... doubled on Sept. 27 at San Francisco to break the L.A. Dodgers' all-time single season record.
CAREER SUMMARY: Has belted 134 home runs in his four-year Dodger career, including a franchise-record 49 in 2001...has 110 homers over the last three seasons, the second-most by a right fielder in baseball during that time, trailing only Sammy Sosa (153)...his 91 homers over 2001 and 2002 are the most in back-to-back seasons in Dodger history, eclipsing Duke Snider's total of 85 he combined for in 1955 and 1956...has 23 multi-homer games...his combined 230 RBI in 2001 and 2002 are the most in back-to-back campaigns by a Dodger since Tommy Davis drove in a combined 241 in 1962 and 1963...has slugged 211 home runs and collected 646 RBI over his last six campaigns, an average of 35.2 homers and 108 RBI per season...has hit 42 or more homers three times and driven in 100 or more runs on four occasions...in his 11 big league seasons, including seven with the Toronto Blue Jays (1993-99), has amassed 253 homers, 799 RBI and 134 stolen bases...has made four Opening Day starts in right field for the Dodgers, one shy of the L.A. Dodger record shared by Ron Fairly, Mike Marshall and Raul Mondesi...his 136 home runs and 300 extra-base hits both rank 10th on the all-time Los Angeles list...was just the fifth player in Major League history to sock 40 or more homers in a season in both leagues, having hit 42 for Toronto in 1999...on May 23, 2002 at Miller Park in Milwaukee, he turned in perhaps the best single-game offensive performance in Major League history...on that record-setting afternoon, he went 6-for-6 with four home runs, a double, single, six runs scored and seven RBI...he became just the 14th MLB player to hit four homers in a game while setting a new single-game MLB mark with 19 total bases...the six runs scored and five extra-base hits also tied Major League records...set a Major League mark with seven home runs in three consecutive games from May 23-25, 2002...his nine homers in a week (Sunday to Saturday) from May 19-25, 2002 set a National League record...named to the American League All-Star team in 1999 and to the National League All-Star squad in 2002...ranks eighth all-time with 85 doubles at Dodger Stadium...his 62 homers at Chavez Ravine rank 10th all-time...made his Major League debut on Sept. 28, 1993 at Milwaukee...collected first big league hit on June 13, 1994 at Cleveland off Mark Clark...connected for his first Major League home run on May 14, 1995 at Milwaukee off Cal Eldred.
Shawn David Green...enters the fifth year of a six-year contract through the 2005 season...he and his wife, Lindsay, have one daughter Presley Taylor (12/22/02)...graduated from Tustin (CA) High School, where he was a baseball standout...donates $250,000 of his salary during each year of his contract to the Dodgers' Dream Foundation, totaling $1.5 million over the six years...his contributions have supported the development of four Dodger Dream Fields throughout the City of Los Angeles and the purchase of books for local elementary schools and youth community programs as part of the Dodgers Reading Dugout Program...was presented the Hank Greenberg Sportsmanship Award by the American Jewish Historical Society in 2004...was named as Baseball Man of the Year at the Cedars-Sinai Sports Spectacular on June 29, 2003 an event that helped raise money for the hospital's genetic defects unit....received a baseball scholarship offer from Stanford University, but signed with Toronto on Sept. 25, 1991 after he was the Blue Jays' first-round selection (16th overall) in the June 1991 First-Year Player Draft...donated a portion of his signing bonus with the Blue Jays to the Metropolitan Toronto Housing Authority Breakfast Club, which provided needy children with hearty meals on a daily basis throughout Toronto...named as a 2003 inductee into the Arizona Fall League Hall of Fame...honored at the Baseball Assistance Team's annual Going to Bat for BAT fundraising dinner as the recipient of the Bart Giamatti Award for his off the field involvement in the community in 2000...also named to the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in Los Angeles...was a first-team selection on the 1991 USA Today All-USA High School baseball team...signed by John Cole of the Toronto Blue Jays.
2003 Career Highlights:
By Year:
Battled through a shoulder injury while having his toughest offensive season since 1997...tied for fourth in the National League with 160 games played...tied for second in NL with 49 doubles, setting a Los Angeles Dodger record and putting him second on the all-time single season franchise list behind Brooklyn's Johnny Frederick (52) in 1929...led the Dodgers with 49 multi-hit games, including three four-hit games and eight three-hit games...from July 1 through the end of the year (80 games), batted .309 (93-for-301) with 11 homers and 46 RBI...batted .435 (10-for-23) with a runner on third base and less than two outs...tied for 10th in the National League with nine outfield assists...led the team with 21 multi-RBI games, including two four-RBI games...was 4-for-4 with a double, homer, walk and three RBI on April 2 at Arizona...went 4-for-5 with three runs and two RBI on April 20 vs. San Francisco in Dodgers' 16-4 victory...on first anniversary of his four-homer game in Milwaukee on May 23, went 3-for-5 with four RBI, including game-winning three-run homer in seventh inning...had a 10-game hitting streak from May 21- 31 during which he batted .375 (15-for-40)...had game-winning single with one out in the bottom of the 11th inning in Dodgers' 1-0 victory on July 24 vs. Colorado...left the Aug. 20 game vs. Montreal after the fourth inning with spasms in the left side of his neck...the same injury caused him to miss the Aug. 21 game vs. Montreal, the first game he missed all season...also missed the Aug. 22 game vs. New York...doubled on Aug. 29 vs. Colorado for his 44th two-bagger of the year, equaling his total in 2000, which ranked second on the all-time Los Angeles list...doubled on Sept. 2 vs. Houston for his 45th double of the year, tying his career high and moving him into sole possession of second place on the all-time Los Angeles single-season list...went 2-for-5 with a double, homer and a Dodgers' season-high five RBI on Sept. 6 at Colorado...the double set his career high with 46...hit his sixth career grand slam on Sept. 8 at Arizona off Stephen Randolph...homered in three straight games from Sept. 6-8, a Dodger season high...slugged his 250th career home run on Sept. 12 vs. San Diego's Kevin Jarvis, a solo shot...doubled on Sept. 19 vs. San Francisco to tie Wes Parker for the L.A. Dodger single-season record with 47 doubles... doubled on Sept. 27 at San Francisco to break the L.A. Dodgers' all-time single season record.
CAREER SUMMARY: Has belted 134 home runs in his four-year Dodger career, including a franchise-record 49 in 2001...has 110 homers over the last three seasons, the second-most by a right fielder in baseball during that time, trailing only Sammy Sosa (153)...his 91 homers over 2001 and 2002 are the most in back-to-back seasons in Dodger history, eclipsing Duke Snider's total of 85 he combined for in 1955 and 1956...has 23 multi-homer games...his combined 230 RBI in 2001 and 2002 are the most in back-to-back campaigns by a Dodger since Tommy Davis drove in a combined 241 in 1962 and 1963...has slugged 211 home runs and collected 646 RBI over his last six campaigns, an average of 35.2 homers and 108 RBI per season...has hit 42 or more homers three times and driven in 100 or more runs on four occasions...in his 11 big league seasons, including seven with the Toronto Blue Jays (1993-99), has amassed 253 homers, 799 RBI and 134 stolen bases...has made four Opening Day starts in right field for the Dodgers, one shy of the L.A. Dodger record shared by Ron Fairly, Mike Marshall and Raul Mondesi...his 136 home runs and 300 extra-base hits both rank 10th on the all-time Los Angeles list...was just the fifth player in Major League history to sock 40 or more homers in a season in both leagues, having hit 42 for Toronto in 1999...on May 23, 2002 at Miller Park in Milwaukee, he turned in perhaps the best single-game offensive performance in Major League history...on that record-setting afternoon, he went 6-for-6 with four home runs, a double, single, six runs scored and seven RBI...he became just the 14th MLB player to hit four homers in a game while setting a new single-game MLB mark with 19 total bases...the six runs scored and five extra-base hits also tied Major League records...set a Major League mark with seven home runs in three consecutive games from May 23-25, 2002...his nine homers in a week (Sunday to Saturday) from May 19-25, 2002 set a National League record...named to the American League All-Star team in 1999 and to the National League All-Star squad in 2002...ranks eighth all-time with 85 doubles at Dodger Stadium...his 62 homers at Chavez Ravine rank 10th all-time...made his Major League debut on Sept. 28, 1993 at Milwaukee...collected first big league hit on June 13, 1994 at Cleveland off Mark Clark...connected for his first Major League home run on May 14, 1995 at Milwaukee off Cal Eldred.