David Justice was raised Catholic, and attended high school at Covington Latin School, a Catholic school across the river from his hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio.
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25 Facts About David Justice
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David Justice later attended Thomas More College in Crestview Hills, Kentucky, on a basketball scholarship.
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David Justice made his major league debut in May 1989, playing for the Atlanta Braves.
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David Justice promptly went on an offensive tear during the second half of the season, finishing with 28 home runs, which helped him claim the National League's Rookie of the Year Award.
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In 1991, the upstart Braves surged to the top of their division and David Justice was leading the National League in runs batted in when he was sidelined by a nagging back injury in June.
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David Justice finished with 87 runs batted in despite the injury and played in his first World Series.
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When baseball returned in 1995, David Justice helped his Braves to the World Series against the Cleveland Indians.
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David Justice drew attention when he criticized Atlanta fans for the level of support they were providing the team.
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David Justice posted solid numbers in 1998 and 1999 with the Cleveland Indians.
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In return, David Justice caught fire down the stretch and won the 2000 AL Championship Series MVP Award en route to his second world series championship.
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David Justice played a final season on an Oakland team which reached the playoffs in 2002 and was named the American League Player of the Week for the first week of the season.
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David Justice is in the top ten in a number of career postseason categories, such as at-bats, games played, hits, doubles and runs scored.
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David Justice gets the most fan mail on the team and is mobbed when he makes personal appearances on behalf of charities.
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In March 2007, it was announced that David Justice would be inducted into the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame.
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David Justice was the first member of any of the Braves' 14 consecutive division title teams to be inducted in the Braves Hall of Fame.
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David Justice was eligible for the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008, but he received only one vote, preventing him from being named on future ballots.
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David Justice has called the allegation "a bald-faced lie" and says that he has never met Radomski.
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David Justice has claimed that his only involvement with performance-enhancing drugs was a discussion about HGH in 2000 with Brian McNamee, then the New York Yankees' strength coach.
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David Justice, who had shoulder problems, thought that HGH might aid in his recovery.
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David Justice stated that after the discussion, he went to his locker and found a bag containing HGH and several injection needles; David Justice claimed that he was unwilling to inject himself and never used any of it.
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David Justice further stated in the interviews that all claims in the Mitchell Report concerning his alleged purchase and use of any performance-enhancing drugs were false and encouraged all players whose names appear in the report, especially Roger Clemens, to publicly deny any claims made by the Mitchell Report if they are untrue.
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David Justice later joined the YES Network of the New York Yankees as a game and studio analyst, and hosted the network's youth-oriented program Yankees on Deck.
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David Justice stated that this change was not in response to his inclusion in the Mitchell report, but was due to the destruction of his San Diego County home in the 2007 California wildfires and the recent passing of his mother.
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David Justice has appeared on a 1992 episode of The Young and the Restless.
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David Justice was played by Stephen Bishop in Moneyball, the film adaptation of the best-selling Michael Lewis book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its general manager, Billy Beane.
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