63 Facts About Justin Morneau

Justin Morneau played in Major League Baseball for the Minnesota Twins, Pittsburgh Pirates, Colorado Rockies, and Chicago White Sox.

Justin Morneau converted to first base in the minor leagues and made his MLB debut in 2003.

Four-time All-Star despite an injury-riddled career, Justin Morneau was named the 2006 American League Most Valuable Player, finished runner-up for MVP in 2008, and won two Silver Slugger Awards.

Additionally, Justin Morneau won the 2008 Home Run Derby and the 2014 National League batting title.

Justin Morneau is the youngest son of George Justin Morneau, a hitting coach for many softball and baseball teams, childcare worker, and sporting goods store owner.

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Justin Morneau's mother Audra Chartrand is an elementary school teacher and former fast-pitch softball player.

Justin Morneau grew up in New Westminster, British Columbia, the historic "Royal City", adjacent to Vancouver, where he played hockey for the local minor team, the New Westminster Royals, and emerged as a star goaltender, playing for teams a year older than he was.

Justin Morneau attended Lord Tweedsmuir Elementary School in New Westminster, later transferring to Richard McBride Elementary School, where his mother was a teacher and coach and where he enrolled in a French immersion program.

Justin Morneau played basketball and volleyball and ball hockey on the school teams.

Justin Morneau transferred to New Westminster Secondary School and graduated in 1999.

Justin Morneau continued to play basketball and hockey while in high school.

Justin Morneau was named the New Westminster High School Athlete of the year and was a member of Canadian national champion baseball teams in 1997 and 1998.

Justin Morneau was associated with the Portland Winter Hawks of the Western Hockey League; he attended training camp and played one preseason game of Major Junior hockey as a goaltender.

Justin Morneau is listed as winning the Memorial Cup in 1998 with the Winter Hawks.

Justin Morneau remained on Portland's Protected Player List until he decided to focus on baseball instead of hockey.

Justin Morneau did not attend college, despite receiving many attractive offers from NCAA schools.

Justin Morneau was selected by the Twins in the 3rd round as the 89th overall pick of the 1999 MLB amateur entry draft.

Justin Morneau converted to first base in 2001 while playing for the Class-A Quad Cities River Bandits.

Justin Morneau participated in the 2002 and 2004 All-Star Futures Games, playing for the World teams.

Justin Morneau singled in his first career at-bat off Jason Jennings and went 2 for 4 in the game.

Justin Morneau went on to hit four home runs in his rookie season while batting.

Justin Morneau spent the majority of the season with the Twins' Triple-A affiliate Rochester Red Wings.

In 2004, after Justin Morneau compiled impressive minor league numbers, the Twins dealt veteran first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz to the Boston Red Sox and Justin Morneau became the Twins' starting first baseman.

Justin Morneau appeared in 74 games for the Twins in 2004, hitting 19 home runs and 58 RBIs in 280 at bats while committing just three errors.

Justin Morneau was second in the league in RBIs and tied Larry Walker's 1997 total for the most RBIs in a season by a Canadian.

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Justin Morneau's efforts helped the Twins win their fourth division title in five years.

Justin Morneau became the first Canadian to win the AL MVP award, and the second Canadian to win a major league MVP award .

In May 2007, Justin Morneau won the Player of the Month in the American League for the first time in his career.

Justin Morneau appeared on the cover of the arcade baseball video game The Bigs in Canadian stores and at Best Buy stores in the United States.

Justin Morneau was named to the 2007 Major League Baseball All-Star Game roster in 2007 for the first time.

Justin Morneau participated in the 2007 State Farm Home Run Derby for the first time.

Justin Morneau was up first and hit 4 homers and ended up tying with Albert Pujols in the first round.

Justin Morneau was eliminated with only one homer on 5 chances in a tie-off.

Justin Morneau had an at bat to try for his fourth home run, but his bat got under the ball, and he flew out to deep left field.

Justin Morneau produced with his new contract, as he played in all 162 of the Twins' games and hit.

Justin Morneau was then announced as a reserve player for the American League in the 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

Justin Morneau won the 2008 Home Run Derby, defeating Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers.

Justin Morneau became the first Canadian to win the Home Run Derby.

Later during the All-Star event, Justin Morneau scored the winning run for the American League in the MLB All Star Game at Yankee Stadium on a sacrifice fly to right field off the bat of Michael Young.

Justin Morneau was awarded the Lionel Conacher Award as the Canadian Press Male Athlete of the Year, joining Ferguson Jenkins and Larry Walker as the only Major League Baseball players to win the award.

Justin Morneau finished second in the balloting for AL MVP, as Dustin Pedroia won, and Kevin Youkilis came in third.

In 2009, Justin Morneau hit 30 home runs and was selected as a reserve position player at first base for the 2009 All Star Game.

On September 14, Justin Morneau was officially diagnosed with a stress fracture in his back after a long slump; he missed the rest of the 2009 season and the playoffs.

Justin Morneau got off to a strong start in the 2010 campaign, hitting a career first-half high.

Justin Morneau missed the remainder of the 2010 regular season with the effects of post-concussion syndrome.

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Justin Morneau said he would be unavailable for the ALDS, but that he hoped to be available for the ALCS should the Twins advance.

In 2011, the Twins were glad to see Justin Morneau somewhat recovered from his season-ending concussion in the previous season.

Justin Morneau was in the Opening Day starting line-up against the Toronto Blue Jays.

In 2011, Justin Morneau appeared in just 69 games collecting just 60 hits, only four of them home runs.

In 2012, Justin Morneau returned as an everyday first baseman for the Twins.

Justin Morneau had nearly matched his total stats for 2012, batting.

Justin Morneau wore number 33 in Minnesota, but due to number being retired in Pittsburgh, he simply decided to double it.

Justin Morneau was immediately placed on the 15-day disabled list, and was projected to return after the All-Star break.

Justin Morneau serves as a television analyst for the Twins on Bally Sports North, becoming the team's primary analyst for the 2020 season.

Justin Morneau was selected for the Canada national baseball team at the 2006 World Baseball Classic, 2009 World Baseball Classic, 2013 World Baseball Classic, 2017 World Baseball Classic and 2019 WBSC Premier12.

Justin Morneau was selected for the MLB-All-Stars at the 2014 MLB Japan All-Star Series.

Justin Morneau's mother is a retired teacher and his father works in a warehouse.

Justin Morneau's mother remarried in 2006 and now Justin has two stepsisters.

Justin Morneau purchased a house in his hometown of New Westminster.

Justin Morneau's house is just four blocks from Queen's Park, where he grew up playing hockey and baseball.

Justin Morneau Field is located just 25 kilometres from a field named for one of Justin Morneau's idols, Larry Walker Field, located in the nearby city of Maple Ridge.

Justin Morneau Foundation was established by Morneau himself and his wife, Krista, to support underprivileged communities with an emphasis on those where the Morneaus have lived.

Over a span of four years, Justin Morneau mailed more than 200 personalized holiday gifts to Twins employees, including the Target Field grounds crew.