Keith Hernandez was born on October 20,1953 and is an American former Major League Baseball first baseman who played the majority of his career with the St Louis Cardinals and New York Mets.
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66 Facts About Keith Hernandez
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Keith Hernandez is widely considered the best defensive first baseman of all time.
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Keith Hernandez is currently a color commentator on Mets games for SportsNet New York, alongside former Mets teammate Ron Darling and play-by-play announcer Gary Cohen.
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Keith Hernandez is temporarily announcing MTA NYCT subway 7 line announcements.
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Keith Hernandez was born in San Francisco, and grew up in Pacifica and Millbrae, California.
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Keith Hernandez attended Terra Nova High School in Pacifica during his freshman year, then transferred to Capuchino High School in San Bruno for the remainder of his high school years.
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Keith Hernandez was a star athlete in high school and graduated in 1971.
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Keith Hernandez was perceived as having attitude issues because he sat out his entire senior high school season due to a dispute with a coach.
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Keith Hernandez played briefly at the College of San Mateo, a local community college, before being drafted by the St Louis Cardinals in the 42nd round of the 1971 Major League Baseball draft as the 783rd player selected.
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Keith Hernandez was the last player selected and signed in the 1971 Major League Baseball draft to play in the Major Leagues.
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Keith Hernandez made his major league debut at Candlestick Park on August 30,1974, against the San Francisco Giants, going 1-for-2 with two walks, and earning his first major league RBI with a single in the ninth.
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Keith Hernandez ended up splitting 1975 between Tulsa and the Cardinals.
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Keith Hernandez wore uniform number 18 for the first two years of his career.
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Keith Hernandez's Cardinals won the 1982 World Series, defeating the Milwaukee Brewers in seven games.
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Keith Hernandez contributed eight runs batted in during the seven-game World Series.
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Herzog said he felt that Keith Hernandez had become a cancer on his team and never regretted the trade.
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Keith Hernandez testified that in 1980 perhaps 40 percent of MLB players were using the drug but that use dramatically declined after that season.
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Keith Hernandez said he did not use cocaine after being traded to the Mets.
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Mets had retired number 37 for former manager Casey Stengel, so Keith Hernandez switched to number 17 upon joining the club, which he wore for the remainder of his career.
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Keith Hernandez was determined to prove Herzog wrong, helping to fuel a rivalry between the two teams in the mid-1980s.
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Keith Hernandez finished second in the NL Most Valuable Player voting behind Cubs second baseman Ryne Sandberg, and emerged as the Captain of the Mets' young core of ballplayers that included 1983 and 1984 Rookie of the Year Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden, respectively.
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Keith Hernandez had such a strong and accurate throwing arm that, as a result, the Mets re-routed their relays through him.
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Keith Hernandez is widely considered one of the greatest fielding first basemen in major league history.
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Keith Hernandez made brilliant diving plays far to his right and left.
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Keith Hernandez defended bunts by charging so aggressively that he occasionally discouraged opponents from attempting to bunt merely by reputation.
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Keith Hernandez had an uncanny feel for when the batter would attempt to bunt, therefore knowing when to charge in the first place.
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Keith Hernandez was adept at picking runners off first base by taking pickoff throws with his right foot on the bag and his left in foul territory so that he could make tags to his right more readily.
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MLB Commissioner Peter Ueberroth found that Keith Hernandez was among seven players who had used cocaine and been involved in its distribution.
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Keith Hernandez has always maintained that his cocaine use was recreational and limited to a time when baseball players routinely used the drug and has adamantly denied he ever distributed the drug.
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Well before the commissioner's decision, the Mets and Cardinals had become embroiled in a heated rivalry atop the National League East, with Keith Hernandez, newly acquired All-star catcher Gary Carter, and other talented veterans combining with a spectacular group of young talent to lead the charge for the Mets.
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Keith Hernandez set a record for game-winning RBIs in 1985 with 24, a statistic that was only official from 1980 to 1988.
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Keith Hernandez's career total is 129, which is a record.
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Not seeing both numbers meant Keith Hernandez was bailing out on inside pitches, trying too hard to pull the ball, and vulnerable to outside fastballs or outside breaking pitches.
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In Game 7, Keith Hernandez broke through against Red Sox lefty Bruce Hurst, who had shut out the Mets into the sixth inning, with a clutch two-run single.
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Keith Hernandez drove in another important run his next time up, giving him 3 RBI for the game.
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Carter and Keith Hernandez finished third and fourth, respectively, in NL MVP balloting.
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Keith Hernandez is portrayed as the most vocal of the Mets in dealing with the press and giving his opinion on teammates, alongside his prodigious beer consumption.
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In 1988, Keith Hernandez won his 11th and final Gold Glove and led his team to another division crown.
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Keith Hernandez signed with the Cleveland Indians for the 1990 season.
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Keith Hernandez was injured much of the time, and appeared in only 43 games, batting.
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Keith Hernandez won 11 Gold Glove awards for his glovework at first base, setting a Major League record for the position that still stands.
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Keith Hernandez shared an MVP award and played on two World Series champions, for one of whom he was the co-captain.
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Keith Hernandez is the all-time Game-winning RBI leader, and in 1985 set the single-season record for this stat as well.
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Keith Hernandez has been eligible for consideration for induction by the Veterans Committee since 2011 but has yet to be inducted.
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Keith Hernandez was inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame in 1997 and was voted the Mets' all-time first baseman by fans in celebration of the team's 40th anniversary in 2002.
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Keith Hernandez guest-starred as himself in "The Boyfriend", a two-part 1992 episode of the sitcom Seinfeld.
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Keith Hernandez exited the players' gate, where Kramer and Newman were waiting, and Newman heckled Keith Hernandez.
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Kramer and Newman then spent the next five years claiming that Keith Hernandez had spat on them, when in fact it was Roger McDowell.
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Keith Hernandez appeared with Mookie Wilson in an episode of Sesame Street in 1988.
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Keith Hernandez appeared in the final episode of Seinfeld, which aired in 1998.
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Keith Hernandez makes about $3,000 a year in royalties from the show as of 2015.
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Keith Hernandez made an appearance in a 1993 episode of the children's series Ghostwriter entitled "Building Bridges".
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Keith Hernandez has appeared in television commercials for the Coin Galleries of Oyster Bay, a coin dealer with several locations on Long Island, New York.
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Keith Hernandez, alongside Gary Cohen and Ron Darling, is a baseball commentator serving as an analyst for Mets' television broadcasts on SNY and WPIX.
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Keith Hernandez admitted that he never wore eyeblack while playing because he had high cheekbones.
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Keith Hernandez is a strong supporter of the Alzheimer's Association, New York City Chapter.
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Keith Hernandez said on a Fox Business appearance in June 2019 that he is a fan of President Donald Trump because the president had "helped everybody" in regards to the economy.
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Keith Hernandez has donated thousands of dollars to GOP candidates, including Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Susan Collins, Rudy Giuliani, Allen West, David Perdue, and Kelly Loeffler.
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On November 19,2021, Hernandez tweeted a photograph of lawyer and conspiracy theorist Robert F Kennedy Jr.
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Keith Hernandez is the son of John Keith Hernandez, a minor league first baseman affiliated with the St Louis Cardinals and New York Yankees in the 1940s.
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Keith Hernandez married Sue Broecker in 1979 and the couple had three daughters; they divorced in 1983.
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Keith Hernandez married Kai Thompson in 2005; they divorced in February 2011.
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