Ben Oglivie

Ben Oglivie is one of those guys who never quite gets the recognition he deserves, and that genuinely bugs me. Born in Colón, Panama, he made it all the way to the majors in an era when that journey was no small thing, and he quietly put together a career that any outfielder would be proud of. His best years in Milwaukee were legitimately special — he tied for the American League home run title in 1980 with 41 dingers, which is the kind of number that should have people still talking about him. And when his MLB days wrapped up in 1986, he didn't call it quits; he headed to Japan and played for the Kintetsu Buffaloes, which tells you everything about his love of the game. A 6'2" left-handed hitter who kept chasing baseball across two continents? That's a career worth knowing.

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Name (English)

Ben Oglivie

Name (Japanese)

ベン・オグリビー

Reading

べん・おぐりびー

Born

February 11, 1949 (age 77)

Origin

Colón City, Colón Province, Panama

Height

188 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Ox

High school

Theodore Roosevelt High School

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Oglivie
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AA%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4886249

Tags

• Colón Province
• baseball player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.