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My Take
Jeff Burroughs is the kind of ballplayer I find easy to respect. His 1974 American League MVP award is the headline, but the deeper story is durability: an outfielder out of Long Beach who carved out a major league career from 1970 to 1985, passing through the Senators-turned-Rangers, the Braves, the Athletics and more. An MVP season is brutally hard to win even once, and sustaining big-league work for over fifteen years is its own grind. He may not have the flashiest record, but I am partial to hard-nosed hitters like him. There is a quiet, unglamorous toughness in his game that I genuinely admire.
Overview
Jeffrey Alan Burroughs (born March 7, 1951) is an American former professional baseball player. He played as an outfielder in Major League Baseball from 1970 through 1985, for the Washington Senators / Texas Rangers (1970–76), Atlanta Braves (1977–80), Seattle Mariners (1981), Oakland Athletics (1982–84) and Toronto Blue Jays (1985).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Jeff Burroughs
- Name (Japanese)
- ジェフ・バロウズ
- Reading
- じぇふ・ばろうず
- Born
- March 7, 1951 (age 75)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Rabbit
- Origin
- Long Beach, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- baseball player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Woodrow Wilson Classical High School
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 1974 Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.