Photo: Scooters34 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)

Kent Hrbek

ケント・ハーベック　/　けんと・はーべっく

American baseball player

May 21, 1960 (age 66)　・　Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Minnesota
baseball player

My Take

Kent Hrbek is the kind of one-club loyalist that I deeply admire in an era when players rarely stay put. Fourteen seasons, all with the Minnesota Twins, the hometown kid from Minneapolis who went to Bloomington Kennedy High and then anchored first base for the team he grew up watching. I love that he hit the first home run in the Metrodome, a detail that feels almost poetic for a local hero. As a left-handed bat, he was a steady run producer, and his nickname "Herbie" tells me he was beloved rather than feared. That fan-favorite, stay-home arc is genuinely rare and worth celebrating.

Overview

Kent Alan Hrbek (; born May 21, 1960), nicknamed "Herbie", is an American former Major League Baseball first baseman. He played his entire 14-year baseball career with the Minnesota Twins (1981–1994). Hrbek batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He hit the first home run in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome on April 3, 1982, in an exhibition game against the Phillies.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Kent Hrbek
Name (Japanese): ケント・ハーベック
Reading: けんと・はーべっく
Born: May 21, 1960 (age 66)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Gemini / Rat
Origin: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: baseball player

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Bloomington Kennedy High School
University: Private

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%99%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF

Baseball player — see all →　·　More people from United States →