Mike Ford

I'll be honest — Mike Ford is the kind of player who makes you root harder for the underdog story. A New Jersey kid born on the Fourth of July who carved out a legitimate MLB career as a first baseman and designated hitter, bouncing through the Yankees, Giants, Mariners, Braves, Angels, and Reds — that's not a guy with a charmed, straight-line path to the top, that's a grinder who kept finding his way back onto a roster when it would've been easier to quit. And then he crossed the Pacific and suited up for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars in Japan's NPB, which honestly takes a certain adventurous grit most players don't have. No superstar numbers, no highlight-reel fame, just a baseball lifer who loved the game enough to keep showing up wherever someone would hand him a bat, until he retired.

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Name (English)

Mike Ford

Name (Japanese)

マイク・フォード

Reading

まいく・ふぉーど

Born

July 4, 1992 (age 34)

Origin

Belle Mead, New Jersey, United States

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Monkey

High school

Montgomery High School

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mikeford1226/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Ford%20(baseball)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%20(%E9%87%8E%E7%90%83)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64940821

Tags

• New Jersey
• 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.