David Bell (baseball)
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| Free Agent — No. | |
| Third base | |
| Bats: Right | Throws: Right |
| Major League Baseball debut | |
| May 3, 1995 for the Cleveland Indians | |
| Selected MLB statistics (through 2006 season) |
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| Batting average | .257 |
| Runs batted in | 589 |
| Home runs | 123 |
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David Michael Bell (born September 14, 1972 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a Major League Baseball third baseman who is presently a free agent. A member of one of the major leagues' three-generation families, he is the brother of Mike Bell, the son of Buddy Bell, and the grandson of Gus Bell. As of 2006, he was one of six active major leaguers (along with Moises Alou, Barry Bonds, Prince Fielder, Ken Griffey, Jr., and Daryle Ward) to hit 20 home runs in a season whose fathers had also hit 20 home runs in an MLB season. On April 15, 1998, he hit the first inside-the-park home run in Jacobs Field history, and the first for the Indians since 1989.
As a junior at Moeller High School in Cincinnati, David Bell led his team to a state baseball title.
David scored the 2002 NLCS winning run for the Giants from second on Kenny Lofton's single.
David was the runner bearing down on home plate in Game 5 of the 2002 World Series when J.T. Snow lifted 3 year old batboy Darren Baker out of harm's way.
David won the 2002 Willie Mac Award for his spirit and leadership.
David made Major League History history on June 28, 2004 by joining his grandfather, Gus Bell, as the first grandfather-grandson combination to hit for the cycle.
Bell was traded from the Philadelphia Phillies to the Milwaukee Brewers on July 28, 2006 for minor league pitcher Wilfrido Laureano. The Brewers chose not to re-sign Bell after the 2006 season, and he is now a free agent.
On March 9, 2007, SI.com reported that Bell showed up on a client list of Applied Pharmacy, a Mobile, Alabama, company raided in connection with a steroid and HGH investigation. Bell told SI.com he received the shipment of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) last April but said the drug was prescribed "for a medical condition," which he declined to disclose.[1] He was named in the Mitchell Report on Steroid Abuse in Baseball on December 13, 2007.[2]
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- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference
