Boog Powell
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John Wesley "Boog" Powell (born August 17, 1941) is an American retired professional baseball player.
He played in Major Leagues from 1961 to 1977, most notable as a member of the Baltimore Orioles dynasty, which won four American League pennants and two World Series championships between 1966 and 1971.
The four-time All-Star led the American League in 1964 with a.606 slugging percentage and received the American League Most Valuable Player Award in 1970.
He has played for the Cleveland Indians and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Powell was inducted into the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame in 1979.
Early life
Powell was born in Lakeland, Florida, and he competed for the city's team in the 1954 Little League World Series. Powell, who was 15 years old when he was moving to Key West, was a member of the Key West High School and graduated in 1959. Powell's father gave him the nickname "boog." "They call little ones in the South who are often mischief buggers," Powell explains, and my dad shortened it to Boog."
Career
Powell signed with the Baltimore Orioles; Jim Russo (the scout who drafted him) was also the scout who would draft Jim Palmer and Dave McNally; Powell played for the Orioles in home runs at Rochester in 1961, after winning the International League in home runs. Powell spent his first three seasons in Baltimore as a slow-footed left fielder before moving to first base in 1965. He was an instant hit at the plate in 1963, leading the American League in slugging percentage (.606) while blasting a career-high 39 home runs, despite missing several weeks due to a fractured wrist. Powell slumped to.248 with 17 home runs in 1965, then gained the American League Comeback Player of the Year award in 1966 (2.889, 34 home runs, 109 runs batted in) despite being limited by a broken finger.
Powell and Frank Robinson, Jr., guided the Orioles to the World Series in 1966, where they shocked the baseball world by sweeping the Los Angeles Dodgers in four games to become baseball's world champions.
Powell wrote, "I'd like to go through a whole season without an injury" early in the 1968 season, and he did exactly that, playing over 150 games per season. He made a career-best.304 with 37 home runs and 121 runs batted in, and in 1970, he was the American League Most Valuable Player, with 35 home runs and 114 runs batted in, barely missing a.300 average during the last week of the season. Powell was home in the first two games as the Orioles defeated the Cincinnati Reds in five games in the 1970 World Series. Powell appeared on the front page of Sports Illustrated for the 1971 baseball preview issue prior to the 1971 season. Powell helped Baltimore win their third straight World Series of the year, blasting a pair of home runs against the up-and-coming Oakland Athletics in game two of the 1971 ALCS, but he only scored.111 in the Series as Baltimore lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates in seven games.
Powell had been an American League all-star for four years (1968–1971). However, Oriole boss Earl Weaver believed in liberal use of the platoon system, but Powell was denied access to it in 1973 and 1974, limiting his at-bats. On February 25, 1975, Don Hood and Don Hood were traded to the Cleveland Indians for Dave Duncan and minor league outfielder Alvin McGrew. Powell, a regular with the Indians, batted.297 (with 129 runs) and 27 home runs in his best season since 1970), as well as a.997 fielding percentage. In 1976, he made it to only nine home runs. During spring training on March 30, 1977, he was waived by the Indians. He appeared as a pinch-hitter for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1977. He had no home runs and 5 RBI's on his way to.244. He was first released on August 31, 1977.