George De Witt Wright (December 22, 1958) is an American former professional

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...

player. He played five seasons in

Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (baseball), National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. MLB i ...

(MLB) from 1982–86 for the Texas Rangers and

Montreal Expos The Montreal Expos () were a Canadian professional baseball team based in Montreal. The Expos were the first Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise located outside the United States. They played in the National League (baseball), National League ...

, primarily as a

center fielder A center fielder, abbreviated CF, is the outfielder in baseball who plays defense in center field – the baseball and softball fielding position between left field and right field. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the ...

Career

In 1983, Wright had a career year with a surprising Texas Rangers club that was in first place at the all-star break. For the season he played in all 162 games and hit .287 with 18 home runs, 80 rbi, and a .745 OPS. The next several seasons he was often injured and failed to live up to his 1983 performance. In his last game with the Rangers he committed a costly three-base error in the bottom of the 9th inning of a game in which Charlie Hough would later lose a no-hitter and the game. Wright later played briefly for the Montreal Expos and eventually had two seasons in Japan for the

Hawks Hawks are bird of prey, birds of prey of the family Accipitridae. They are very widely distributed and are found on all continents, except Antarctica. The subfamily Accipitrinae includes goshawks, sparrowhawks, sharp-shinned hawks, and othe ...

, in 1988 when they were the Nankai Hawks, and in 1993 when they were the Daiei Hawks. He also spent several seasons in the

Mexican League The Mexican Baseball League (, or LMB, ) is a professional baseball league in Mexico. It is the oldest running professional sports league in the country. The league has 20 teams organized in two divisions, North and South. Teams play 114 games ...

, from 1990–92 and 1994-97.

References

External links

1958 births Living people African-American baseball players American expatriate baseball players in Canada American expatriate baseball players in Japan American expatriate baseball players in Mexico Asheville Tourists players Fukuoka Daiei Hawks players Gulf Coast Rangers players Indianapolis Indians players Jacksonville Expos players Langosteros de Quintana Roo players Leones de Yucatán players Major League Baseball outfielders Memphis Chicks players Montreal Expos players Nankai Hawks players Nippon Professional Baseball outfielders Oklahoma City 89ers players Phoenix Firebirds players Rieleros de Aguascalientes players Saraperos de Saltillo players Baseball players from Oklahoma City Texas Rangers players Tulsa Drillers players Vancouver Canadians players 21st-century African-American sportsmen 20th-century African-American sportsmen {{US-baseball-outfielder-1950s-stub