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- Hal_King abstract "Harold \"Hal\" King (born February 1, 1944 in Oviedo, Florida), is a retired Major League Baseball player who played catcher from 1967-1974. He played for the Houston Astros, Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves, and Cincinnati Reds.He attended Oviedo High School in Oviedo, Florida and was signed as an amateur free agent in 1965 by the California Angels. He made his major league debut, with the Houston Astros, at age 23 on September 6, 1967 with an eight-inning pinch-hit groundout against Baseball Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry. His first hit came four days later on September 10, 1967 with a single off the Dodgers' Bill Singer. Later in the game he notched both his first triple and first run batted in, also against Singer, driving in Rusty Staub.His best year was with the 1970 Atlanta Braves. Appearing in 89 games, King had a .260 batting average with 11 home runs and 30 runs batted in.On July 1, 1973, playing for the Cincinnati Reds, King hit one of the most famous home runs in Reds' history. Entering the first game of a doubleheader at Riverfront Stadium, the Reds trailed their National League West rivals the Los Angeles Dodgers by a whopping 11 games. King, who just two weeks earlier had been called up from the minors, came to the plate as a pinch-hitter for fellow catcher Bill Plummer with the Dodgers and pitcher Don Sutton one out away from a win. With Tony Perez and Darrel Chaney (pinch-running for Johnny Bench) on base, King slugged a three-run homer for a 4-3 Reds' win. The Reds followed that up with a 3-2 win in the second game on a 10th-inning single by Perez that scored Joe Morgan, and the next night the Reds won yet another thriller over the Dodgers, 4-2, on a Perez walk-off homer.Starting with the win on King's homer, the Reds went on to a 60–26 record the rest of the way to win the division championship.The following year with the Reds, 1974, was his last in the majors, playing his final game on October 1, 1974.He then had several successful years playing in the Mexican League from 1975 to 1979. As a designated hitter for the Saltillo Saraperos in 1979, he slugged 19 homers and led the league with 124 walks.As of 1986-87 he was the president of the athletic boosters club of Oviedo High School and had a son in the school system.He still lives in Oviedo, where he has a power washing and home maintenance business.".
- Hal_King alias "King, Harold".
- Hal_King birthDate "1944-02-01".
- Hal_King birthDate "1944-02-02".
- Hal_King birthPlace Oviedo,_Florida.
- Hal_King birthYear "1944".
- Hal_King debutTeam Houston_Astros.
- Hal_King position Catcher.
- Hal_King wikiPageExternalLink kingha01.shtml.
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- Hal_King wikiPageID "19509699".
- Hal_King wikiPageLength "11461".
- Hal_King wikiPageOutDegree "87".
- Hal_King wikiPageRevisionID "707898614".
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink 1965_California_Angels_season.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink 1967_Houston_Astros_season.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink 1968_Houston_Astros_season.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink 1970_Atlanta_Braves_season.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink 1972_Texas_Rangers_season.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink 1973_Cincinnati_Reds_season.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink 1973_National_League_Championship_Series.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink 1974_Cincinnati_Reds_season.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Americans.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Asheville_Tourists.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink At_bat.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Atlanta_Braves.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Baseball.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Batting_average.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Bill_Plummer.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Bill_Singer.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Boston_Red_Sox.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Carolina_League.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Catcher.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Category:1944_births.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Category:African-American_baseball_players.
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- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Category:Cincinnati_Reds_players.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Category:Dallas-Fort_Worth_Spurs_players.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Category:Denver_Bears_players.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Category:El_Paso_Sun_Kings_players.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Category:Houston_Astros_players.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Category:Indianapolis_Indians_players.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Category:Living_people.
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- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Category:Navegantes_del_Magallanes_players.
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- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Category:People_from_Seminole_County,_Florida.
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- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Category:Texas_Rangers_players.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Category:Águilas_del_Zulia_players.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Cincinnati_Reds.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Dick_Billings.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Don_Sutton.
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- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Gaylord_Perry.
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- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Home_run.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Houston_Astros.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink International_League.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Jim_Driscoll_(baseball).
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Jim_Merritt.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Johnny_Bench.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Los_Angeles_Angels_of_Anaheim.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Los_Angeles_Dodgers.
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- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Mark_Schaeffer.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Mexican_League.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Minor_League_Baseball.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink National_Baseball_Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink National_League_West.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink New_York_Mets.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink On-base_percentage.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Oviedo,_Florida.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Oviedo_High_School.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Paul_Casanova.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Platoon_system.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Rule_5_draft.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Run_batted_in.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Rusty_Staub.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Saraperos_de_Saltillo.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Sparky_Anderson.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Texas_Rangers_(baseball).
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLink Walk-off_home_run.
- Hal_King wikiPageWikiLinkText "Hal King".
- Hal_King alternativeNames "King, Harold".
- Hal_King bats "Left".
- Hal_King birthDate "1944-02-02".
- Hal_King birthPlace Oviedo,_Florida.
- Hal_King dateOfBirth "1944-02-01".
- Hal_King debutdate "--09-06".
- Hal_King debutleague "MLB".