Mike Marshall (baseball outfielder)

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Michael Allen Marshall (born January 12, 1960 Libertyville, Illinois) was a utility player with an 11 year career from 1981 to 1991. He played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets both of the National League and the Boston Red Sox and California Angels both of the American League. He played first base, third base, outfield and designated hitter.

He was elected to the National League All-Star team in 1984.

Won the Triple Crown (led league in batting average, home runs and runs batted in) in 1981, when he hit .373 with 34 homers and 137 RBIs for Albuquerque (Triple-A) of the Pacific Coast League.

In his first major league at-bat against the San Francisco Giants in September 1981, he smashed a line drive over the right-field wall at Dodger Stadium that bounced sharply off a stairwell and back onto the field. Jack Clark, playing right field, quickly picked up the ball and threw it back to the infield; due to the speed and trajectory of the ball, and Clark's routine actions, the umpires called ruled it a double. Clark apparently admitted to Marshall later that it was a homer.

Has a World Series ring from the Dodgers' 1988 World Series championship, in which hit a homer in Game 2.

Also noted for dating Belinda Carlisle from The Go-Go's.

As of the 2007 season, he will manage the Yuma Scorpions of the Golden Baseball League.