Ricky Ledée

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Ricky Ledee

Free Agent — No. 9
Left fielder
Bats: Left	Throws: Left
Major League Baseball debut
June 14, 1998 for the New York Yankees
Selected MLB statistics (through 2006)
AVG	.244
OBP	.325
HR	62
Former teams
New York Yankees (1998-2000) Cleveland Indians (2000) Texas Rangers (2000-2001) Philadelphia Phillies (2002-2004) San Francisco Giants (2004) Los Angeles Dodgers (2005-2006) New York Mets (2006)

Ricardo Alberto Ledée, more commonly known as Ricky Ledée (born November 22, 1973 in Ponce, Puerto Rico) is a Major League Baseball player currently a free agent after he was released from the Oakland Athletics on March 25, 2007.

Ledee broke in to the Major Leagues in 1998 with the New York Yankees, playing in 42 games as the Yankees were re-establishing themselves as the dominant power in the American League. The lefthanded outfielder recorded a remarkable eight consecutive on-bases in the World Series that year and went on to win two championships with the Yankees in 1998 and 1999. Though at first considered a talented player with good speed on the basepaths, during the 2000 season he was batting only .241 when traded to the Cleveland Indians. Since then he has played for the Texas Rangers, Philadelphia Phillies, San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Mets, who claimed him off waivers on August 8, 2006. On February 2, 2007, Ledée signed a minor league deal with the Oakland A's. [1]

Ricky is son of Papo Lucca's Sonora Ponceña late singer Toñito Ledée.

Ledee, Darryl Strawberry, and Jose Vizcaino are the only Major League Baseball players to have played for all four (one-time) New York teams -- the New York Yankees, the New York Mets, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the San Francisco Giants.

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