Warren Cromartie

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Warren Livingston Cromartie (born September 29, 1953, in Miami Beach, Florida) is an American baseball player.

He debuted with the Montreal Expos on September 6, 1974 after being picked 6th in the 1973 amateur draft. Expectations were high for the outfielder, but he was, in his own words, "a .300 hitter on a team of superstars." On December 28, 1983, the then-30-year old Cromartie signed with the Yomiuri Giants of Tokyo, Japan. Cromartie was perhaps the most prominent American player still in his prime to sign with a Japanese baseball team. Cromartie spent seven seasons with the Giants. In 1989, he had a .378 batting average with 15 home runs and 78 RBI and was named MVP of the Central League. In 1991, he returned to Major League Baseball, playing with the Kansas City Royals where he hit .313 in limited action. Cromartie was the manager of the Japan Samurai Bears, an all-Japanese team in the independent U.S. Golden Baseball League which existed for one season.

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[edit] Popular culture

In 2005, Cromartie sued the makers of a film based on the manga/anime series Cromartie High School in Japanese court. The series does not feature Cromartie himself but does depict students who "smoke, fight with students from other schools and are depicted as ruffians" which he says defames his character as the school shares his name [1].

A reference to a Warren Cromartie Secondary School appears in the cover art for Rush's 1982 album Signals.

The 1992 movie Mr. Baseball, which starred Tom Selleck, was loosely based on Cromartie.. [2]

[edit] Bibliography

  • Cromartie, Warren and Robert Whiting. Slugging It Out in Japan: An American Major-Leaguer in the Tokyo Outfield, Kodansha, 1991.

[edit] Filmography

  • Season of the Samurai (2006) (himself)

[edit] External links

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