Mike Marshall (outfielder)

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This article is about the MLB outfielder who played from 1981-91. For the pitcher who played from 1967-81, see Mike Marshall (pitcher).

Michael Allen Marshall (born January 12, 1960 in Libertyville, Illinois) was a Major League Baseball 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. During the course of his career, Marshall played first base, third base, outfield and designated hitter.

As a Minor League player, Marshall showed considerable promise. He won the league's Triple Crown in 1981, when he hit .373 with 34 homers and 137 RBIs for the Albuquerque Dukes, a Triple A club in 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.^{[citation needed]}

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

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

Marshall also gained some notoriety for dating Belinda Carlisle of the pop band The Go-Go's.^[1]

Starting in 2007, he will manage the Yuma Scorpions of the Golden Baseball League.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Harry Caray's "Cocaine for his foot" statement

The legendary announcer, Harry Caray, once said during a Cubs telecast that, "Mike Marshall is going back to LA to get some cocaine for his foot." His play-by-play partner, Steve Stone, quickly interjected, "Uh, Harry, that's novacaine."

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Top 500 home run hitters of all time

[edit] External links

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference

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