Kirby Puckett Memorabilia & Collectibles

Kirby Puckett was a former professional baseball player. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. Puckett won High School All American Honors in baseball in Calumet High School. During college, Puckett, for a short time, attended Bradley University prior to transferring to Triton College.

Puckett began his professional baseball career in the Major League Baseball when he was drafted by the Minnesota Twins. He was the 1st round pick of the team in the 1982 Major League Baseball Draft. Puckett was listed at 5 ft. 8 in. and 178 lbs., and plays as centerfielder. Puckett batted and throws with his right. Kirby Puckett's primary year in Major League Baseball was 1984. He went 4 for 5 in his first match versus the California Angels. That same year in 1984, Puckett had hit .296. In the American League, Puckett was 4th in singles. In 1986, Puckett starts to emerge as an excellent player. Puckett also enhanced his defensive skills, earning his first Gold Glove Award, which is the prize given once a year to the Major League Baseball players judged to have displayed superior individual fielding performances at each fielding position in both the National League and the American League.

In 1987, Puckett had led the Minnesota Twins to the World Series. Puckett’s performance was even more remarkable in the seven-game series upset over the St. Louis Cardinals, batting .357, one sports review said. Statistically, Puckett had his finest year in 1988, hitting .356 with 24 home runs and 121 RBI, to secure third in the MVP balloting for the second straight season. Puckett won the American League batting title in 1989 with a mark of .339, also finishing fifth in at bats, second in doubles, first in hits, and second in singles. In April 1989, he earned his 1,000th hit, the fourth player in recorded baseball to do so in his first five seasons, industry experts say. He continued to have good games in 1990, concluding with a .298 batting average, but the Twins slipped all the way downhill to last place in the American League West. On March 28, 1996 Puckett was diagnosed with glaucoma, Puckett not at all played professional baseball again. Puckett was subject to controversy in the years prior to his death. According to sources, he was arrested and charged with groping a woman in a restroom at Redstone American Grill in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, on September 5, 2002. Puckett died on March 6, 2006 in Phoenix, Arizona, a day after he suffered sever hemorrhagic stroke.

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