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Line 1: {{short description\|American baseball player (born 1970)}} {{Use mdy dates\|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography \|name=Damon Buford \|position=[[Center fielder]] \|birth_date={{birth date and age\|1970\|6\|12}} \|birth_place=[[Baltimore, Maryland]], U.S. \|bats=Right \|throws=Right Line 29 ⟶ 30: * [[Chicago Cubs]] ({{mlby\|2000}}–{{mlby\|2001}}) }} '''Damon Jackson Buford''' (born June 12, 1970) is an American former professional baseball [[center fielder]]. ~~with~~He played for the [[Baltimore Orioles]], [[New York Mets]], [[Texas Rangers (baseball)\|Texas Rangers]], [[Boston Red Sox]] and the [[Chicago Cubs]] of ~~the~~ [[Major League Baseball]] (MLB) between 1993 and 2001. Buford batted and threw right-handed. ==Career== Line 36 ⟶ 37: ===Notable trades=== In the winter of 1992, he played in the [[Australian Baseball League (1989–99)\|Australian Baseball League]] with the [[Perth Heat]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.pflintoff.com/USMajors.htm\|title=Flintoff & Dunn's AUSTRALIAN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL\|website=www.pflintoff.com\|access-date=2009-08-15\|archive-date=2018-08-23\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823075006/http://pflintoff.com/USMajors.htm\|url-status=dead}}</ref> On July 28, 1995, Buford was traded by the Orioles with [[Alex Ochoa]] to the Mets for a player to be named later and [[Bobby Bonilla]]. The Mets sent Jimmy Williams, a minor leaguer to complete the trade. *On January 25, 1996, he was traded by the Mets to the Rangers for [[Terrell Lowery]]. Line 43 ⟶ 44: ===Personal life=== Born in Baltimore, Buford grew up in Los Angeles and attended [[Birmingham High School]]. His father [[Don Buford]] also played for the [[USC Trojans baseball\|USC Trojans]] and in the MLB and later worked as hitting coordinator of the Hannibal Cavemen, a collegiate summer team, under manager Jay Hemond, who played at USC while Don was hitting coach. ==See also== Line 52 ⟶ 53: ==External links== {{Baseballstats\|mlb=111673\|espn=2858\|br=b/buforda01\|fangraphs=1001635\|brm=buford001dam\|retro=B/Pbufod001}}, or [http://www.pelotabinaria.com.ve/beisbol/mostrar.php?ID=bufodam001 Pelota Binaria (Venezuelan Winter League)] {{DEFAULTSORT:Buford, Damon}} Line 83 ⟶ 84: [[Category:Birmingham High School alumni]] [[Category:American expatriate baseball players in Australia]] [[Category:21st-century African-American ~~people~~sportspeople]] [[Category:20th-century African-American sportspeople]]