Yankees Head Coach Aaron John Boone Celebrates 50TH Birthday Anniversary As Team Gifts Him A Surprised With The Most Expensive Phantom.
The manager of the Major League Baseball New York Yankees is an American, formerly an infielder named Aaron John Boone. From 1997 until 2009, he participated in 13 seasons of Major League Baseball.
Boone studied at California’s Villa Park High School. In his final year as a member of the school’s baseball team, he batted.423 with 22 stolen bases and won the Century League co-player of the year award. Boone was taken by the California Angels on the third day of the 1991 MLB draft, but he had no plans to sign a professional deal.
Boone was chosen by the Cincinnati Reds in the third round of the 1994 MLB draft.In June 1997, Boone made his Major League Baseball debut. He was called for sliding into home after the game. The Reds started the only MLB infield made up of two sets of brothers on the final day of the 1998 season: shortstop Barry Larkin, third baseman Aaron Boone, second baseman Bret Boone, and first baseman Stephen Larkin.
In the eighth inning of the Reds’ 4–3 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on September 22, 2002, Boone hit the final home run in Riverfront Stadium, a single shot off reliever Dan Plesac.Playing in all 162 games, Boone hit a career-high 26 home runs in 2002.
