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Anderson attended Carlsbad High School in Carlsbad, California. After graduating, he studied economics at the University of California, Irvine. He played outfield and first base for the Anteaters, leaving college following his junior season after being drafted by the Red Sox. Carlsbad High School is a public High School in Carlsbad, California. ... Location of Carlsbad within San Diego County, California. ... Face-to-face trading interactions on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor. ... The University of California, Irvine is a public research university primarily situated in suburban Irvine, California, USA. Founded in 1965, it is one of ten University of California campuses and is commonly known as UCI or UC Irvine. ... The position of the first baseman First base redirects here. ...

Early years

Anderson was selected by the Red Sox in the 10th round of the 1985 amateur draft, and made his major league debut on April 4, 1988. Billed as a "can't miss" prospect, a lackluster spring resulted in Anderson being traded to the Orioles along with Curt Schilling in exchange for Mike Boddicker on July 29. Anderson hit poorly during his first several seasons in Baltimore, batting for neither average nor power. is the 94th day of the year (95th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is currently under construction // This year in baseball Events January 12 - Former Pittsburgh Pirates slugger Willie Stargell is the only player elected this year to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America. ... Curtis Montague (Curt) Schilling (born November 14, 1966 in Anchorage, Alaska) is an American Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. ... External link Mike Boddicker - Career Statistics Categories: Baseball stubs | 1984 American League All-Stars | Baltimore Orioles players | Boston Red Sox players | Kansas City Royals players | Milwaukee Brewers players | Major league pitchers | 1957 births ... is the 210th day of the year (211th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball measuring the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters, respectively. ...

Best years

Anderson proved himself a capable lead-off man in the 1992 season. Flashing his famous sideburns, he became the third player in major league history to score 100 runs, slug more than 20 home runs, collect 80 runs batted in, and steal more than 50 bases in the same year. During the season, Anderson was selected to the American League All-Star team, playing in the game held in San Diego. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The following are the baseball events of the year 1992 throughout the world. ... Bengie Molina of the Anaheim Angels (in gray and red) scores a run by touching home plate after rounding all the bases. ... This article is about the baseball concept. ... “RBI” redirects here. ... The all-time stolen base leader, Rickey Henderson, swipes third in 1988. ... The American League (or formally the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs) is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States of America and Canada. ... The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also popularly known as the Midsummer Classic, is an annual baseball game between players from the National League and the American League, currently selected by fan vote for the starting position players and by the respective managers (from the previous years World...

Anderson had a career year during the 1996 season. Despite a combined 72 home runs in his first seven major league seasons, he hit 30 home runs by the All-Star break. Going into the final game of the season with 49 home runs, a total which was second only to Mark McGwire's major league-leading total of 52, Anderson hit his 50th home run early in the game off of 1996 Cy Young winner Pat Hentgen. In doing so, he joined an elite club of hitters with 50 home runs in one season. Anderson's 1996 season remains one of the most impressive, if not surprising, accomplishments in baseball history, and his 50 home runs broke Frank Robinson's Orioles club record for a single season. By hitting 50 home runs and stealing 20 bases in the same season, he became only the second player ever to accomplish this feat (Willie Mays did it in 1955). Along with Ken Griffey, Jr., who joined this exclusive club in 1998, and Alex Rodriguez, who joined in 2007, he remains one of only 4 players in the 50-20 club. That season Anderson had also become the only player in major league history to be a member of both the 50-20 club and the 20-50 club. The following are the baseball events of the year 1996 throughout the world. ... Mark David McGwire (born October 1, 1963 in Pomona, California) is a former professional baseball player who played the majority of his major league career with the Oakland Athletics before finishing his career with the St. ... In baseball, the Cy Young Award is an honor given annually to the best pitchers in the Major Leagues. ... Patrick George Pat Hentgen (born November 13, 1968 in Detroit, Michigan) was a right-handed starting pitcher in the Major Leagues and a former Cy Young Award winner. ... This article is about the baseball player and manager. ... Willie Howard Mays, Jr. ... George Kenneth Griffey, Jr. ... Alexander Emmanuel Alex Rodriguez (born July 27, 1975, in New York, New York), commonly nicknamed A-Rod, is a Dominican-American baseball infielder. ...

Anderson credited much of his success as well as his lean, muscular physique to strength training, diet and use of natural dietary supplements. This coincided with a renewed trend of fitness and the emergence of the Body For Life^{[citation needed]} style of fitness training. Anderson, along with NFL star Shannon Sharpe were heavily featured in advertisements for EAS, a sports nutrition company. Bill Phillips appears on the cover of the Body for Life book. ... Shannon Sharpe (born June 26, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former AFC tight end and wide receiver who played 12 of his 14 seasons with the Denver Broncos in the NFL. Sharpe is known most for his creative commentary and trash talking as well as for being the premier... EAS may stand for: Equivalent airspeed, in Aeronautics Emergency Alert System, a US government system Electrophilic aromatic substitution, an organic reaction Experimental and Applied Sciences, a sports nutrition company Early Admission Scheme, in Hong Kong Electronic article surveillance European Astronomical Society European Administrative School in Luxembourg European Administrative School in...

"Because I only hit 50 home runs once, it was, in fact, an aberration. However, it was not a fluke," he told the Baltimore Sun (March 20, 2004). "Nothing can be considered a fluke that takes six months to accomplish. Rather it was a culmination of all my athleticism and baseball skills and years of training peaking simultaneously... Hitting in front of [Roberto] Alomar, [Rafael] Palmeiro, [Bobby] Bonilla and [Cal] Ripken didn't hurt, either."

Anderson added that while the 50 homers may have been 26 more home runs than he hit in any other season, "that's just one more home run per week, just one more good swing. That is the data that simultaneously comforted me and haunted me, the small difference between greatness and mediocrity."

Anderson admitted to using creatine, a legal dietary supplement, and the article described how "players used to tease Anderson for bringing his own blender into the clubhouse, unfamiliar with the concoctions he chugged before or after games."

Added former teammate Ripken: "Now protein mixes are an acceptable part of everyone's diet. Brady always had a much more advanced concept of cross-training and plyometrics and his diet. He was just ahead of the curve... To me, (that season) was all about him being locked in. He had good swings every at-bat. Bearing witness to it all year, he was a marvel to watch. I don't remember him ever being in a slump... Brady always had a fly-ball swing, which he was criticized for as a leadoff hitter, but that year he was right on the ball. He was just in one of those grooves. There were a couple of instances in my career when I seemed to pick up the next day where I left off. It's hard to explain. You wish you could do that every year."

Said Anderson: "The thing that stands out about '96 is, it's not my size, it's my swing. If anyone wants to compare what changed about me, my swing was so much better that year. I couldn't match it, and I don't know why. Later in my career, I was trying to imitate myself. I had a swing that any hitter would have been proud of. The other years, I used to just battle [hard] and be athletic."

Later years

Anderson was the starting outfielder for the AL All-Stars again in 1997, but he was unable to duplicate his 1996 results over the next several seasons, eventually bowing out of baseball in 2003. His second-highest season home run total was during the 1999 season, when he hit 24. The following are the events of the year 2003 that happened world-wide throughout the sport of baseball. ... The following are the baseball events of the year 1999 throughout the world. ...

With 3 balls, 2 strikes and 2 outs and Cal Ripken, Jr. on deck, Anderson struck out to end the 2001 season, ending the final game of Ripken's career. Anderson later said it was the "most nervous" at bat he ever had. Additionally, it was his final Orioles at-bat. Cal Ripken redirects here. ... For the typographical mode indicating deleted text, see Strikethrough. ... In baseball statistics, an at bat (AB) is used to calculate other data such as batting average. ...

In 2004, Anderson was inducted into the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame. Also during that year, fellow ex-Oriole Jim Palmer stated in an interview that Anderson's sudden power surge in the mid-'90s was attributable to performance enhancers, such as anabolic steroids. Anderson flatly denied the allegation, and Palmer retracted his statement the following day. The following are the baseball events of the year 2004 throughout the world. ... James Alvin Palmer (born October 15, 1945 in New York, NY), best known as Jim Palmer and nicknamed Cakes, is a former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher who played his entire career for the Baltimore Orioles (1965-1984). ... Crystal structure of human sex hormone-binding globulin, transporting 5-alpha-dihydrotestosterone. ...

As of 2006, Anderson is one of only two players (the other being Barry Bonds) to have stolen 50 or more bases in a season (53 in 1992) and hit 50 or more home runs in a season (50 in 1996). Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24, 1964 in Riverside, California) is currently a left fielder for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball. ...

Personal life

Anderson now lives in California, where he is raising his daughter Brianna from Bulgarian Playboy model Sonia Vasi, who was born late in the summer of 2003. Although Anderson had wanted to continue to play baseball, he cites wanting to raise his daughter as his main reason for leaving baseball.

Anderson is also part-owner of the Hollywood Fame, a 2006 expansion franchise of the American Basketball Association [1]. The Hollywood Fame are a team of the American Basketball Association based in the Hollywood region of Los Angeles. ... The following are the basketball events of the year 2006 throughout the world. ... The American Basketball Association (ABA) is a mens basketball league founded in 1999. ...

Brady became very well known for his sideburns, so much so that some of his team mates grew just one sideburn, as a joke.

See also

• MLB players who have hit 30 or more home runs before the All-Star break
• 50 home run club
• Top 500 home run hitters of all time
• List of Major League Baseball players with 1000 runs
• Boston Red Sox all-time roster

Listed below are the Major League Baseball players who have hit 30 or more home runs before the All-Star break (multiple occurrences denoted into parentheses). ... In Major League Baseball, the 50 home run club is an informal term applied to the group of players who have hit 50 or more home runs in a single season. ... In the sport of baseball, a home run is the act of hitting the ball in such a manner, whether out of the park or in (see inside the park home run), that allows the batter to safely reach home and score in one play. ... Below is the list of 295 Major League Baseball players who have reached the 1,000 Runs milestone. ... The following is a list of players, both past and current, who appeared at least in one game for the Boston Red Sox franchise, and also include players under protection on the 2005 40-man roster as listed on MLB.com. ...

External links

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference