Mo vaughn biography

At a Glance …. Hit Man — Hit Dog. He has two older sisters, Catherine and Donna.

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He is the son of Leroy Vaughn, a former high school principal and football coach, and Shirley Vaughn, an elementary school teacher. As his mother did, Vaughn hits left, while throwing right. His dad taught him to always improve upon his skills, while his mom urged him to be his very best. Vaughn attributes his competitive nature to his mother, though both of his parents encouraged acceptable schoolwork in exchange for his playing sports.

He learned charitable ways as a child and his entire family gave gifts to the homeless at Christmas time.

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For, in addition to newspaper and magazine clippings detailing his on-field victories, his press file is filled with an equal number of stories detailing his charitable off-field accomplishments. By age 12, he had accumulated around 30 homeruns in a game season and by age 16 he was hitting balls out of the park in his first Senior Babe Ruth League game.

Vaughn attributed his current success to the fact that he always played baseball with older kids and practiced daily. As a child, however, football was his favorite sport and the Dallas Cowboys were his favorite team. He attended the rural New York preparatory school Trinity-Pawling during high school and spent another three years at Seton Hall College where he broke the career record of home runs by a Seton Hall player when he was a freshman, with 28 longballs.

Education: Attended Seton Hall College. Career: First baseman for Boston Red Sox since ; hardest hitting batter of team; three year batting average ,. Vaughn even tattooed the Greek letters representing his college fraternity on his right bicep. When I came here, I wanted to win, but I also wanted to have fun.