Luis Medina (baseball), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1963
Place of Birth: Santa Monica, California, United States
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Luis Medina (baseball)
- Luis Main Medina (born March 26, 1963 in Santa Monica, California) is a former designated hitter/first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Indians (1988–89, 1991).
- He batted right-handed and threw left-handed.
- He is currently working in the Kansas City Royals front office. In a three-season career, Medina was a .207 hitter (31-for-150) with 10 home runs and 16 RBI in 51 games played. Drafted out of Arizona State University, the 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m), 220-pound Medina reached the major leagues for good in 1988 after leading all Triple-A players with 28 home runs for Colorado Springs.
- He also finished fourth in the Pacific Coast League with 81 RBI and hit .310, despite being disabled three weeks with an elbow injury.
- Medina joined the Cleveland Indians when rosters expanded in September.
- He hit his first two major league home runs off Tommy John at Yankee Stadium (September 7), then hit a home run which accounted for the only run in a 1–0 victory over the Boston Red Sox and Jeff Sellers, who flirted with a no-hitter through 7?1/3 innings (October 1).
- Medina hit .255 with six home runs and eight RBI in 51 at-bats following his late season promotion, but new injuries affected his playing time in the next two years.
- He appeared in only five games for Cleveland in 1991, his last major league season.
- After that, he played in Japan for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp from 1993 to 1995 and ended his professional career with Class-A Lansing in 2000.
- Through 2006, Medina is one of 19 Colorado Springs players to hit 20 home runs during a regular season.
- He is the only player to do it twice. Medina was one of those rare players who were not primarily pitchers in major league history who threw left-handed but batted right-handed.
- Medina also holds the trivial distinction of having the fewest career RBI among all players with exactly 10 career home runs.
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