Jason Marquis Baseball player

Jason Scott Marquis (/mɑrˈkiː/; born August 21, 1978) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Cincinnati Reds organization. He has pitched for the Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Colorado Rockies, Washington Nationals, Arizona Diamondbacks, San Diego Padres and Minnesota Twins.As a 12-year-old, Marquis pitched his team to third place in the Little League World Series with a no-hitter. He is one of only a few ballplayers to have played in both a Little League World Series and a Major League World Series. He also pitched his high school team to consecutive New York City championships. Marquis was drafted in the first round out of high school by the world champion Atlanta Braves, and reached the majors as a 21-year-old in 2000.As a major leaguer, Marquis won 11 or more games for six straight years through 2009, and also started 28 or more games in each of the years 2004–09. His 65 wins from 2004 to 2008 ranked 7th among N.L. pitchers. Through 2011, in his career in games that were late and close Marquis held batters to a .228 batting average. He also excelled with the bat, winning the Silver Slugger Award in 2005.

Personal facts

Jason Marquis
Birth dateAugust 21, 1978
Birth place
Manhasset New York

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Baseball player

Career startJune 06, 2000
Awards
Major League Baseball All-Star Game
Silver Slugger Award
World Series
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former teams
Atlanta Braves
position
Starting pitcher
teams
Arizona Diamondbacks
Atlanta Braves
Chicago Cubs
Colorado Rockies
Minnesota Twins
San Diego Padres
St. Louis Cardinals
Washington Nationals
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Jason Marquis on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://jewishmajorleaguers.org/crrldrs/crrldrs.html
  2. http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20041026&content_id=905699&vkey=news_stl&fext=.jsp&c_id=stl
  3. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/cs-070924outloudmarquis,0,6714694.story
  4. http://www.jewishledger.com/articles/2008/03/05/news/news03.txt
  5. http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=baseball&ID=140
  6. http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20070307baseballjews.html