page_title: Dave Winfield
section_title: Life since retirement
hierarchical_section_title: Dave Winfield / Professional career / Life since retirement
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Baseball Hall Of Famer Dave Winfield which I personally took.
context_page_description: David Mark Winfield is an American former Major League Baseball right fielder. He is the special assistant to the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association. Over his 22-year career, he played for six teams: the San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, California Angels, Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Twins, and Cleveland Indians. He had the winning hit in the 1992 World Series with the Blue Jays over the Atlanta Braves.
  Winfield is a 12-time MLB All-Star, a seven-time Gold Glove Award winner, and a six-time Silver Slugger Award winner. The Padres retired No. 31, Winfield's uniform number, in his honor. He also wore No. 31 while playing for the Yankees and Indians and wore No. 32 with the Angels, Blue Jays and Twins. In 2004, ESPN named him the third-best all-around athlete of all time in any sport. He is a member of both the Baseball Hall of Fame and College Baseball Hall of Fame.
context_section_description: In 1996, Winfield joined the new Major League Baseball on Fox program as studio analyst for their Saturday MLB coverage.
  From 2001 to 2013, Winfield served as executive vice president/senior advisor of the San Diego Padres.
  In 2006, Winfield teamed up with conductor Bob Thompson to create The Baseball Music Project, a series of concerts that celebrate the history of baseball, with Winfield serving as host and narrator.
  In 2008, Winfield participated in both the final Old Timer's Day ceremony and Final game ceremony at Yankee Stadium.
  On June 5, 2008, Major League Baseball held a special draft of the surviving Negro League players to acknowledge and rectify their exclusion from the major leagues on the basis of race. The idea of the special draft was conceived by Winfield. Each major league team drafted one player from the Negro Leagues.
  On March 31, 2009, Winfield joined ESPN as an analyst on their Baseball Tonight program.
  On December 5, 2013, Winfield was named special assistant to Executive Director Tony Clark at the Major League Baseball Players Association.
  On July 14, 2014, Winfield returned to Minnesota to throw out the first pitch at the 2014 Home Run Derby along with fellow St. Paul natives Joe Mauer, Paul Molitor, and Jack Morris.
  In March 2016, Winfield helped represent Major League Baseball in Cuba during President Obama's trip to the island in an attempt to help normalize relations.  On March 21 he gave a press conference with Joe Torre, Derek Jeter, and Luis Tiant in Havana and attended the baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuba National Team the next day.
  Winfield resides in California with his wife Tonya, and three children, Shanel and twins David II and Arielle.
caption: Dave Winfield in 2006.
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