Please answer the following question: Philip Mason Garner (born April 30 1949) is a former Major League Baseball infielder with the Oakland Athletics Pittsburgh Pirates Houston Astros Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants from 1973 to 1988. He was manager of the Astros from July 14 2004 to August 27 2007 leading Houston to a World Series appearance in 2005. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Athlete